206 Ingraham Hall @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Past Events
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
Hmong Veterans of the Secret War
By Seethong Yang, Master’s Candidate at UW-Madison
Film Showing: “Hmong Memory at the Crossroads”
Liachoua Lee, a Hmong-American from Rochester Hills, Michigan, revisits his past as a former refugee and son of Hmong veterans of the French Indochina War (1946-1954), and of the American Secret War in Laos (1961-1975), …
Hmong ‘Good’ Space: Territorialities and Networks
By David Chambers, Phd Candidate, Department of Geography, UW-Madison
In Search of Forest Spirits in Laos
By Pao Vue, PhD Candidate, Department of Geography, UW-Madison
The Hmong Political History in Thailand and the Spatial Practice of its Forms
By Yutthapong Suebsakwong (Zeb Yaj), PhD Candidate, Chiang Mai University (Visiting Scholar at UW-Madison)
Film Showing: “Hidden Wrath”
Before the film showing, director Moua Lee from St. Paul, Minnesota talks about the history of Hmong American movie making. Question-and-answer portion follows after the film showing.
Colorful: Hmong Dress in Northwest Guizhou, China
By Yan Gao, Bijei College, Guizhou Province, China (Visiting Scholar at UW-Madison)
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 …