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Global Spotlight Week: Crisis of Citizenship

These films, art, music and talks highlight critical issues of citizenship and belonging across world regions. As international debates center migration and belonging, these events will provide space for education and reflection on what it means to belong, what it … Read more

The Lantern Festival Carnival

FedEx Global Education Center Atrium Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Celebrate the ending of the Lunar New Year with the Lantern Festival Carnival by making and eating delicious tang yuan (glutinous rice balls) with students and faculty members from the Department of Asian Studies.

Mimetic Entanglements: Towards a Historical Anthropology of Lao-Vietnamese Borderlands

FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1009 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The rugged Lao-Vietnamese borderlands have long been a zone of refuge and encounter, of conflict and exchange. This is particularly true for the early years of French colonial expansion, when local powerbrokers from diverse ethnic groups assessed, negotiated or resisted … Read more

Temple Tracks: Labour, Mobility, Piety

FedEx Global Education Center, Room 3009

  Dr. Vineeta is Professor of Sociology and Head of the South Asia Program at the National University of Singapore.

The Carolina Asia Center supports diverse Asia-related events. However, CAC co-sponsorship of any talk, seminar, documentary screening, film screening, performance or celebration does not constitute endorsement of or agreement with the views presented therein. As an academic institution, we value diverse perspectives that promote dialogue and understanding.