Time9:00 AM – 11:00 AM, Friday, June 30, 2023
LocationRoom 302, Building E, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, 336 Nguyen Trai Street, Thanh Xuan District, Hanoi.
Presentation language: Vietnamese
SpeakerProf. Dr. Luong Van Hy (University of Toronto, Canada)
Introduction to the Seminar Content and Speakers:
During the Covid-19 pandemic, governments around the world implemented different measures, and people responded in very different ways. Explanations for these differences in government response and public reaction fall into two main groups, based on assumptions linked to major theories in social science. From a comparative perspective with North America, the presentation showed that the Covid-19 pandemic in Vietnam had aspects inconsistent with these explanations and assumptions. The speaker suggested considering an alternative theory and factors that shed light on the Covid-19 pandemic in Vietnam.
Professor Luong Van Hy has been a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Canada, since 1990. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University, and prior to joining the University of Toronto, he was an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University in the United States. He served as President of the Association for Asian Studies from 2021-22, and was only the second professor outside the United States to be elected to a leadership role in the more than 80-year history of this largest academic association on Asian studies in the world. Since 1987, he has regularly conducted fieldwork and comparative research in the lowland regions of Vietnam. With his holistic anthropological perspective, he has published on language, culture, social structure, economics, and the process of change in rural Vietnam during the 20th century and the first two decades of the 21st century.
We cordially invite all esteemed professors, scientists, students, trainees, and researchers to attend the seminar.
