Food, water, and sustainability are crucial issues around the world—and right here in North Carolina. This fall, the UNC-Duke Area Studies Centers and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) provided teacher education on these vital and interconnected issues … Continued

We acknowledge the land and sovereignty of the native peoples in North Carolina and by extension indigenous communities around the world that have been subject to negative effects of colonization, displacement, and historical erasure. We reject this historical erasure by … Continued

The Carolina Asia Center is excited to introduce Vy Ton and Kanika Bhalla, our new Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants (FLTA) for this upcoming year! They will be joining the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at UNC for … Continued

The Carolina Asia Center stands with the other centers and departments at UNC in urging the UNC Board of Trustees to immediately offer Nikole Hannah-Jones the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism position with tenure. As a Pulitzer Prize … Continued

The Carolina Asia Center strongly condemns all forms of racial discrimination, hatred, bigotry, and violence. We are gravely concerned about the recent spikes in anti-Asian violence and hate crimes for the past year, particularly the tragic incident that happened in … Continued

  Vietnamese is not just the national language of Vietnam, with more than 90 million speakers worldwide; it is also the 6th most spoken language in North Carolina homes. Now, Carolina students will once again have the opportunity to earn … Continued

  The Carolina Asia Center stands united with the peaceful protesters who decry police violence and institutional racism in the United States and abroad. As an organization committed to the study of Asia and its global presence, we value diversity … Continued

We are pleased to introduce our 2020-2021 Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship recipients! This year, the Carolina Asia Center awarded a total of 15 recipients including eight graduate students, two incoming graduate students, and five undergraduate students for the … Continued

UNC-Chapel Hill is closely monitoring the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19. There are no confirmed cases on UNC-Chapel Hill’s campus at this time. As of March 12, there are 14 positive cases of COVID-19 in North Carolina. Gov. Roy Cooper has … Continued

Poised to become the world’s third largest economy by 2030, the modern India we see today isn’t the same India that Anusha Chari remembers from childhood. “I grew up in India in the 1970s and ’80s, at a time well … Continued