University of Southern California, Department of Sociology

CONFERENCE PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Lam, Joy, Frances Nedjat-Haiem, Thien-Huong Ninh, Petrice S. Oyama, Kara Lemma, Susan C. Harris, Norella M. Putney, and Vern L. Bengtson. "Ethnicity and the Transmission of Religion across Generations." Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting. National Harbor, MD: November 21-25, 2008, submitted.

Ninh, Thien-Huong, Petrice Oyama, and Vern Bengtson. "The Influences of Ethnic Heritage and Experiences on the Transmission of Values and Religious Practices: An Exploratory Investigation." Presented at the Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Portland, OR: April 10-13, 2008. [PowerPoint presentation]

Ninh, Thien-Huong. "Religion and Ethnicity: Dimensions and Trajectories in the Lives of Second-Generation Vietnamese American Caodais in Southern California." Presented at Asia Pacific Week, organized by the Australian National University. Canberra, Australia: January 29-February 1, 2008.

Ninh, Thien-Huong. "'I'm Going Home': Dimensions and Trajectories in the Lives of Second-Generation Vietnamese American Caodais in Southern California." Presented at the Visualizing Religion Seminar, organized by the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture. Los Angeles, CA: November 9, 2007.

Lam, Joy, Frances Nedjat-Haiem, Thien-Huong Ninh, Petrice Oyama, Susan Harris, Norella Putney, and Vern Bengtson. "Religious Continuity, Change, and Complexity in Multigenerational Families." Presented at the Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA: November 19, 2007.

Harris, Susan, Norela Putney, Joy Lam, Thien-Huong Ninh, Fran Nedjat-Haiem, Petrice Oyama, Vern Bengtson. "Continuity, Change, and Complexity in Religious Affiliations across Generations." Presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting. Tampa, FL: November 2-4, 2007.

Ninh, Thien-Huong. "Alternative Imagination: The Lives of Second-Generation Vietnamese American Caodais in Southern California." Presented at the Ethnic Studies Conference. San Diego, CA: March 2007.

Ninh, Thien-Huong. "Unbounding the Frontiers of Assimilation: Homeland Activities of Vietnamese American Leaders and Their Organizations." Presented at the Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research. Whittier, CA: November, 2004.

Ninh, Thien-Huong. "Assimilated Americans or Resilient Ethnic Minorities? The Case of 1.5 and Second Generation Vietnamese Americans and Their Community Organizations." Presented at the UCLA Alpha Kappa Delta Research Conference. Los Angeles, CA: June, 2004

Ninh, Thien-Huong. "From Misinformation to Unwanted Mastectomy: Why Vietnamese American Women With Breast Cancer are Not Making Informed Decisions." Presented at the Center for American Politics and Public Policy. Washington, DC: March, 2004

Ninh, Thien-Huong. "Census 2000: Asian American Population Growth in the United States." Presented at the Community Partners Conference, National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium. Washington, DC: April, 2001.