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Tea & Talk with Maximilian Conley
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1009 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesTea & Talk with Maximilian Conley ’19, Phillips Ambassador to Japan in Spring 2018. Impersonal research and personal experience; past and present; nature and society. These categories become difficult to distinguish at times, but especially during catastrophic disasters such as … Read more
The Future of Market Communist China: Guns, Better Trade and Hegemony
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1009 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesAs part of Carolina Asia Center's China Speaker Series, Professor Steven Rosefielde of the Economics department at UNC will present on "The Future of Market Communist China: Guns, Better Trade and Hegemony." He will discuss contemporary China with a focus … Read more
*RESCHEDULED* Going West to Find the “East”: Japanese Architect Ito Chuta’s Travels Throughout the Ottoman Empire and His Thought on “Oriental/Toyo” Architecture
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1009 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesTHIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED. PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR A DATE.
Spirits in a New Age: Philippine Centers of the Global Esoteric
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1009 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesIn the variegated landscape of Filipino paranormal practice, one phenomenon garnered worldwide attention in the last quarter of the twentieth century: psychic surgery. A form of spiritual healing in which the practitioner, or espiritista, usually male, operates on the body of … Read more
Foreign Language Construct, Frameworks, and Assessment
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1009 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesOur second China Speaker series will feature Jia Lin, Teaching Assistant Professor in China, Asian Studies department, on "Foreign Language Construct, Framework, and Assessment." Foreign language education is significant since it directly impact a country’s national security, economic development, and … Read more
The In/flexibility of Race: Chinese Americans, Schooling & Race in the Jim Crow South
Dey Hall Auditorium 301 Pittsboro Street, Chapel Hill, NCA widely cited anthropologist of education, Professor Lee is known nationally and internationally for her cutting-edge research on the educational experiences and academic achievement of two growing student populations: im/migrants and Asian Americans. Prof. Lee is the author/editor of six … Read more
The Blanche Armfield Poetry Series with Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Wilson Library, Pleasants Family Room Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesBorn to a Filipino mother and Malayali Indian father, Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of four books of poetry: Oceanic (Copper Canyon Press, 2018); Lucky Fish (2011), which won the Hoffer Grand Prize for Prose and Independent Books and was featured … Read more
Carolina Public Humanities Weekend Series: Korean War Legacies in the US & Asia
FedEx Global Education Center 301 Pittsboro Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThe Korean War is sometimes called the Forgotten War, but its legacy continues down to the present, influencing current events and political memories in both Asia and America. How do contemporary perceptions of recent conflicts in Korea reflect the contrasting ways … Read more
Modern Indian Studies Initiative: A Talk by Richard Verma, Former U.S. Ambassador to India
The Carolina Inn 211 Pittsboro Street, Chapel Hill, NCAmbassador Richard Verma is an American diplomat and former U.S. Ambassador to India from 2015 to 2017. During his tenure, Ambassador Verma oversaw an unprecedented nine meetings and three summits between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which … Read more
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