Sponsored by Yale InterAsia Initiative and Hong Kong University
From May 24, 2024 to May 30, 2024, a group of students and scholars from Yale University, Hong Kong University, and Sun Yat-sen University held a workshop in Vietnam to exchange ideas with Vietnamese colleagues. The topic of the workshop was water in an InterAsia context. This experience was supplemented by a field trip of the Mekong Delta.
SCHEDULE AND ACTIVITIES
Photo by Shalini Iyengar
May 23-24, 2024:
Arrive in Ho Chi Minh City and move to Can Tho
May 25, 2024:
All-day workshop sessions at Can Tho
May 26, 2024:
Morning Cai Rang floating market tour and visit to villages
Early Afternoon: Workshop sessions at Can Tho
Late Afternoon: Tour of Can Tho
May 27, 2024:
Photo by Marcus Yee
Early Morning: Riverscape observations during boat cruise on the Mekong River to Chau Doc
Late Morning: Workshop sessions on river boat
Early Afternoon: Riverscape observations from boat, discussions, and viewing of work-in-progress film
Late Afternoon: Tour of Chau Doc
May 28, 2024:
Morning: Tour of Chau Doc and surrounding areas, including canals
Late Afternoon: Arrive in Ha Tien
Photo by Helen Siu
May 29, 2024:
Morning: Tour of Ha Tien and surrounding areas
Evening: Arrive in Ho Chi Minh City
May 30-31, 2024:
Depart Ho Chi Minh City
LECTURES
Photo by Helen Siu
#1: Shalini Iyengar (Yale)
Between Salt and Tide: Drawing the borders of the coastal zone
#2: Yijun Gai (HKU)
Water and energy politics in rural China: case study of a coal-mining subsidence area in Henan
#3: Vuong Khan Tu and co-presenter, Bao
Con Son, agrotourism collective as adaptive mechanism, solar energy
Photo by Yukiko Tonoike
#4: Trương Thị Thu Hằng (USSH)
Innovative transformations among agricultural communities in the Mekong Delta and Lam Dong province
#5: Sơn Thanh Tùng (USSH)
Transformation of farmers’ livelihoods due to saltwater intrusion in Ben Tre province
#6: Ye Hua (HKU)
Constructing the Shuikou/”Water Exit”: Geomantic Structure for Social Control in Sixteenth-Century Huizhou
#7: Hiếu Trương (USSH)
Topic: Human relation with water from the perspective of the built environment
#8: Chandana Anusha (Northwestern)
Coastal Conservation and Maritime Promise from Gulf of Kutch, Western India
#9: Pham Thanh Thoi (USSH)
Topic: Water usage in the highlands
Photo by Shalini Iyengar
KEYNOTE 1: Le Anh Tuan (Can Tho University)
Water Environment Problems in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam
#10: Uyen Dang (Incoming Yale)
An Ordinary Above: Stories of watery partnerships (reading of short story, reflection on water as an embodied archive in the context of urban Vietnam)
#11: Hoai Linh Dang (Incoming Yale)
Fragments of Banana Island: “Speaking Nearby” the Red River’s Lives and Deaths
#12: Ly Quoc Dang
Women’s experiences of flooding in Can Tho
Photo by Kelvin Ng
#13: Shoko Yamada (Yale)
Topic: Dammed river in Japan
#14: Edmond Ng (HKU)
Screening of clips of his short film on water rituals in Hong Kong
#15: Marcus Yee (Yale)
Urban Tropics (A Fragment): Waking to Rain
Photo by Yijun Gai
#16: Kelvin Ng (Yale)
Itineraries of Self-Respect: Labor Migration and Tamil Reform across the Indian Ocean, 1929–1940
KEYNOTE 2: Lizzie Yarina (Northeastern University)
Designed in/Designed out: Remapping and remaking the saline boundary in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
#17: Zhiwei Liu (SYSU), May Bo Ching (CUHK/HKIHSS/SYSU), Cheng Ding (filmmaker), and Xin Li (filmmaker)
Presentation of film on water rituals in China
Photo by Marcus Yee