Invitation to participate in scientific seminar no. 7, 2024: “Vietnam’s coffee industry in comparative and world historical perspective”

Sincerely invite teachers, researchers, scholars, graduate students, and students to attend scientific seminar No. 7, 2024, with the theme "Vietnam's coffee industry in comparative and world history perspective”.

Speaker: Phillip A. Hough, a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL USA - Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Comparative Sociology.

Date: 9:00 – 11:00, Monday, 17/06/2024

Location: Room A315, Faculty of Sociology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University - Hồ Chí Minh City, 10-12 Đinh Tiên Hoàng Str., Bến Nghé Ward, District 1.  

Content:

1. Introduction on International Journal of Comparative Sociology

2. The global coffee market shapes rural development strategies in Colombia and Kenya

Professor Phillip A. Hough is the winner of the U.S. Global Fulbright Award 2022-2023. His current research uses qualitative methods to explore how coffee farmers living across the “global coffee belt” regions of Colombia, Kenya, and Vietnam have adapted to the volatility of the 21st century world coffee market. Having completed his research in Colombia and Kenya, he is currently in Vietnam to complete his last case study. In this lecture, Professor Hough will draw upon his research in Colombia and Kenya to explain how the global coffee market shapes rural development strategies.

Bùi Thị Minh Hà