DEEP NEWS! H-Oceans launched today! If you'd like to be part of a community of scholars who consider the volumetric, global oceans as a site of historical inquiry in the humanities and social sciences, please join (and pass the word): networks.h-net.org/h-oceans

The bad news is out: Hakai Magazine is shutting down at the end of 2024. We’re incredibly sad, but our team is proud of the great work we’ve done these past 10 years. We have 5 more months of beautiful and unique coastal stories to come. More info here: mailchi.mp/hakaimagazine/…

🗓️📢🗣️Our new calendar is out!! Check it out, share it and follow us for more information about our upcoming events! That is another very promising session for 2024 and we hope to see many of you online or on site at the EFEO (HCMC). Cheers! The SSSH Admin Board.

J'ai le plaisir de vous annoncer la création de l'Association pour l'étude du Centre Vietnam (AECV). Plus d'infos ici : aecv-mientrung.com

Academic friends, a call for papers! The annual spring symposium at the University of Hawai'i will be held online in April 2025. The topic is 'Prominence and Power: Party Politics and Transnational South Asia.' Deadline is January 31. Please apply & share! csas2025springsymposium.wordpress.com

Back in Vietnam until 19 Jan, any researchers in Hanoi right now want to meet up for a coffee in the meantime?

Năm Ấy Tỵ, chúc các bạn bình an, thành đạt, vạn sự như ý! 🐍 Wishing everyone peace, success, and for wishes to be fulfilled in the Year of the Snake! Vietnam is home to many remarkable reptiles—e.g. the Vietnamese blue beauty rat snake (Orthriophis taeniura callicyanous).

Very happy to share our next Saigon Social Sciences Hub (SSSH) series of presentations! We worked on a new design for the occasion and we hope you like it! Many thanks to all the presenters, to my friends and colleagues contributing to this very promising season!

Vietnamese authorities aim to finalize commune-level restructuring by 30 June & provincial mergers by 30 Aug, said minister of home affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra. This building is expected to be knocked down by 30 April so Hanoians are flocking there to take photos. You should too!

My first time being quoted in an American newspaper!

I've appeared in the WSJ a second time - thanks Stu Woo! wsj.com/world/asia/vie…

Successfully defended! Dr. McCaskey, at long last.