LIASE Southeast Asia Program talk

Puget Sound's LIASE Southeast Asia Program is sponsoring a talk on April 4th (5pm in Wyatt 109) that might be of interest to IPE majors:

Oliver Tappe, from the University of Cologne

Upland Encounters: Colonialism and Sociopolitical Transformations in the Lao-Vietnamese Borderlands

At the turn of the 20th century, upland Indochina was an arena of political friction and complex intercultural dynamics. Once a contested frontier region between the lowland realms of the Vietnamese and Thai/Lao courts, the ethnically heterogeneous province of Houaphan (today NE Laos) constitutes an illustrative case study to investigate modern state formation and sociopolitical transformations. The presentation will focus especially on the interplay between the establishment of French colonial administration and local processes of resistance, adaptation, and mimetic appropriation.