8:30 AM : WELCOMING REMARKS

Ron Milam, Ph.D., Executive Director, Institute for Peace & Conflict, Texas Tech University
Michael San Francisco, Ph.D., Interim Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Texas Tech University

9:00 AM : Plenary Session: Victory, Defeat, or Stalemate? Doubt and Uncertainty in America's Withdrawal from Vietnam

Greg Daddis, Ph.D., San Diego State University

10:30 AM 2A: Beyond the Quagmire: New Interpretations of the Vietnam War

A Discussion Featuring:

Geoffrey Jensen, Ph.D., College of Security and Intelligence

Ron Milam, Ph.D., Texas Tech University

Doug Bradley, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison
Martin Clemis, Ph.D., U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Bill Allison, Ph.D., Georgia Southern University
Matthew Stith, University of Texas at Tyler

10:30 AM 2B: The Impact of Peace Movements and Religion in Vietnam

The Peoples Peace Treaty
Doug Hostetter, Pax Christi International NGO Advocacy Team at the UN in New York



Vietnamese Nationalism: The Case of Peace Movements During 1970-1971 in South Vietnam
Ha Trieu Huy, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam



Our Ladys Immaculate Heart Will Prevail: Marian Devotionalism, Anticommunism, and the Vietnam Conflict
Tuan Hoang, Pepperdine University

12:15 PM : Lunchtime Presentation: Lam Son 719

James H. Willbanks, PhD, Lieutenant Colonel (USA, Ret), Professor Emeritus of Military History, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College

1:30 PM 3A: Cultures of War

Los Yanquis quieren fuego 1: Exploring the Cultural Rhetoric of 1970s Music Lyrics
Erin McCoy, Ph.D., University of South Carolina



No Means No: Sexual Assault of American Women in Vietnam
Rebecca McGee, Texas Tech University

3:30 PM 3B: Vietnamization: Economic, Military, Socio-political, and Diplomatic Consequences

Deficit Financing in Wartime South Vietnam: The Major Reform of 1970-1971
Pham Do Chi, Ph.D. Independent Scholar



Vietnamization: The Precondition to Peace Without Honor
Truong Duy Nong, Ph.D., Independent Scholar, Institute for Civic Education in Vietnam



A Diplomatic Observation of U.S.-Vietnam Relations during the Vietnam War
Alex-Thai D. Vo, Ph.D., Research Fellow, US-Vietnam Research Center, University of Oregon

3:30 PM 4A: The War on the Ground in South Vietnam

PSYOPS in Vietnam: Another Story of Lost Opportunity
Kyle Rable, Bowling Green University



Halting Hanoi: Godleys Clandestine Coalition and the Defense of Military Region II, 1970
Jeff Schultz, Luzerne County Community College



The Fate of Agent Blue, the Arsenic Based Herbicide, Used in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War
Ken Olson, Ph.D., University of Illinois

3:30 PM 4B: Vietnam War Authors Panel

Lyndon Johnson, Vietnam, and the Presidency: The Speech of March 31, 1968
David Zarefsky, Owen L. Coon Professor Emeritus, Communication Studies, Northwestern University



War in the Villages, U.S. Marine Corps Combined Action Platoons in the Vietnam War
Ted N. Easterling, PhD., Independent Scholar, Vietnam Veteran



Storms over the Mekong: Major Battles of the Vietnam War
William Head, Ph.D., Warner Robins Air Logistics Center

5:30 PM : Keynote Address: Differing Realities for Negotiating Peace in Vietnam: 1970 and 1971 in Washington, Saigon, and Hanoi

Larry Berman, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, University of California, Davis

8:30 AM 5A: The Son Tay Raid: The Greatest Thing that Happened in the Vietnam War

A Discussion Featuring:

John Gargus, Colonel, USAF (retired)
Terry Buckler, Sergeant, USA (inactive)
Patrick St.Clair, Command Sgt Major, USA (retired)
Lee Ellis, Colonel, USAF (retired)

8:30 AM 5B: Direct and Indirect Protest Against the War

MAYDAY 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest
Lawrence Roberts, Journalist and Author



Masters of War: Daniel Ellsbergs Decision to Leak the Pentagon Papers
Danielle McLennan, University of Western Ontario, Canada

10:30 AM 6A: The War in Cambodia

Tightening the Purse Strings: Congress, Cambodia, and the Vietnam War
David Prentice, Ph.D. Oklahoma State University



American presence in Cambodia from the Cambodian Incursion to Chenla II: The Question of Sources, Archive, and Local Viewpoints
Stephanie Benzaquen-Gautier Ph.D., University of Nottingham (UK)

10:30 AM 6B: The Soldier and the Diplomat: Human Engagement in the Vietnam War in 1970-71

1970: A Conscientious Objectors Personal History in a Pivotal Year
Philip Szmedra, Ph.D., Gannon University



A Society Much Buffeted by Change: Planning the All-Volunteer Force in 1970
William Taylor, Ph.D. Angelo State University



Americans were wrong in all of their calculations. Meeting of First Secretaries Le Duan and Władysław Gomułka on May 5, 1970
Jarema Slowiak, Ph.D., Jagiellonian University

12:15 PM : Lunchtime Presentation: The Cambodian Incursion

Inette Miller, Author of Girls Dont! A Womans War in Vietnam; War Correspondent, Time Magazine

1:00 PM : Closing Remarks

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

Stephen Maxner, Ph.D., Director, Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson
Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University