Dr. Younghan Cho will present a seminar on “Playing Between Empires: Baseball in South Korea and Zainichi Players as the Cold War Paradox.” This study delves into the cultural construction of Cold War Korea by tracing the historical narratives of … Read more

Over the past few decades, numerous manuscripts dating to around 300 BCE have been unearthed in China. Reading texts written on bamboo strips (such as the Tsinghua manuscripts shown above) involves the collaboration of archaeologists, paleographers, linguists, and historians. One … Read more

On 24 December 1979, Soviet armed forces entered Afghanistan, beginning an occupation that would last almost a decade and creating a political crisis that shook the world. To many observers, the Soviet invasion showed the lengths to which one of … Read more

Today, Americans are some of the world’s biggest consumers of black teas; in Japan, green tea, especially sencha, is preferred. These national partialities, Robert Hellyer reveals, are deeply entwined. Tracing the trans-Pacific tea trade from the eighteenth century onward, this talk will show … Read more

Today, Americans are some of the world’s biggest consumers of black teas; in Japan, green tea, especially sencha, is preferred. These national partialities, Robert Hellyer reveals, are deeply entwined. In his new book, Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America’s … Read more

This is part of a suite of events on the depiction of South Asians: “From Dave Carson to Apu: Global Circulations of Indian Brown Voice and Brownface.”   In October 1861, blackface minstrel performer Dave Carson staged the début of … Read more

This event, in collaboration with the Korean Economic Institute of America, will discuss the importance of the Korean War as a major twentieth century conflict, look at the legacies of the war on Korea and the wider world today, and … 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

Join Jake Sherman, a senior majoring in history and double minoring in Japanese and political science, as he presents research from his honors thesis. Jake studied abroad in Japan in summer 2018 as a Phillips Ambassador on the UNC Summer … Read more

Larry Diamond will speak on the vital issues he addresses in his major new book, Ill Winds:  Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition and American Complacency (Penguin Random House).  The book has been described as a “personal, passionate call to … Read more