February 5, 2007
Alfred on Biopolitics and Modernity Feb 10
Our Alfred helped to organize the upcoming Graduate Conference on Vietnamese Studies. He’s also a discussant on one of the panels:
Saturday, February 10:
3:05 4:30 p.m. PANEL VIII: Biopolitics and the Thresholds of Modernity
“French-educated Midwives and the Medicalization of Childbirth in Colonial Viet Nam (1900-1940)” Thuy-Linh Nguyen, University of Pennsylvania
“Highland Stories: Poverty, Drugs, and Rehabilitation Options in Northern Vietnam” Nathalie Miller, UNESCO Fellow-Vietnam
“Migration, Modernity and Manhood: What Shape Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in Late Socialist Vietnam?” Le Minh Giang, Columbia University
Discussant: Alfred Montoya, UC Berkeley
IEAS Conference Room, 6F, 2223 Fulton St. (at Kittredge)
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