Global Revolutions: Vietnam in African Revolutionary Imaginaries

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

Anticolonial Worldmaking and the Vietnam War: Cold War geopolitics and non-aligned diplomacy

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)

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)
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