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The Idea of India: From Gandhi to Modi

Flyleaf Books 752 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Chapel Hill, United States

India is the world’s second most populous country and recent analyses suggest it will overtake China soon. Its economy is one of the world’s fastest growing and its footprint in international affairs is ever-expanding. Yet the road to such success … Read more

Publishing Deadline: Undergraduate Research Papers

The Internationalist Undergraduate Journal of International Affairs is seeking submissions for publication. As a new initiative, The Internationalist is tasked with the purpose of officially publishing excellent examples of student research on global affairs. Though it is student-led, this journal … Read more

Monique Truong on Food, Literature, and Immigration

Sonja Haynes Stone Center 150 South Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Join us in the Hitchcock Room at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center as we welcome Monique Truong back to the Old North State. Her lecture is titled “Writing Plenty/Writing Hunger/Writing North Carolina.” The talk will begin with Truong’s first meal in … Read more

Intertwined Histories and Perspectives: Contrapuntal Reading of Attar A book talk by Claudia Yaghoobi

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

Can modern concepts such as transgression, inclusion/exclusion, self/the other help us to better understand medieval subjectivity? Can medieval works shed light on out understanding of modern subjectivity? By looking at Attar's poetry contrapuntally with medieval European literature and modern theory, … Read more

Poems of Mulla Sadra

FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1005 Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Join The Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations and UNC Persian Studies department for a Persian Lecture Series presented by Dr. Mohsen Kadivar, a professor at Duke University. The lecture will be about the … Read more

Bridges, Not Walls: The Life and Legacy of Forugh Farrokhzad

FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1005 Chapel Hill, NC, United States

"What would happen if one women told the truth about her life?" Muriel Rukeyser asked. Her response was short: "The world would split open". And Adrienne Rich, who believed "Lying is done with words, and also with silences," argued, "When … Read more

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

Off-Record Communications: Reading Three-Body in China and the US

The conventional wisdom of Western media continues to characterize communication in China as censored, sanitized, and, with the hyper-technologized dominance in facial recognition technologies, “techno-authoritarian.” This talk presents evidence that, although ubiquitous, off-record communications are often not the results of … Read more

Chinese Garden Poetry

To celebrate National Poetry Month, come learn about Chinese garden poetry and how to integrate this subject into the North Carolina curriculum for English and Language Arts. This webinar will introduce the history and form of Chinese garden poetry, a … Read more

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