Spring 2011 Hmong Conference at Madison Abstracts

Ashmun, Larry The Father Yves Bertrais Collection
Baird, Ian Hmong in Comparative Contexts: Reinserting Non-Hmong Actors into Political and Military Resistance Organizations Opposed to the Lao PDR Government since 1975
Baird, Ian and Vue, Pao Hmong Agricultural Transformations and Different Scales of Networks: Preliminary Findings
Culas, Christian Keynote Presentation: State, Hmong and Markets: A Comparison between “Ethnic Markets”, Luang Phrabang (Laos) and Sapa – Bac Ha (Vietnam)
Dearborne, Lynne Sites of Resistance: Hmong Vernacular Space in the Context of the Thai Royal “Hill-Tribe” Project
Feng, Xianghong Who Are the Hosts: The Miao Village Tours in Fenghuang, China
Gillogly, Kathleen How the Lisu from Yunnan Became Southeast Asian
Her Leena Gender as an Analytic Category in Hmong Studies: the failure of patriarchy, tradition, and culture
Her, Pa Lub Txhawb Nqa: Survey of Hmong parents’ educational encouragement
Her, Pa Niam lo lus rau siab: Hmong mothers’ support
Hickman, Jacob Panal Discussion:To Zomia or not to Zomia? Critical Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives
Hillmer, Paul No Meo Wanted: Shifting Views on Hmong “Worthiness” for Resettlement to the U.S.
Jonsson, Hjorleifur Wartime Identities and National Scholarly Frameworks: Northern Laos and the Long 1970s
Lee, Pao Panal Discussion: Hmong American Identity and Contemporary Cultural Practices
Lee, Pao and Vue, Khou Hmong Culture Meets Christianity: Identity Management by Hmong Females in Nightclubs
Lo, Aline Transcending Traditions: Reading Kao Kalia Yang’s The Latehomecomer as Testimonio
Lo, Bao Hmong Youth and Mediated Agency: A Contextual and Gendered Response to Assimilation
Lo, My A Refugee-Centered Perspective on Refugee Protection Reform: The Case of the Lao Hmong Refugees in Thailand
Ly, Cho The (H)mong of French Guiana, a homogeneous community?
Ly, Cho What type of (H)mong will our descendants learn?
Massa-MacLeod, Antonia Hmong Americans, literacy, and the rhetoric of community ethics
Moua, Chong The Father Yves Bertrais Collection and Reflections on Hmong Language and Literacy
Moua, MaiGer Contesting Illiteracy and Literacy: Hmong Romanized Popular Alphabet and Pahawh
Moua, Kim Statelessness: Highland People in Northern Thailand
Ogden, Mitch Writing Refugee Utopias: The Poetry of Hmong Diaspora
Pamperin, Bruce Pathet Lao Distant Memories: A Public War Inside the Secret War
Smalkoski, Kari and Lee, Pao Looking Back / Looking Forward: Generations of Hmong American Masculinities
Tappe, Oliver Revolutionary legacies and socio-cultural challenges in upland Laos – the Hmong and the ‘Lao multi-ethnic people’ of Viengxay, Houaphan Province.
Vang, Her Peacemakers or Peace-wreckers: the Lao Hmong Diaspora in Homeland Conflict
Wilcox, Hui The Social Meanings of Hmong Farming in the U.S. Midwest
Yonglin, Jiang Borderlands and Identity Building: The “Frontier Wall for the Miao Territory” in the Ming Empire