The Minoritisation in South Asia conference is bringing together several senior and junior scholars working in the fields of history, politics, anthropology, sociology, economics, geography, gender studies, and development studies from across the globe.

1. “Many Vietnams in One Africa: People’s War and the Pursuit of African Unity, 1954-1978,” by J.J. Byrne (University of British Columbia, Canada).
2. “‘A second Vietnam’: Liberation Struggles in Africa and Mao’s ‘continuous revolution’ (1955-1958),” by Jodie Yuzhou Sun (Fudan University, China).
3. “Fanon and the Vietnamese,” by Chris J. Lee (The Africa Institute, UAE)
Discussant: Ruth Shoo (University of Oxford, UK)
Speakers will be joining online, you can attend in person or online: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PSnC2PMTSWGdMuIxemavcw

1. “Dead End Diplomacy: Nyerere, Nkrumah, and Asymmetric Sincerity in the Commonwealth Peace Mission to Vietnam” by Paul Bjerk (Texas Tech University, USA)
2. “Global Solidarities: How the Vietnam War Shaped African Anti-Imperialism Worldmaking” by John Dotse (University of Toronto, Canada) and Maxwell Bogpene (University of British Columbia, Canada)
3. “It is easy to accept…that in war these things often happen:” the failure of rhetoric as a strategy of war in the Ojukwu’s experience of the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970” by E.O. Ojelabi (Texas Tech University, USA)

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)

This is an inperson event but you can attend online: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZP9FLuVrR26MW2IQqVXhwg

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)