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DESCRIPTION:Gatty Lecture Series\n\nJoin us for a talk by Bradley Davis\, P
 rofessor of History from the Eastern Connecticut State University.\n\nThis
  Gatty Lecture will take place at The Kahin Center\, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunc
 h will be served. For questions\, contact seapgatty@cornell.edu.\n\n \n\nA
 bstract \n\nIn 2025\, leadership in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam init
 iated sweeping reforms to the administration of the country. Some territor
 ial units became blended into others and long-standing categories in Vietn
 amese political geography\, such as “city” thành phố and “provinc
 e” tỉnh either transformed beyond recognition or vanished completely f
 rom the map. Despite its seeming novelty\, and contrary to the judgments o
 f policy analysts and commentators\, these twentieth-century reforms were 
 neither unprecedented nor\, from a long-term historical view\, entirely un
 expected. In fact\, we might find their clearest antecedents in reforms la
 unched two centuries ago\, when the imperial Vietnamese state sought to en
 hance its control over people\, territory\, and resources. Vietnam’s imp
 erial past not only presaged its administrative present\, it also opens a 
 view towards possible multicultural futures.  \n\nAbout the Speaker\n\nBra
 dley Camp Davis examines Vietnamese history with a multicultural and inter
 disciplinary approach. His publications include Imperial Bandits (Universi
 ty of Washington Press\, 2017)\, which was long-listed for the ICAS book p
 rize\, and\, as co-editor\, a two-volume annotated collection of Yao texts
 \, Sách Cổ Chữ Dao (Hanoi\, 2009)\, and The Cultivated Forest (Washin
 gton\, 2022) along with research articles in English\, Vietnamese\, and Fr
 ench. He has held visiting appointments at Université Paris-Cité\, the P
 rogram in Agrarian Studies at Yale University\, and\, most recently the In
 stitute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Currently\, he is completing a bo
 ok manuscript on the multi-species environmental history of imperial Vietn
 am as well as a book manuscript on the history of administrative reform. S
 ince 2012\, he has taught courses on Southeast Asian and world history at 
 Eastern Connecticut State University.
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SUMMARY:Nguyễn Modern: Imperial Vietnam and its Multicultural Futures
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