Global and Cultural Competence

Hmong Culture in Wisconsin with Pao Lor

Folklore Village
December 29, 2024 @ 4:30 pm
https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Event/EV9604

Join author Pao Lor for afternoon tea! He will be discussing Hmong culture and the Hmong diaspora of Wisconsin as part of Folklore Village's Festival of Christmas & Midwinter Traditions, now in its 77th year. The festival celebrates the cultures and folk traditions of people around the world through workshops in folk dance, singing, crafts, and music, as well as afternoon cultural teas.

BODIES IN FOCUS: Power, Subjectivity, and Practice in East European and Eurasian Studies – 3. Endangered Bodies and Activism

Virtual
January 24, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am
https://creeca.wisc.edu/bodies-in-focus/

This is the third installment in a six-part virtual event series that examines body matters within Eurasia through a variety of disciplines and themes. The body-as-method has emerged recently to provide novel insights on society, culture, and identity by foregrounding alternatives to Western traditions that marginalized the corporeal dimensions of social and personal existence.