Hmong Narratives as Testimony

Narratives as Programs

Representing narratives, and reasoning about them, has been a prominent theme in logical formalisms for dynamical systems (e.g. 9, 5, 2]). However, the existing literature provides a rather limited concept of what a narrative is; the examples all concern linear action sequences, sometimes including incomplete information about action occurrence times. The point of departure of this paper is the...

"Literature," the "Rights of Man," and Narratives of Atrocity: Historical Backgrounds to the Culture of Testimony

Hmong Across Borders or Borders Across Hmong? Social and Political Influences Upon Hmong People: Keynote Speech by Dr

The Hmong are a transnational ethnic people, because of their dispersal from China into Southeast Asia in the early 19th century and from Southeast Asia to Western countries from 1975 onward. However, even within the context of Southeast Asia and southern China, the Hmong are a transnational ethnic group, due to state boundaries and the enforcement of international laws. Scholars speak as thoug...

Narratives as a Fundamental Component of Consciousness

In this paper, we propose a conceptual architecture that models human (spatially-temporallymodally) cohesive narrative development using a computer representation of quale properties. Qualia are proposed to be the fundamental cognitive components humans use to generate cohesive narratives. The engineering approach is based on cognitively inspired technologies and incorporates the novel concept ...

Penile oleogranuloma among Wisconsin Hmong.

Injection of viscous or semisolid materials into the penile shaft to increase its size, to correct erectile dysfunction, and/or to satisfy a sexual partner has only been sporadically reported in Eastern and Western European and American men. However, this practice appears to be more widespread in the countries of Southeast Asia. We present 3 cases of Hmong patients seen in a urology clinic in W...