Vietnam: Legacies and Lessons, History and Method

Vietnam: Legacies and Lessons, History and Method is a January Term Workshop taught by Brendan McQuade.

Course Description
The events, controversies and debates of the Vietnam War haunt contemporary politics in the US and color media coverage and popular perceptions of current debates on counterinsurgency and ?enhanced interrogation.? Through a critical reflection on the history of Vietnam War, this co-circular workshop offers ways beyond the debates and get at the historical processes animating the widespread and systematic torture and assassination used by the United States in Vietnam and today in Iraq and Afghanistan. These policies continuities and part the play in wider historical processes, force us confront the methodological of problems historical sociology: how the past is used to create present?