Acknowledgements for the Hmong Across Borders Conference at the University of Minnesota, October 4-5, 2013

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Abstract

This short article presents brief information about the funders, institutions and funders that made the successful Hmong Across Borders conference that was held at the University of Minnesota in October 2013 possible.

Keywords: Hmong, Hmong Studies

On October 4-5, 2013, the ?Hmong Across Borders? Conference successfully convened on the campus of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. This was the second conference organized by the Consortium for Hmong Studies, a partnership between the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since the conference, Chiang Mai University has also become a partner of the Consortium. Funds from our 2013 conference came from the Henry Luce Foundation, the University of Minnesota?s Imagine Fund for Special Events, the Asian American Studies program, the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), the Immigration History Research Center and Archives (IHRC), and other individuals. The Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison provided staff and advertising support for our conference and for the Consortium.

We had three keynote speakers, Prasit Leepreecha, Gayle Morrison, and Bruce Downing, whose areas of specialization are representative of the dynamism of the field. The first Hmong Thai to obtain a doctorate in the United States, Leepreecha has an international reputation as an expert on the Hmong of Thailand, and he is currently a professor of Anthropology at Chiang...