Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 15, 2005|Volume 32, Number 26

While working as a journalist in Vietnam, Nayan Chanda took this photo of a Communist tank entering the presidential palace in Saigon on April 30, 1975. Chanda, now editor of YaleGlobal Online, will speak about his experiences there at a panel marking the 30th anniversary of the event.

Panel and exhibit mark 30th
anniversary of fall of Saigon

April 30 will mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War that cost the United States over 50,000 lives.

To mark the occasion, the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS) and the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism will present a special event titled "Vietnam 30 Years On -- Reality and Metaphor: Images of the Fall of Saigon and Panel Discussion" on Wednesday, April 27.

The panelists will be:

* Nayan Chanda, editor of YaleGlobal Online, who covered the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, as a journalist. Chanda will show his photographs and talk about the country's evolution since that time.

* Charles Hill, lecturer in international affairs at YCIAS and distinguished fellow in the International Security Studies Program, who served in Vietnam and was executive aide to Secretary of State George Shultz. Hill will talk about the significance of the Vietnam War from the perspective of this new century.

* Ben Kiernan, the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History and director of the Genocide Studies Program, who wrote several books on Cambodia. Kiernan will discuss the Vietnam War's expansion into Cambodia, the subsequent Khmer Rouge genocide and possible lessons for intervention and genocide prevention.

* Jonathan Schell, distinguished fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, who is author of "The Village of Ben Suc." Schell will speak about the lessons of the Vietnam War.

The event will take place 4-5:30 p.m. in the auditorium of Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. It is free and open to the public.

In conjunction with the event, there will be an exhibition of Chanda's photographs of the fall of Saigon on view at the Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High St.

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