The University of Wisconsin-Madison and UVSA-Midwest are proud to announce the 8th Annual VIA-1 Conference will be held at University of Wisconsin-Madison on the weekend of March 26-28, 2010.
Most of our parents had a dream for their children of the land where dreams can come true, where one can choose to have endless amounts of opportunity, where one can be rich or poor, and where one can grasp their dream and run with it.
For all of us in the United States of America, we live the dream that our parents dreamt. We all have different dreams, but have one goal in common, which is to succeed in life and achieve the “American dream.”
In relation to VIA-1 conference, we are trying to capture the struggles from dreaming to making our dreams real. The essence of a dream stem from motivators which drives one to achieve one’s goal by creating the steps towards making one’s dream a reality. Each of us are at a point in our life in which we can take that one extra step, from possibility to actuality.
Register before March 8, 2009 and it’s only $50!
Why should you register and attend this conference?
> Keynote speakers:
Lac Su, author of “I Love Yous Are For White People”
&
Mr. Beau Sia, Slam Poet, writer, winner of a Tony Award for Russel Simmon’s Def Poetry Jam.
> Workshops:
—Social Issues Facing Vietnamese Americans—
Me Love You Long Time:
Politics of Sexuality for Vietnamese and Asian Americans
Revisiting the Model Minority Myth
Where are you from? No, I mean, where are you really from?:
The Perpetual Foreigner Dilemma
—Professional Development—
(Still to come)
> Banquet
Come dress up and impress all the new friend’s you just made at the Concourse Hotel
> Networking
The chance to make both professional and personal relationships and create lasting memories.
http://www.via1.org/registration/
More information can be found at VIA-1.org
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