“The Journey to Joy and Inner Harmony” A talk by Joshua Pollock Director, Heartfulness@Work, Classical Violinist, Author Date: Sunday, December 3, 2023 Time: 4:00-6:30 p.m. Venue: Nelson Mandela Auditorium FedEx Global Education Center 302 Pittsboro Street Chapel Hill, … Read more
The Carolina Asia Center is proud to host the 2024 Asia Scholar Network conference for academics across the state of North Carolina working on East, Southeast, and/or South Asia or trans-regional approaches to Asia. The conference will be held in … Read more
Please join us for Urdu Majlis, the Triangle’s Literary Forum, IN PERSON, Friday, September 15, 2023, at 7:00 pm. All with an interest in poetry are invited. The featured poet is Naresh Kumar Shad (1927 to 1969). Place: 219 New … Read more
The Carolina Asia Center is proud to present an evening of classical Indian music Featuring Abhisek Lahiri from Kolkata widely considered the best young Sarod player in the world today introduced by Raga Against the Machine (UNC Professor Mark … Read more
Modern Indian Studies, the Department of City and Regional Planning, and Global Studies are proud to present a webinar with RASHI AGRAWAL (UNDP and Sambodhi Bangalore) on the theme of FROM ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS TO BEING ECOLOGY: INTEGRATIVE APPROACHES TO CLIMATE … 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
Stop by the FedEx Global Education Center for free food, games, prizes and more at the UNC Global Whistle-Stop Tour! In the atrium, use your ticket to visit each station to discover upcoming global events, programs, courses and other opportunities. It’s all part of Carolina’s Global Guarantee, our promise that a global education is available to all students. Outside, enjoy yard … Read more
In this talk, Mana Kia will discuss some of the main questions and arguments of her recent book. For centuries, Persian was the language of power and learning across Central, South, and West Asia, and Persians received a particular basic … Read more
Authors in the new edited collection Beyond Liberal Order: States, Societies and Markets in the Global Indian Ocean (Hurst, 2021) will speak on their research in Asia. Dr. Harry Verhoeven (a co-editor of the volume) will introduce the volume, with … Read more
Please join us for a screening of the film The Problem with Apu (2017), as 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.” … Read more
