November
1st - 10th,
Film at the Honolulu Academy of Arts

(Tuesday through Thursday)

Re-Viewing Vietnam: Film Representations of the Vietnam War at the Honolulu Academy of Arts.

Various showings at 1:00, 4:00, and 7:30 p.m.

Co-organizers Konrad Ng, Film Curator, and Mark Heberle, Professor of English, UHM, with introductions by local humanities scholars.

For an overview of the Free Film Program, click here: FilmProgram Or, go to the Honolulu Academy of Arts Theater website: http://www.honoluluacademy.org

November 7
(Monday)

7:00-9:00 p.m.

Writing the Vietnam War: Humanities Perspectives, Chaminade University, Ching Auditorium (reception to follow)

Panelists: Tad Bartimus, Denby Fawcett, Bev Keever, Philip Beidler, Wayne Karlin, Tim O'Brien

Co-organizers Pierre Asselin, Professor of History and Political Studies, Chaminade, & Mark Heberle.

November 8
(Tuesday)

Keynote Address,
4:00 p.m.













Distinguished Lecture Series,
7:00 p.m.

Keynote address, Thirty Years After: Tim O'Brien.
(East-West Center Imin Conference Facility, Keoni Auditorium, 4:00 p.m.) >>view PowerPoint poster (right-click to open in new window)

Tim O'Brien, a combat veteran of Vietnam (1969-1970) who has won numerous national and international awards for his work, needs no introduction to anyone interested in American literature of the war over the past thirty years. Author of If I Die in a Combat Zone, Going After Cacciato, The Things They Carried, In the Lake of the Woods, and four other novels or fiction collections, including the recent July, July, he is widely recognized as the most prominent American writer on the war and as one of the most significant American writers of the past three decades. He holds the Mitte Chair in Creative Writing at Southwest Texas State University.

Closed Reception for Panelists and Invited Guests (Imin Conference Center, Ground Floor, 5:30 p.m.)

University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Distinguished Lecture Series presents General Eric Shinseki (ret.), Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, 1999-2003 Campus Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa [UHM], 7:00 p.m.

November 9
(Wednesday)

Feature Presentation,
9:00 a.m.

Conference
Panel #1,
10:30 a.m.

Brown Bag Lunch Presentation,
12:15-1:15p.m.

Conference
Panel #2,
1:30 p.m.

Conference
Panel #3,
3:15 p.m.

Reading:
7:00-9:00 p.m.

Feature presentation by Wayne Karlin on Vietnamese-American Reconciliation through literature. (Imin Conference Center, Pacific Room, 9:00 a.m.)

Wayne Karlin, also a combat veteran of the war (USMC, 1964-1967), is not only a prolific fiction and nonfiction writer himself, with six books of his own, but has done more than virtually any American writer to encourage translation and dissemination of Vietnamese literature as Curbstone Press's American editor of its “Voices from Vietnam” series. He is editor and co-translator of ten volumes of Vietnamese fiction and poetry and was co-editor of the first anthology of American veteran Vietnam literature.
His latest book, War Movies: Scenes and Out-takes (2005), is a memoir of a return to Viet Nam during which he served as scriptwriter and actor in the award-winning Vietnamese-Singaporean war film, Song of the Stork. He is Professor of Language and Literature at the College of Southern Maryland.

Panel 1A (Pacific Room)
Armando José Prats (Kentucky), "Revision and Resistance in the Hollywood Vietnam Film"
Lori Rowlett (U of Wisconsin, Eau Claire), "Vietnam Vets in Film: Reconstructing Masculinity"
John Smihula (U of Nevada, Reno) , "Conflict Unresolved: Twilight's Last Gleaming, Cutter's Way, and the Truth of Vietnam"

Moderator: Bill Bauer, M.A. candidate in English, UHM

Panel 1B (Sarimanok Room)
Catherine Calloway (Arkansas State), "Unheard Voices: Mexican American Literary Responses to the Vietnam War"
Shirley Hanshaw (Mississippi State), "Refusal to be Can(n)on Fodder: African American Representation of the Vietnam War and Canon Formation"

Moderator: Suzanne Kosanke, Instructor of English, UHM

Panel 1C (Kaniela Room)
Elisabeth H. Piedmont-Marton (Southwestern U), "'Is This Another Vetnam War Book'"? Recent American War Writing and the Literary Legacy of Vietnam"
Michael Zeitlin (U of British Columbia), "Vietnam and Imaginary Geography in Anthony Swofford's Jarhead"

Moderator: David Doolin, Ph.D. candidate in American Studies, UHM

--Brown Bag Lunch Presentation: Raymond Burghardt, East-West Center Director and former American Ambassador to Viet Nam on Reconciliation between U.S. and Viet Nam (12:15-1:15, Imin Conference Center, Wailana Room)

Panel 2A (Pacific Room)
Alex Vernon (Hendrix College), "Tarzan, Vietnam, and the Ambiguity of American Empire"
Bruce Esplin (Utah State), "Virtual Nam: Representations of the Vietnam War in Video”
Neil P. Baird (U of Nevada, Reno), " Virtual Vietnam Veterans Memorials: New Media Appropriation of Individual Experience"

Moderator: John Zuern, Associate Professor of English, UHM

Panel 2B (Sarimanok Room)
Timothy P. Kinsella (U of Puget Sound), "A Season in Hell: Art Song and the American War in Vietnam"
Jason Gibbs (San Francisco Public Library), "A Song Not Forgotten - Representations of the American War in Vietnamese Song after 1975"
Alessandro Portelli (Università di Roma), "Singing Vietnam in Italy"

Moderator: Jeff Carroll, Professor of English, UHM

Panel 2C (Kaniela Room)
Jen Dunaway (Cornell), "'One More Redskin Bites the Dirt': Racial Melancholy in The Things They Carried"
Warren Rawson (Houston), " Addressing an Unjust Past: Narrating History in In the Lake of the Woods and the Supreme Court"
Susan Farrell (College of Charleston), "Feminist Criticism and the Vietnam War Literature of Tim O’Brien: Reactions and Accommodation"

Moderator: Jill Dahlman, Ph.D. candidate in English, UHM

Panel 2D (Washington Room)
Pierre Asselin (Chaminade U), "Vietnam, War, and Film: An Assessment of Nhat Minh Dang's When the Tenth Month Comes"
John Alba Cutler (UCLA), "Chicanos on the New Frontier: Viet Nam, Trauma, Collective Identity"
Gina Weaver (Rice U), "The Vietnam War Film, Victimized Veterans, and the Disappearing Woman"

Moderator: Glenn Man, Professor of English & Film, UHM

Panel 3A (Pacific Room)
Jerry Lembcke (Holy Cross), "Apocalypse Now" and "Charm School": Film and Literature in the Making of CNN's Tailwind Tale of Defectors and Nerve Gas"
Peter Britos (UHM), "Representations of Vietnam in First Cycle Hawai`i Paramilitary TV"

Moderator: Cynthia Franklin, Associate Professor of English, UHM

Panel 3B (Sarimanok Room)
Ryan Skinnell (California State Northridge), "The Literature of Trauma: Reading the Sorrow of Love in Bao Ninh's The Sorrow of War"
Andrew Wilson (Harper College), "Un-Nationalism Versus Nationalism: American and Vietnamese Poetry about the Vietnam War"
Andrea Porter (Jacksonville State U), “Reading the Wind”: A Vietnamese Combat Landscape"

Moderator: Miriam Fuchs, Professor of English, UHM

Panel 3C (Kaniela Room)
Matthew Hill (Maryland), "America, Vietnam, and the Poetics of Guilt"
Nancy Esposito (Bentley College) "Yusef Komunyakaa, the U. S. Military, the Interracial DMZ"
Susan Schultz (UHM),"The Most Beautiful Words: Linh Dinh and the Poetics of Disgust"

Moderator: Susan Schultz, Professor of English, UHM

UHM Department of English: 7th Fall Festival of Writing presents an Evening Reading with Wayne Karlin, Andrew Lam, and Tim O'Brien (UH Art Auditorium, 7:00-9:00 p.m.)
>>view PowerPoint poster (right-click to open in new window)

November 10
(Thursday)

Presentation,
9:00 a.m.

Conference
Panel #4,
10:30 a.m.

Brown Bag Biography Series
Presentation,
12:00-1:15 p.m.

Closing Conference Presentation,
1:30 p.m.

Colloquium,
3:00-4:30 p.m.

Feature presentation by Andrew Lam on The Vietnamese Diaspora. (Pacific Room, Imin Conference Center, 9:00 a.m.)

Andrew Lam, a writer and editor with Pacific News Service and regular commentator on NPR's "All Things Considered," is one of the leading Asian American essayists and short story writers in America. As a Vietnamese writer in English, he treats the homeland that his family left after the war in a way that allows him and his readers to recover what has been lost and to rediscover Viet Nam imaginatively. His latest book, Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora, has just been published.

Panel 4A (Pacific Room)
John C. Schafer (Humboldt State), "Vietnamese Land Reform and Vietnamese Fiction"
Michele Janette (Kansas State), "Tran Van Dinh and the Sojourner Paradigm"
Steven J. Liparulo (Houston), "Beyond the American Canon: Paradise of the Blind and Monkey Bridge, the Politics of Family, and the Economics of Affect "

Moderator: Achy Obejas, UHM English Department 2005 Distinguished Writer in Residence

Panel 4B (Sarimanok Room)
Lorrie Goldensohn (Independent Scholar/Writer), "Men and Women, and Women: Poetry of the Vietnam War"
Jeffrey Sychterz (US Naval Academy), “'She Was the Enemy: The Prostitute in American Vietnam War Poetry"
Kathy Phillips (UHM), ”Camaraderie and the Gendered Language Games that Make It Possible to Say 'Love' in Accounts of the Vietnam War"

Moderator: Melanie Ried, M.A. candidate in English, UHM

Panel 4C (Kaniela Room)
Janis Haswell (Texas A&M), "The Lesson Unlearned: Moral Trauma in Andrew Jolly’s A Time of Soldiers"
Susan L. Eastman (Tennessee), "Back in the World: Trauma and Survival in Larry Heinemann's Paco's Story"

Moderator: Marie Hara, Assistant Professor of English, UHM

Panel 4D (Mandarin Room)
Christopher S. Schreiner (University of Guam), "Loyalties Real and Unreal in Robert Stone's Outerbridge Reach"
Rebecca Kumar (NYU), "Quiet Colonialism: Tropes of Silence in Graham Greene’s The Quiet American"
Stefano Rosso (U of Bergamo), "American Vietnam War Literature in Italy: 1965-2005

Moderator: Bob McHenry, Professor of English, UHM

Jerry Lembcke, Presentation on War and Life-Writing, focusing on representations of Jane Fonda
Brown Bag Biography Series, Center for Biographical Research, UHM (John A. Burns Hall, East-West Center, Room 3015/19, 12:00-1:15 p.m.)

Closing conference feature presentation by Philip Beidler on American Vietnam War Literature, 1975-2005. (Imin Conference Center, Pacific Room, 1:30 p.m.)

Philip Beidler is Professor of English at the University of Alabama and has been among the foremost American critics and scholars on Vietnam and literature ever since his book American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam (1982) virtually founded the field. A armored infantry officer during the war (1968-1970), he recently included reflections of those experiences and their effects on his life in his latest book, Late Thoughts on an Old War: The Legacy of Vietnam (2004). Anyone who writes on literary representations of Vietnam is indebted to his work.

Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried: An Author's Perspective" -- Department of English Colloquium Series (KUY Auditorium, 3:00-4:30 p.m.)
>>view PowerPoint poster (right-click to open in new window)

Nov. 11
(Friday)
Veteran's Day
4:00 p.m.

Reading by Tim O'Brien at Fort DeRussy, Hale Koa Hotel [2055 Kalia Road, Waikiki]