Events
Can Japan Save the Liberal Economic Order in the Asia Pacific: Geoeconomic Strategy of a Mature Developmental State
Hamilton Hall, Room 271 Chapel Hill, NCOnce attacked for having protectionist and mercantilist economy, Japan is now the champion of liberal economic order that led the successful conclusion of the TPP-11 after the US withdrawal from the agreement. How did Japan transform, and can Japan lead … Read more
The 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Games: A First-Time Visit to Asia
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1009 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesUNC Assistant Professor Jonathan Jensen, a recipient of the Carolina Asia Center’s Cox Travel Grant, shares details of his academic, cultural, and professional experiences during his trip to South Korea for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games. Jonathan Jensen is Assistant … Read more
Film as Racial Interstice: Temporalizing Film in 1920s Global Modernity
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 3009In the early twentieth century, the anthropological function of film was carried out on the mimetic dimension of the gesture. Everywhere, from South America to East Asia, intellectuals and theorists addressed the increasing importance of the movies for the transnational transformation … Read more
Screening of “Letter from Masanjia”
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1005 Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesRecently qualified for the 2019 Oscars, the award-winning and feature documentary "Letter from Masanjia" will be coming to you at the University of North Carolina! "Letter from Masanjia" tells the story of how a desperate SOS note from a Chinese … Read more
Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1009 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesWhen China’s War of Resistance against Japan began in July 1937, it sparked an immediate health crisis throughout China. In the end, China not only survived the war but emerged from the trauma with a more cohesive population. Intimate Communities … Read more
*CANCELLED* Vivek Wadhwa, “Solving the Grand Challenges of Humanity Through Technology and How India Will Lead the Way”
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. Vivek Wadhwa will deliver a lecture, “Solving the Grand Challenges of Humanity Through Technology and How India Will Lead the Way,” at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 16, 2019, in the Nelson Mandela Auditorium in … Read more
Language Ecologies of the Anthropocene: Ngoi Bunong
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1009 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesLanguage 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
Waste and Well-being in Postwar Japan with Eiko Siniawer
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 3009In 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
“Can We Live with China? U.S.-Chinese Relations in Tumultuous Times”
Wilson Library, Pleasants Family Room Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesSusan 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
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.