Vietnam Events
Balancing Act on the Mekong: Building Linkages for Sustainable Dam Development
March 25, 2013 // 2:00pm — 3:30pm
China Environment Forum
The Mekong Region is a massive ecosystem that is the lifeline for more than 60 million people across six countries: China, Laos, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. For the people in the Lower Mekong Basin, it provides more fish to more people than any other river in the world.
Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam
September 21, 2012 // 12:30pm — 2:00pm
Cold War International History Project
"Hanoi's War" takes the reader from the marshy swamps of the Mekong Delta to the bomb-saturated Red River Delta, from the corridors of power in Hanoi and Saigon to the Nixon White House, and from the peace negotiations in Paris to high-level meetings in Beijing and Moscow, all to reveal that peace never had a chance in Vietnam.
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
September 05, 2012 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
Cold War International History Project
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History.