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Looking Back Fifty Years, America in Vietnam:

Commemorating the 50 Year Anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords

by Steven Dike (History and Honors, CU Boulder)

American combat in Vietnam ended 50 years ago with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords in early 1973. 50 years ago, it would have been hard to imagine that the United States would have close and peaceful relations with Vietnam—specifically a Vietnam united under the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV), a communist government that we had fought a war against for over two decades. Vietnam itself was in the midst of nearly continuous conflict and upheaval from 1940 to 1975, facing decades-old French colonial domination, Japanese occupation and a massive famine during World War II, an 8-year war against France, and then a prolonged conflict of varied intensity lasting from when the nation was temporarily divided in 1954, until 1975, when the DRV defeated the southern, American-backed Republic of Vietnam, marking as well the first time that the United States had lost a major war. The subsequent communist babyֱ��app program failed badly, and Vietnam began to abandon it in the mid-1980s under a liberalization program known as doi moi. Ever since, Vietnam has achieved high, though unevenly distributed, rates of babyֱ��app growth. In the mid-1990s the United States and Vietnam normalized relations and have since become significant trading partners and remarkably friendly nations.

Read the full article here.

The Center for Asian Studies is running a series commemorating the 50^thAnniversary of the Paris Peace Accords that ended American combat in Vietnam. The theme of the events is moving from war to peace. Ambassador Ted Osius was on the ground in the 1990s as the United States normalized relations with Vietnam and began to leave the war behind. During the Obama Administration, he served as ambassador. Our other speakers have all been involved with humanitarian and cultural exchange work between Vietnam and the US in the decades after the war. 

We began with a November showing of a rough cut of a forthcoming PBS documentary, The Movement and the Madman about the confrontation between the antiwar movement and the Nixon Administration.

This week we have three more events:
Vietnam and the USA: Looking Forward and Back, a panel discussion with Sister Sen Nguyen, Dr. Ted Ning, and Dr. Pete Steinhauer.
February 2, 5:30 PM, CASE E422

“Nothing is Impossible: America’s Reconciliation with Vietnam” with Former US Ambassador to Vietnam, Ted Osius
February 3, 5:00 PM, Chancellor’s Auditorium, 4^th Floor, CASE
followed by a reception

A showing of the film Hearts and Minds, in conjunction with CU’s International Film Series. Featuring a personal video introduction by director Peter Davis.
February 4, 7:30 PM, Muenzinger Auditorium

In October, as the world watched the Iranian Women's Revolution taking shape, an anonymous student on the CU Boulder campus contributed a Brief, offering their perspective on their home country and the events as they were unfolding there. We were glad to be able to provide a forum for their thoughts as these events were happening. Below, you can find the Brief, which appeared on our blog in two installments on October 26, and November 3, 2022.

Cumulative Reflection on What the Killing of Mahsa Jina Amini Sparked In Iran

Today marks the 40^th day after the killing of Mahsa Jina Amini on Sep 16, 2022.  She was a 22-year-old woman taken into custody and killed by “morality” police for her “unsatisfactory” hejab*. This unofficial police force has been oppressing and assaulting the women of Iran for years and it has only grown more violent and absurd with time. Oppression of women in Iran is not limited to how they are required to dress (failure to comply has led to them being arrested, lashed, and even killed,) it dictates their eligibility for jobs (illegal to be a singer or a pilot,) legal age of marriage (9 years,) traveling abroad and divorce (both only permitted by the husband/male guardian.) Over 40 years of such gender apartheid under the Islamic Republic fueled unprecedented uprisings across Iran that are led by women – and now by female students. Since the day of Mahsa Amini’s death, daily large-scale protests with the slogan ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ (‘Zan, Zendegi, Azadi’,) have evolved into revolution-seeking rallies and strikes; people of Iran are demanding freedom, a once and for all end to the current regime which is the cause of years of growing injustice, corruption, abuse of human rights and dictatorship. However, unfortunately but as expected, this regime is implementing every possible oppressive method to silence the freedom movements:

Read both articles here.

CAS Executive Director Danielle Rocheleau Salaz contributes to Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum in Higher Education: Harnessing the Transformative Potentials of CLAC Across Disciplines

CAS is pleased to announce that our own Executive Director, Danielle Rocheleau Salaz, is a contributor to , which was published by Routledge on November 18.

Edited by India C. Plough and Welore Tamboura, the volume offers 16 chapters describing Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) programs and initiatives throughout the US, offering insight into outcomes and opportunities for both students and babyֱ��app members, and describing the adaptability of CLAC concepts to various institutional cultures and needs.

Salaz’s chapter, entitled “CLAC Your Campus: Institutionalizing a Program that Encourages Students to Put Language and Culture Skills to Use,” discusses the structure and progress of the  CLAC program at CU Boulder, launched by CAS in 2017-18 with support from the CU College of Arts & Sciences. CLAC enriches learning by encouraging students to study texts and materials in languages other than English, which they typically can’t do in standard content courses due to unavoidable limitations in such settings. CLAC at CAS allows students to integrate Asian language skills into content study in their field of interest. Since launching the program, 11 CLAC co-seminars have been offered at CU Boulder, with plans for a new course offering this spring, associated with Katherine Alexander’s CHIN 3361 Women and the Supernatural in Chinese Literature for students with Chinese language knowledge. 

CAS will be offering course development grants to babyֱ��app members interested in creating CLAC co-seminars associated with existing content courses that would benefit from the addition of Asian language sources. The deadline for applications will be Monday, February 27, 2023. An information session about developing a CLAC co-seminar will be held on February 13 from 11:30 to 1 over. Application processes and further information is available on the CAS website.

CAS Opportunities for Students and Faculty

Graduate Students:  
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships 
(deadline February 15)

Edward G. Seidensticker Japan Summer Research Grant 
(deadline February 20)
Undergraduate Students:

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships for Undergraduate Students (deadline February 15)

Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Scholarship for Study Abroad, Language Study, and/or Independent Research (deadline February 27)
Faculty:
CLAC Course Development Grants (deadline February 27)