Why Long Beach? Tracing the Cambodian Journey to California

Rancho Los Alamitos presents

Thursday, June 27, 2024

Doors Open at 5:30 PM; Lecture from 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

$10 per person. Free for Members. Free onsite parking.

Join us for our next lecture of the 2024 season!

In this lecture, Sithea San and Dr. Susan Needham will help answer questions they are most often asked, Why Long Beach? Why did Cambodians settle in Long Beach, California? and, How did the city become the largest community of Cambodians outside Southeast Asia? In this talk, our guest lecturers will present the history and development of the Cambodian community and discuss some of the many contributions Cambodians have made to their new home.

Lecturer Bios:

Mrs. Sithea San and her surviving family members immigrated to the US from Cambodia in 1981. She is currently the Coordinator of Community Health Education at Pacific Asian Counseling Services. Mrs. San has also held many leadership positions in the Long Beach Cambodian community. She was instrumental in obtaining the Cambodia Town Cultural District designation in Long Beach in 2007 and establishing the annual Cambodia Town New Year Parade and Culture Festival on Anaheim Street.

Dr. Susan Needham is a Professor of Anthropology at California State University Dominguez Hill and a co-founder of the Cambodian Community History and Archive Project at the Historical Society of Long Beach. She is co-author of the book, Cambodians in Long Beach, with Dr. Karen Quintiliani (Anthropology, California State University Long Beach). This book will be made available in our gift shop for purchase.

Our RLA Lecture Series will be held every other month on the fourth Thursday of that month: February, April, June, August, and October. Doors will open at 5:30 pm and the lecture will start at 6 pm. Details are subject to change. For the most up-to-date info, please sign up for our mailing list here.

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