FIFTY YEARS ON : NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE VIETNAM WARS-GVWSI2025CONFERENCE 3-4 October 2025. Harvard.

The War Before the Wars: How the American Intervention in Vietnam during WWII shaped what came after. Christopher Goscha.
“Where They Were:” Human Perspectives on Land and Ecowar in Vietnam. David Biggs.
Was the Vietnam War Winnable? New Research on America’s Overreach in Southeast Asia. Geoffrey Wawro.
South Vietnam’s Civil Wars: Sovereignty, Space, and Violence in the Mekong Delta. Edward Mille.
Collapse from Within? The Rise and Fall of South Vietnam’s Second Republic 1967-1975. Sean Fear.
“Whose Combat Infantry?” Edwin Moise.
The Politics of Nationhood in Non-Communist Vietnam: Ruling over Constituents as Migrants in the Associated State of Vietnam and the Republic of Vietnam 1949-1956. Phi-Van Nguyen.
Hanoi’s Cultural Diplomatic Offensive, 1965-75. Pierre Asselin.
Ho Chi Minh’s Wartime Ideology. Dang Kim Son.
The Role of General Nguyen Chi Thanh in the South Vietnam Battlefield (1964-1967). Ho Son Dai.
The Role of Le Duan, the First Secretary of the Party, in the Vietnam War (1954-1975). Nguyen Manh Ha.
Moscow, Hanoi, and the Escalation of the Vietnam War: New Evidence from Soviet (and Soviet-bloc) Archives. James G. Hershberg.
A War with Two Memories: South Korea and Vietnam. Ku Su Jeong.
The Transnational Dimension of the Anti-Vietnam War Movement in Okinawa. Mitsuaki Ono.
Threats from the Anti-Chinese Alliance and Beijing’s Policy Towards the Vietnam War: 1963-1965. Yu Yao.
Roundtable 1: War Legacies and Reconciliation Discussant Biographies. James H. Willbanks. Takeshi Furumoto. Hoang Thi Khanh. Nugyen Thanh Thuy. Tran Ngoc “Harry” Hue.
Panel 5: Battlefield Experience, Conflict and Memory Abstracts and Biographies
Military Prisoners: South Vietnam’s Women in Uniform. Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen.
Buried Memory: Untold Stories of Chinese Soldiers in the Vietnam War, 1965-1971. Xiaobing L.
The U.S. Combat Soldier in Vietnam Comes Home. Ron Milam.
Lived Experiences in the Battlefield of a North Vietnamese Soldier. Lo Khac Tam.
Panel 6: Gender & Culture
Seeing Combat: American Women in the Vietnam War. Heather Marie Stur.
Vietnamese Women in the National Liberation Front. Jane Griffith.
The Vietnamese Áo Dài in a Time of War: Fashion, Citizenship, and Nationalism (1954–1975). Ann Marie Leshkowich. Martina Thucnhi Nguyen.
Participation of Children and Youth in the Vietnam War: Communism, Confucianism, and Childhood. Maya Nguyen.
7: The War at Home in America
Did the Pentagon Papers Help End the Vietnam War? Christian Appy
Unheeded Warnings: The Sigma Wargames of 1964 and the Path to Vietnam. Jacob Ganz.
Dancing in Dissonance: The 1968 TET Offensive and the Disconnect Between Washington DC and Saigon. Connor Mitchell.
War within the War: Television News Coverage of the Vietnam War and Its Controversial Legacies. Chester Pach.
Robert Brigham. Mark Atwood Lawrence. Justin Simundson. Kenneth M. Quinn. Andrew Wiest.

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