Time: 09:00 – 11:00, Friday, June 30, 2023
Location: Room 302, Building E, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, 336 Nguyen Trai, Thanh Xuan District, Hanoi.
Presentation language: Vietnamese
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Luong Van Hy (University of Toronto, Canada)
Introduction to the Seminar content and Speakers:
During the Covid-19 pandemic, governments in many parts of the world have taken different measures, and people have also had very different reactions. Explanations for the differences in state measures and people's reactions basically fall into two groups with assumptions linked to major theories in social science. From a comparative perspective with North America, the presentation shows that the Covid-19 pandemic process in Vietnam has points that are incompatible with these explanations and assumptions. The speaker proposes to consider another theory and factors that help to shed light on the Covid-19 pandemic process in Vietnam.
Prof. Luong Van Hy has been Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Canada, since 1990. He received his PhD in Anthropology from Harvard University, and before coming to the University of Toronto, he was Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University in the United States. He is the President of the Association for Asian Studies for the 2021-22 term, and is the second Professor outside the United States to be elected to the leadership role in the more than 80-year history of this largest academic association on Asia in the world. Since 1987, he has regularly conducted fieldwork and comparative research in the delta regions of Vietnam. With a holistic view of anthropology, he has published on language, culture, social structure, economy, and the process of change in rural Vietnam in the 20th century and the first two decades of the 21st century.
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