Opening Address - Kianchow KWOK, 郭建超

Session One: Influences and Impressions: The Rise of Modern Art in Vietnam

The Ecole des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine: A Striking Shift in Vietnamese Art - Nadine ANDRE-PALLOIS

Art and the Press in the Colonial Period - Phoebe SCOTT

'The Great East Asia War' and the Art Exchange Between Japan and Vietnam: The Vietnamese Artists' 1943 Journey to Japan - Masahiro USHIROSHOJI, 後小路雅弘

Session Two: Art During the War Years and After

Did We See the Same War? The Artist/Soldier and Anti-war Images of Vietnam - C. David THOMAS

Documenting the War...or Telling a Different Story? Examining the Purpose of War Art by Artists of the People's Army of Vietnam from 1946 to 1979 - Adrian JONES

Vietnamese Art During the War - TRINH Cung

Social Realism in Vietnamese Art - Joyce FAN

Session Three: Art Transmission and Outside Influences in Vietnamese Art

Doi Moi Art in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s - NGUYEN Quan

Influence, Politics, Economics and Society - Ho Chi Minh City's Art Scene in Modern Times - TRUONG Phi Duc

Analysis of Vietnamese Oil Paintings Affected by Sulphur Dioxide Pollution - Brian SINGER, Sally MCMILLIAN, Nicky GRIMALDI, Jean BROWN

Use of Lacquer in Contemporary Art Practice - DAO Minh Tri

Session Four: Emergence of Contemporary Art Practices in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City

Vietnam Modern Art: Process and Identity - BUI Nhu Huong

Re-defining the Past and Transforming Public Space: Two New Strategies of Vietnam Contemporary Artists in the Early Years of New Centuries - NGUYEN Nhu Huy

Phrases and Conditions for Contemporary Art Production in Vietnam Post-Doi Moi: Vietnamese Art After the 1990s - Richard STREITMATTER-TRAN

Collectivism and Individualism in Society and Art after Doi Moi - Natasha KRAEVSKAIA

Miss(ing) Sai Gon: Contemporary Vietnamese Diasporic Artists - Organisers in Ho Chi Minh City - Viet LE

Session Five: Vietnamese Art and Aesthetics

Saigonese Aesthetics: Modernity versus Tradition - Boitran HUYNH-BEATTIE

A New Generation - PHAN Cam Thuong

Transmission of Abstraction in Vietnamese Painting - Patricia LEVASSEUR DE LA MOTTE

Session Six: Transition and Emergence in Vietnamese Art Scene

New Directions in Contemporary Vietnamese Art - Annette VAN DEN BOSCH

Back to the Future: The Emergence of Installation Art in Vietnam - Ann PROCTOR

Art in Space: Reflections on the Rise of Performance Art in Vietnam - Nora A. TAYLOR

Additional Essays

Running Out of Fuel Right After Taking Off - TRAN Luong

Everything Can Happen Between Now and Then... - Veronika RADULOVIC

Pollution or Pollination? Foreign Influence in Vietnamese Contemporary Art - Bradford EDWARDS