Events

Upcoming Events

Los Tsev (Home): Cia Siab (Hope) in Wisconsin

April 11, 2025 | 5:30-8pm | Wisconsin Historical Society

Educational Sciences (816 State Street)

Doors open at 5:30pm
Join us for the opening of Los Tsev (Home): Cia Siab
(Hope) in Wisconsin, a community-curated exhibit in
partnership with the Wisconsin Historical Society, to
commemorate 50 years of Hmong resettlement in the
United States. The exhibit will be displayed from April
11 to May 10, 2025.

Talk by Dr. Mai See Thao at 6pm
Cia Siab (Hope) in Wisconsin: Hmong Life and Living
After 1975.

Exhibition Reception at 7pm

Past Events

Queer HMoob Storying Other Worlds

March 12, 2025 | 4:00-5:30pm | Educational Sciences 259

Educational Sciences (1050 W Johnson)

Dr. Doua Kha gave a talk on storytelling community of practice for queer HMoob youth. Afterwards there was a panel that had dicusss HMoob and queer indentities with dr. Kong Pheng Pha, Chundou Her, Steven Yang, and Zon Moua.

How Hmong and Asian American Cultures Are Taught in Schools, and How They Should Be

March 7, 2025 | 1:30-2:30pm | Education Building 159

Education Building (1000 Bascom Mall)

Presented at a roundtable session on how schools treat HMoob and Asian American history and cultures and what teachers need to know.

2024 HMoob Resource Picnic/Potluck

September 12, 2024 | 5:00-8:00pm | Courtyard Area
Educational Sciences (1050 W Johnson)

Celebrated the upcoming semester wih a night of activities, dinner, and learn about the various resources at UW-Madison. This event was hosted in collaboration with HMASC, the Paj Ntaub team, SHIPA, HASA, SEADO, SEASA, and the HMoob Student Dinner.

Community Teaching: Storytelling as Pedagogy with Dr. Ma Vang

April 19, 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm | Room 2235
Nancy Nicholas Hall (1300 Linden Dr)

Engage in conversation with Dr. Ma Vang about storytelling practices that are integral to Hmong, other refugee communities, and Indigenous and Black communities in research and teaching.

2024 Social Justice Retreat Day 1

Day 1 | April 19, 2024 | 1:00-8:00pm | Room 2235
Nancy Nicholas Hall (1300 Linden Dr)

The HMASC Social Justice Retreat aims to share and explore HMoob studies within the Madison area, Wisconsin, and the broader HMoob community. This is a two-day event that hopes to identify and develop specific cultural, institutional, and social nodes that are imperative for HMoob studies and HMoob community growth as a whole. Day 1 consisted of guest speaker, Dr. Ma Vang, and workshops celebrating the arts and knowledge of HMoob folks.

2024 Social Justice Retreat Day 2

Day 2 | April 20, 2024 | 10:00am-3:30pm | 13th floor
Educational Sciences (1050 W Johnson St)

The HMASC Social Justice Retreat aims to share and explore HMoob studies within the Madison area, Wisconsin, and the broader HMoob community. This is a two-day event that hopes to identify and develop specific cultural, institutional, and social nodes that are imperative for HMoob studies and HMoob community growth as a whole. Day 2 consisted of educational workshops on queerness, mental health, HMoob studies, and preliminary findings from the College Paj Ntaub project.

Open House

April 19, 2023 | 5:00-6:00pm | Room 259 Educational Sciences (1050 W Johnson)

Come join us for a night of arts and crafts, dinner, and learning about the work of scholars and activists on the Paj Ntaub team!

Social Justice Retreat

April 2022

The Social Justice retreat was planned and hosted by student activists from the HMoob American Studies Committee (HMASC) as a means to focus on the development of HMoob studies in higher education. More specifically, the team wanted to bring in HMoob college students from all over the UW System to discuss HMoob studies and the importance of it to our HMoob identity as well as steps to take to build a critical HMoob studies program at our respective campuses.

The goals of the retreat were to:

1. Learn from each other about HMoob studies
2. Learn about strategies to establish HMoob studies programs through advocacy
3. Build community
4. Learn about the conditions and/or experiences of HMoob students on campus colleges

In addition to HMoob college students, HMoob studies scholars, activists, and allies were also invited and present at the retreat so that we could learn from each other and form a collective community with various expertise in advocacy and HMoob studies.

Our HMoob American College Paj Ntaub Presentation in the Wisconsin Idea Room

February 1, 2019

A presentation of findings from our student-led research project examining the experiences of HMoob American undergraduate students at UW-Madison. Featuring comments from Drs. Stacey Lee and Cindy Cheng.