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
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
Film Screening: "Assassination" (CHOI Dong-hoon, 2015, 139 min, South Korea, in Korean w/ English subtitles, Color, Blu-Ray) / "Assassination" was the highest grossing film in 2015 and the eighth all-time highest grossing film in Korean cinema. The film is set … Read more
The Global Asia Initiative Environmental Humanities Series David Grace proposes to present findings from his 2016 survey of residents living near four sacred grove sites at various levels of urbanization in India’s National Capital Region and its southern periphery. This … Read more
This Saturday, please join local members of the Karen/Burmese community as their share their culture and cuisine at Transplanting Traditions Farm. This is a great opportunity to visit and build community with local Karen/Burmese students and see the transnational space they have … Read more
Professor Hershatter is a two-time recipient of the American Historical Association's Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History: for Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai (University of California Press, 1997); and for The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past (University … 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.
