“Air-Conditioned Socialism” examines the transformative atmospheres of modernity in Vietnam, from the days of revolutionary struggle to the rise of market socialism. This transformation is most starkly visible during the Second Indochina War, or the Vietnam War, when America’s chemical … Read more
Post-colonial, doubly post-socialist, and post-conflict, by any account, Cambodia’s recent past has been punctuated by a series of dramatic social, economic, and political ruptures. Yet, there are also remarkable continuities. For one, the same party has held power for over … Read more
SCHEDULE 8:30AM - 9:00AM Registration, Coffee & Pastries Room 4003 9:00AM - 9:10AM Welcoming Remarks Room 4003 9:15AM - 10:30AM LANGUAGE LEARNING Room 2008/2010 A Quantitative Study of Foreign Language Anxiety of Heritage and Non-Heritage Learners of Persian Shahla Adel, … Read more
We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience but this event has been cancelled to adhere to UNC's policies regarding COVID-19. The rugged Lao-Vietnamese borderlands have long been a zone of refuge and encounter, of conflict and exchange. This is particularly true … Read more
We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience but this event has been cancelled to adhere to UNC’s policies regarding COVID-19. “What can I do? The people need a god,” said Joseph Stalin as he was endeavoring to wipe out religious traditions … Read more
Join us on Friday, August 14th, 2020 – the 75th anniversary of the start of the Vietnamese Revolution – at 12 pm (EDT) for a live online seminar on Christian Lentz’s Contested Territory: Điện Biên Phủ and the Making of … Read more
The history of U.S. military intervention in Southeast Asia complicates attempts to center Southeast Asian refugees in public commemorative spaces. Southeast Asian refugees remind the American nation of a tumultuous and divisive era, a morally questionable and unsuccessful war, and … Read more
Sign up here: https://carolinaasiacenter.unc.edu/workshops/ for a chance to learn Bahasa Indonesia, Vietnamese, and Thai from our instructors as part of Asia Week 2021! Tuesday, April 20, 8pm - 9:30pm EDT: Indonesian with Margie Secord Wednesday, April 21, 8pm - … Read more
This panel brings together academics and local community activists to explore what indigeneity means within Southeast Asian contexts, including the US diaspora. Panelists will consider their own personal and conceptual understandings of what it means to be an indigenous person, … Read more
Speakers participating in the China Visiting Scholars Program and the Vietnam Implementation Science Advancement Program (VISA) will present their work-in-progress during their time at UNC Chapel Hill. UNC faculty members Mike Cohen, Irving Hoffman, Joe Tucker, Vivian Go, and Weiming … Read more
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