Literature and Journalism in the Republic of Vietnam (1955 – 1975) and the Reception of Western Thought https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/l/6662 The Republic of Vietnam (1955-75) had a tragical historical fate. Intellectually, however, it was a period full of various influences and exiting encounters between the cultures of Vietnam and the world, especially between East and West. Vietnamese intellectuals, trained in modern schools and universities, searched for their identity in a world full of promises and challenges. They were looking for reasons of societal instability and for a meaning of their existence. This living laboratory of ideas was closed after 1975. Many authors emigrated or were condemned to silence. In recent years, Vietnamese intellectuals both within and outside of the country are interested again in these debates and influences. The conference hopes to shed light on the social and cultural dynamics and complexities of South Vietnam. This one-day conference examines how South Vietnam’s literary and journalistic authors perceived and were potentially influenced by thought generated in the West. This includes, but is not limited to, phenomenology, hermeneutics, existentialism, romanticism, idealism, essentialism, Marxism, structuralism, and psychoanalytic criticism. Presentations will discuss the complex dynamics of the reception in South Vietnam of western thinkers and writers such as Albert Camus, André Gide, JeanPaul Sartre, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Martin Heidegger, Henry Miller, and John Steinbeck. The conference emphasizes the dynamism and diversity of Western thought in individual literary texts and authors as well as among texts of different authors and different texts of the same author. Western thought migrated to Vietnam also in different historical periods, and the same ideas were perceived in different ways. en-US University of Hamburg Lecture2Go 2021 University of Hamburg - Lecture2Go The University of Hamburg offers a steadily growing portion of its lectures online and similar to a take-away. For further information and more video lectures visit the central media platform of the University of Hamburg at http://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de! Sun, 20 Jun 2021 12:22:35 +0200 Sun, 20 Jun 2021 12:22:35 +0200 Literature and Journalism in the Republic of Vietnam (1955 – 1975) and the Reception of Western Thought https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/l/6662 https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/images/00.000_video-54922_2021-06-11_09-30_m.jpg Panel A: Dialogue between South Vietnamese and Western thought in literature - Approaches on literary movements https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/54922 01:56:11 https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/54922 Fri, 11 Jun 2021 09:30:00 +0200 https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/54922 Panel A: Dialogue between South Vietnamese and Western thought in literature - Approaches on specific writers and works (Part 2) https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/54667 01:43:33 https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/54667 Fri, 11 Jun 2021 09:30:00 +0200 https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/54667 Panel A: Dialogue between South Vietnamese and Western thought in literature - Approaches on specific writers and works (Part 1) https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/54666 01:13:41 https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/54666 Fri, 11 Jun 2021 09:30:00 +0200 https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/54666 Panel B: Dialogues between South Vietnamese and Western thought in journalism https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/54611 02:40:08 https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/54611 Fri, 11 Jun 2021 09:30:00 +0200 https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/54611