The Vietnam Center and Archive: 2013 Conference

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6:30 PM: Keynote Address by Dr. George Herring, Professor Emeritus, University of Kentucky

Location:
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
- Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
- 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20004-3027
Reception follows

Location:
- McGowan Theater, National Archives
- 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20004

8:00 AM: Welcoming Remarks
8:30 AM: Panel 1: Regime Changes: New Perspectives on Ngo Dinh Diem and the First Republic of Vietnam
- Panel Chair: David Anderson, California State University, Monterey Bay
  - Jessica Chapman, Williams College
  - Edward Miller, Dartmouth College
  - Nu-Anh Tran, University of California, Berkeley
10:00 AM: Coffee Break
10:30 AM: Panel 2: American Responses to the Crisis of 1963 in South Vietnam
- Panel Chair: Richard Immerman, Temple University
  - John Prados, National Security Archive, The George Washington University
  - Andrew Preston, Clare College, University of Cambridge
  - Marilyn Young, New York University
12:00 PM: Lunch
1:30 PM: Panel 3: Military Matters: U.S. Military Advisors and the ARVN in 1963
- Panel Chair: Ronald Spector, George Washington University
  - Andrew Birtle, U.S. Army Center of Military History
  - Merle Pribbenow, Independent Scholar
  - Andy Wiest, University of Southern Mississippi
3:00 PM: Coffee Break
3:30 PM: Panel 4: Getting in, Getting out: Kennedy and Withdrawal from Vietnam
- Panel Chair: Richard Reeves, Independent scholar
  - Howard Jones, University of Alabama
  - Timothy Naftali, New America Foundation
  - Marc Selverstone, University of Virginia
5:00 PM: End of First Day

Location:
- McGowan Theater, National Archives
- 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20004

8:30 AM: Panel 5: Revolutionary Locales: War and Social Transformation in the South Vietnamese Countryside during the early 1960s
- Panel Chair: Jeffrey Race, Independent Scholar
  - David Biggs, University of California, Riverside
  - David Hunt, University of Massachusetts, Boston
  - Oscar Salemink, University of Copenhagen
10:00 AM: Coffee Break
10:30 AM: Panel 6: North Vietnam and the International Context of Communist Strategy in 1963
- Panel Chair: Mark Bradley, University of Chicago
  - Pierre Journoud, Institute for Strategic Research, French Military Academy (IRSEM)
  - Sophie Quinn-Judge, Temple University
  - Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, University of Kentucky
12:00 PM: Lunch
1:30 PM: Panel 7: Costs and Consequences: 1963 and the History of the Vietnam War
- Panel Chair: Larry Berman, Georgia State University
  - Pierre Asselin, Hawai’i Pacific University
  - Phillip Catton, Stephen F. Austin State University
  - Mark Lawrence, University of Texas, Austin
  - Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University
3:30 PM: Closing Remarks
End of Conference

updated 4/2/2013