Events
Tai Chi in the Galleries
Ackland Art Museum Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesTai chi is an ancient Chinese movement practice known to reduce pain and improve your mental and physical balance and well-being. This class uses gentle Sun-style tai chi routines that are safe, easy to learn, and suitable for all ages … Read more
Asia Project
Join the Carolina Union Activities Board is hosting The Asia Project performance group. They combine spoken word with music and will be performing on Tuesday, March 28th at 7:00 pm in the Union Auditorium. Admission is entirely free, and there will … Read more
Buddhist-Muslim Conflicts in Burma/Myanmar
Flyleaf Books 752 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Chapel Hill, United StatesPeter A. Coclanis, Albert Ray Newsome Distinguished Professor of History; Director, Global Research Institute Myanmar, the former Burma, is the site of ethnic violence targeting the Muslim Rohingya people, who are regarded by some in the Buddhist majority as culturally … Read more
Film Screening: “The Search for General Tso”
FedEx Global Education Center, Nelson Mandela Auditorium 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThis documentary film travels the globe to unravel a culinary mystery. General Tso’s chicken is a staple of Chinese-American cooking, and a ubiquitous presence on restaurant menus across the country. But just who was General Tso? And how did his … Read more
Culinary Nationalism in Asia Conference
UNC-Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesTai Chi in the Galleries
Ackland Art Museum Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesTai chi is an ancient Chinese movement practice known to reduce pain and improve your mental and physical balance and well-being. This class uses gentle Sun-style tai chi routines that are safe, easy to learn, and suitable for all ages … Read more
Sowa Rigpa: The Science of Healing as Local Practice, National Heritage, and Global Brand
Rubenstein Library, Room 249 411 Chapel Dr, Durham, NC, United StatesA lecture by Sienna Craig, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College. Sienna Craig is a professor of cultural anthropology at Dartmouth College, invested in understanding the multiple ways that so-called 'traditional' medical systems interact with biomedicine: from patient-healer relationships … Read more
Standing in Cement: Possibilities Created by Ravan on the Chhattisgarhi Plains
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1005 Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesTriangle-Area Asian American Student Conference
Founded in 2011, the Triangle-Area Asian American Student Conference (TAASCON) brings together students from the three major universities of North Carolina’s Research Triangle (Duke University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University). As an … 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.