Events

Spring 2013 Hmong Events

Film Presentation: Never Perfect
Thursday, April 25, 2013
6-8:30 pm Union Fireside Lounge
Film begins promptly at 6:30pm. Discussion included.
Event poster (102kb)
Printable hi-res poster (37mb)

Asian American Speaker Series
February 28th – April 25th

Kim Park Nelson, Assoc. Professor, University of Minnesota-Moorhead
Living In Between: Ambivalent Transnationalisms of Korean American Adoption
Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 3:30 – 5:00 pm
CHM 170, Chemistry Building (3210 N. Cramer St.)

Stan Ilango Thangaraj, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University
End the Cycle: South Asian American Sporting Cultures and the Exclusionary Politics of Masculintity, Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 3:30 – 5:00 pm
UWM Union 280

Erika Lee, American historian, and Director of Immigration History Research Center
Chasing Dreams: Asians in the Americas from the Sixteenth Century to the Present
Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 4:30 – 6:00 pm
Merrill 131

Event poster (1.7mb)

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Fall 2012 Hmong Event

Hmong and American: From Refugees to Citizens
Friday, November 9, 2012 at 3:00 - 4:30 pm
UW-Milwaukee Student Union, Room 240
2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.
More information (pdf-388kb)

Spring 2012 Hmong Events

Film Screening for "Open Season"
Co-directed by Mark Tang and Lu Lippold
Monday, April 2, 2012 at 7:00pm in the UWM Student Union Fireside Lounge.
Informational flier (pdf-2834kb)

Comedian and Storyteller Performance by Tou Ger Xiong
Friday, April 20, 2012 from 6 to 9pm at the Sister Camille Kliebhan Conference Center, Cardinal Stritch University
Informational flier (pdf- 455kb)

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Fall 2011 Hmong Conversation Sessions

Are you interested in practicing your Hmong language speaking skills? This fall the Hmong Diaspora Studies Program is hosting four semi-structured sessions for speakers of all levels to speak Hmong. Sessions will be one hour. Topics will be prepared by Associate Lecturer May Vang, however, participants are welcome to discuss other topics. All sessions will take place in the Multicultural Student Lounge located in the UWM Union (first floor, across from the Ballroom).

Dates and Times:: Friday, September 30 at 6:30pm; Monday, October 10 at 10:00am; Tuesday, November 11 at 11:00am; Tuesday, December 12 at 5:00pm

If you have any questions, please contact May Vang at vang46@uwm.edu.

Conference on Critical Refugee Studies

November 3-4, 2011
See conference website

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