Oberlin College and Conservatory

Saigon’s Swamp: The Metabolic History of a City and its Mangrove Frontier

Thursday, October 29, 2020 at 7:00pm to 8:30pm

Virtual Event

A lecture on the environmental history of Vietnam presented by David Biggs, UC Riverside.  Registration required. 

Ho Chi Minh City ( Saigon) has long been the commercial and political center of southern Vietnam, and is one of southeast Asia’s largest manufacturing and export centers. The climate crisis has brought renewed attention to coastal mangrove ecosystems. What roles has this ecosystem played in the history and politics of Vietnam’s largest city? This talk explores the ways Saigon’s mangrove frontier helped power key metabolic flows and commercial exchanges that animated and sustained city life and, at times, played directly into larger political struggles.

David Biggs is a professor of history at UC Riverside focusing on environmental and Southeast Asian history. He is the award-winning author of Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta (2010) and Footprints of War: Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam (2018). 

To register, visit the LIASE webpage  https://forms.gle/mTMMG2LqMXjjd3UV9

Sponsored by Oberlin’s Department of History and LIASE.

 

 

Event Type

Lectures/Symposia/Workshops, Virtual Events, Signature Programs, Parents & Family Weekend

Departments

Academic, Anthropology, Biology, East Asian Studies, Environmental Studies, History, Administrative, Environmental Sustainability, Shansi

Photo Alternate Text

Color photo of David Biggs, Professor of History, UC Riverside, speaker

Contact Person

Leonard V. Smith

Contact Phone Number

440-775-8410

Contact E-mail Address

lvsmith@oberlin.edu

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Ann Sherif

Ann Sherif left a positive review 10/28/2020

.Informative and fun talk about Vietnam's environmental history by a leading expert in the English-speaking world

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