Vietnam in Transition

Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies – CUNY Presents Vietnam in Transition Date: Thursday, April 15, 2010 Time: 8:30AM to 10:15AM Place: 25 West 43rd Street, 18th Floor between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan For a generation of Americans, Vietnam has been associated with one of the most difficult periods in modern U.S. … Read more

Unidentified Vietnam: Questioning the Archives

We’d like to begin with a quote from Siegried Kracauer’s 1927 essay on photography: “memory-images appear to be fragments but only because photography does not encompass the meaning to which they refer and in relation to which they cease to be fragments. Similarly, from the perspective of memory, photography appears as a jumble that consists … Read more

Vietnam Today

Prof. James T. Lap, Director of Computer Applications at New York City Technical College, spoke at AAHEC’s Distinguished Speakers Forum on “Vietnam Today”. He took the audience on a grand tour of Vietnam, from its beautiful coastline to a history of wars of independence, and concluded with the economic opening of the recent visit by … Read more