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Engaging With Vietnam #15 Grand Event
Engaging With Vietnam (EWV) is pleased to announce that the GRAND EVENT in its 15th-anniversary series will be a major conference held in collaboration with the School of Interdisciplinary Sciences and Arts, Vietnam National University Hanoi (SIS-VNU Hanoi) on 10-13 December 2025.
Knowledge Production, Creative Industries, Education, and the AI Age in Vietnam: Looking Back and Moving Forward
For 15 years, Engaging With Vietnam: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue (EWV) – founded by Phan Le Ha and later joined by Liam C. Kelley – has served as a dynamic platform where scholars, policymakers, professionals, and artists from across the globe engage with Vietnam in all its richness—as a nation, a culture, and an idea.
Since its launch in 2009, this initiative has passionately nurtured the exploration of knowledge production and has sought to illuminate diverse perspectives on Vietnam’s past, present, and future.
Across 14 conferences held in Vietnam, Australia, the United States, the Netherlands, and Japan, EWV has woven a tapestry of rigorous dialogue, innovative scholarship, and enduring connections that mirror Vietnam’s evolving role in the global environment.
As we celebrate the 15th anniversary of this extraordinary journey, we are delighted to introduce the main conference of the 15th Engaging With Vietnam Conference Series, themed “Knowledge Production, Creative Industries, Education, and the AI Age in Vietnam: Looking Back and Moving Forward.”
This milestone event honors our unwavering dedication to interdisciplinary inquiry while ushering us into an exciting new era. By delving into the contributions of creative industries, the transformative power of education, and the promises and perils of the AI age, this conference weaves together our foundational commitment to knowledge creation with the urgent questions of tomorrow.
It is a time to reflect on our achievements—through partnerships with institutions worldwide and initiatives like the Hackathon and Global Vietnam book series—and to envision a future of even deeper engagement with Vietnam’s dynamic trajectory.
As with all EWV conferences, we encourage submissions that address the conference theme; however, we will also be open to topics of enduring importance and interest that are related to Vietnam. Further, we also welcome submissions that deal with the main conference theme from the perspective of other parts of the world, so as to encourage the reflection that comes from comparative analysis.
Deadline for Proposal Submissions: 31 July 2025
Notification of Acceptance: 15 August 2025
There will be a registration fee of $1.000.000 VND or $50 USD for everyone, Vietnamese and non-Vietnamese, and free for undergraduate students. Details will be available in early August.
Types of Proposals
We welcome various types of proposals, from individual presentations to organized panels, or roundtable discussions and art exhibitions and film screenings.
Note: participants at EWV 15 may only present one (1) paper, however, they may participate in another capacity in other forums, such as serving as a chair or discussant for an organized panel, or participating in a roundtable discussion, etc.
You can always email us if you need more instructions or clarifications at engagingwithvietnam[at]gmail.com.
Individual Presentations
- Proposal submissions are in English or Vietnamese and no more than 300 words. Proposals for individual presentations can be single-authored or multi-authored.
- Applicants are only allowed to submit one paper proposal. It is not permitted to submit two or more abstracts.
- If accepted, only those who register can have their names listed in the program. This applies to all presentations, single-authored or multi-authored.
- The EWV 15 Selection Committee will compile panels of 4 individual paper presenters. The time slot for a panel composed of individual papers is 120 minutes.
- The organisers will assign a chair for each panel.
- All individual proposals are to be submitted online using the link below.
Panels
- The conference also accepts proposal submissions for a panel session that discusses a related or common theme. This type of session provides panellists with the opportunity to plan ahead how to run the session and to coordinate presentations and discussion in a fruitful manner. It is encouraged that the panellists leave ample time for overall discussion and Q&A. Interacting with the audience is highly encouraged.
- Proposals for a panel session are within 500 words, specifying the overall focus, key points and arguments, insights and methodological issues, and how each individual presentation is linked to the whole session. Together with this up to 500-word overall proposal, a up to 300-word proposal for each individual presentation is also required.
- Panellists of each panel session usually propose a chair and a discussant at the time of submission. The chair is often the moderator as well. However, if the panellists need the conference to look for a suitable chair or discussant in case their chair or discussant cannot attend the conference, this could be arranged although not guaranteed.
- A panel should be within a 120-minute time frame, and is consisting of no less than 4 related individual presentations. These individual presentations can be single-authored or multi-authored.
- All proposals are to be submitted online using the link below.
In-depth Roundtable Discussion Sessions
- In-depth Roundtable Discussion is a form of academic discussion, which is often interactive, lively and in focus, and is led by a chair. Participants agree on a specific topic to discuss and debate. Each person is given equal right and time to participate, and as such no one should dominate the discussion. This format is facilitated and illustrated by the idea of a circular layout referred to in the term round table.
- Proposals for this type of sessions are within 500 words, specifying the overall topic/issue, key points and what to be discussed and debated, and how each member contributes and what each brings to the whole discussion.
- The maximum time for a Roundtable Discussion is 120 minutes, and the maximum number of members is 10 for each session. You may request multiple sessions if the number of participants is more than 10 and if the topic under discussion requires extensive engagement. We encourage general conference participants to attend this type of sessions, and therefore Roundtable Discussion members are asked to engage with the audience as much as possible during the session.
- All proposals are to be submitted online using the link below.
Art Exhibitions/Installations/Workshops
- Proposals for art exhibitions/installations/workshops can be emailed directly to the conference address engagingwithvietnam[at]gmail.com.
- We need a detailed description of the proposed event, who will participate, if artist’s talk is included, and what is required in terms of space, space setting, equipment, sound and lighting.
Movie/Documentary Screening
- Proposals for movie/documentary screening can be emailed directly to the conference address engagingwithvietnam[at]gmail.com.
- We need a detailed description of the proposed event, including a summary of the movie/documentary, its length, who among the film/documentary making team will participate, any post-screening discussion is included, and what is required in terms of space, space setting, equipment, sound and lighting.
Deadline for Proposal Submissions: 31 July 2025
Notification of Acceptance: 15 August 2025
There will be a registration fee of $1.000.000 VND or $50 USD for everyone, Vietnamese and non-Vietnamese, and free for undergraduate students. Details will be available in early August.
Contacting EWV
Queries and questions can be directed to EWV conference email: engagingwithvietnam[at]gmail.com.
You can also keep up to date with Engaging With Vietnam by following us on social media.
EWV 15 looks forward to meeting you in Hanoi in December 2025!
Warmest wishes,
Founders of Engaging With Vietnam
Phan Lê Hà (Engaging With Vietnam & University College London) & Liam C. Kelley (Engaging With Vietnam)
EWV 15 Conference Convenors
Senior Professor Dr Phan Lê Hà (Engaging With Vietnam & Honorary Professor, University College London)
Associate Professor Dr Liam C. Kelley (Engaging With Vietnam)
Associate Professor Dr Nguyên Văn Hiệu (Rector, School of Interdisciplinary Sciences and Arts, Vietnam National University, Hanoi)
Members of the EWV 15 Organising Team (regularly updated)
Associate Professor Dr Nguyễn Việt Khôi (School of Interdisciplinary Sciences and Arts, VNU Hanoi)
Associate Professor Dr Phạm Quỳnh Phương (School of Interdisciplinary Sciences and Arts, VNU Hanoi)
Associate Professor Dr Trần Thị An (School of Interdisciplinary Sciences and Arts, VNU Hanoi)
Dr Vũ Đường Luân (School of Interdisciplinary Sciences and Arts, VNU Hanoi)
Dr Lê Thùy Linh (Engaging With Vietnam and AMES Australia)
Associate Professor Dr Nguyễn Tuấn Cường (Director of the Institute of Hán-Nôm Studies)
Dr Vũ Minh Hoàng (Fulbright University Vietnam)
Associate Professor Trần Kiên (Vietnam National University School of Law)
Dr Phan Lê Chung (University of Arts, Huế University)
CONFERENCE MANAGEMENT TEAM
Dr Lê Thùy Linh (Engaging With Vietnam and AMES Australia), Conference Manager
Ngọc Trần (Engaging With Vietnam and Universiti Brunei Darussalam)
CONFERENCE SUPPORT TEAM (TO BE UPDATED)
Nguyễn Hữu Sử (Engaging With Vietnam, VASS & Waseda University)
Lê Nguyễn Thu Phương (Engaging With Vietnam)
Dr Trần Thị Tuyết (Hanoi University of Business and Technology)
PARTNERS (TO BE UPDATED)
Amsterdam University Press
Springer Nature
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Engaging With Vietnam: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Chuỗi Sự Kiện Kỷ Niệm Engaging With Vietnam 15
Chủ đề chính xuyên suốt
“Kiến Tạo Tri Thức, Giáo Dục, Công Nghiệp Sáng Tạo, Việt Nam, và Thế Giới”
Thời gian: 2024-2025
2024-2025 đánh dấu chặng đường 15 năm ra đời và phát triển của chuỗi Hội thảo Khoa học Quốc tế thường niên Engaging With Vietnam – chuỗi hội thảo do Giáo sư Tiến sĩ Phan Lê Hà sáng lập năm 2009 và cùng Phó Giáo sư Tiến sĩ Liam C. Kelley xây dựng và lên ý tưởng tổ chức cùng các đối tác trong và ngoài nước suốt những năm qua.
Nhân dịp đặc biệt này, Engaging With Vietnam xin trân trọng thông báo 2024-2025 sẽ diễn ra một chuỗi sự kiện (quy mô lớn nhỏ đan xen) gắn kết nhau và cùng hướng đến chủ đề chính xuyên suốt của Hội thảo Engaging With Vietnam lần thứ 15.
Hoạt động-Sự Kiện: Gồm một chuỗi sự kiện xuyên suốt – Mỗi sự kiện (quy mô lớn nhỏ đan xen) sẽ tập trung sâu vào một chủ đề trọng tâm, và đều gắn kết với chủ đề xuyên suốt của chuỗi hoạt động EWV#15 nêu trên.
Địa điểm: Chuỗi sự kiện diễn ra tại các thời điểm và địa điểm khác nhau, do EWV phối hợp tổ chức với các đối tác trong nước và quốc tế. Cụ thể:
✿ Sự kiện EWV#15 số 1, Sự kiện mở màn
Thời gian 28-31/8/2024
Địa điểm: Huế, Việt Nam (Trung tâm Văn hóa, Thông tin, và Thể thao Thành phố Huế, 23-25 Lê Lợi)
Tọa Đàm Khoa Học và Nghệ Thuật – Chủ Đề “Đông Dương/Indochine/Indochina: Lịch Sử, Ký Ức, Chiêm Nghiệm, & Tương Tác Đương Đại,” với sự tham gia của hơn 100 đại biểu (học giả, nhà nghiên cứu, nghệ sĩ, truyền thông, các bạn sinh viên, và công chúng quan tâm đến chủ đề).
✿ Sự kiện EWV#15 số 1, Mở rộng, Sự kiện mở màn
Thời gian: 16/9/2024
Địa điểm: Hà Nội, Việt Nam
Tọa Đàm Khoa Học – “Global Vietnam & Đông Dương,” sự kiện quy mô nhỏ, thảo luận chuyên sâu. Diễn ra tại Trường Khoa học Liên ngành và Nghệ thuật – Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội.
Thời gian 21-25/12/2024
Địa điểm: Đà Lạt, Việt Nam
Hội thảo Quốc tế – Chủ Đề “Những Câu Chuyện Đông Dương: Đối thoại giữa Lưu trữ, Học thuật, Ký ức và Tương tác đương đại,” do Engaging With Vietnam phối hợp tổ chức cùng Đại học Đà Lạt và các đối tác địa phương.
✿ Sự kiện EWV#15 số 3, Sự kiện chính khép lại chuỗi kỷ niệm 15 năm
Thời gian ngày 10-13 tháng 12/2025
Địa điểm: Hà Nội, Việt Nam
Hội thảo thường niên Engaging With Vietnam với quy mô lớn, đa ngành, liên ngành, do Engaging With Vietnam phối hợp với Trường Khoa học Liên ngành và Nghệ thuật ĐHQG Hà Nội tổ chức. (Thông tin cụ thể sẽ được thông báo sau).
Trân trọng!
Phan Lê Hà & Liam C. Kelley
Nhà sáng lập, Tổ chức, và Điều hành Engaging With Vietnam
Engaging With Vietnam: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Engaging With Vietnam 15th Anniversary Series of Events
Overarching Theme
“Knowledge Production, Education, Creative Industries, Vietnam, and the World”
Time: 2024-2025
2024-2025 marks the fifteenth year in the journey of the establishment and development of the annual Engaging With Vietnam Conference series – a conference series founded by Professor Phan Lê Hà in 2009 and co-led with Liam C. Kelley.
Over the years, Phan Le Ha and Liam C. Kelley, in collaboration with various partners in and outside Vietnam, have organized 14 Engaging With Vietnam conferences in Vietnam, Australia, the United States, the Netherlands, and Japan.
On this special milestone occasion, Engaging With Vietnam is pleased to announce that in 2024-2025, a series of interconnected events (of varying scales) will take place, all under the overarching theme of the 15th Engaging With Vietnam Conference.
Activities-Events/Time/Locations: There will be a series of events taking place in various
locations in Vietnam and other countries throughout 2024-2025. Each event (of varying scale)
will have an in-depth focus on a core topic and will be connected to the overarching theme of
EWV#15.
The following series of events will be organized by Engaging With Vietnam in coordination with
various partners in Vietnam and internationally:
✿ EWV#15 Event 1, Opening Event
Date: August 28-31, 2024
Location: Hue, Vietnam (Trung tâm Văn hóa, Thông tin, và Thể thao Thành phố Huế, 23-25 Lê Lợi)
A Scholarly and Artistic Symposium – “Đông Dương/Indochine/Indochina: Histories, Memories, Reflections, & Contemporary Interactions,” featuring the participation of over 100 delegates (including scholars, researchers, artists, media professionals, students, and members of the public interested in the topic).
✿ EWV#15 Event 1 Extended
Date: September 16, 2024
Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
A Scholarly Symposium – “Global Vietnam & Đông Dương,” a small-scale, in-depth discussion event held at the School of Interdisciplinary Sciences and Arts, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
Date: December 21-25, 2024
Location: Da Lat, Vietnam
International Conference – “Indochina: A Dialogue between Archives, Scholarship, Memories, and Contemporary Interactions,” organized by Engaging With Vietnam in collaboration with Dalat University and local partners.
✿ EWV#15 Event 3 – The Main Event Concluding the 15th Anniversary Series
Date: December 10-13, 2025
Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
The annual Engaging With Vietnam conference, a large-scale, multidisciplinary, and interdisciplinary event organized by Engaging With Vietnam in collaboration with the School of Interdisciplinary Sciences and Arts, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
(Further details to be announced).
We look forward to your participation in these events so we all can reflect upon and celebrate
the 15th year in the journey of the establishment and development of Engaging With Vietnam!
Warmly,
Phan Le Ha & Liam C. Kelley
Founders, Engaging With Vietnam
Conveners and Organizers, Engaging With Vietnam Conference Series
Contacting EWV
Queries and questions can be directed to EWV conference email: engagingwithvietnam[at]gmail.com.
You can also keep up to date with Engaging With Vietnam by following us on social media.
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Welcome to Engaging With Vietnam: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue (EWV)!!
EWV is an initiative that seeks to promote the production of cutting-edge scholarship about, or in dialogue with, “Vietnam” in all of its forms, from Vietnam as a place to Vietnam as an idea.
Through such means as organizing an annual conference, and assisting scholars to publish their work, EWV always endeavors to create an environment where all can interact as intellectual equals.
Please explore this website, and we look forward to meeting you at the next EWV conference!
Welcome to Engaging With Vietnam: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue (EWV)!!
EWV is an initiative that seeks to promote the production of cutting-edge scholarship about, or in dialogue with, “Vietnam” in all of its forms, from Vietnam as a place to Vietnam as an idea.
Through such means as organizing an annual conference, and assisting scholars to publish their work, EWV always endeavors to create an environment where all can interact as intellectual equals.
Please explore this website, and we look forward to meeting you at the next EWV conference!
In addition to publishing a conference proceedings in Vietnam, we also have a publication initiative to help conference participants prepare their papers for submission to international journals or edited volumes.
Engaging With Vietnam’s interdisciplinary dialogues and scholarly engagements extend beyond the annual conference and continue throughout the year, and we document that engagement with DIGITAL MEDIA that we share with the world.
