Home > Events > Spaces of War: Local Landscapes, Ecologies and Histories of American Intervention in the Mekong Delta, Viet Nam

Histories of American military intervention in Vietnam typically describe the war's effects on the natural environment in the most general terms.  This talk highlights a more detailed study of local
environmental changes associated with events of the war in one specific area of the Mekong Delta. Integrating oral histories, historic maps, and archival documents, David Biggs considers how local wartime projects and an active guerilla insurgency shaped both the natural environment and the social landscape.

David Biggs is an Assistant Professor in History at the University of California-Riverside.  His dissertation, completed in June 2004 at the University of Washington, is titled "Between the Rivers and Tides: A Hydraulic History of the Mekong Delta, 1820-1975."

Cost: Free and open to the public

Special Instructions

Parking in Lot 3 costs $7.

For more information please contact

Barbara Gaerlan
Tel: 310-206-9163
cseas@international.ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/cseas/

Sponsor(s): Center for Southeast Asian Studies