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Keith W. Taylor: "Archaeological Lacunae in Vietnamese History"
15 June 2023, by AAI Webmaster
Photo: Jeanne Cuisinier, 1937/38, cropped
Quảng Bình officer in front of an ancient Gate of the old Đồng Hới Wall (Quảng Bình Province)
PLEASE NOTE: Changed date – and now as a hybrid lecture "offline" at the AAI and online via Zoom!
Diễn đàn văn hóa Việt Nam /
Forum of Vietnamese Culture /
Forum der vietnamesischen Kultur:
Hybrid Lecture by
Prof. em. Keith W. Taylor,
Cornell University, Ithaca NY:
"Archaeological Lacunae in Vietnamese History"
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18:00 – 20:00 Uhr
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Asien-Afrika-Institut, room O-221
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Flügel Ost ("East Wing")
20146 Hamburg
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Zoom ID: 667 8736 0274
Passcode: 667 8736 0274
This lecture will be held in English!
Open to public! – Admission free!
Short Summary:
Han Tombs (Mồ Hán) and the Walls of Đồng Hới (Hệ ThốngTường Đồng Hới) are two topics that have been mostly avoided, as if taboo, in the study of Vietnamese history; they do not sustain the emphasis on the antiquity and the unity of a Vietnamese identity that are promoted by official historiography.
This talk will look at the archaeological reports of Han Tombs along with a consideration of textual and linguistic evidence to reconsider the idea of “One Thousand Years of Chinese Domination.” And it will consider the Walls of Đồng Hới along with a consideration of the man who designed them, Đào Duy Tự, to reconsider the emergence of a southern Vietnamese identity.
Speaker:
Prof. em. Keith W. Taylor
- Ph.D. (History), The University of Michigan, 1976.
- B.A. (History), George Washington University, 1968.
Academic Appointments:
- Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University, 1989-2022.
- Department of History, Hope College, 1987-89.
- Department of History, National University of Singapore, 1981-87.
Please note:
This hybrid lecture will be held in place at the Asien-Afrika-Institut, but will also be accessible online via Zoom.
Additionally, the lecture will be videotaped and can later be accessed at Lecture2Go (Universität Hamburg).
You can find all the lecture information on our lecture-flyer and the Zoom access data also on our additional Zoom-flyer.
