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Friday, March 28, 2025 | 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Histories on the Run: State Memory & Hmong Refugee Ways of Knowing

How are archives embodied and lived? 

On Friday, March 28 from 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, join Professors Ma Vang (UC Merced, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies) and Kong Pheng Pha (UW-Madison, Gender & Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies) for a community discussion on Vang’s History on the Run: Secrecy, Fugitivity, and Hmong Refugee Epistemologies (Duke, 2021) and Pha’s forthcoming Queering the Hmong Diaspora: Racial Subjectivity and the Myth of Hyperheterosexuality (University of Washington Press, 2025). The discussion will be held at the East Side Freedom Library, 1105 Greenbrier Street, Saint Paul.

This event is free and open to the public. Complimentary snacks & refreshments will be available beforehand at 6:30. 

Charter bus transportation provided in front of Weyerhaeuser leaving at 6 pm.

Sponsored by Sociology and American Studies.

Contact: vphelan@macalester.edu

Audience: Alumni, Faculty, Parents and Families, Public, Staff, Students

Sponsors: American Studies, Sociology

Free food: Available for students

Listed under: Front Page Events, Lectures and Speakers

Location

Eastside Freedome Library
1105 Greenbrier Street
Saint Paul, MN