Publication Initiative
As part of the core mission of the Engaging With Vietnam conference series to promote new scholarship, we are dedicated to helping conference participants publish their work.
This involves engaging in extensive mentoring/editorial work with authors to guide them through the publication process.
To date, we have published conference proceedings, a special issue in the Journal of Vietnamese Studies (JVS), a volume in the IAS/Springer “Asia in Transition” series, a special topic in the journal Suvannabhumi, a special focus in the journal Southeast Asian Studies, several contributing articles to a volume in the Global Vietnam book series, and an entire volume in that same series.
We currently have multiple publication projects underway following recent Engaging With Vietnam conferences.
EWV-JVS Special Issue
In 2018, EWV offered the opportunity to interested participants of the 10th EWV conference (held that year in Ho Chi Minh City, Phan Thiet & Binh Thuan) to contribute to a special issue of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies.
This initiative was directed by Phan Le Ha (Universiti Brunei Darussalam & University of Hawaii at Manoa), Liam C. Kelley (Universiti Brunei Darussalam) and Jamie Gillen (University of Auckland).
Prior to submitting the papers to the journal for peer review, we held a workshop with potential authors to help strengthen their papers for submission. Logistical support for the summer workshop in 2018 was provided by University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City.
The special issue, entitled “The Collaboration Project between Engaging With Vietnam and the Journal of Vietnamese Studies,” was then published in early 2020.
An EWV Volume in the IAS-Springer “Asia in Transition” Series
Following the 11th Engaging With Vietnam conference, held in Leiden in 2019 in conjunction with the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS), we assisted a group of participants to publish a volume in the IAS/Springer “Asia in Transition” book series.
This book series is a collaboration between the Institute of Asian Studies (IAS) at Universiti Brunei Darussalam and academic publisher Springer Nature.
The volume which emerged from this project is entitled Vietnam at the Vanguard: New Perspectives across Time, Space, and Community. Edited by Jamie Gillen (University of Auckland), Liam C. Kelley (Universiti Brunei Darussalam) and Phan Le Ha (Universiti Brunei Darussalam and University of Hawaii at Manoa), it was published in 2021.
Special Topic in Suvannabhumi
Four papers from the 12th Engaging With Vietnam Conference (2021) on “Engaging with Vietnam and ASEAN: Mobilities and Identities in an Age of Global Transformation” were published in a special topic section of the journal Suvannabhumi: Multidisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2023) on “Globalization, Vietnam and ASEAN” and are available for reading and downloading on the Suvannabhumi website.
The four papers and their authors are as follows:
“Vietnam and the Spector of Deglobalization” by John Walsh (Krirk University);
“China’s Digital Silk Road in Southeast Asia and Vietnam’s Responses from 2015 to 2021” by Dao D. Nguyen (Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences);
“‘Say Hello to Vietnam!’: A Multimodal Analysis of British Travel Blogs” by Thuy T. H. Tran (Vietnam National University, Hanoi);
“Reframing Loss: Chinese Diaspora Identity in K. H. Lim’s Written in Black” by Hannah Ming Yit Ho (Universiti Brunei Darussalam)
These four papers are preceded by an editors’ introduction on “Negotiating Globalization and its Aftermath in Vietnam and ASEAN: Theory, Practice, Representation, and Identity” by Liam C. Kelley (University Brunei Darussalam), Catherine Earl (RMIT Vietnam), and Jamie Gillen (University of Auckland). Finally, that introduction is preceded by an introduction to the special section by Editor-in-chief of Suvannabhumi, Professor Victor T. King.
Special Focus in Southeast Asian Studies
Three papers from the 12th Engaging With Vietnam Conference (2021) on “Engaging with Vietnam and ASEAN: Mobilities and Identities in an Age of Global Transformation” were published in a special focus section of the journal Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 13, No. 1, 2024) on “The Politics of Collective Care: Health, Kinship, and Inequality in Transnational Vietnam.” The articles can be viewed online or downloaded here.
The three papers and their authors are as follows:
“Vietnamese Carescapes in the Making: Looking at Covid-19 Care Responses in Berlin through the Affective Lens of Face Masks” by Max Müller et al.
“Narrative and Framing of a Pandemic: Public Health Communication in the Vietnamese Public Sphere” by Mirjam Le and Franziska Susana Nicolaisen.
“Appropriating State Techniques for Effective Rituals: Funerals of the Raglai in Contemporary Vietnam” by Kang Yanggu.
These three papers are preceded by an editors’ introduction by Liam C. Kelley (University Brunei Darussalam), Catherine Earl (RMIT Vietnam), and Jamie Gillen (University of Auckland).
Global Vietnam Volume on Vietnamese Language and Education
Several papers from the 12th Engaging in Vietnam conference were published in as chapters in a volume in our Global Vietnam book series with Springer Nature.
Entitled “Vietnamese Language, Education and Change In and Outside Vietnam” and edited by Phan Le Ha, Dat Bao, and Joel Windle, this open access book brings fresh perspectives to the study of Vietnamese language, education, and change in a globalized world. Instead of sticking to old frameworks that treat languages and cultures as either dominant or marginal, it looks at Vietnam and Vietnamese language through a much more dynamic and complex lens, and shows how they’re shaped both inside and outside the country, and how they play out in classrooms, textbooks, student exchanges, community programs, and intercultural encounters.
Vietnamese is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, ranking in the global top 20. But in many international settings, it’s still treated as a “peripheral” or “southern” language, especially in conversations shaped by Global North–Global South thinking.
This book challenges that view by exploring the unique tensions, dilemmas, and opportunities that come with Vietnamese being used in multilingual, multicultural spaces around the world. Whether in diaspora communities, international universities, or local schools, Vietnamese isn’t outside the global. It’s part of it. And with that presence come powerful stories of heritage, identity, tradition, and the often unseen ideological clashes that unfold across generations and borders.
Global Vietnam Volume on Vietnamese History
Nine papers from the 12th Engaging in Vietnam conference were published in 2024 as a volume in our Global Vietnam book series with Springer Nature.
Entitled “Vietnam Over the Long Twentieth Century: Becoming Modern, Going Global,” and edited by Liam C. Kelley (Universiti Brunei Darussalam) and Gerard Sasges (National University of Singapore), this open access book offers a compelling look at the dramatic changes Vietnam went through over the long twentieth century, as it transformed from an early modern kingdom to a European colony, then a divided land caught between competing ideologies, and finally emerged as a unified country in a globalized world.
Throughout these sweeping transformations, different groups of Vietnamese envisioned and pursued their own ideas of what “modernity” could look like. Rather than focusing on a single path, the book explores the many forms that modernity took in Vietnam, showing how they were shaped by both domestic developments and global connections at each political turning point.
