The Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies and the Department of English invite you to a screening and panel discussion of the film “Hmong Memory at the Crossroads,” directed by Safoi Babana-Hampton, Swarnavel Eswaran-Pillai, and Cyril Payen.

Hmong Memory at the Crossroads is a documentary that weaves the stories of three generations of Hmong refugees in the US Midwest and France.  There will be an introduction by director Safoi Babana-Hampton (Michigan State) and a panel discussion featuring Fiona Ngô (Asian American Studies/GWS), Jean-Jacques Poucel (French and Italian), and Michael Rothberg (English/HGMS). 

Free and open to the public! 

Co-sponsored by Humanities Without Walls, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, Department of Asian American Studies, Department of French and Italian, Department of History, Program in Comparative and World Literature, Program in Jewish Culture and Society, and Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. 

Thanks to the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities for this information item.

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