1967: The Search for Peace Conference Agenda


April 27-29, 2017

Thursday, April 27


All day: Participants arrive in Lubbock


12-5:00 PM: Registration Desk opens at the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center Location: Conference Registration Area near Hotel Registration Desk


6:30 PM: Welcoming Reception

Location: Hotel Bar and Lounge Cash Bar with Heavy Hors d'oeuvres


Friday, April 28


7:30 AM: Coffee Service in Conference Area (near Sycamore/Mahogany Rooms)


8 AM-5 PM: Registration Desk opens at Clarion Hotel and Conference Center Location: Conference Registration Area near the Hotel Registration Desk


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8:00 AM: WELCOMING REMARKS


Ron Milam, Ph.D., Interim Executive Director, Institute for Peace and Conflict, Texas Tech University


Brent Lindquist, Ph.D., Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Texas Tech University


Administrative Remarks

Stephen Maxner, Ph.D., Director, Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University Location: Sycamore Room


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8:30 AM: Plenary Session

Understanding 1967 and the Search for Peace


Commentator/Moderator: Greg Daddis, Ph.D. Chapman University


Understanding Vietnam 1967 through Clausewitz’s Trinity

Dave Lewis, Colonel, USAF (Retired), Texas Tech University


1967: The Search for Peace

Ron Milam, Ph.D., Texas Tech University


Around the World in War and Peace: Lyndon Johnson’s Global Trip, December 1967

Kyle Longley, Ph.D., Arizona State University

Location: Sycamore Room


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10:00 AM: Coffee Break


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(Beginning of breakout sessions)

10:30 AM: Session 2


Session 2A


Anticipating Nixon’s War


Commentator/Moderator: TBD


“Diplomatic Struggle and Discreet Engagement”: Kissinger’s initial contact with the Democratic Republic of Vietnam recalled by a North Vietnamese diplomat, September – December 1967

Chau Huy Ngoc, Independent Researcher


From Gap to Chasm: 1967 and the Erosion of Public Trust towards War, Government, and News

Clayton Kozan, Ph.D. Candidate, Texas Tech University


“Asia After Viet Nam:” the Writing and Purpose of Richard Nixon’s 1967 Foreign Article on the Vietnam War and the Future of Asia

Brian Robertson, Ph.D., Texas A&M University Central Texas


Location: Sycamore Room

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Session 2B


The Soldier Experience in the United States and Vietnam, Part I


Commentator/Moderator: TBD


The North Vietnamese Planning for the TET Offensive of 1968

Andrew Finlayson, Colonel, USMC (Retired)


The North Vietnamese Soldier Experience

Jim Zumwalt, Lieutenant Colonel, USMC (Retired)


OPERATION CEDAR FALLS in the New Voices of the Viet Cong

Hai Nguyen, Ph.D. Candidate, Texas Tech University

Location: Cypress Room


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12:00 Lunch Presentation

The Shared Experience of Combat — 1967 from the Mekong to Missouri

Andrew Wiest, Ph.D., University of Southern Mississippi

Location: Mahogany Room


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1:30 PM: Sessions 3


Session 3A


The Vietnam War from a Global Perspective


Commentator/Moderator: Laura Calkins


Out of Options: Lyndon Johnson and the Six-Day War

Justin Hart, Ph.D., Texas Tech University


Dead End Diplomacy: Sincerity and Julius Nyerere in Negotiating the Vietnam War

Paul Bjerk, Ph.D., Texas Tech University


A Look from the Other Camp: Polish People's Republic Attempts to Bring Peace to Vietnam

Jarema Slowiak, Ph.D. Candidate, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland


Location: Sycamore Room

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Session 3B


The Soldier Experience in the United States and Vietnam, Part II


Commentator/Moderator: TBD


South Viet Nam 1967: Stabilization and Stalemate

Frank Scotton, USIS/CORDS/JUSPAO Vietnam 1962-1972


“They Were Definitely Looking For Us…”: Operation Francis Marion and the False Hope of 1967

James Sandy, Ph.D. Candidate, Texas Tech University


A Challenging Effort among Allies: Understanding the American GIs’ Perspectives toward the Soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)

Carie Nguyen, Ph.D. Candidate, Texas Tech University

Location: Cypress Room


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3:00 PM: Coffee Break


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3:30 PM: Sessions 4


Session 4A


Screening the Vietnam War


Commentator/Moderator: Justin Hart, Ph.D., Texas Tech University


Sir, No Sir! Antiwar Veterans in Killeen, Texas, during the Vietnam War

David Zeiger, Documentary Filmmaker


A Bond Unbroken: The “Why” of Minh

Mary Ann Koenig, Documentary Filmmaker


Location: Sycamore Room

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Session 4B


Debating the War in the United States


Commentator/Moderator: Stephen Sherman, Vietnam Veteran, Independent Researcher


Reassessing the Factual Arguments about the Vietnam War as made in 1967

Robert F. Turner, SJD, Center for National Security Law, University of Virginia School of Law


Additional commentary and discussion will be provided by:

Andrew Finlayson, Independent Researcher

Marc Jason Gilbert, Ph.D., Hawaii Pacific University

Location: Cypress Room


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5:00 PM – End of first day presentations


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6:00 PM: Reception Cash bar

Location: Lobby Lounge and Mahogany Room


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6:30 PM: Special Vietnam Veteran Recognition Program

Hosted by 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War Commemoration Program


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7:00 PM: CONFERENCE BANQUET

Recommended attire: Business

Location: Mahogany Room


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7:40 PM: Keynote Address


Keynote Speaker:


Words of War: The Strategic Discourse of America’s Vietnam Experience

Gregory Daddis, Ph.D., Chapman University


8:30 PM: End of banquet


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Saturday April 29


7:30 AM: Coffee Service in Conference Registration Area


8 AM-5 PM: Registration Desk opens

Location: Conference Registration Area


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8:00 AM: Session 5


Session 5A


Conscientious Objection


Commentator/Moderator: TBD


Giving Peace a Chance: Conscientious Objection during the Vietnam Era

Philip Szmedra, Ph.D., Georgia Southwestern State University


The Evolution of Conscientious Objection at Fort Hood, Texas

David Zeiger, Documentary Filmmaker


Not the Law Then, Nor Is It Now: Popularizing Conscientious Objector Status

Abel Rios, M.A., Texas Tech University


Location: Sycamore Room

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Session 5B


Disrupting the War


Commentator/Moderator: TBD


Hanoi’s Unified Struggle and the Role of US Universities, Media, and Politicians

Roger Canfield, Ph.D., Independent Scholar


The Peace Movements in South Vietnam in Mid-1960s

Michael Do, Independent Researcher


The Assassination (?) of General Nguyen Chi Thanh and the Effort to Stop the Tet Offensive

Kyle Horst, Independent Researcher

Location: Cypress Room


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9:30 AM: Coffee break - Conference Registration Area


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10:00 AM: Session 6


Session 6A


The Domestic Culture of the Vietnam War


Commentator/Moderator: Heather Stur, Ph.D., University of Southern Mississippi


The Vietnam War and Humor

Randy McBee, Ph.D., Texas Tech University


American Counterculture during 1967

Amber Batura, Ph.D. Candidate, Texas Tech University


The Challenge of Liberal Antiwar Activism: The Americans for Democratic Action and Negotiation Now! in 1967

Scott Kamen, Ph.D., University of Toledo

Location: Sycamore Room


Session 6B


Religion and Antiwar Activism


Commentator/Moderator: TBD


Beyond “Beyond Vietnam”

Steven Schroeder, Ph.D., Independent Scholar


Mennonite Advocacy for Peaceful Resolution of Conflict

Luke Martin, M.A., Eastern Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities in Saigon, Vietnam, 1961-1975


Diplomatic of Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI on peaceful coexistence in the context of the war in Vietnam from 1964 to 1967

Le Thi Hoa, Ph.D. Candidate, University Paris Diderot, Paris, France

Location: Cypress Room


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11:30 Lunch Presentation


Heather Stur, Ph.D., University of Southern Mississippi

Location: Mahogany Room


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1:00 PM: Session 7


Session 7A


Rural Issues in South Vietnam


Commentator/Moderator: TBD


Agrowar in the Year of the Goat: Rice, Irregular Warfare, and the Search for Peace in South Vietnam, 1967

Martin G. Clemis, Ph.D., Valley Forge Military Academy and College


Lam Dong: Province Situation in 1967

Neil H. Olsen, Ph.D., Independent Scholar


TVA on the Mekong - Hanoi's Missed Opportunity for Peace

Stephen Sherman, Independent Researcher


Location: Sycamore Room

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Session 7B


Fulbright, Education, and Human Rights


Commentator/Moderator: TBD


“Bernard Fall, J. William Fulbright, and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearings, 1966-1967”

Nathaniel Moir, Ph.D. Candidate, State University of New York at Albany (SUNY)


“Looking Into Hell”: Transitional Justice and the Early Human Rights Movement in 1967

Cody J. Foster, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Kentucky


The Year 1967: A Critical Time of Advancing the Higher Education of the South Vietnamese Government

Truong, Thuy Dung, Ph.D. Candidate, Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany

Location: Cypress Room


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2:30 PM: Coffee break - Conference Registration Area


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3:00 PM: Session 8


Session 8A


Technology and Development in the Vietnam War


Commentator/Moderator: TBD


CORDS, Nation-Building, and the Search for Peace from 1967 Onwards

Andrew J. Gawthorpe, Ph.D., Leiden University, The Netherlands


All Aboard the Peace Game: Vietnam and the Only ARPA-funded Bargaining and Conflict Resolution Simulation during the Vietnam War, 1966-1967

Marc Jason Gilbert, Ph.D., Hawaii Pacific University


GIS Operational Analysis of the Vietnam War, 1967

Mervyn Roberts, Ph.D., Central Texas College


Location: Sycamore Room

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Session 8B


People’s Diplomacy


Commentator/Moderator: TBD


Let’s Go Shopping for Tet: Hue on the Eve of Destruction

Nguyen Diu Huong, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Washington, Seattle


“Georgia versus the Antiwar Movement: The American South and the Rejection of Peace in 1967”

Glenn Robins, Ph.D., Georgia Southwestern State University


Establishing People’s Diplomatic Ties

Jessica M. Frazier, Ph.D., University of Rhode Island

Location: Cypress Room


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4:30 PM: Closing Remarks


Stephen Maxner, Ph.D., Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University

Location: Sycamore Room


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5:00 PM: END OF CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS


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