Events
Driving Innovation: Technology and India’s Rise as a Global Power
The Modern Indian Studies Initiative at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host a conference entitled Driving Innovation: Technology and India’s Rise as a Global Power on October 10-11, 2019. Driving Innovation will explore India’s increased role … Read more
Driving Innovation: Technology and India’s Rise as a Global Power
The Modern Indian Studies Initiative at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host a conference entitled Driving Innovation: Technology and India’s Rise as a Global Power on October 10-11, 2019. Driving Innovation will explore India’s increased role … Read more
Live Concert with Munni Begum
Hanes Art Center Auditorium 121 E Cameron Ave, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin world-renowned vocalist Munni Begum for a live concert, SHAAM-E GHAZAL (an evening of song). Munni Begum is a Pakistani ghazal singer. She began her career as a singer in Karachi in the 1970s and released her first album of … Read more
2019 World View K-12 Global Education Symposium: The Sustainable Development Goals: Classroom Connections
The Friday Conference Center 100 Friday Center Drive, Chapel Hill, NCIn 2015 almost 200 governments adopted the Sustainable Development Goals to guide what must be done to improve the health and well-being of the world’s population. During World View’s global education symposium educators will explore the 17 global goals and … Read more
UNC Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowships Info Sessions
301 Pittsboro Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesFLAS fellowships fund the study of less commonly taught languages and area studies coursework. This program provides academic year and summer fellowships to assist graduate students and advanced undergraduates in foreign language and area studies. The goals of the fellowship … Read more
The Hen Crows: How A Group of Korean Women’s Hockey Players Redefined Perceptions of the Peninsula
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003 Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesIn Korea there is a saying: "If the hen crows, the household collapses." This refers to the centuries-old belief that women are to be subservient to men, much in Confucian tradition. When South Korea hosted the Winter Olympics in 2018, … Read more
UNC Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowships Info Sessions
301 Pittsboro Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesFLAS fellowships fund the study of less commonly taught languages and area studies coursework. This program provides academic year and summer fellowships to assist graduate students and advanced undergraduates in foreign language and area studies. The goals of the fellowship … Read more
Korean Studies Major Launch Celebration
FedEx Global Education Center Atrium & Auditorium 301 Pittsboro Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesPlease join us in celebrating the launch of our new Korean Studies Major at the Department of Asian Studies at UNC Chapel Hill with Korean food, Major Q&A, and a K-pop cover contest on Friday, November 1 from 5:30-8:30PM. If … Read more
The Other Milk: Reinventing Soy in Republican China
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003 Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThe Other Milk examines how, why, and through what means nutrition science came to matter in China by exploring the ways in which self-styled laymen and scientific nutritional activists re-invented the soybean, and soybean milk, for the modern age. I … 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.