Younmi Kim (Art History, Yale University) will present a talk on Buddhist imagery, stemming from her academic work on symbolic rituals, in which an architectural space serves as a non-human agent; the interplay between visibility and invisibility in Buddhist art; … Read more
Duke alum, New York Times translator, and Los Angeles Times correspondent Scott Savitt returns to talk about his extraordinary two decades in the People's Republic of China as a foreign reporter through the formative 80's and 90's. As a journalist, … Read more
Film Screening: "Assassination" (CHOI Dong-hoon, 2015, 139 min, South Korea, in Korean w/ English subtitles, Color, Blu-Ray) / "Assassination" was the highest grossing film in 2015 and the eighth all-time highest grossing film in Korean cinema. The film is set … Read more
Come out and see the movie Cemetery of Splendor at the Ackland Art Museum!
Join professors María DeGuzmán and Heidi Kim for a discussion of Latinx and Asian American voting trends, exit polling, civic engagement, and activism. Both groups were discussed as blocks in the electorate but are highly diverse in terms of ethnicity, … Read more
Public Intellectuals Program, 2016-2018 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The National Committee on United States-China Relations is pleased to announce the fifth round of its Public Intellectuals Program (PIP). This ambitious two-year program, generously funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, is … Read more
The Global Asia Initiative Environmental Humanities Series David Grace proposes to present findings from his 2016 survey of residents living near four sacred grove sites at various levels of urbanization in India’s National Capital Region and its southern periphery. This … Read more
Come join Wayne Karlin and Eric Henry for a discussion, and an account by each of how they first came to know Trần Văn Thủy. Wayne Karlin is a United States Marine Corps Veteran of the Vietnam War … Read more
From The Land of Shadows: Remembering Violence and the Violence of Remembering 2015 marked the 40th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge seizure of power in Cambodia on April 17, 1975 and the beginning of the country’s spiraling descent into one … Read more
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