Featuring presentations by Nicholas Hudson (UNC-Wilmington), Kathryn Smith (NYU), and Roberta Wue (UC-Irvine), this is the 2016 Art, Art History & Visual Studies Graduate Student-Organized symposium. Reception to follow. A graduate student reading group will meet on Wednesday, October 12, … Read more
This talk explores the genre of specialized monographs on material culture and nature studies called pulu (“Treatises and Lists”) from the perspective of knowledge classification and management. These texts exemplify the engagement of Chinese scholars from the 10th to 19th … Read more
ASATalks are a series of community based discussions that provide a safe space for Asian Americans to talk with their peers and mentors about topics and issues that are relevant to them. At this particular ASATalks we will focus on … Read more
Convenors: Prasenjit Duara, Duke University Levi McLaughlin, North Carolina State University In this one-day symposium, participants in two panels will draw on their ethnographic investigations and historical research to stimulate conversation on the Asian religion/politics nexus. They shall present case … Read more
A reception and panel discussion will take place on Nov. 3 beginning at 5:30 p.m. to celebrate the exhibition, Migration Narratives, on display at the FedEx Global Education Center through the end of the year. The panel discussion will feature … Read more
Come join CUSA and meet with a UNC Asian Studies professor to casually discuss topics about China! It will be a very informal and casual atmosphere with a brief talk and Q&A session. Meet with fellow CUSA members of the exec … Read more
This international workshop brings together scholars and archivists who are seriously engaged in the films of the early twentieth century and their divided legacies and afterlives in Asia. Together we reexamine the lived and imagined experiences of modernity in these … Read more
Younmi Kim (Art History, Yale University) will present a talk on Buddhist imagery, stemming from her academic work on symbolic rituals, in which an architectural space serves as a non-human agent; the interplay between visibility and invisibility in Buddhist art; … Read more
Duke alum, New York Times translator, and Los Angeles Times correspondent Scott Savitt returns to talk about his extraordinary two decades in the People's Republic of China as a foreign reporter through the formative 80's and 90's. As a journalist, … Read more
Join professors María DeGuzmán and Heidi Kim for a discussion of Latinx and Asian American voting trends, exit polling, civic engagement, and activism. Both groups were discussed as blocks in the electorate but are highly diverse in terms of ethnicity, … 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.
