HMONG STUDIES NEWSLETTER, WINTER 2013
ABOUT THIS PUBLICATION: The Hmong Studies Newsletter has since 2001 provided a very consistent source of up-to-date information about new works in Hmong Studies and Hmong-related research resources. To access back issues of this online publication dating back to 2001 visit: http://www.hmongstudies.org/HmongStudiesNewslettersindex.html
Hmong Studies Newsletter Editor: Mark E. Pfeifer, PhD
ABOUT THE HMONG STUDIES INTERNET RESOURCE CENTER:
The Hmong Studies Internet Resource Center (www.hmongstudies.org) is the online home of the Hmong Studies Journal academic journal. This unique scholarly site also contains extensive bibliographies in Hmong Studies as well as census data and an online research paper library.
Many of the Hmong Studies articles, books and dissertations listed in this newsletter and on the website may be found at the Hmong Resource Center Library (www.hmonglibrary.org) at the Hmong Cultural Center in Saint Paul, the largest depository of Hmong Studies academic journal articles and graduate theses and dissertations in the United States.
ABOUT THIS PUBLICATION: The Hmong Studies Newsletter has since 2001 provided a very consistent source of up-to-date information about new works in Hmong Studies and Hmong-related research resources. To access back issues of this online publication dating back to 2001 visit: http://www.hmongstudies.org/HmongStudiesNewslettersindex.html
Hmong Studies Newsletter Editor: Mark E. Pfeifer, PhD
ABOUT THE HMONG STUDIES INTERNET RESOURCE CENTER:
The Hmong Studies Internet Resource Center (www.hmongstudies.org) is the online home of the Hmong Studies Journal academic journal. This unique scholarly site also contains extensive bibliographies in Hmong Studies as well as census data and an online research paper library.
Many of the Hmong Studies articles, books and dissertations listed in this newsletter and on the website may be found at the Hmong Resource Center Library (www.hmonglibrary.org) at the Hmong Cultural Center in Saint Paul, the largest depository of Hmong Studies academic journal articles and graduate theses and dissertations in the United States.
NEW WORKS IN HMONG STUDIES:
Books/Theses/Reports
Margaret Brady. (2011). Hmong gardening in Anchorage, Alaska: Cultural continuity and change in a Far North diaspora. MA Thesis, University of Alaska, Anchorage. This graduate study examines the horticultural traditions and practices of Hmong residing in Alaska. The author examined to what extent, how and why her informants grow vegetables as well as herbs used in medicines.
Vincent Carveth. (2012). Explorations in the Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Qiandong-Hmongic Onsets. MA Thesis, University of Calgary. This graduate thesis is focused on the reconstruction of Proto-Qiándong-Hmongic onsets. The author compares fieldwork data from two sources and 24 dialects of the Qiándong subgroup, spoken in China's Guizhou province, with a goal of synthesizing a set of onsets for a common ancestor.
Cynthia Larson. (2012). The Relationship of Provider Cultural Competence and Utilization of Prenatal Care in the Hmong of Minnesota. PhD Dissertation, Walden University. This graduate study explores relationships between provider cultural competence, adequacy of prenatal care, and neonatal health outcomes in Hmong American women.
Annie Lu Nguyen. (2012). Cultural perspectives, lifecourse, and the social ecology of successful aging: The views of Chinese and Hmong elders. PhD Dissertation, Medical College of Wisconsin. This graduate study examines the ways in which cultural values, social ecology, and lifecourse experiences impact Chinese and Hmong elders' views of successful aging and social engagement.
Ma Vang (2012). Displaced Histories: Refugee Critique and the Politics of Hmong American Remembering. PhD Dissertation, University of California, San Diego. The author of this graduate study assesses how Hmong racial subjection has involved a project of displacing Hmong from both nation and history through war and knowledge production. The author argues that the "Hmong refugee" also constitutes an embodied category that activates nuanced responses to US historical amnesia and convoluted treatment.
May Vang (2012). Hmong heritage language learners: A phenomenological approach. PhD Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. This study looks at the experiences of learning Hmong among adult Hmong heritage students. The author's findings reveal that the core components of adult Hmong heritage language learning include an integrated narrative of the collective and individual emigration experience, evaluation of the learner's own language in light of their definition of the Hmong identity, and the learner's own agency in taking positions regarding their language and identity.
Academic Journal Articles/Other
Nicolas Brucato, et al. (2012). "The Hmong Diaspora: Preserved South-East Asian genetic ancestry in French Guianese Asians." Comptes Rendus Biologies 335 (10-11):698-707. The authors of this study biologically analysed 62 individuals of the Hmong Guianese population. All genetic systems analyzed showed a high conservation of the Asian gene pool, without a trace of founder effect. When compared across various Asian populations, the highest correlations were observed with Hmong-Mien groups still residing in South-East Asia. View this study in full-text here: http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/76/23/59/PDF/Brucato_HmongMS_rev05oct12.pdf
Christina M. Esposito. (2012). "An acoustic and electroglottographic study of White Hmong tone and phonation." Journal of Phonetics 40: 466-476. This study provides an assessment of tone and phonation in the White Hmong dialect.
Christina M. Esposito and Sameer ud Dowla Khan. (2012). "Contrastive breathiness across consonants and vowels; A Comparative Study of Gujarati and White Hmong." Journal of the International Phonetic Association 42(2): 123-143." The authors of this Linguistic study examined accoustic and electroglottographic data from speakers of Gujarati and White Hmong to determine the properties that reliably distinguish breathiness associated with stop consonants from breathiness associated with vowels from within and across two unrelated languages.
Chery Smith and Lisa Franzen-Castle. (2012). "Dietary Acculturation and Body Composition Predict American Hmong Children’s Blood Pressure." American Journal of Human Biology 24: 666-674. The authors of this study assess the extent to which dietary acculturation, anthropometric measures (height, weight, circumferences, and skinfolds), body mass index (BMI), and waist hip ratios (WHRs) are associated with blood pressure (BP) measures in Hmong children living in Minnesota.
Jean Michaud. (2012): "Hmong infrapolitics: a view from Vietnam." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 35(11): 1853-1873. Drawing upon notions of indigenization of modernity, agency and resistance in the context of an egalitarian society involving the Hmong in northern Vietnam, the author of this article examines whether agency that is directed at diverting modernization is automatically intentional and whether under certain circumstances it becomes resistance. The author posits that the Hmong in Vietnam utilize infrapolitics while also being tactically selective in relation to modernity.
Richard H. Molinar. (2012). "Indigenous Asian Specialty Vegetables in the Central Valley of California." HortScience: A Publication of the American Society for Horticultural Science, 47(7): 835-838. This research article discusses 24 Asian vegetables typically grown on farms and sold to specialty crop packing houses in Fresno and at farmer's markets in California. The author also provides information on cultural and culinary uses and pest problems.
Louisa Schein and Va- Megn Thoj with Bee Vang and Ly Chong Thong Jalao. (2012). "Beyond Gran Torino’s Guns: Hmong Cultural Warriors Performing Genders." Positions 20(3): 763-792. The authors of this article begin by exploring the cultural and racial politics associated with the film Gran Torino and then move to a broader discusion about how Hmong negotiate the mediated terrain of gendered and racialized politics in the U.S..
Nathan D. Shippee, Jessie Kemmick Pintor, Donna D. McAlpine, and Timothy J. Beebe. (2012). "Need, Availability, and Quality of Interpreter Services among Publicly Insured Latino, Hmong, and Somali Individuals in Minnesota." Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 23 (2012): 1073–1081. The authors of this study compare enrollee-reported need and availability of interpreters, access to professional and consistent interpreters, and problems with quality of interpreter-assisted communication among Latino, Hmong and Somalis in Minnesota. Compared with Latinos, Hmong and Somali enrollees reported greater needs and more communication problems, Somali enrollees reported lower availability, and Hmong enrollees reported lower access to professional interpreters.
Sarah Turner. (2012). "'Forever Hmong': Ethnic Minority Livelihoods and Agrarian Transition in Upland Northern Vietnam." The Professional Geographer 64(4): 540-553. This article examines how Hmong farmers have adapted to, circumnavigated, and worked to resist state sponsored agrarian change and other interventions in the northern Vietnam uplands over the past two decades.
Sarah Turner. (2012). "Making a Living the Hmong Way: An Actor-Oriented Livelihoods Approach to Everyday Politics and Resistance in Upland Vietnam." Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 102:2, 403-422. The author of this study utilizes ethnographic data to show how Hmong individuals and households in Northern Vietnam supplement agricultural livelihoods by navigating new economic opportunities, while also resisting unwanted reliance on the market.
Ma Vang. (2012). "The Refugee Soldier: A Critique of Recognition and Citizenship in the Hmong Veterans’ Naturalization Act of 1997." Positions 20(3): 685-712. The author of this article critically interrogates the racialization of Hmong in the debate surrounding the U.S. Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 1997.
Mai See Yang, Jeffrey A. Burr and Jan E. Mutchler. (2012). The Prevalence of Sensory Deficits, Functional Limitations, and Disability Among Older Southeast Asians in the United States. Journal of Aging and Health 24(7): 1252-1274. This study uses American Community Survey data to describe the prevalence of and risk factors for sensory deficits, cognitive and physical functional limitations, and disability among older Southeast Asian refugees in the United States.
Books/Theses/Reports
Margaret Brady. (2011). Hmong gardening in Anchorage, Alaska: Cultural continuity and change in a Far North diaspora. MA Thesis, University of Alaska, Anchorage. This graduate study examines the horticultural traditions and practices of Hmong residing in Alaska. The author examined to what extent, how and why her informants grow vegetables as well as herbs used in medicines.
Vincent Carveth. (2012). Explorations in the Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Qiandong-Hmongic Onsets. MA Thesis, University of Calgary. This graduate thesis is focused on the reconstruction of Proto-Qiándong-Hmongic onsets. The author compares fieldwork data from two sources and 24 dialects of the Qiándong subgroup, spoken in China's Guizhou province, with a goal of synthesizing a set of onsets for a common ancestor.
Cynthia Larson. (2012). The Relationship of Provider Cultural Competence and Utilization of Prenatal Care in the Hmong of Minnesota. PhD Dissertation, Walden University. This graduate study explores relationships between provider cultural competence, adequacy of prenatal care, and neonatal health outcomes in Hmong American women.
Annie Lu Nguyen. (2012). Cultural perspectives, lifecourse, and the social ecology of successful aging: The views of Chinese and Hmong elders. PhD Dissertation, Medical College of Wisconsin. This graduate study examines the ways in which cultural values, social ecology, and lifecourse experiences impact Chinese and Hmong elders' views of successful aging and social engagement.
Ma Vang (2012). Displaced Histories: Refugee Critique and the Politics of Hmong American Remembering. PhD Dissertation, University of California, San Diego. The author of this graduate study assesses how Hmong racial subjection has involved a project of displacing Hmong from both nation and history through war and knowledge production. The author argues that the "Hmong refugee" also constitutes an embodied category that activates nuanced responses to US historical amnesia and convoluted treatment.
May Vang (2012). Hmong heritage language learners: A phenomenological approach. PhD Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. This study looks at the experiences of learning Hmong among adult Hmong heritage students. The author's findings reveal that the core components of adult Hmong heritage language learning include an integrated narrative of the collective and individual emigration experience, evaluation of the learner's own language in light of their definition of the Hmong identity, and the learner's own agency in taking positions regarding their language and identity.
Academic Journal Articles/Other
Nicolas Brucato, et al. (2012). "The Hmong Diaspora: Preserved South-East Asian genetic ancestry in French Guianese Asians." Comptes Rendus Biologies 335 (10-11):698-707. The authors of this study biologically analysed 62 individuals of the Hmong Guianese population. All genetic systems analyzed showed a high conservation of the Asian gene pool, without a trace of founder effect. When compared across various Asian populations, the highest correlations were observed with Hmong-Mien groups still residing in South-East Asia. View this study in full-text here: http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/76/23/59/PDF/Brucato_HmongMS_rev05oct12.pdf
Christina M. Esposito. (2012). "An acoustic and electroglottographic study of White Hmong tone and phonation." Journal of Phonetics 40: 466-476. This study provides an assessment of tone and phonation in the White Hmong dialect.
Christina M. Esposito and Sameer ud Dowla Khan. (2012). "Contrastive breathiness across consonants and vowels; A Comparative Study of Gujarati and White Hmong." Journal of the International Phonetic Association 42(2): 123-143." The authors of this Linguistic study examined accoustic and electroglottographic data from speakers of Gujarati and White Hmong to determine the properties that reliably distinguish breathiness associated with stop consonants from breathiness associated with vowels from within and across two unrelated languages.
Chery Smith and Lisa Franzen-Castle. (2012). "Dietary Acculturation and Body Composition Predict American Hmong Children’s Blood Pressure." American Journal of Human Biology 24: 666-674. The authors of this study assess the extent to which dietary acculturation, anthropometric measures (height, weight, circumferences, and skinfolds), body mass index (BMI), and waist hip ratios (WHRs) are associated with blood pressure (BP) measures in Hmong children living in Minnesota.
Jean Michaud. (2012): "Hmong infrapolitics: a view from Vietnam." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 35(11): 1853-1873. Drawing upon notions of indigenization of modernity, agency and resistance in the context of an egalitarian society involving the Hmong in northern Vietnam, the author of this article examines whether agency that is directed at diverting modernization is automatically intentional and whether under certain circumstances it becomes resistance. The author posits that the Hmong in Vietnam utilize infrapolitics while also being tactically selective in relation to modernity.
Richard H. Molinar. (2012). "Indigenous Asian Specialty Vegetables in the Central Valley of California." HortScience: A Publication of the American Society for Horticultural Science, 47(7): 835-838. This research article discusses 24 Asian vegetables typically grown on farms and sold to specialty crop packing houses in Fresno and at farmer's markets in California. The author also provides information on cultural and culinary uses and pest problems.
Louisa Schein and Va- Megn Thoj with Bee Vang and Ly Chong Thong Jalao. (2012). "Beyond Gran Torino’s Guns: Hmong Cultural Warriors Performing Genders." Positions 20(3): 763-792. The authors of this article begin by exploring the cultural and racial politics associated with the film Gran Torino and then move to a broader discusion about how Hmong negotiate the mediated terrain of gendered and racialized politics in the U.S..
Nathan D. Shippee, Jessie Kemmick Pintor, Donna D. McAlpine, and Timothy J. Beebe. (2012). "Need, Availability, and Quality of Interpreter Services among Publicly Insured Latino, Hmong, and Somali Individuals in Minnesota." Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 23 (2012): 1073–1081. The authors of this study compare enrollee-reported need and availability of interpreters, access to professional and consistent interpreters, and problems with quality of interpreter-assisted communication among Latino, Hmong and Somalis in Minnesota. Compared with Latinos, Hmong and Somali enrollees reported greater needs and more communication problems, Somali enrollees reported lower availability, and Hmong enrollees reported lower access to professional interpreters.
Sarah Turner. (2012). "'Forever Hmong': Ethnic Minority Livelihoods and Agrarian Transition in Upland Northern Vietnam." The Professional Geographer 64(4): 540-553. This article examines how Hmong farmers have adapted to, circumnavigated, and worked to resist state sponsored agrarian change and other interventions in the northern Vietnam uplands over the past two decades.
Sarah Turner. (2012). "Making a Living the Hmong Way: An Actor-Oriented Livelihoods Approach to Everyday Politics and Resistance in Upland Vietnam." Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 102:2, 403-422. The author of this study utilizes ethnographic data to show how Hmong individuals and households in Northern Vietnam supplement agricultural livelihoods by navigating new economic opportunities, while also resisting unwanted reliance on the market.
Ma Vang. (2012). "The Refugee Soldier: A Critique of Recognition and Citizenship in the Hmong Veterans’ Naturalization Act of 1997." Positions 20(3): 685-712. The author of this article critically interrogates the racialization of Hmong in the debate surrounding the U.S. Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 1997.
Mai See Yang, Jeffrey A. Burr and Jan E. Mutchler. (2012). The Prevalence of Sensory Deficits, Functional Limitations, and Disability Among Older Southeast Asians in the United States. Journal of Aging and Health 24(7): 1252-1274. This study uses American Community Survey data to describe the prevalence of and risk factors for sensory deficits, cognitive and physical functional limitations, and disability among older Southeast Asian refugees in the United States.
HMONG STUDIES JOURNAL PUBLISHES VOLUME 13 DOUBLE ISSUE:
In December 2012, the Hmong Studies Journal published its annual issue, Volume 13, Issue 1 and a special 2010 Census Issue.
View the webpage for the Hmong Studies Journal, Volume 13, Issue 1 here:
http://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/hsj-volume-1312012.html
View the webpage for the Hmong Studies Journal, Volume 13, Issue 2 here:
http://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/hsj-volume-1322012-2010-census-special-issue.html
To faciliate additional scholarly communication and debate about topics discussed in both new issues of the Hmong Studies Journal, moderated blog forums have been added to the webpages of each newly published journal issue.
The 2010 Census issue of the Hmong Studies Journal has received broad media coverage from news outlets in California, Minnesota, and Wisconsin with full-length newspaper articles appearing in the Merced Sun-Star, Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Eau Claire (WI) Leader-Telegram and Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. View the media reports on the 2010 Census Issue here: http://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/media.html
In December 2012, the Hmong Studies Journal published its annual issue, Volume 13, Issue 1 and a special 2010 Census Issue.
View the webpage for the Hmong Studies Journal, Volume 13, Issue 1 here:
http://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/hsj-volume-1312012.html
View the webpage for the Hmong Studies Journal, Volume 13, Issue 2 here:
http://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/hsj-volume-1322012-2010-census-special-issue.html
To faciliate additional scholarly communication and debate about topics discussed in both new issues of the Hmong Studies Journal, moderated blog forums have been added to the webpages of each newly published journal issue.
The 2010 Census issue of the Hmong Studies Journal has received broad media coverage from news outlets in California, Minnesota, and Wisconsin with full-length newspaper articles appearing in the Merced Sun-Star, Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Eau Claire (WI) Leader-Telegram and Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. View the media reports on the 2010 Census Issue here: http://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/media.html
COMPREHENSIVE SCHOLARLY ANTHOLOGY TO BE PUBLISHED ON HMONG AMERICANS:
Diversity in Diaspora: Hmong Americans in the Twenty-First Century, a scholarly anthology to be published by the University of Hawaii Press in February 2013 wrestles with Hmong Americans’ inclusion into and contributions to Asian American studies, as well as to American history and culture and refugee, immigrant, and diasporic trajectories. The volume is likely the most comprehensive anthology of research related to Hmong Americans to be published since the mid-1980s.
Following a summary of more than three decades’ of Hmong American historical experience and a demographic overview of contemporary Hmong America, chapters investigate the causes of and solutions to socioeconomic immobility in the Hmong American community and political and civic activism, including Hmong American electoral participation and its affects on policymaking. The influence of Hmong culture on young men is examined, followed by profiles of female Hmong leaders who discuss the challenges they face and interviews with aging Hmong Americans. A section on arts and literature looks at the continuing relevance of oral tradition to Hmong Americans’ successful navigation in the diaspora, similarities between rap and kwv txhiaj (unrehearsed, sung poetry), and Kao Kalia Yang’s memoir, The Latehomecomer. The final chapter addresses the lay of the land in Hmong American Studies, constituting a substantive bibliographic review.
Diversity in Diaspora showcases the desire to shape new contours of Hmong American Studies as Hmong American scholars themselves address new issues. It represents an essential step in carving out space for Hmong Americans as primary actors in their own right and in placing Hmong American studies within the purview of Asian American studies. For more information about this new work, visit: http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-8939-9780824835972.aspx
Following a summary of more than three decades’ of Hmong American historical experience and a demographic overview of contemporary Hmong America, chapters investigate the causes of and solutions to socioeconomic immobility in the Hmong American community and political and civic activism, including Hmong American electoral participation and its affects on policymaking. The influence of Hmong culture on young men is examined, followed by profiles of female Hmong leaders who discuss the challenges they face and interviews with aging Hmong Americans. A section on arts and literature looks at the continuing relevance of oral tradition to Hmong Americans’ successful navigation in the diaspora, similarities between rap and kwv txhiaj (unrehearsed, sung poetry), and Kao Kalia Yang’s memoir, The Latehomecomer. The final chapter addresses the lay of the land in Hmong American Studies, constituting a substantive bibliographic review.
Diversity in Diaspora showcases the desire to shape new contours of Hmong American Studies as Hmong American scholars themselves address new issues. It represents an essential step in carving out space for Hmong Americans as primary actors in their own right and in placing Hmong American studies within the purview of Asian American studies. For more information about this new work, visit: http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-8939-9780824835972.aspx
HMONG RESOURCE CENTER LIBRARY RECEIVES FUNDING SUPPORT TO UPGRADE CATALOG WITH WEB ACCESS:
In October 2012, Hmong Cultural Center's Hmong Resource Center Library was awarded a grant from the Asian Pacific Endowment of the Saint Paul Foundation to upgrade its library catalog system. Txongpao Lee, Executive Director of the Hmong Cultural Center stated: "We are very excited that this new funding support will allow us to upgrade the existing ten year old Alexandria catalog system in our special library focusing on Hmong Studies. It has been our goal to upgrade the catalog system for several years. We are particularly excited that this newly upgraded catalog system from Alexandria will make it possible for us to also put our internal Hmong Resource Library catalog system online linked to our library website for scholars, students and community members to explore our library holdings in a user-friendly format prior to visiting our center. We are very grateful to the Asian Pacific Endowment of the Saint Paul Foundation for this grant that will significantly improve our capacity to serve the community with our comprehensive Hmong Studies research library."
HMONG STUDIES VIRTUAL LIBRARY:
The staff of the Hmong Resource Center Library at the Hmong Cultural Center in Saint Paul has developed a growing online library of links to full-text books, research articles and published reports related to Hmong Studies and Southeast Asian American Studies. Visit the Hmong Studies Virtual Library here: http://www.hmonglibrary.org/hmong-studies-virtual-library.html
The staff of the Hmong Resource Center Library at the Hmong Cultural Center in Saint Paul has developed a growing online library of links to full-text books, research articles and published reports related to Hmong Studies and Southeast Asian American Studies. Visit the Hmong Studies Virtual Library here: http://www.hmonglibrary.org/hmong-studies-virtual-library.html
OTHER NEWS IN HMONG STUDIES:
Hmong Across Borders Conference, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, October 4-5, 2013.
The Consortium for Hmong Studies between the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (http://hmongstudies.wisc.edu/index.htm) will be hosting our second conference entitled "Hmong Across Borders" on October 4-5, 2013 at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. This will be an interdisciplinary, international conference that will focus on current, innovative research on the Hmong across different intellectual and national boundaries around the world. The aim of the conference is to gather scholars around the globe who are interested in critical Hmong studies and related ideas. This includes bringing together well-established scholars as well as those beginning their careers. Graduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts. Although the central focus of this conference is on the Hmong, papers of a comparative nature that focus on the Hmong and other ethnic groups are equally welcome. Presenters will not be required to pay the registration fee for attending, but will be expected to cover their own travel and accommodation costs. Scholars interested in presenting are encouraged to submit individual abstracts not exceeding 250 words, or ideas for panels not exceeding 400 words. Submissions should be sent to Mai Na M. Lee at [email protected]. Abstracts should be received no later than April 15, 2013. Acceptance of abstracts and panel ideas will be confirmed by May 30, 2013.
For more info about this conference visit: http://hmongstudies.wisc.edu/Conferences/fall2013minconinfo.htm
Hmong Across Borders Conference, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, October 4-5, 2013.
The Consortium for Hmong Studies between the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (http://hmongstudies.wisc.edu/index.htm) will be hosting our second conference entitled "Hmong Across Borders" on October 4-5, 2013 at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. This will be an interdisciplinary, international conference that will focus on current, innovative research on the Hmong across different intellectual and national boundaries around the world. The aim of the conference is to gather scholars around the globe who are interested in critical Hmong studies and related ideas. This includes bringing together well-established scholars as well as those beginning their careers. Graduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts. Although the central focus of this conference is on the Hmong, papers of a comparative nature that focus on the Hmong and other ethnic groups are equally welcome. Presenters will not be required to pay the registration fee for attending, but will be expected to cover their own travel and accommodation costs. Scholars interested in presenting are encouraged to submit individual abstracts not exceeding 250 words, or ideas for panels not exceeding 400 words. Submissions should be sent to Mai Na M. Lee at [email protected]. Abstracts should be received no later than April 15, 2013. Acceptance of abstracts and panel ideas will be confirmed by May 30, 2013.
For more info about this conference visit: http://hmongstudies.wisc.edu/Conferences/fall2013minconinfo.htm
HMONG CULTURAL CENTER AND HMONG ARCHIVES LAUNCH HMONG EMBROIDERY VIRTUAL MUSEUM:
HmongEmbroidery.org, a partnership between the Hmong Cultural Center and the Hmong Archives and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Asian Pacific Endowment of the Saint Paul Foundation has launched at http://www.hmongembroidery.org/
Very likely the first project of its kind, the online virtual Hmong arts museum features online exhibits of 213 Hmong embroidered pieces of varying styles and eras from the collections of the Hmong Cultural Center and the Hmong Archives in Saint Paul. Featured on the website are comprehensive exhibits of Hmong embroidery including paj ntaub storycloths, applique, reverse applique, batik, Hmong attire, inspired crafts and ornaments. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune profiled the new online virtual museum in a feature story which appeared December 5, 2012. This article may be viewed here: http://www.hmongcc.org/uploads/4/5/8/7/4587788/startribune12.5.2012.pdf
Very likely the first project of its kind, the online virtual Hmong arts museum features online exhibits of 213 Hmong embroidered pieces of varying styles and eras from the collections of the Hmong Cultural Center and the Hmong Archives in Saint Paul. Featured on the website are comprehensive exhibits of Hmong embroidery including paj ntaub storycloths, applique, reverse applique, batik, Hmong attire, inspired crafts and ornaments. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune profiled the new online virtual museum in a feature story which appeared December 5, 2012. This article may be viewed here: http://www.hmongcc.org/uploads/4/5/8/7/4587788/startribune12.5.2012.pdf
HMONG CULTURAL CENTER RECEIVES SUPPORT TO DEVELOP HMONG AMERICAN HISTORY EXHIBITS:
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In October 2012, Hmong Cultural Center was awarded a fiscal year 2013 Minnesota Historical and Cultural Heritage grant from the Minnesota Historical Society to support the planning of expanded interpretative exhibits related to Hmong history in Minnesota as part of a Hmong American History Center and Library at the center's offices in Saint Paul. This activity is funded, in part, by the arts and cultural heritage fund as appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the Legacy Amendment vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.
The Minnesota Historical Society's grant funding will strongly support efforts to build the Hmong Cultural Center's long-established modest exhibits and displays and multicultural education resources into a more comprehensive interpretative experience for the community that will be packaged to visitors with the center's long-established Hmong research library. The funded project will involve research and development of draft text narratives for permanent displays on the topics related to Hmong culture and history with a particular emphasis on Hmong History in Minnesota. To learn more about this project visit: http://www.hmongcc.org/hmong-history-center-project.html
The Minnesota Historical Society's grant funding will strongly support efforts to build the Hmong Cultural Center's long-established modest exhibits and displays and multicultural education resources into a more comprehensive interpretative experience for the community that will be packaged to visitors with the center's long-established Hmong research library. The funded project will involve research and development of draft text narratives for permanent displays on the topics related to Hmong culture and history with a particular emphasis on Hmong History in Minnesota. To learn more about this project visit: http://www.hmongcc.org/hmong-history-center-project.html
HMONG 101 WEBINARS:
To respond to the need for community education about the Hmong refugee experience, Hmong history and culture and Hmong American contributions to the United States, the Hmong Cultural Center provides comprehensive and interactive multicultural education presentations about the Hmong to groups in Minnesota, the Upper Midwest and the broader U.S. through its groundbreaking Hmong 101 workshops and webinars. The United States Department of Justice Community Relations Program based in Chicago has worked with the Hmong Cultural Center to adapt our presentations for anti-discrimination seminars and trainings throughout the Midwestern U.S. To learn more about the Hmong 101 Program visit: http://www.hmongcc.org/hmong-101-program.html
Upcoming Hmong 101 Webinars
Dec. 19, 2012 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM CST/9:00 AM – 10:30 AM PST (Link to Register for Access to the Archived Recorded Webcast of this Webinar)
Jan. 18, 2013 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM CST/Noon – 1:30 PM PST (Link to Register for Access to the Archived Recorded Webcast of this Webinar)
Feb. 13, 2013 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM CST/Noon – 1:30 PM PST (Link to Register)
Mar. 13, 2013 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM CST/Noon – 1:30 PM PST (Link to Register)
Upcoming Hmong 101 Webinars
Dec. 19, 2012 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM CST/9:00 AM – 10:30 AM PST (Link to Register for Access to the Archived Recorded Webcast of this Webinar)
Jan. 18, 2013 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM CST/Noon – 1:30 PM PST (Link to Register for Access to the Archived Recorded Webcast of this Webinar)
Feb. 13, 2013 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM CST/Noon – 1:30 PM PST (Link to Register)
Mar. 13, 2013 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM CST/Noon – 1:30 PM PST (Link to Register)
COMPREHENSIVE AND EXPANDED HMONG STUDIES RESEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHIES ARE ONLINE:
Doing research on a Hmong Studies research topic? More than 40 comprehensive and frequently updated online subject bibliographies of Hmong Studies works are available at the following link: http://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/hmong-studies-bibliographies.html
A 2007-Present research bibliography is updated every few weeks with information about the latest research publications in Hmong Studies, online links to full-text are included where applicable:
http://www.hmongstudies.org/HmongStudiesPublications2007Present.html
Doing research on a Hmong Studies research topic? More than 40 comprehensive and frequently updated online subject bibliographies of Hmong Studies works are available at the following link: http://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/hmong-studies-bibliographies.html
A 2007-Present research bibliography is updated every few weeks with information about the latest research publications in Hmong Studies, online links to full-text are included where applicable:
http://www.hmongstudies.org/HmongStudiesPublications2007Present.html
HMONG STUDIES MESSAGE BOARD:
A moderated message board intended as a forum for information about existing and new research resources in Hmong Studies is available at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hmongstudies/
A moderated message board intended as a forum for information about existing and new research resources in Hmong Studies is available at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hmongstudies/
