“From the Obatas to Hatsuko Mary Higuchi, Japanese American artists depicted their lives in American concentration camps as they sought to express the sorrows engendered by incarceration. All this and more is captured by Heidi Kim’s marvelous selection of George … Read more
Acclaimed Chinese-American novelist, poet, short story author Ha Jin (Xuefei Jin) is a Professor of English at Boston University. He has been the recipient of the National Book Award for Fiction, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and was a … Read more
The Edge Workshop Room | Bostock Library | Duke University November 5, 2015, 3:30pm to 5:00pm with reception to follow Free and open to the public. RSVP encouraged. Register here: http://authorsalliance.org/duke How and when does open access benefit authors? … Read more
The presentation introduces the various voices in contemporary Pakistani literature and art that often go unnoticed in international representation of the country. It will bring out various local themes and metaphors regarding self and identity to broaden the debate in … Read more
Please join us on January 15 for the next monthly meeting of Urdu Majlis, the Triangle's Urdu Literary Forum. This Urdu Majlis will concentrate on the life and works of satirical writer Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi (b. 1923). 7:00 Mushtaq … Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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.
