Next Monday's afternoon (4pm),19 July 2010, the Center will be honored to welcome Assistant Professor Bruce Lockhart – an interesting lecturer at National University of Singapore to talk with us on Vietnamese history. He is an expert on Mainland Southeast Asian History with focus on Asia & the Modern World (China, Southeast Asia components), and Buddhism in Southeast Asian History.

Currently, he is working on an article about Vietnam in the 10th century and has completed pieces on the historiography of Champa and the Nam tien process in Vietnamese history. Historiography, ethnography of Vietnam is one of his most research interests. He has published a book on the last Vietnamese ruler: The End of The Vietnamese Monarchy (Yale Council on Southeast Asian Studies, 1993). With passion in research and love for Vietnamese history, he has planned a big long-term project of writing a textbook history of Vietnam which will enable readers to learn as much as they want about his favorite country without falling asleep over the pages.

With the style of emphasizing the "story" in "history", providing many good historical anecdotes in lectures, Assistant Professor Bruce Lockhard will surely bring all participants an unforgettable and amazing talk on Vietnamese history.