Featuring Dr. Alex Greene
In-person, 336 Ingraham Hall @ 4:00 pm
Past Events
Hmong Perspectives of Indigeneity in Thailand with Reclamation of Hmong Identity, Language, and History through Indigenous Methods of Learning
Featuring Tou SaiK Lee
Via Zoom @ 7:00 pm
Link to Video
Friday Forum: Mai Der Vang — Reframing Language: Expanding Hmong Discourse Through Poetic Investigation, From Yellow Rain to Saola
Mai Der Vang
206 Ingraham Hall @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
“REFRAMING LANGUAGE: EXPANDING HMONG DISCOURSE THROUGH POETIC INVESTIGATION, FROM YELLOW RAIN TO SAOLA” Mai Der Vang Assistant Professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing College of Arts and Humanities Fresno State University …
Follow the New Way: How U.S. Refugee Policies Disrupted Hmong Religious Life
Featuring Dr. Melissa Borja, Associate Professor, Department of American Culture, University of Michigan
In-person, 206 Ingraham Hall @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Link to Recording
The Chronic Refugee: Hmong American Afterlives in Empire
Featuring Dr. Mai See Thao, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
In-person, 206 Ingraham Hall @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
6th Hmong Studies Consortium International Conference
@ 4:00 pm - @ 12:00 pm
Registration and Schedule Hmong Studies Consortium Sixth International Conference November 1-3, 2024 Merced College, Merced, CA Merced College Business Resource Center (BRC) 630 W 19th St, Merced, CA 95340 The Hmong Studies Consortium is an international …
Historical and Cultural Significance of Hmong Reverse Appliqué
Dr. Linda Gerdner
Online @ 7:00 pm
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93072167284
This presentation provides the historical and cultural significance of Hmong reverse appliqué. Historically the White and Striped Hmong sub-groups of Laos adorned clothing with reverse appliqué. Importantly this provided a form of linguistic symbolism along …
2024 Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium: Hmong Studies in the University of Wisconsin System
Kong Pheng Pha, Chong Moua, Lena Lee, Dr. Mai See Thao
Pyle Center @ 4:00 pm
https://consortium.gws.wisc.edu/conference/2024-conference/2024-keynotes-plenaries/#hmongstudies
This plenary session brings together students, faculty, staff, and community members involved in envisioning, fighting for, growing, building, and implementing Hmong Studies programs within the University of Wisconsin System over the last two decades. Hmong …
2023 Madison’s Asian American Media Spotlight: Modern Shaman
206 Ingraham Hall @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
An absurd and satirical dramedy about a young Hmong American shaman who must balance his work as a spiritual healer for his community and his newfound interest in acting. Join us for a screening of …
Book Launch Talk Development in Spirit: Religious Transformation and Everyday Politics among the Hmong in Vietnam’s Highlands
Online Via Zoom @ 7:00 pm
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/99191184034
Over the past 35 years, Vietnam’s northern highlands have witnessed remarkable mass Protestant conversions among the 1.6 million Hmong who sit near the bottom of Vietnam’s ethno-religious hierarchy. This religious transformation has intersected (and sometimes …
