Linh Vu

2020

- Presenter: “Militarizing Memories: The Narrative of Civilian Resistance in Wartime China.” Panel: “Experiences of War in Modern China: From World War II to the Present Day,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Boston (March 19-22)

2019

- Presenter: “Corporeal Sovereignty: Bones, Burials, and Biopolitics of the Sino-American Alliance during the Burma Campaign,” Grassroots Sino-US Relations Workshop, Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan (July 11-13)

- Presenter: “Proxy Citizenship, Revolutionary Lineage, and Affective Nationalism in Republican China,” International Society for Chinese Law and History Biannual Meeting, Taipei University, Taipei (May 31-June 1)

- Presenter: “Death and Corporeal Remains,” Culture & International History VI: Visions of Humanity Conference, Free University, Berlin (May 6-8)

- Presenter: “Nationalistic Religiosity, Commemorative Traditionality, and Revolutionary Sensitivity in Twentieth-Century China.” Panel: “Bridging the 1949 Divide: The CCP Takeover and the Continuities of the Chinese Nation-State-Building Project,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Denver (March 21-24)

2018:

-Panel Organizer: “Imprints of Violence: Objects, Sites, and Memory.” Presenter: “Recasting Violence: China’s War of Resistance and the Spirit-Molding Scholarly Society.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Washington DC (March 22-25) 

2017:

- “War Commemoration in Postwar China,” China in Global World War II, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge University, Cambridge (July 3-14)

-Panel Organizer: “Charting Intersections and Interstices in East Asian Memoryscapes.” Presenter: “Nationalist Religiosity and the Making of Republican Memorial Space in Wartime and Postwar Chongqing, 1938-1949.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Toronto (March 16-19)

2016:

- “War Commemoration and Nationalist Religiosity: Loyal Sacrifice Shrines in Republican China, 1912-1949,” UCSIA Summer School on Religion, Culture, and Society, University of Antwerp, Antwerp (August 27-September 4)

- “Tales of Three Loyal Sacrifice Shrines in China’s Wartime Capital,” War and Society in Modern China Workshop, University of Washington, Seattle (July 22-25)

- “Feminine Narratives of War,” Asia on Its Own Terms Workshop, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv (May 14-June 17)

2015:

- Panel Organizer: “Grievances Against the State, Legacies of War, and Legal Discourses in Twentieth- Century East Asia.” Presenter: “Exchanging Life for Honor: Compensation Policies for Revolutionaries’ Families in Republican China, 1911-1949,” American Society for Legal History Annual Conference, Washington DC (October 29-November 1)

- “Soldierly Ideals in Republican China through Martyrs’ Biographies and Petition Letters,” The ‘Good Soldier’ - Ideal, Instrument of Manipulation or Contradiction, Air Force Academy, Trondheim, Norway (October 14-17)

- “County Martyrs’ Shrines in Republican China,” International Workshop and Conference on “War and Society in Modern China,” Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing (July 10-13)

- Panel Co-organizer: “Hagiographic Discourses and Communities of Belonging: Digital Approaches to Martyrdom in 19th- and 20th-Century China and Vietnam.” Presenter: “The Making of the Yellow Flower Hill (Huanghuagang) Martyrs in the Early Republic,” Association for Asian Studies-in-Asia Annual Conference, Taipei (June 22-25)

- Invited Lecturer, “Bones of Contention: Chinese Soldiers Buried in India, Burma, and Papua New Guinea during World War II,” National Central Library, Taipei (March 20) (delivered in Chinese)

- “The Dead and the Nation,” International Doctoral Student Workshop, Academia Sinica, Taipei (January 19-23) (delivered in Chinese)

- “Loyalty and Sacrifice Shrines in Republican China,” International Dissertation Workshop, National Chengchi University, Taipei (January 11-18)

2014:

- “Multiple Modernities and Chinese Republican Martyrdom,” International Summer School on “Multiple Modernities,” University of Göttingen, Göttingen (September 1-6) 

- “Making Republican Revolutionary Martyrdom: The Yellow Flower Hill Uprising and Its Commemoration during the 1910s and 1920s,” International Conference on Modern China in Global Contexts, 1600-Present, Academia Sinica, Taipei (August 11-13)

- “Republic of Martyrs: Compensation Policies in Republican China,” Law & Society Annual Conference, Minneapolis (May 29-31)

- Summer Institute on Conducting Archival Research (SICAR), Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/George Washington University, Washington DC (May 17-25)

2013:

- “Grave Concerns: China’s Overseas Military Graves and International Politics,” Sites of Knowledge: Space, Locality, and Circulation between Asia and Europe, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg (August 4-8)

- “Death of the Patriarch, Memory of the Martyr: The Family and the State in Modern China,” Social Lives of Dead Bodies in Modern China, Brown University, Providence (June 14-16)

- Winter Institute on Han Religion, Academia Sinica, Taipei & Tainan (January 4-12)

2012:

- “Allegiances and Patronage across the Late Nineteenth-Century Guangxi-Tonkin Border,” The South China Sea: Re-Assessing Regional Order in Asia, Institute of East Asian Studies at University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley (September 7-8)

- Summer Seminars in Asian Arts, Religion and History, Fudan University, Shanghai (June 24-July 3)

-“It’s Personal! Allegiances and Patronage Across the Late Nineteenth-Century Guangxi-Tonkin Border,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Toronto (March 16-19)

2011:

- “Under the Rubber Regime: Plantation Workers in Cochinchina (1918-1945),” 6th Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore (July 11-15)

- “Understanding China’s Colonial Experience: A Comparative Study of “Semicolonialism” in China, Siam, and Indochina,” World History Association Annual Conference, Capital Normal University, Beijing (July 7-10)

- “Carless and Careless: Automobile Accidents in French Indochina,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference in Japan, International Christian University, Tokyo (June 25-26)

- Winter Institute on Modern Chinese History, Academia Sinica, Taipei (January 3-13)

2009:

- “‘Alternative Chastity’ in Feng Menglong’s Vernacular Stories,” Western Conference for the Association of Asian Studies (WCAAS), University of Arizona, Tucson (October 23-24)

- “New Women and New Literature” from The Ladies’ Journal,” Fudan University-UCLA Workshop in Scholarly Translation, Shanghai (August 1-30)

- “Female Revolutionaries in the Vietnamese Nationalist Party,” Phi Alpha Theta 25th Annual Hawai’i Regional Conference, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu (March 14)

- “Women’s Suicides in Early Twentieth-Century China and Vietnam: Perils in the Family,” 8th East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference, Honolulu (February 12-14)