We are pleased to publish the video of the Masterclass lectured by Dr. Nguyễn Hông Uyên from Texas Tech University. A lecture hold within the framework of the Master’s Degree in Military History of INISEG, the International Institute for Studies on Global Security.
Dr. Nguyễn Hông Uyên, or Carie Nguyễn, will speak about the bloody and prolonged timeline of the Vietnam-American War in 1967, which witnessed a series of pivotal events that decisively demonstrated the inextricable interrelationship between the military and civilian aspects of the conflict. As in this complex struggle, multiple social, economic, political, and military dimensions were closely interconnected. One of those pivotal events was the publication of the book «Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire» by Thich Nhat Hanh, better known worldwide for studying, living, and teaching concepts such as «engaged Buddhism» and «mindfulness.»
Dr. Carie Nguyễn Hông Uyên is a military historian and a Research Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University, with a joint appointment in the Institute for Peace and Conflict, and the Department of History. She was born in Saigon in a family of five; her father served in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) and her mother was one among countless Vietnamese war-displaced refugees from the Battle of Hué in 1968.
Dr. Carie Nguyễn received her Ph.D. in 2022 from Texas Tech University. Her dissertation studies U.S. military history from the bottom-up approach, examining the cross-cultural experience of the U.S. Army’s Mobile Advisory Teams and their Vietnamese counterparts —the local soldiers and their families living in rural villages and hamlets across South Vietnam. She teaches several courses at Texas Tech University, including «War, Memory & Commemoration» and «History of Small Wars: Insurgency and Counterinsurgency.»
Blog GRIP will keep publishing a selection of Masterclasses and lectures on military history and armed conflicts, with a special emphasis, albeit not exclusive, on the Vietnam War (the Second Indochina War), direct consequence and legacy of the First Indochina War, a conflict taught by Professor Juanjo Alarcón in the Master’s Degree in Contemporary Military Conflicts, whose video presentation is also available on Blog Grip. Incidentally, Prof. Juanjo Alarcón is the host of these lectures.
We really hope that this series of selected lectures may spark your interest in the topics presented in each one of them. And since they are all part of the Area on Security and Defense and the Master’s Degree in Military History of INISEG, we provide you with the links to INISEG’s academic offer directly related to the lectures we publish:
