Event Category: Southeast Asia
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Southeast Asia
Nancy Peluso: “The Remittance Forest : Turning Mobile Labor into Agrarian Capital”
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1009 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesHow does labor migration affect Southeast Asian forests? Political forests and agroforests in Indonesia have been declining rapidly as millions of hectares are given over to industrial plantations and mines, aggravating rural labor surpluses and increasing rates of domestic and … Read more
Peter Vandergeest: “Slavery scandals: Capitalist labour processes and coercion in the Thai fisheries”
The recent scandals around unfree or slave labour in the Thai fisheries has provoked action by corporate seafood buyers, importing governments, intergovernmental agencies, and the Thai government aimed at eliminating unfree labour. These scandals are not limited to Thailand however, … Read more
Nyai Saraswati Gamelan Open House and “Petting Zoo”
FedEx Global Education Center Atrium Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesInterested in learning how to play the Javanese Gamelan? Stop by on Friday, November 10 between 1:30 and 3:00 pm in the Atrium of the FedEx Global Education Center to explore some of the instruments of the gamelan and meet John … Read more
Ian Baird: “The Hmong and the Communist Party of Thailand: A Transnational, Transcultural and Gender Relations-Transforming Experience”
In the 1960s, a large proportion of the Hmong people living in the mountains of northern Thailand joined the Communist Party of Thailand (CPT) due to various injustices and abuses. The Hmong became an important group within the CPT. However, … Read more
Deadline: FLAS Fellowship
The Foreign Language & Area Studies(FLAS) Fellowship gives students funding to study a not commonly studied language such as Arabic, Chinese, Hindu, Japanese, Korean, Persian and Urdu. Grants are available for both the academic year and summer and are available … Read more
Deadline: UNC Summer in Singapore
Join Dr. Peter Coclanis and fellow UNC students on this summer faculty-led experience in Singapore. The program is hosted at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and is designed as a hybrid experience in collaboration with their Faculty of Arts … Read more
Colleen Woods – “The Freedom Sun of the Katipuneros:” Anti-Communism, Race, and the Politics of Covert Warfare in Cold War Southeast Asia
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003 Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThis talk will focus on the Freedom Company, a paramilitary organization created by a group of Filipino veterans and U.S. CIA agents to wage covert, anti-communist warfare in Southeast Asia. In the 1950s and 60s, the Company moved through U.S. … Read more
2018 Southeast Asian Language Workshops
The Carolina Asia Center is proud to announce we're offering Bahasa Indonesia, Thai, and Vietnamese workshops starting Monday, March 19 (as part of our 2018 Asia Week)! Please register for your spot today!! Register here
2018 Southeast Asian Language Workshops
The Carolina Asia Center is proud to announce we're offering Bahasa Indonesia, Thai, and Vietnamese workshops starting Monday, March 19 (as part of our 2018 Asia Week)! Please register for your spot today!! Register here
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.