How were women imagined, represented, and mobilized in socialist and postcolonial visual cultures during and after the Cold War?

Digitizing Vietnam would like to share the upcoming fourth session of the online seminar series Socialist Visual Cultures and Decolonization: Circulation, (Re)interpretation, and Resistance of Visual Models in the Context of the Cold War, organized by researchers from Northwestern University, EHESS, University of Strasbourg, CNRS, INHA, and IrAsia.

This session explores the theme: “Women and the Politics of Emancipation in Socialist and Decolonial Contexts”

Featuring presentations by:

1. Christine Varga-Harris: “Models of Decolonization and Female Emancipation: Women in Africa and South Asia vis-à-vis Soviet Women in the Visual Repertoire of Soviet Woman during the 1950s and 1960s”

2. Nora Annesley Taylor: “Mother, Worker, Hero: Socialist and Post-Socialist Imaginings by Contemporary Vietnamese Women Artists”

    

The seminar series brings together scholars examining visual production in postcolonial socialist contexts, with attention not only to images themselves, but also to their circulation, reception, mediation, and reinterpretation across different societies.

• Time: Wednesday, May 13, 2026, 19:00–21:00 PM (Vietnam)
• Registration link: https://bit.ly/48Kv406

We encourage students, researchers, artists, and anyone interested in visual culture, socialism, decolonization, and Vietnam studies to attend and share with their networks.