Welcome to the John K. Whitmore conference website!

For the past several decades, Dr. John K. Whitmore has engaged in pathbreaking and compelling research that has challenged and redirected how scholars study the Vietnamese past. His publications have covered a wide terrain, including the China-Vietnam borderlands, elephants, the dynamics of elite politics, imperial Vietnamese cartography, Lê institutions, and the history of archival sources for the study of early Vietnam.

This online workshop, hosted on Zoom by Yale’s Council on Southeast Asia Studies (CSEAS), will take place on Friday, October 16th and Saturday, October 17th 2020. The workshop will be organized around a set of presentations by core participants who will each speak briefly (10-15 minutes) about how their own work intersects with a specific piece of Dr. Whitmore’s scholarship. These brief sketches will become starting points for discussion among the wider audience of attendees as moderated by the organizers. A link to register for the zoom sessions will be available soon in this location.  A full schedule of presentations will be posted to this site in Monday, October 12th.

Sign Up for the Conference

Anyone interested in Vietnamese history is welcome to attend and listen to the presentations. You can join by registering for the zoom meeting at the following url:

https://yale.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvc-CgqTgtHNLJDi6PDtaqLE6_FkFCoRcf