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Speaker: Peter Zinoman, Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley

Peter Zinoman is Chairman of the History Department at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of the Colonial Bastille: A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940 (2001) and Vietnamese Colonial Republican: The Political Vision of Vu Trong Phung (2014). He is also the co-translator of Dumb Luck: A Novel by Vu Trong Phung (2002) and the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies. His current book project explores politics and intellectual life in Hanoi during the 1950s

On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, this talk discusses important changes in the historiography of the Vietnam War over the past five decades. It pays special attention to the evolution of political concerns shaping the scholarship as well as shifts over time in the professional identities, research capacities, and personal backgrounds of historians of the conflict.

This event is co-organized and co-sponsored by the MSU History Department and the MSU Asian Studies Center, made possible by the US Department of Education Title VI Grant.