Doing Justice to the Past: What the World Owes to the Comfort Women
Thomas Room, Lilly Library, Duke East Campus Durham, NC, United StatesA lecture by Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, Columbia University.
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Monsoon Magazine Launch
FedEx Global Education Center Atrium Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesMONSOON, the South Asian Affairs Magazine at UNC is launching its 5th issue - Dimensions! Come get ~wavy~ with us and immerse yourself in the works/thoughts of South Asians and the South Asian Diaspora. Join us for a performance by … Read more
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
The Soul of China: The Return of Religion After Mao
Perkins Library, Room 217, Duke West Campus Durham, NC, United StatesFollowing a century of violent anti-religious campaigns, China is now filled with new temples, churches and mosques--as well as cults, sects and politicians trying to harness religion for their own ends. Driving this explosion of faith is uncertainty--over what it … Read more
Carolina Asia Center Tea & Talk Series: Samee Siddiqui: Pan-Islamism and Anti-Colonialism in the Interwar Period: The Career of Muhammad Barkatullah (1864-1927)
This talk will look at the life of an Indian Muslim figure, Muhammad Barkatullah (1864-1927), who midway through his career transitioned from being a cosmopolitan intellectual to an anti-British revolutionary. Not only was his career based almost entirely outside of British India (including … Read more
Carolina Korea Forum: Investigating College Life of South Korean Students Admitted through the Admission Officer System
AOS, introduced to South Korea in 2008, is the screening system in which each college hires admission officer(s) who have extensive knowledge about high school curriculum and experience in screening and lets them select students on the basis of their … Read more
“The Queen Was Not There: Rights, Violence and Middleman in Britain’s Imperial ‘Coolie Labour’ System, 1872-1902”
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 3024 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States
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
How Nation-states Respond to the Impacts of Immigration and Ethnic Diversity in the Context of Globalization: Language, Identities and Multicultural Urban Educational Policies and their Implementation in India, Korea, Japan, and Singapore
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003 Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesREGISTER HERE Globalization and increasing immigration have brought new opportunities and tensions to education in rapidly industrialized Asian countries. This one-day conference features five papers that were authored by distinguished scholars specializing in educational policies and institutional studies, curriculum and … Read more
Territorial Sovereignties and Historical Identities (Workshop)
Territorial conflicts among sovereign states, whether on land or sea, have been endemic since the appearance of the very idea of sovereignty in Europe. Yet as Thongchai Winnichakul and others have revealed, the very idea of a sovereign ‘geobody’ in … Read more
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