Who Tells the War? Community Memory and the Vietnam War’s Enduring Legacies

September 3, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Mānoa Campus, Zoom [https://go.hawaii.edu/r4n]

2025 marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. This Luce Webinar hosted by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, will examine the enduring consequences — particularly through the lens of how it differently affected communities across Southeast Asia. How the war is remembered, represented, and how do communities remember the war in ways that shape meaning, identity, and local history. Whose narratives are preserved or amplified? Whose voices are overlooked or silenced? From community-led memorials and oral histories to state-sponsored museums and the intentional absence of commemoration, the ways in which the Vietnam War is remembered reflect not only historical trauma, but ongoing struggles over identity, legitimacy, and visibility. In a time when factual accounts alone often fail to capture the complexity of lived experience, we explore how social memory is actively (re)constructed—and how communities reclaim authorship over how their histories are told.


Ticket Information
Free but registration required [https://go.hawaii.edu/r4n]

Event Sponsor
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Teri L Skillman, 8089562676, skillman@hawaii.edu,

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