The Saigon Social Sciences Hub (SSSH) has been officially registered as an association under the French Law of 1901 on 19 February 2026. You can join as an active member or a supporting member for a one-year term.
Joining the SSSH helps support its activities, in particular, to provide early-career researchers a stimulating, rigorous, and consistently supportive environment in which they can present their work, share their research, and receive constructive feedback on their methodology, (...)

Bùi Khánh Minh
26 June 2026, 5:30pm - 7pm (Vietnam Time, UTC +7)
Hosted by EFEO at Ho Chi Minh City
113 Hai Bà Trưng, Bến Nghé, D. 1
This presentation introduces Vịt Đực — a Vietnamese language satirical newspaper published from July 1938 to July 1939. The presentation will discuss four aspects of the newspaper. First, it will introduce the formation of the newspaper and the biographies of its founders within the intellectual world of colonial Hanoi in the 1930s. Second, it will discuss the (...)

Marvin FREYNE
17 April 2026, 5pm - 6:30pm (Vietnam Time, UTC +7)
Hosted by EFEO at Ho Chi Minh City
113 Hai Bà Trưng, quân 1
Following the spraying of Vietnam with Agent Orange during the Second Indochina War, many health and ecological consequences remain in contemporary Vietnam. These aftermaths have given rise to many different forms of mobilization, notably in Vietnam and the United States, but also - and this is much less well documented – in France. In France, these activities are (...)

Nguyễn Thị Lan Thanh,
Nguyễn Hoàng Bảo Chi,
Dana R. H. Doan
20 March 2026, 5:30pm - 7pm (Vietnam Time, UTC +7)
Hosted by EFEO at Ho Chi Minh City
113 Hai Bà Trưng, quân 1
Research on philanthropy in majority world countries has expanded in recent years, yet this scholarship is predominantly published in English by non‑indigenous researchers. Existing studies rarely address how scholars’ positionality, particularly their linguistic and ethnic identities, influence what knowledge is included and (...)

2026
67. Bùi Khánh Minh, A Vietnamese Le Canard Enchaîné? The Vịt Đực Newspaper and the Pursuit of Vietnamese Satire in the Final Interwar Years, 1938-1939, 26 June 2026
66. Marvin Freyne, Affective Mobilizations Against Agent Orange Aftermaths, 17 April 2026
65. Dana R.H. Doan, Nguyễn Hoàng Bảo Chi and Nguyễn Thị Lan Thanh, Two Languages, Two Narratives : Comparing Vietnamese Scholarship on Philanthropy in English and Vietnamese Journals, 20 March 2026
2025
64. Khang DO, The Vietnam War : Ethnic (...)

TRẦN Thị Mộng Tuyền
PhD Scholar, Research Fellow – Taïwan
Pacific Forum, National Chengchi University
5 December 2025, 5:30pm - 7pm (Vietnam Time, UTC +7)
Hosted by EFEO at Ho Chi Minh City
113 Hai Bà Trưng, quân 1
Vietnam is increasingly positioning itself as a strategic high-tech hub in Southeast Asia, actively leveraging Taiwanese investment and expertise under the New Southbound Policy Plus. This study examines how Vietnam attracts high-tech investment in semiconductors, electronics, and (...)

Khang Do
PhD Candidate, University of Leeds (UK)
19 December 2025, 5:30pm - 7pm (Vietnam Time, UTC +7)
Hosted by EFEO at Ho Chi Minh City
113 Hai Bà Trưng, quân 1
This research project explores the Republic of Vietnam’s policies toward ethnic minorities from 1955 to 1975, examining how successive regimes sought to incorporate, control, and militarize minority populations within the framework of nation-building. Using extensive archival sources from the Vietnam National Archives II, the (...)