Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

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1 CONFERENCE Traders in Motion: Networks, identities, and contestations in the Vietnamese marketplace September 2014 Organiser: Kirsten W. Endres PROGRAMME Wednesday, 24 th September Informal get-together at Nexus Thursday, 25 th September Registration Welcome address and introduction to the workshop Kirsten Endres and Chris Hann Gracia Clark Indiana University, Bloomington Keynote Speech: Mapping the Multiple Dimensions of Power Relevant to Market and Street Traders 1

2 Coffee break Session 1: Networks and Identities Chair: Lale Yalçın-Heckmann () Hy Van Luong University of Toronto The Growth of a Mobile Trading Network from Central Coastal Vietnam Discussant: Chris Gregory (Australian National University) Annuska Derks University of Zürich Lunch break Fuel Trade: People, places, and transformations along the coal briquetting chain Discussant: Linda Seligmann (George Mason University) Session 2: State and Society Chair: Oliver Tappe (University of Cologne) Lisa Barthelmes Resisting Resistance: Mobile street vendors and the state in Hanoi, Vietnam Discussant: Linda Seligmann (George Mason University) Gertrud Hüwelmeier Humbold University Berlin Ghost Markets and Moving Bazaars in Hanoi s Urban Space Discussant: Sarah Turner (McGill University) 2

3 Coffee break Session 2: State and Society (continued) Chair: Oliver Tappe (University of Cologne) Christine Bonnin University College Dublin Markets in the Mountains: Integration, trader agency and resistance in upland northern Vietnam Discussant: Erik Harms (Yale University) Kirsten Endres Disjunct Realities: Market management and bureaucratic reporting in Lao Cai City Discussant: Tinh Vuong (VASS, Hanoi) Dinner at restaurant Alchimistenklause Friday, 26 th September Session 3: Motion and Mobility Chair: Roberta Zavoretti () Binh Nguyen VASS, Hanoi Strive to Make a Living in the Era of Urbanization and Modernization: The story of petty traders in a Hanoi peri-urban community Discussant: Sarah Turner (McGill University) 3

4 Minh Nguyen Money, Risk Taking and Playing: Shifting masculinity in a waste-trading community in the Red River Delta Discussant: Erik Harms (Yale University) Coffee break Session 4: Borders and Neighbours Chair: Roberta Zavoretti () Caroline Grillot Navigating Across Beilun River: Chinese adjustment to border trade shipment practices in Vietnam Discussant: Regina Abrami (University of Pennsylvania) Tran Hoai VASS, Hanoi Transformations in the Commercial Activities of Vietnamese Traders in Upland Central Vietnam: A case study from Quang Ngai province Lunch break Session 5: Money and Morality Chair: Thomas Sikor (University of East Anglia) Esther Horat Moralities of Commerce in a Northern Vietnamese Trade Community Discussant: Regina Abrami (University of Pennsylvania) 4

5 Ann-Marie Leshkowich College of the Holy Cross Inside and Outside: Sociofiscal relationships and risky business in Bến Thành Market Discussant: Gracia Clark (Indiana University, Bloomington) Coffee break Session 5: Money and Morality (continued) Chair: Thomas Sikor (University of East Anglia) Allison Truitt Tulane University, New Orleans Bars and Bangles: The social life of gold in Vietnam Discussant: Chris Gregory (Australian National University) Final discussion Dinner at restaurant La Fontana 5