Language is a central medium through which cultural systems operate. In the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Peoples’ Languages, the vast majority of these languages are at risk of losing their vitality, with some already gone to sleep. The precarity … Read more
In this lecture, Professor Eiko Maruko Siniawer will examine how ideas about waste and wastefulness have shifted in postwar Japan, from the mid-1940s through the present day. Discussions of what constituted a waste of time, stuff, and resources, she will … Read more
Susan Thornton (former Acting Assistant Secretary & Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State, 2016-2018); now senior research scholar at Yale University's Paul Tsai China Center & Fellow at Brookings) The events will … Read more
Gamelan Nyai Saraswati Spring Concert & Workshop The Spring 2019 Concert of UNC's Nyai Saraswati Gamelan will be held on Wednesday evening, April 24, at 8:00 PM, in Hill Hall room 1007. The concert is free and open to the … Read more
In this presentation, I examine the histories of people who moved, the relationships they created, and the anxieties they provoked, in the spatial and social borderlands between Japan and China from the 1860s to the 1940s. Japan’s imbrication in new … Read more
Cities of Cinema: Hollywood and Bollywood Located on opposite sides of the globe, the cities of Los Angeles and Mumbai are homes to thriving international film industries known as Hollywood and Bollywood. This Dialogues seminar will compare and contrast these … Read more
Join a conversation between Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and Susan Stigant (UNC ’05), Director for Africa Programs, US Institute of Peace, to gain a deeper understanding of why there are now more displaced people around … Read more
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
Join us for a lecture-demonstration and abridged performance of the Kathakali dance-drama plays from Kerala in South-western India: Damayanthi & the Woodsman and Damayanthi & the Hamsam (Golden swan) featuring reowned artist Kalamandalam Manoj Kumar and lecturer V. Kaladharan! For … Read more
Join us for a lecture-demonstration and abridged performance of the Kathakali dance-drama plays from Kerala in South-western India: Damayanthi & the Woodsman and Damayanthi & the Hamsam (Golden swan) featuring reowned artist Kalamandalam Manoj Kumar and lecturer V. Kaladharan! For … Read more
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