Hmong Studies Virtual Library - Conference Panel Sessions
Hmong Across Borders Conference. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. October 3-5, 2013.
Title: Gayle Morrison’s Reading of her biography of Jerry Daniels. Author: Gayle Morrison. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 3, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Video of Gayle Morrison's presentation of passages from Hog's Exit: Jerry Daniels, the Hmong and the CIA, her biography of Jerry Daniels.
Title: Opening Remarks. Authors: Karen Hanson, Mai Na M. Lee, Ian Baird, Yang Dao and Yang Thai Vang. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 4, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Video of introductory remarks as part of the formal opening of the Hmong Across Borders conference. These include Dr. Yang Dao's speech on The Hmong Involvement in the Secret War of Laos (1961-1975).
Title: Keynote Address: Hmong Across Borders and Borders Across Hmong: Socio-Political and Intellectual Influences Upon Hmong People. Author: Prasit Leepreecha. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 4, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Video of the first day's keynote address from the Hmong Across Borders Conference featuring Dr. Prasit Leepreecha.
Title: Special Issue of the Hmong Studies Journal: Hmong Americans in the 2010 Census. Authors: Mark Pfeifer, Zha Blong Xiong, Nancy Herther and Kari Smalkoski. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 4, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Video of a panel of papers from a special 2010 census issue of the Hmong Studies Journal. In this panel, Mark Pfeifer presents on Hmong Population and Demographic Trends in the 2010 Census and 2010 American Community Survey and Zha Blong Xiong, Nancy Herther and Kari Smalkoski present on Health Disparities Research in the Hmong American Community: Implications for Practice and Policy.
Title: Hmong Gender Productions in a Time of Change. Authors: Jigna Desai, Kari Smalkoski and Mitch Odgen. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 4, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Includes presentations on Thinking Bollywood, Refugee Identity, and Hmong Diasporic Longings, Performing Masculinities: The Impact of Cultural Practices, Violence, and (de)segregation on Hmong Male Youth, and Coffee tables, Nyabs, and Lazy Hmong Women: A Figurative History of the Feminine in the Hmong American Literary Movement.
Title: The Hmong China History Project. Authors: Crystal Vang, Choua Xiong and See Yang. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 4, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Includes presentations on The Modernization of Paj Ntaub, an Analysis of a Hmong Mythical Figure and Education and Gender Roles in the Daily Life of the Hmong of China.
Title: The Hmong in Thailand: Dreams and Expressions of Ethno-Nationalism. Authors: Davids Chambers, Ian Baird and Jacob R. Hickman. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 4, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Includes presentations on The Creation and Contestation of Wat Tham Krabok Space: Monk and Hmong Spatiality and Territoriality, Presenting a Sensitive History: Different Representations of Hmong Involvement in the Communist Party of Thailand and The Art of Being Governed: Managing the Soul of General Vang Pao through the Rituals of Aspirational Statecraft.
Title: The Media, the Internet, and Globalization and Shifting Hmong Values. Authors: Tian Shi, Lori Kido Lopez, Richard Gettys and Justin Schell. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 4, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Includes presentations on Internet, Ethnic Movement, and Hmong Diaspora, Hmong Radio and Mobile Phone Connections, Making a Profit at What Cost? Sociality and the New Economic Realities Facing Hmong Entrepreneurs in Thailand and Unified Worldwide?: Researching Hmong Hip-Hop and Poetry In and Through New Media.
Title: Hmong Health and Identity. Authors: Va-Megn Thoj, Pa Der Vang and Mai See Thao. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 5, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Includes presentations on Hmong Shifting Paradigms: Shamans, Herbs and MDs and the Conundrum of ‘Cultural Competency’, Generational Differences among Hmong Americans and We are People Born Tim Ub [afar]: Transcending Diabetes.
Title: Women and Gender Roundtable. Authors: Chia Vang, Ma Vang, Aline Lo, Nou Yang and Yer Chang. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 5, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Panel discussion on Hmong women and gender roles.
Title: Understanding the Hmong in their Own Contexts. Authors: Kathleen Culhane-Pera, Kevin Thao and Jennifer Kue. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 5, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Presentations from this panel include Either You are Afraid of Not Having a Doctor in the Mountain or You are Afraid of Having a Doctor in the Hospital’, The Prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in a Wisconsin Hmong Patient Population and Notes From the Field: Insider Perspective on Conducting Community-Engaged Research With the Hmong.
Title: What Makes the Miao the Miao? Authors: Yonglin Jiang, Jinting Wu and Zujie Yuan. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 5, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Videotaped panel discussion on Hmong identity.
Title: Keynote Address: Hmong Oral History. Author: Gayle Morrison. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 5, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Author and Oral Historian Gayle Morrison presents a keynote address and discusses her biography of Jerry Daniels who worked with the Hmong as a CIA officer during the Vietnam War era.
Title: Refugee Archive: Debt and Hmong History. Authors: Ma Vang, Aline Lo and Chong Moua. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 5, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Presentation topics in this panel include Anthology as a Refugee Archive: Re-Chronicling Hmong Histories in How Do I Begin?, Forever Indebted: The Obligation to Retell Refugee Flight in Yang’s The ‘Latehomecomer’ and Hmong Refugee Cosmopolitanism: (Re)Imagining Southeast Asia Through a Stateless Perspective.
Title: Architectural Space, Design, and Hmong Identity. Authors: Long Chang and Tasoulla Hadjiyanni. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 5, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Presentation topics in this session include: Koob Hmoov: Bridging the Cultural Divide Through the Architecture of Transitional Housing and Toward Culturally Sensitive Housing: The Hmong Experience in Minnesota.
Title: Navigating the Tenuous Space Between Past and Future: Hmong Perspectives on Discontinuity from Northern Thailand. Authors: April Reber, Belinda Ramirez Spencer, Krista Rau and Jolysa Segwick. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 5, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Presentation topics in this session include: This is Like Dying While Still Being Alive: How the Hmong Engage in Street-Level Politics, Cultural Revision Through Religion: A Messianic Hmong Approach in Northern Thailand, Where Do the Spirits Reside?: Hmong Sacred Places Now and Then and A Shift in Priorities: The Motivations Behind Hmong Urban Migration in Northern Thailand.
Title: First Contact: Hmong Confront the West and Westerners. Authors: Jason Yu-Xiao Long, Violet Thor and Larry Ashmun. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 5, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Presentation topics in this session include: Ways of Tracing Roots Back to China: A Critique of Current Western Writings on Ancient Hmong History, Father Bertrais, OMI: The Good Shepherd and Anthropologist, and The Father Yves Bertrais Collection.
Title: Closing Keynote and Final Remarks. Hmong Research: Then and Now. Author: Bruce Downing. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 5, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Video presentation of closing conference remarks from Dr. Bruce Downing.
Title: Gayle Morrison’s Reading of her biography of Jerry Daniels. Author: Gayle Morrison. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 3, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Video of Gayle Morrison's presentation of passages from Hog's Exit: Jerry Daniels, the Hmong and the CIA, her biography of Jerry Daniels.
Title: Opening Remarks. Authors: Karen Hanson, Mai Na M. Lee, Ian Baird, Yang Dao and Yang Thai Vang. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 4, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Video of introductory remarks as part of the formal opening of the Hmong Across Borders conference. These include Dr. Yang Dao's speech on The Hmong Involvement in the Secret War of Laos (1961-1975).
Title: Keynote Address: Hmong Across Borders and Borders Across Hmong: Socio-Political and Intellectual Influences Upon Hmong People. Author: Prasit Leepreecha. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 4, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Video of the first day's keynote address from the Hmong Across Borders Conference featuring Dr. Prasit Leepreecha.
Title: Special Issue of the Hmong Studies Journal: Hmong Americans in the 2010 Census. Authors: Mark Pfeifer, Zha Blong Xiong, Nancy Herther and Kari Smalkoski. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 4, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Video of a panel of papers from a special 2010 census issue of the Hmong Studies Journal. In this panel, Mark Pfeifer presents on Hmong Population and Demographic Trends in the 2010 Census and 2010 American Community Survey and Zha Blong Xiong, Nancy Herther and Kari Smalkoski present on Health Disparities Research in the Hmong American Community: Implications for Practice and Policy.
Title: Hmong Gender Productions in a Time of Change. Authors: Jigna Desai, Kari Smalkoski and Mitch Odgen. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 4, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Includes presentations on Thinking Bollywood, Refugee Identity, and Hmong Diasporic Longings, Performing Masculinities: The Impact of Cultural Practices, Violence, and (de)segregation on Hmong Male Youth, and Coffee tables, Nyabs, and Lazy Hmong Women: A Figurative History of the Feminine in the Hmong American Literary Movement.
Title: The Hmong China History Project. Authors: Crystal Vang, Choua Xiong and See Yang. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 4, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Includes presentations on The Modernization of Paj Ntaub, an Analysis of a Hmong Mythical Figure and Education and Gender Roles in the Daily Life of the Hmong of China.
Title: The Hmong in Thailand: Dreams and Expressions of Ethno-Nationalism. Authors: Davids Chambers, Ian Baird and Jacob R. Hickman. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 4, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Includes presentations on The Creation and Contestation of Wat Tham Krabok Space: Monk and Hmong Spatiality and Territoriality, Presenting a Sensitive History: Different Representations of Hmong Involvement in the Communist Party of Thailand and The Art of Being Governed: Managing the Soul of General Vang Pao through the Rituals of Aspirational Statecraft.
Title: The Media, the Internet, and Globalization and Shifting Hmong Values. Authors: Tian Shi, Lori Kido Lopez, Richard Gettys and Justin Schell. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 4, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Includes presentations on Internet, Ethnic Movement, and Hmong Diaspora, Hmong Radio and Mobile Phone Connections, Making a Profit at What Cost? Sociality and the New Economic Realities Facing Hmong Entrepreneurs in Thailand and Unified Worldwide?: Researching Hmong Hip-Hop and Poetry In and Through New Media.
Title: Hmong Health and Identity. Authors: Va-Megn Thoj, Pa Der Vang and Mai See Thao. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 5, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Includes presentations on Hmong Shifting Paradigms: Shamans, Herbs and MDs and the Conundrum of ‘Cultural Competency’, Generational Differences among Hmong Americans and We are People Born Tim Ub [afar]: Transcending Diabetes.
Title: Women and Gender Roundtable. Authors: Chia Vang, Ma Vang, Aline Lo, Nou Yang and Yer Chang. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 5, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Panel discussion on Hmong women and gender roles.
Title: Understanding the Hmong in their Own Contexts. Authors: Kathleen Culhane-Pera, Kevin Thao and Jennifer Kue. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 5, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Presentations from this panel include Either You are Afraid of Not Having a Doctor in the Mountain or You are Afraid of Having a Doctor in the Hospital’, The Prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in a Wisconsin Hmong Patient Population and Notes From the Field: Insider Perspective on Conducting Community-Engaged Research With the Hmong.
Title: What Makes the Miao the Miao? Authors: Yonglin Jiang, Jinting Wu and Zujie Yuan. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 5, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Videotaped panel discussion on Hmong identity.
Title: Keynote Address: Hmong Oral History. Author: Gayle Morrison. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 5, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Author and Oral Historian Gayle Morrison presents a keynote address and discusses her biography of Jerry Daniels who worked with the Hmong as a CIA officer during the Vietnam War era.
Title: Refugee Archive: Debt and Hmong History. Authors: Ma Vang, Aline Lo and Chong Moua. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 5, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Presentation topics in this panel include Anthology as a Refugee Archive: Re-Chronicling Hmong Histories in How Do I Begin?, Forever Indebted: The Obligation to Retell Refugee Flight in Yang’s The ‘Latehomecomer’ and Hmong Refugee Cosmopolitanism: (Re)Imagining Southeast Asia Through a Stateless Perspective.
Title: Architectural Space, Design, and Hmong Identity. Authors: Long Chang and Tasoulla Hadjiyanni. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 5, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Presentation topics in this session include: Koob Hmoov: Bridging the Cultural Divide Through the Architecture of Transitional Housing and Toward Culturally Sensitive Housing: The Hmong Experience in Minnesota.
Title: Navigating the Tenuous Space Between Past and Future: Hmong Perspectives on Discontinuity from Northern Thailand. Authors: April Reber, Belinda Ramirez Spencer, Krista Rau and Jolysa Segwick. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 5, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Presentation topics in this session include: This is Like Dying While Still Being Alive: How the Hmong Engage in Street-Level Politics, Cultural Revision Through Religion: A Messianic Hmong Approach in Northern Thailand, Where Do the Spirits Reside?: Hmong Sacred Places Now and Then and A Shift in Priorities: The Motivations Behind Hmong Urban Migration in Northern Thailand.
Title: First Contact: Hmong Confront the West and Westerners. Authors: Jason Yu-Xiao Long, Violet Thor and Larry Ashmun. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 5, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Presentation topics in this session include: Ways of Tracing Roots Back to China: A Critique of Current Western Writings on Ancient Hmong History, Father Bertrais, OMI: The Good Shepherd and Anthropologist, and The Father Yves Bertrais Collection.
Title: Closing Keynote and Final Remarks. Hmong Research: Then and Now. Author: Bruce Downing. Source: Hmong Across Borders Conference. Location: Minneapolis, MN. Year: October 5, 2013. Additional Source Information: N.A. Pagination: N.A. Format: Video.
Abstract: Video presentation of closing conference remarks from Dr. Bruce Downing.