EUROPEAN VIETNAM STUDIES NETWORK, EUROVIET

The first attempt to establish a Network of researchers working
on Vietnam has emerged from the European Vietnam Studies
Conference held in Copenhagen 19-21 August 1993. The European-
based Network is to be created in order to arrange biennial
meetings on Vietnam studies and will be open to all interested
scholars and people, in and outside Europe, working on Vietnam in
related capacities.
On the European level, the organization committee of each
conference will be responsible to the Board of the European
Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EUROSEAS). This means
that the main documents pertaining to the organization of the
conferences and other Network activities should be sent to the
EUROSEAS Board for consideration, and that the EUROSEAS Board
will supervise the Network activities. The Network will be able
to use the facilities of the EUROSEAS secretariat.
The organizing committee for each conference is responsible for
the necessary fund-raising on the local, national, and European
level. The committee should also ensure that the conferences are
organized in a way which encourages active participation by
scholars who do not master the language of the host country.
The Second Conference will be held in Aix-en-Provence in May 1995
with "Sources and  Approaches on the study of Vietnam" as its
theme. It is proposed that the third conference will be held in
the Netherlands. Ideas for topics and location will be discussed
at the conference in Aix-en-Provence.