Event Category: Academic
Week of Events
The Other Milk: Reinventing Soy in Republican China
The Other Milk: Reinventing Soy in Republican China
The Other Milk examines how, why, and through what means nutrition science came to matter in China by exploring the ways in which self-styled laymen and scientific nutritional activists re-invented the soybean, and soybean milk, for the modern age. I … Read more
UNC Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowships Info Sessions
UNC Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowships Info Sessions
FLAS fellowships fund the study of less commonly taught languages and area studies coursework. This program provides academic year and summer fellowships to assist graduate students and advanced undergraduates in foreign language and area studies. The goals of the fellowship … Read more
Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition and American Complacency
Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition and American Complacency
Larry Diamond will speak on the vital issues he addresses in his major new book, Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition and American Complacency (Penguin Random House). The book has been described as a “personal, passionate call to … Read more
Comparative Queer Southeast Asian Studies
Comparative Queer Southeast Asian Studies
Louis Dumont’s insight that mutual interdependence through difference informs hierarchical arrangements helps make sense both of Southeast Asia’s long-standing gender binarism and of the relative tolerance historically afforded people of non-normative gender and sexuality in the region. Even when gender … Read more
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.