206 Ingraham Hall @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Past Events Category: CSEAS Friday Forum
CSEAS Friday Forum: 2cold2go2school
206 Ingraham Hall @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
CSEAS Friday Forum: The Hmong and the Communist Party of Thailand: A Transnational, Transcultural, & Gender-Relations-Transforming Experience
206 Ingraham Hall @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
CSEAS Friday Forum: Back to Zomia: Hmong-French Relations during the Colonial Era
206 Ingraham Hall @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
By Mai Na Lee, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, University of Minnesota This talk examines how French appointment of a paramount leader led to internal competitions between Hmong leaders, complicating French power at …
CSEAS Friday Forum: Presenting a Sensitive History: Different Representations of Hmong Involvement in the Communist Party of Thailand
206 Ingraham Hall @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
By Ian Baird, Assistant Professor of Geography, UW-Madison Between the late 1960s and the 1980s, large numbers of Hmong joined the Communist Party of Thailand (CPT) and fought against the Royal Thai Army. Despite the importance …
How did the Hmong People Get Involved in the Secret War of Laos (1961-1975)?
8417 Sewell Social Sciences @ 12:00 am - 1:30 pm
By Dr. Yang Dao, Retired Faculty, University of Minnesota After the Geneva Conference in 1954, Laos became an independent country from French Indochina. However, in 1959-1960, a Lao civil war, between royalists, neutralists and communists, …
CSEAS Friday Forum: The Monks and the Hmong: The Special Relationship between the Chao Fa and the Tham Krabok Buddhist Temple in Saraburi Province, Thailand
206 Ingraham Hall @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
By Ian Baird, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, UW-Madison The Tham Krabok temple in Saraburi Province, central Thailand is the home of an unusual Buddhist order, one that was founded by a female, Mian Parnchand, …