They are in chronological order:
- “Kinh hòa bình” [Peace Prayer] (1960) by Kim Long
- “Make Me a Channel of Your Peace” (1967) by Sebastian Temple
- “Peace Prayer” (1976) by John Foley, SJ
On April 18, I had the pleasure of participating in the day-long conference about Digitizing Vietnam (DVN) at Columbia University. John Phan, its executive director, and other DVN folks did a terrific job putting it together. The focus was digital humanities and AI regarding the present and future of Vietnam studies. By the end of the day, I wasn’t alone in feeling the vibes that this project was something of a paradigm shift.
Continue reading “Elevating Trịnh Công Sơn studies: Part 1”In New York City for a conference on Vietnam studies, I took the training northward after the conference and spent a working day at the Maryknoll Mission Archives (MMA). My purpose was to take a preliminary look at some documents about Asian American Catholics, mostly during the twenty-year period that followed the Second World War and preceded the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.
Continue reading “The challenge of studying the history of Asian American Catholics”Several months ago, my Pepperdine colleague Michael Ditmore, a faculty teaching in the English and Great Books programs, published a monograph entitled Texting the Nation: Agencies and Actions in the Declaration of Independence (Routledge, 2025). For a start, read this write-up from the Pepperdine Newsroom.
Continue reading “An interview with Michael Ditmore on Texting the Nation”This is the first annual AAS conference in Canada since 2017 (Toronto), and the first ever in Vancouver. The following information comes from the AAS online program. Several panels are exclusively on Vietnam studies, and they appear in full below, and in blue. Otherwise, first is the panel’s title then information about the presentation (whose number indicates its order of speaking on the panel) and the presenter.
Continue reading “Vietnam studies at AAS 2026 in Vancouver, BC”
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