BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//EuroSEAS 2022//EN X-WR-CALNAME:EuroSEAS 2022 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Paris X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Paris BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240426T191600 UID:euroseas-2022-vintage-and-vinastalgia-the-uncertainty-of-nostalgic-objects-in-post-reform-vietnam-1 SUMMARY:Vintage and “Vinastalgia”: The Uncertainty of Nostalgic Objects in Post-Reform Vietnam (1) LOCATION:Room 0.30 DESCRIPTION:The nostalgia industry is booming in Vietnam, yet few scholars have taken seriously the relationship between material culture and memories of life under socialism. This stands in contrast to the large body of lite rature on “Ostalgie,” or nostalgic feelings for certain objects or products produced in the Communist East, and the cultural practices and lifeworlds attached to them. While cautious not to romanticize, scholars have theorize d nostalgia for objects associated with a difficult past as a means to make sense of the uncertainties of the present, particularly as these material worlds are discontinued or threatened with destruction and removal from con temporary life. On the other hand, many of such objects have been commodifi ed and turned into souvenirs for tourist consumption. Paying careful attent ion to gender and generation, this panel brings together a diverse set of i nterdisciplinary scholars across multiple institutions to examine the mater ial legacies of objects that evoke nostalgic memories and experiences among certain segments of the Vietnamese population on the one hand, and non-Vie tnamese consumers of de-historicized objects, marketed as “socialist kitsch .” We aim to theorize a new approach to the study of nostalgic objects in p ost-reform Vietnam, or what the panel identifies as “Vinastalgia,” by looki ng at coal briquettes, red tourism, collective housing, artwork, the TV sho w Ký Ức Vui Vẻ (Happy Memories), Bao Cấp cafes, and hip-hop dancing around monuments, to offer new perspectives on the role of the socialist past in t he rapidly changing present. URL:https://euroseas2022.org/panels/vintage-and-vinastalgia-the-uncertainty-of-nostalgic-objects-in-post-reform-vietnam DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220629T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220629T123000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240426T191600 UID:euroseas-2022-vintage-and-vinastalgia-the-uncertainty-of-nostalgic-objects-in-post-reform-vietnam-2 SUMMARY:Vintage and “Vinastalgia”: The Uncertainty of Nostalgic Objects in Post-Reform Vietnam (2) LOCATION:Room 0.30 DESCRIPTION:The nostalgia industry is booming in Vietnam, yet few scholars have taken seriously the relationship between material culture and memories of life under socialism. This stands in contrast to the large body of lite rature on “Ostalgie,” or nostalgic feelings for certain objects or products produced in the Communist East, and the cultural practices and lifeworlds attached to them. While cautious not to romanticize, scholars have theorize d nostalgia for objects associated with a difficult past as a means to make sense of the uncertainties of the present, particularly as these material worlds are discontinued or threatened with destruction and removal from con temporary life. On the other hand, many of such objects have been commodifi ed and turned into souvenirs for tourist consumption. Paying careful attent ion to gender and generation, this panel brings together a diverse set of i nterdisciplinary scholars across multiple institutions to examine the mater ial legacies of objects that evoke nostalgic memories and experiences among certain segments of the Vietnamese population on the one hand, and non-Vie tnamese consumers of de-historicized objects, marketed as “socialist kitsch .” We aim to theorize a new approach to the study of nostalgic objects in p ost-reform Vietnam, or what the panel identifies as “Vinastalgia,” by looki ng at coal briquettes, red tourism, collective housing, artwork, the TV sho w Ký Ức Vui Vẻ (Happy Memories), Bao Cấp cafes, and hip-hop dancing around monuments, to offer new perspectives on the role of the socialist past in t he rapidly changing present. URL:https://euroseas2022.org/panels/vintage-and-vinastalgia-the-uncertainty-of-nostalgic-objects-in-post-reform-vietnam DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220629T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220629T153000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR