January 27
"Ho Chi Minh in Power: What We Know and What We Don't Know"
Sophie Quinn Judge, author.

March 29
"State Formation and Arrested Development in Indonesia and Vietnam"
Tuong Vu, Mendenhall Fellow, Department of Government, Smith College;Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, University of California- Berkeley
(Co-sponsored with Indonesia Forum)

April 7 (Wednesday)
"Beyond the 'Colonized' and the 'Colonizer': Intra-Asian Debates on the Reality of Colonial Legal Categories in French Indochina (1887-1954)"
Christopher Goscha, Asst Professor of History, University Lyon II

April 23, 12: P..M. - 5:00 P.M.
STATE OF THE FIELD OF VIETNAM STUDIES: WORKSHOP WITH PETER ZINOMAN
Keynote talk: 12:00 Noon:
"Urban Modernity in Colonial Vietnam: Vu Trong Phung Views the City"
Peter Zinoman
Associate Professor, Departments of History and Southeast Asia Studies, UC Berkeley

1:45-3:15 Session 1: Discussion of Zinoman, "Colonial Bastille: a history of imprisonment in Vietnam, 1962-1940" (Berkeley, 2001) - Introduction, Chapts 1,2,4.

3:30-5:00 Session II: Discussion of research, Participant dissertation abstracts and research summaries

6:45 Dinner