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Christina Schwenkel – Designing the Rational City: Gender and the ‘Housing Question’ Revisited in Late Socialist Vietnam
May 5, 2016 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Stevenson Fireside Lounge
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Christina Schwenkel, Professor of Anthropology, UC Riverside
Professor Schwenkel’s work addresses transnationalism, historical memory, aesthetics and visual culture in Vietnam. Her book, “The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and Representation (2009) examines encounters between U.S. and Vietnamese recollections and representations of the war, and seeks to define and maintain particular visions of historical truth, knowledge and objectivity.