Faculty Information - LE Hoang Anh Thu

■ Education

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2012/02～2017/03

〔Doctorial Course〕, Department of Anthropology, The Australian National University, Completed, PhD in Anthropology

■ Academic and professional experience

1.	2021/04	Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University College of Asia Pacific Studies Associate Professor
2.	2018/04～	Assistant Professor

■ Message

The desert-like world commands life to be lived as pilgrimage.
Zygmunt Bauman (1996, p.22)

"Đi một ngày đàng, học một sàng khôn" [“One Day of Travel, One Sieve’s Worth of Wisdom”]
Vietnamese adage

■ Current research

“Buddhist charitable practice, Old-age experience and personhood of Vietnamese elderly”. Project Number： 19K13476. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research - Early Career Scientists. Duration： 2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31．

■ Current specialized field

文化人類学・民俗学, Area studies, Social welfare (Key Word：Ageing, Vietnam, Southeast Asia, Cultural and Social Anthropology, faith-based philanthropy, urban subcultures)

■ Books and theses

1.	2024/09/04	Article	Stories behind numbers: Symbols in underground lottery gambling in Vietnam Anthropology Today 40(4),pp.13-16 (Single)
2.	2024/06/05	Article	Journey in the Impure Land: Buddhist Pilgrimage and Perceptions of Life and Old Age in Vietnam Journal of Cross-cultural Gerontology 39(3) (Single)
3.	2024/02/27	Article	Introduction to Special Issue “Food Charity, Religion, and Care in Vietnam” The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 22(2) (Collaboration)
4.	2024/02/27	Article	Keeping Alight the Kitchen Fire: Food Charity and Communal Solidarity in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 22(2) (Single)
5.	2024/02/27	Article	Special Issue “Food Charity, Religion, and Care in Vietnam” The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus (Collaboration)
6.	2023/07	Article	Life in numbers: Underground lottery game in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 38(2),pp.168-194 (Collaboration)
7.	2023/03/13	Book	Buddhism as the Way of old age in Vietnam in "63 chapters for Understanding contemporary Vietnam" (3rd edition) edited by Misaki Iwai, translated by Hisashi Shimojo pp.211-215 (Single)
8.	2021/04/16	Article	The “macrobiotics friends association”: nurturing life amidst chronic disease in Vietnam Somatosphere: Science, Medicine, and Anthropology Online publication (Collaboration)
9.	2020/11/15	Article	Buddhist Way of Old age and Women’s Lifecourse in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) The Australian Journal of Anthropology 31(3),pp.319-332 (Single)
10.	2020/10/30	Article	Doing Bodhisattva’s Work: Charity, Class, and Selfhood of Petty Traders in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) Journal of Vietnamese Studies 15(4),pp.4-32 (Single)
11.	2020/10/08	Article	“Song Lang” – A story of art, love and life in post-war Saigon New Mandala (Single)
12.	2018/04	Article	Review of "Essential Trade: Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace" by Ann Marie Leshkowich Southeast Asian Studies 7(1),pp.142-5 (Single)
13.	2017/02/19	Article	Techniques of Death: Buddhist Practice, Femininity and Self-Cultivation at the Last Stage of Life in Vietnam The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology (The Australian National University) 18(2),pp.149-164 (Single)
14.	2017/03	Other	PhD thesis "Mastering Old age: Buddhist Practice and Techniques of the Self among Elderly Laywomen in Ho Chi Minh City" (Single)
15.	2012/01	Book	Gender & Society Collection Volume 1-2012 [Gender and Society Collection Volum 1-2012] (Collaboration)
16.	2011/12	Book	"What do youths expect from universities?”. In Humboldt University 200 years (1810-2010): Experiences of the world and Vietnam’(edited by Ngo Bao Chau) pp.645-60 (Single)
17.	2012/01	Article	Review of "Even the Women Must Fight – Memories of War from North Vietnam" by Karen Turner Gender & Society Collection Volume 1 (Ho Chi Minh City: Times Publisher) 2012(1),pp.185-9 (Single)
18.	2010	Article	Gender and Society Research Newsletter (Collaboration)
19.	2009/06/29	Article	The Effectiveness of Teaching Life skills in universities Teachers and Trainers in Adult Education and Lifelong LearningProfessional Development in Asia and E (Single)
20.	2007/08	Book	"Better Brain Drain than Brain in the Drain" In Agents of Change: Winning student essays on sustainable development in the Asia and Pacific region. Asian Development Bank pp.99-104 (Single)
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■ Academic or professional association memberships

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2020～2023

(American) Association for Asian Studies

■ Conference presentations

1.	2022/03/27	Cooking for a Healthy Society: Food Charity by Buddhist Temples in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) (Annual Conference Association for Asian Studies)
2.	2022/03/27	Organise a panel titled "Religious food charity, care, and social agency in Vietnam and Myanmar" (Annual Conference Association for Asian Studies)
3.	2021/08/26	Productive work in Buddhist merit-making practice of Elderly Women in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) (The 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 12))
4.	2021/01/19	"Travel in the Impure Land: Buddhist pilgrimage and old-age personhood in Vietnam" (Asian Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Conference "Leisure Activities of Older Adults in Asia")
5.	2019/12/01	Doing Bodhisattva's Work: Charity and the Working Class in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) (AP Conference)
6.	2017/11	Elderly Women’s Buddhist ‘Work’ as Continuity of Care and the Enchantment of Old Age in Contemporary Urban Vietnam (The Australian National University; "2017 Vietnam Update: The Politics of Life")
7.	2016/12	Doing Bodhisattva Work: Buddhist charity and old age in Vietnam (Vietnamese National University & Hanoi University of Social Sciences and Humanities, "Cultural Resources for Sustainable Development: Theories, Practices and Policy Solutions")
8.	2015/12	Conceptualization of life and old age of elderly lay Buddhist women in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) (The Australian Anthropological Society 2015 Conference)
9.	2014/12	Bodhisattva Femininity: Supernatural Exchanges and Worldly Connections in Vietnamese Buddhists’ Charitable Practice (The Australian National University, "2014 Vietnam Update ‘Connected and Disconnected in Viet Nam")
10.	2014/12	“Inside” and “outside” the realm of life: Conceptualization of life course and old age (113th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association)
11.	2009/06/29	The effectiveness in teaching life skills in universities (ASEM Conference “Teachers and trainers in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning Professional Development in Asia and Europe”)
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■ Research topic, funded research and KAKENHI

1.	2019/04～2023/03	Buddhist charitable practice, Old-age experience and personhood of Vietnamese elderly (Key Word : )
2.	2008～2011	“Tet Nguyen Dan, the Vietnamese Lunar New Year: Constructing Identity through Festival and Ritual in the Context of Rapid Social Change” (Key Word : )
3.	2005～2007	“Farmers in the outskirt area of Ho Chi Minh City in the process of urbanization” (Key Word : )

■ Awards and honors

1.	2019/04	FY2019 Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research - Early Career Scientists
2.	2012/02	Australian Leadership Award (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia)

■ Committee and society

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2022/04/01～2023/03/31

Honours Program for Global Citizenship & Global Citizenship Program (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University) Academic Supervisor

■ Exhibitions, concerts, and competitions

1.	2010/01～2011/12	Editor of English and Vietnamese versions of “Gender & Society Research Newsletters” (Ho Chi Minh City: Gender and Society Research Center)
2.	2015/01～2015/12	Coordinator of Anthropology Seminar Series, Vietnamese Studies seminar series (The Australian National University) (The Australian National University)
3.	2010/01～2010/08	Organiser of Student Essay Contest ‘What do I expect from universities?’ (open to all university students in Ho Chi Minh City in celebration of Humboldt University's (Germany) 200th anniversary) (Ho Chi Minh City)

■ JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number

70828384

■ External Researcher ID

orcID

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9867-7498