Madison College Hmong & Allies Affinity group in collaboration with the Office of Equity, Inclusion and Community Engagement, invites you to join “Centering Hmong Lives: The Pursuit of Academic Research and Its Role in Strengthening Ethnic Identity” on Thursday, May 20, 5:30 p.m. to celebrate Hmong American Day.
As a college student in the early 1990s, historian Chia Youyee Vang preferred to learn about Western civilization and the thinkers that continue to influence society today. These had all seemed much more worthwhile to investigate largely because they were readily available in academic spaces. Learning about her people’s history was not an option at the time. Since 2008, however, she has published many articles and five books on Hmong-related topics. In this talk, Professor Vang will discuss the turning points in her personal and professional life that influenced her decision to study Hmong refugees dispersed across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Oceania. She demonstrates how researching and writing about her people’s displacement across the globe enable their voices to be heard. Facilitating the transformation of their marginal positions to the center of knowledge production has given her life a greater purpose. She tells their stories because they are also her story.
This event is brought to you by the Hmong and Allies Affinity Group at Madison College and the Office of Equity, Inclusion and Community Engagement at Madison College.
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