Past Events at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies
November 2010
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Friday, November 12th One Woman's Life: Rethinking Gender and Revolution in Vietnam
Date Time Location Friday, November 12, 2010 10:00AM - 12:00PM External Event, SS 2098
History Conference Room
Sidney Smith Hall
100 St. George Street+ Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Series
Southeast Asia Seminar Series
Description
In China and Vietnam, early revolutionaries believed in the synergy between the struggle for national liberation and for the emancipation of women. In Vietnam, the 1920s debates around the “women’s question” have been portrayed in generational terms and young people’s embrace of revolutionary ideals as arising from their wish to free themselves from the oppressiveness of the patriarchal family. Through the story of Bao Luong and the women she recruited into the Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League, I propose to revisit the question of gender in Vietnam in the 1920s and the role of family dynamics in the early phase of the revolutionary process.
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Hue-Tam Ho Tai is the Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History at Harvard where she has taught since 1980. She holds a B.A. in politics from Brandeis University and a M.A. in Regional Studies-East Asia and a Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University.
She is the author of Millenarianism and Peasant Politics in Vietnam (Harvard, 1983) and Radicalism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Revolution (Harvard 1992) and Passion, Betrayal and Revolution in Colonial Saigon (California, 2010) She is also the editor of The Country of Memory: Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam (California, 2001) and of a forthcoming volume on property and property rights in Vietnam.
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Friday, November 19th The Politics of Global Land Grabbing: Insights from the Philippines, with Glances at Other Southeast Asian Countries
Date Time Location Friday, November 19, 2010 12:00PM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Series
Southeast Asia Seminar Series
Description
This presentation will look into the politics of contemporary global land grabbing, the dynamics of food-energy complex, and the key debates around it, including the mainstream position for a ‘Code of Conduct’. It will also critically examine competing positions by various (trans)national social movements and their allies around these debates. Insights from land grabbing in the Philippines will be discussed, with glances at other Southeast Asian countries. The presentation will conclude by mapping key challenges in academic research around land issues and on dynamics of (trans)national agrarian movements today.
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Saturnino (‘Jun’) Borras Jr. Is Canada Research Chair in International Development Studies at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is a Fellow of the Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute (TNI) and of the Oakland-based Food First, and is Adjunct Professor at the College of Humanities and Development, China Agricultural University in Beijing. His research interests include land reform, land grabbing, and (trans)national agrarian movements.
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