Blakemore Freeman Fellowships are awarded for college graduates, graduate students and working professionals for one academic year of advanced level language study in East or Southeast Asia. Eligible languages are Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Burmese, Indonesian, Khmer, Thai, and Vietnamese. Tuition plus a stipend … Read more
In Collaboration with Kidzu Children’s Museum, the Carolina Asia Center, Transplanting Traditions Community Farm, Franklin Street Arts Collective, and Chapel Hill Public Library For us, the Humanities are all about education, understanding, and community-building. So bring yourselves, your kids, and your … Read more
In this presentation, connections are made between and among a broad array of changes associated with British imperial control in Lower Burma. Not only did the advent of British control lead to well-known changes in political authority and economic structure/orientation, but also … Read more
Speaker: Catherine Raymond, Director of the Center for Burma Studies at Northern Illinois University Catherine Raymond holds a Ph. D. in Art and Archaeology and in Indian and Southeast Asian studies from La Sorbonne (Université de Paris III). She was trained … Read more
DISCO International, Inc. organizer of some of the world's largest job fairs for bilinguals including the Boston Career Forum, is pleased to announce the Asian Bilingual Career Forum 2016 Nov. 18th - 20th, Boston, MA http://asian.careerforum.net/?ref=082416a *Travel scholarhships available This … Read more
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
Almost 5 billion people—two thirds of the global population—now go online. The Internet has changed how we work, learn, govern, and fall in love. Yet despite its digital turn, geography has failed to grapple with the patterns and significance of … Read more
The area studies centers at UNC and Duke partner with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction to offer globally-focused professional development during International Education Week. International Education Week, held in November annually, is a national week of the U.S. … Read more
Dr. Terese Gagnon, a post-doctoral fellow with the Bringing Southeast Asia Home project and housed in the Department of Anthropology, will give the first UNC Anthropology Colloquium of the year. In this talk I illustrate the ways in which 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.
