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*NEW DATE* Lunch with Foreign Service Officer Justin Walls ’03

FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1009 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Interested in a career in foreign service? Come and talk to Justin Walls (Foreign Service Officer) about his experience as a foreign service officer currently stationed at the U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou, China, and learn all about the Foreign Service … Read more

Justice After Dictatorship in Thailand

Carolina Hall, Room 220 NC

On 22 May 2014, a military junta calling itself the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) launched a coup and ousted the elected government in Thailand. On 16 July 2019, the NCPO formally ceased to exist when a new … Read more

Jane Ferguson, Repossessing Shanland

FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1009 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Prof. Jane Ferguson of the Australian National University will speak on her new book: Repossessing Shanland: Myanmar, Thailand, and a Nation-State Deferred (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021). Around five million people across Southeast Asia identify as Shan. Though the Shan … Read more

Southeast Asian Language Workshop: Thai

Come to get an introduction to Thai, with instructor Dr. Rungsima Kullapat, a research associate of the Carolina Asia Center. Thai is a tonal language spoken in Thailand and among Thai diaspora communities, with its own alphabet. This workshop welcomes … 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.