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Southern lore is full of tales of Indigenous haunting. Local myths speak of the demise of Native nations and their fabled ancient pasts. Alongside these legends, contemporary Native nations endure in their southern homelands. Dr. Elizabeth Ellis will investigate the dissonance between stories of historic Native demise and modern Indigenous survival in their southern homelands. This lecture will investigate the dissonance between stories of historic Native demise and modern Indigenous survival. Her talk will take place on March 28 at 12:45 in VC 7150.

Elizabeth Ellis is an associate professor of history at Princeton University. She specializes in early American and Native American history, and her research focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth-century south. Her first book, The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South, examines the formation of Native American nations in the Lower Mississippi Valley.

Join us for a presentation by our very own Dr. Martina T. Nguyen, who will discuss her recent book On Our Own Strength: The Self-Reliant Literary Group and Cosmopolitan Nationalism in Late Colonial Vietnam. The talk will take place on Thursday, April 20, 2023, at 12:30 PM, in NVC 12-150.

The Self-Reliant Literary Group (Tự Lực Văn Đoàn) was the most influential intellectual movement in interwar French-occupied Vietnam. The Group’s far-reaching work included applied design, urban reform, fashion, literature, journalism, and cartoons through which they advanced an idea of cosmopolitan nationalism and Vietnamese autonomy that sought a nonviolent middle path between colonialism and anticolonial struggle. This form of cosmopolitan nationalism, Dr. Nguyen argues, proved tremendously popular and profoundly shaped local politics, influencing even rival groups like the newly revived Indochinese Communist Party. 

Panelists:

• Prof. Gillian Brunet, Wesleyan University, author of “Stimulus on the Home Front: The State-Level Effects of WWII Spending.”
• Prof. Thomas Heinrich, Baruch College, author of Warship Builders: An Industrial History of U.S. Naval Shipbuilding, 1922-1945.
• Prof. Christopher Miller, Glasgow University, UK, author of Planning and Profits: British Naval Armaments Manufacture and the Military Industrial Complex, 1918-1941.
• Prof. Mark Wilson, University of North Carolina Charlotte, author of Destructive Creation American Business and the Winning of World War II.

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