Conference Agenda
Wednesday, July 12
- During the day: participants arrive in Hanover, check in at Hanover Inn
- 7:00pm: Dinner (Hanover Inn, Birch Room)
Thursday, July 13
- 9am: Discussion of Project Objectives (Hang, Debbie & Ed)
- 9:30-11:45am: Panel I: Colonial Legacies
- Hue-Tam Ho Tai, “French Colonialism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Revolution”
- Eric Jennings, “Indochina During World War II”
- Stein Tønneson, “The August Revolution”
- 11:45-1:00pm: Lunch
- 1:00-2:45pm: Panel II: The First Indochina War
- Pierre Grosser, “Empire and Decolonization in France and Indochina”
- Oscar Salemink, “The First Indochina War in the Central Highlands”
- Christopher Goscha, “The Battle of Dien Bien Phu”
- 2:45-3:15pm: Coffee break
- 3:15-5:15pm: Discussion with Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, the co-producers and co-directors of “Vietnam” (Florentine Films)
- 5:30-6:45pm: Dinner
- 7:00-9:00pm: Public film screening: “Vietnam” by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick (Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center)
Friday, July 14
- 9:00-11:00pm: Panel III: Geneva and its Aftermath
- David Anderson, “Eisenhower and Vietnam”
- Phi Van Nguyen, “Ngo Dinh Diem and the Birth of the Republic of Vietnam”
- Vatthana Pholsena, “Laos Between Two Wars”
- 11:00am-noon: Revisions and Publication Schedule (Hang, Debbie & Ed)
- Noon-1:00pm: Lunch
- 1:00-3:00pm: Panel IV: War and Escalation
- David Elliott, “The Rise of the ‘Viet Cong’ Insurgency”
- Marc Selverstone, “Kennedy and Vietnam”
- Ed Miller, “The Crisis of 1963 and the Diem Coup”
- 3:00-3:30pm: Coffee break
- 3:30-4:30pm: Small group sessions
- 5:45pm: Bus to Lake Morrie Resort (meet in lobby of Hanover Inn)
- 6:30-10:00pm: Cocktails and dinner at Lake Morrie Resort
Saturday, July 15
- Participants depart