… group associated with expanded anti-Muslim and pro-Buddhist activism in Myanmar was Ma Ba Tha, the Organization … This talk argues against applying the simplistic label of “Buddhist nationalism” to the group, since it obscures both … and identities, but with a broad aim of shaping idealized Buddhist political subjects. Matthew J Walton is an Associate …
… Ulysses S. Grant in repelling French aggression against Vietnam. Although this story is very unlikely to be true, it … United States in the twentieth century. Having abandoned Vietnam in the nineteenth century, some historians argued, … the stories of a bishop who purportedly began colonizing Vietnam eighty years before that effort came to fruition; an …
… Histories fifty Years after the American War" In Vietnam, the success of the revolution and the dismantling of … from those bonds. This talk examines how historians of Vietnam push through the logics of coloniality and, to …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… identity of a seemingly paradoxical figure: the Burmese Buddhist saint, who departs for the forest to combine harsh … Rozenberg contradicts representations of Theravada Buddhist saints as single-minded pursuers of nirvana. On the … in Toulouse, France. His research focuses on figures of Buddhist sainthood and related cults in contemporary Burma. …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… Book Project: “Slavery, Emotions, and Gendered Power” BrownBag Talk: Monday, October 23, 2017 Julie Miller , GLC … History of the Person in America Before the Civil War” BrownBag Talk: Monday, March 5, 2018 VISITING FELLOWS (1 …
… then proliferating across the countries that would become Vietnam and the Philippines. The postdoctoral work Dr … follow. Wednesday, November 11, 2020 - 12:00 to 1:00 PM Seminar Via Zoom See CSEAS Current Calendar of Events and Activities *B.Y.O. …
… and the Movies” 1975 marks the momentous end of the Vietnam War—when the U.S. military formally withdraws its … its close. In other words, much of our understanding of “Vietnam,” my own included, has been narrated through …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… Contemporary Calcutta” as part of the South Asia at Yale BrownBag Series on Thursday, November 10 at 12pm in Room 203, Luce … be produced around one of India’s most prominent ancient Buddhist sites. Its main concern lies in unraveling the many …