Receive and work with Professor of Paris Graduate School of Practice (France)

The content of the working session revolved around the cooperation plan to implement the “European Project on Historical Research and Digitization of Social Science Documents in Vietnam” (abbreviated as Vietnamica). This is one of the projects funded by the European Research Council (ERC - European Union) to research the history, collect and digitize social science documents related to Vietnam. The project gives special priority to the Han Nom inscriptions, especially the inscriptions recording the donation activities of individuals at places of worship and village communities. In other words, the project advocates research on “post-steles”, a type of stele that has existed continuously from the 15th to 20th centuries in Vietnam.

The project will be implemented over 5 years with field research activities; organizing group seminars and workshops; organizing working trips to Europe or Vietnam to consult documents at archives or teaching centers, and participating in seminars for participating members.

The project aims to: collect the personal research of members to publish a book series outlining the history of offerings in Vietnam; establish a source of documents and digitized books for research; organize an international conference to summarize all the research results, documents, and graphics collected over 5 years.

Prof. Dr. Pham Quang Minh presents a souvenir to Prof. Phillippe Papin

The University of Social Sciences and Humanities will represent VNU to participate in this project. On behalf of the University, Prof. Dr. Pham Quang Minh highly appreciated the importance of the project for the development of Han Nom research in particular and Vietnamese studies in general. With a team of long-standing and experienced experts at the Department of Han Nom (Faculty of Literature) as well as at the Faculty of History, the University is qualified to become an active member of the project. The University will also widely announce the project, mobilizing the participation of students, graduate students and researchers interested in this topic.