War in Vietnam and its Afterlives: the politics of the intimate and everyday

1. “The legacy of war and the promise of love: the cultural impact of Senegalese families of Vietnamese descent” by Mamadou Fall (Cheikh Ana Diop University, Senegal)
2. “Everyday Vietnam in post-independent Algeria” by Natalya Benkhaled-Vince (Oxford University, UK)
3. “Containing Viet Minh Intelligence Tactics”: Colonial Troops, French Military Anxieties and Sexual Regulation in the First Vietnam War” by Marie Robin (Columbia University, USA)
Discussant: Aincre Maame-Fosua Evans (University of Oxford, UK)

Languages of Liberation: Visions, Ideas and Rhetoric (Africans and War in Vietnam)

1. “The Visual Legacies of Vietnam in West African Filmmaking” by Dan Hodgkinson (Oxford University, UK)
2. "Vietnam as the Test Case for Pan-African Peace: Kwame Nkrumah’s Peace Mission to Vietnam and the Indivisibility of Anti-Colonial Freedom (1957-1966)” by Frank Gerits (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
3. “Armed Propaganda and People’s War: Vietnam and South Africa in Transnational and Comparative Perspective” by Thula Simpson (University of Pretoria, South Africa).
Discussant: Natalya Benkhaled-Vince (University of Oxford)

'The Vietnamese Fight was our Fight': Anti-war Protest and Third Worldist solidarities

1. “Foreign Fronts? Vietnam and the Move to the Left in Cold War Uganda, 1964-1970,” by Adrian Browne (independent scholar) and Luke Melchiorre (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
2. “Senegal and the Vietnam War: Revisiting the 1960s," by Omar Gueye (Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal)
3. “Disentangling Decolonizations in Campus Activism: Africa in America, Vietnam in Africa,” by Andrew Ivaska (Concordia University, Canada)
Discussant: Jocelyn Alexander (University of Oxford)
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Ian Seow Cheng Wei

I am a first-year Masters of Philosophy (MPhil) student in International Relations at the University of Oxford. My research interests focus broadly on China's foreign and security policies, Southeast Asian regionalism, and strategic and security affairs. Prior to coming to Oxford, I attained a Bachelor of Social Sciences (First Class Honours) in Public Policy and Global Affairs from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. I also worked as a research assistant at NTU and as a research intern at the S.

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