Ở Việt Nam, những bảo tàng đầu tiên do người Pháp thành lập vào khoảng đầu thế kỷ 20 cũng gồm hai loại hình trên, đó là Bảo tàng Hải dương học (Nha Trang, khoảng 1910), Bảo tàng Địa chất (1914, Hà Nội), Bảo tàng Nghệ thuật Điêu khắc Chăm (Bảo tàng Henri Parmentier, 1918, Đà Nẵng), Bảo tàng Blanchard De la Brosse (1929, Sài Gòn), Bảo tàng L. Finot (1932, Hà Nội). Ngoài ra, Vườn Bách thảo Hà Nội và Thảo Cầm viên Sài Gòn cũng được coi là hai công viên - bảo tàng tự nhiên của Đông Dương lúc bấy giờ.

Vào 30/11, rạp chiếu phim Hanoi Cinematheque tại ngõ 22A, Hai Bà Trưng, Hà Nội sẽ chiếu buổi cuối cùng và bị phá dỡ sau đó.

The Vietnam Center and Archive and the newly-created Institute for Peace & Conflict (IPAC) at Texas Tech University are pleased to announce a conference focused on the year 1967 and the search for peace in Vietnam. We hope and expect in this conference to approach the events of 1967 in the broadest possible manner by hosting presentations not only on the antiwar and peace movements at home and abroad, but also on efforts to end the conflict through international diplomacy as well as military and diplomatic means in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
Proposal submission deadline is January 15, 2017. Please submit a 250 word abstract and separate two-page CV/resume to 1967vietnamconference@gmail.com. The program committee of Justin Hart, Dave Lewis, Steve Maxner, Laura Calkins, and Ron Milam will evaluate all paper proposals and develop a program that reflects the many remarkable aspects of 1967. If submitting a panel proposal, please include separate abstracts for each proposed presentation and CVs/resumes for each speaker.

This colloquium will be an occasion for participants to share experiences and research results on the field of rural development and to have a closer look on the specific case of Vietnam.

The colloquium will address the following five themes:(1) Rural economy, rural spaces and globalization; (2) Climate change impacts on rural system; (3) Landuse change and its impacts in rural areas; (4) Demographic transition in rural areas and its socio-cultural aspects; (5) Tourism and recreation.

Authors are invited to submit abstracts under the colloquium’s themes but are not limited to those given above. Abstracts of no more than 300 words in length should be sent by January 31st　2017, using the following format:

Abstracts can be submitted by email to igu.csrs2017@gmail.com

Abstracts will be sent for review and the abstract acceptance will be informed to authors within 7 days.

Registration can be made online via the website of the colloquium or by email to: igu.csrs2017@gmail.com

Leon G. Billings became a lobbyist for public power companies. But he also became an important environmental aide on Capitol Hill, where he forged his greatest legacy: helping all Americans breathe a little easier as the largely unheralded chief architect of the 1970 Clean Air Act.

Fidel Castro, the fiery apostle of revolution who brought the Cold War to the Western Hemisphere in 1959 and then defied the United States for nearly half a century as Cuba’s maximum leader, bedeviling 11 American presidents and briefly pushing the world to the brink of nuclear war, died Friday. He was 90.

Leonard Cohen, the Canadian poet and novelist who abandoned a promising literary career to become one of the foremost songwriters of the contemporary era, has died, according to an announcement Thursday night on his Facebook page. He was 82.

Raoul Coutard, whose innovative camera work for Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut made him the leading cinematographer of the French New Wave, died on Tuesday in Labenne, near Bayonne, France. He was 92.

Gwen Ifill, a groundbreaking journalist who covered the White House, Congress and national campaigns during three decades for The Washington Post, The New York Times, NBC and, most prominently,PBS, died on Monday at a hospice in Washington. She was 61.

Patricia Kutteles, whose relentless efforts helped reverse the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy a decade after her son was beaten to death by a fellow soldier who presumed he was gay, died on Nov. 14 in Kansas City, Mo. She was 67.