Event
Lecture | The Tragedy of the Tet Offensive
Wednesday, January 31, 2018 17:30to19:00
McLennan Library Building
Colgate Seminar Room, Rare Books and Special Collections (4th floor), 3459 rue McTavish, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C9, CA
Presented by Professor Lorenz Lüthi, Department of History and Classical Studies in collaboration with Rare & Special Collections, Osler, Art, and Archives (ROAAr).
Fifty years after the Vietnam war, historians are able to reflect on its larger meaning for Vietnamese and global history. What motivated the Vietnamese communists to start the offensive? How did it affect the country? And how did the world react to it?
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Light reception to follow.
This event is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.