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
When people think of American veterans, individuals of Asian descent rarely come to mind. It’s been all but forgotten that up to 20,000 Chinese Americans (about a quarter of the Chinese American population at the time) served in World War … Read more
Filmed over three years in China and the U.S., MAINELAND is a multi-layered coming-of-age tale that follows two affluent and cosmopolitan teenagers as they settle into a boarding school in blue-collar rural Maine. Part of the enormous wave of "parachute … Read more
Cities of Cinema: Hollywood and Bollywood Located on opposite sides of the globe, the cities of Los Angeles and Mumbai are homes to thriving international film industries known as Hollywood and Bollywood. This Dialogues seminar will compare and contrast these … Read more
This talk explores how the multilingual archives of transpacific anti-imperial activists help us to more fully understand the complexity of prewar Asian American and migrant history. In the 1910s and 1920s, Japanese and Koreans crossed the Pacific and entered the … Read more
This event has officially been rescheduled! Please join us Tuesday, March 31 at 5 pm for an online panel discussion with Dr. Heidi Kim, Barb Lee, and moderator Sophie To. You can join in one of two ways: -Register for … Read more
My presentation explores the way the rhetoric of Black victimization has been exploited to bolster the perception that Asian American college applicants are oppressed by affirmative action admissions policy. Several prominent organizations have argued that race-conscious admissions policy discriminates against … Read more
Presentation on February 3, 4 PM by Professor Nadia Kim (Loyola Marymount University), moderated by Morgan Wilson (Ph.D. candidate, UNC Department of History). Nadia Y. Kim, professor of sociology at Loyola Marymount University, focuses on US race and citizenship inequalities … Read more
The Asian American Center and the Carolina Asia Center are proud to co-present his workshop led by Dr. Nitasha Sharma, part of our ongoing series Anti-Blackness and Alliance: A Series on Asian-Black Relations. The workshop will consider popular culture as … Read more
Please join us for a screening of the film The Problem with Apu (2017), as part of a suite of events on the depiction of South Asians: "From Dave Carson to Apu: Global Circulations of Indian Brown Voice and Brownface." … 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.
