“1969: Vietnamization and the Year of Transition in the Vietnam War”

April 25-27, 2019

MCM Elegante Hotel, Lubbock, Texas

The Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive and Institute for Peace and Conflict at Texas Tech University are pleased to announce the participants in our plenary session on April 26, 2019, for our conference on the year 1969 and Vietnamization. Dr. Pierre Asselin, Professor of History at San Diego State University, will lead a discussion with Dr. George Herring, Professor Emeritus at the University of Kentucky and Dr. Lloyd Gardner, Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University. We hope you will be able to join us for this exciting discussion with two of our nation’s most prominent and accomplished scholars of the Vietnam War. We are equally proud to announce that our banquet speaker that evening will be Dr. Fred Logevall, Professor of History at Harvard University, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2013 for his work, Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam.

Sessions

Videos of the sessions can be found here.

Agenda

The 2019 Conference Agenda is now available online and Download.