The Foreign Language & Area Studies(FLAS) Fellowship gives students funding to study a not commonly studied language such as Arabic, Chinese, Hindu, Japanese, Korean, Persian and Urdu. Grants are available for both the academic year and summer and are available … Read more
Join Dr. Peter Coclanis and fellow UNC students on this summer faculty-led experience in Singapore. The program is hosted at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and is designed as a hybrid experience in collaboration with their Faculty of Arts … Read more
UNC-CH is proud to offer students the opportunity to study Indian culture and Hindi language in this summer immersion program that travels to several cities! Led by UNC Department of Asian Studies faculty members Afroz Taj and John Caldwell, this program … Read more
In our screening of Documented, we will learn about the life of Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who is an undocumented immigrant and activist in the U.S. Vargas, a Filipino American, continues to be a strong proponent of … Read more
A sensory archive reveals the urban development history and the lived experience of the demolition and displacement of the Tokyo Olympics. Mapping Tokyo Olympics 3.0 uses hybrid spatial and sensory ethnography and intermedial approaches to collaboratively map the imperial (1940), … Read more
The case of Carlos Ghosn - former world traveler and head of Nissan Motors, Renault and Mitshibishi until arrested in Japan and held in confinement for 130 days while being vigorously and continually questioned by Japanese prosecutors presents an interesting … Read more
We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience but this event has been cancelled to adhere to UNC’s policies regarding COVID-19. Please join us for a presentation by Chinese Science Fiction Writer Xia Jia 夏笳, penname of Prof. Yao Wang 王瑶, about her experiences … Read more
What is environmental diplomacy? What roles do USAID, the State Department and U.S. embassies play in addressing climate change and shifting to renewable energy? What can we learn from the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) in Indonesia about a way … 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.
