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SUMMARY:The Making of "The Vietnam War"
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nModerators: Lien-Hang Nguyen\, WEAI Director and Thomas Vallely\, Senior Advisor for Global Vietnam Studies\, WEAI \nSpeakers: \n\nKen Burns\, Co-director and producer of The Vietnam War series\nLynn Novick\, Co-director and producer of The Vietnam War series\nSarah Botstein\, Co-director and producer of The Vietnam War series\nHo Dang Hoa\, Co-producer of The Vietnam War series and Emmy Award winner for Outstanding Research\nNancy Biberman\nMai Elliot\nRoger Harris\nLo Khac Tam\n\nIn a historic gathering of scholars\, filmmakers\, and key historical figures\, Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) will host a public panel discussion on Thursday\, May 1\, 2025 marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War and the 30th anniversary of U.S.-Vietnam reconciliation. The program is organized by Global Vietnam Studies at WEAI in collaboration with Columbia Global\, the Columbia Journalism School\, and the School of the Arts. \nParticipants include documentary filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick\, co-directors of the 10-part\, 18-hour documentary series The Vietnam War (2017); reconciliation advocate Lo Khac Tam\, a former Lieutenant General in the People’s Army of Vietnam; historian and Columbia University professor Lien-Hang T. Nguyen; and Thomas Vallely\, Senior Advisor for Global Vietnam Studies at WEAI\, co-founder of Fulbright University Vietnam\, and former U.S. Marine (Silver Star recipient). \nThe discussion will focus on how scholarship about the war has changed our understanding of the conflict\, including how Burns\, Novick\, and their collaborators navigated the unsettled events of the war\, framed roughly between the publication of the Library of America’s two-volume Reporting Vietnam anthology in 1998 and the new scholarship presented in The Cambridge History of The Vietnam War (2024)\, for which Professor Nguyen served as general editor. \nPanelists will reflect on how fresh research and widening perspectives continually revise our understanding of a conflict whose reverberations are still being felt half a century after hostilities formally ended. \nThere will be closing remarks by Wafaa El-Sadr\, Executive Vice President of Columbia Global. \nThis event is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and co-sponsored by Columbia Global. This is part of the three-day series 50-30: From War to Peace in Vietnam and the United States\, April 30 – May 2\, 2025. \nRegistration: \n\nTo attend this event in-person\, please register HERE.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nContact Information\nHiba Rashid\nhr2577@columbia.edu\n\n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/the-making-of-the-vietnam-war/
LOCATION:The Forum at Columbia University\, 601 W. 125th St\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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