Colloquium on Global Hồ Chí Minh

Held on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Hồ Chí Minh, this international colloquium will interrogate Hồ’s role in the formation of modern Vietnam and explore the country’s position in world affairs in the 20th Century. Participants will share their new multi-lingual and multi-archival research and past works on the life, career, and legacy of Hồ Chí Minh. This colloquium also serves to announce a new partnership between Columbia University and the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi.

Schedule

9:30am – 10am: Comments by Co-Organizers, Professors Pham Quang Minh and Lien-Hang T. Nguyen

10am – 12pm: Panel 1: Hồ and the Imperial Powers

Do Quang Hung, Historian, Department of Political Science at Vietnam National University

Alec Holcombe, Assistant Professor, Department of History at Ohio University

12pm – 1pm: Lunch break

1pm – 3:30pm: Panel 2: Hồ in the Global Cold War, 1945-1969

Pham Quang Minh, Rector, Historian and Political Scientist, Department of International Studies at Vietnam National University

Tran Viet Nghia, Historian, Director of the Office for the Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities at Vietnam National University

Pierre Asselin, Professor and Dwight E. Stanford Chair in American Foreign Relations, Department of History at San Diego State University

3:30pm – 3:45pm: Coffee break

3:45pm – 5:45pm: Hồ’s Global Legacy

Pham Hong Tung, Historian, Director of the Institute of Vietnamese Studies and Development Science at Vietnam National University

Olga Dror, Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University and Fellow at the National Humanities Center