Book Club: The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
by Kao Kalia Yang
Falcon Programs is excited to announce a fall book club! All are welcome to participate, but are asked to commit to three 1-hour discussion sessions. Those participating in the club will receive a free copy of the book, have pizza catered at the last club meeting and have an opportunity to meet the author for a private book signing before her Nov 30th Wyman Series lecture.
Wednesday, November 2nd
5–7 p.m. Falcon's Nest, University Center
Only 50 Spots Available, Register Online at OrgSync
Kao Kalia Yang (Lecture and Book Signing)
Wednesday, November 30
7:30 p.m. Riverview Ballroom, University Center
Kao Kalia Yang immigrated to the United States when she was six years old after spending her first years in a Thai refugee camp. Now, the award winning author of The Latehomecomer, Kao Kalia Yang mixed Hmong folklore and stories to create this stirring novel about her family's story of immigration to America. Join her as she reads from her award-winning novel and discusses her family's remarkable journey from the jungles of Thailand to the cold winters in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Michelle Alexander: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Lecture and Book Signing)
Wednesday, February, 29
7:30 p.m. Riverview Ballroom, University Center
Michelle Alexander is a longtime civil rights advocate and litigator. She holds a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and a position as an Associate Professor of Law at the Mortiz College of Law at Ohio State University. Alexander previously served as director of the Racial Justice Project at the ACLU of Northern California, director of the Civil Rights Clinics at Stanford Law School, and is a former law clerk for Justice Harry Blackmun on the U.S. Supreme Court. She has appeared as a featured commentator on CNN, MSNBC, and NPR. Join us for her engaging lecture and discussions surrounding topics from her first book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.
Kip Fulbeck (Lecture)
Wednesday, April 11
7:30 p.m. Riverview Ballroom, University Center
Kip Fulbeck is a pioneering artist, spoken word performer, and filmmaker. He has been featured on CNN, MTV, The Today Show, PBS, and has performed and exhibited in over twenty countries and throughout the U.S. He is the author of several books including Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids; Part Asian, 100% Hapa; and Permanence: Tattoo Portraits. Fulbeck teaches as a professor of art at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received the university's distinguished teaching award and has been named an outstanding faculty member five times. Join him for an evening of in-depth discussion about multiracial identities and awareness.
*The Hapa Project, Kip Fulbeck's multiracial identity art project, will be exhibited on campus April 4-25.
Kao Kalia Yang (Lecture and Book Signing)
