Announcement: 07.06.2024 – English Online Lecture by Prof. LI Tana: "Maritime Vietnam: From Earliest Time to the 19th Century"

7 June 2024, by AAI Webmaster

Photo: LI Tana, Thomas ENGELBERT, CAO Quang Nghiệp

We kindly invite you to this online lecture on Friday, June 07, 2024, at 14:00–16:00 h (CEST/MESZ = 19:00–21:00 gời Việt nam).

Diễn đàn văn hóa Việt Nam /
Forum of Vietnamese Culture /
Forum der vietnamesischen Kultur:

Online Lecture by
Prof. LI Tana,
Canberra:

"A Maritime Vietnam: From Earliest Time to the 19^th Century"

Friday, 07.06.2024
14:00 – 16:00 h (CEST = 19:00–21:00 gời Việt nam)

Online access via Zoom:
Zoom link:
https://uni-hamburg.zoom.us/j/61715238900?pwd=IjyKSUf85_bWMP0jh986pVZ0hBob6SVQ.bpBmUmADOWV7voEK
Zoom ID:
617 1523 8900
Zoom Passcode:
86952959

This lecture will be held in English!

Open to public! – Admission free!

The Department of Vietnamese Studies, Hamburg University cordially invites to a talk by Professor Li Tana, Canberra. Until 2016, she has worked as a Senior Fellow at the Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra. Her research focus has been originally the South of Vietnam, but has been extended to the history of Vietnam’s waterways in general.

Vietnamese history has been essentialized in four words: Bắc cự, nam tiến (resist to the north, expand to the south). In this narrative, all other elements – ideologies, economy and society – were weaved around this central drive, as the key to understand Vietnamese history.

In her talk, Li Tana will discuss this theme with her new book A Maritime Vietnam: From earliest time to the 19^th century (Cambridge University Press, 2024). She will explore Vietnam's place in the world in its early history, and give four metaphors.

After the presentation, the audience will have the opportunity to ask questions to the speaker or to give comments and share thoughts about the topic. The event will be held online (via ZOOM) and in English.

The talk will be introduced and chaired by Professor Thomas Engelbert.