UNC 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
The highlanders of mainland Southeast Asia are indigenous ethnic peoples whose ancestral territories once spanned the uplands of Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos. Often collectively referred to as Montagnards, they consist of more than 30 different ethnic groups, including the Bunong, … Read more
Post-colonial, doubly post-socialist, and post-conflict, by any account, Cambodia’s recent past has been punctuated by a series of dramatic social, economic, and political ruptures. Yet, there are also remarkable continuities. For one, the same party has held power for over … Read more
Our final China Speaker Series will feature Joseph Tucker, Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at UNC Chapel Hill and director of UNC Project-China. Is kindness contagious among gay men in China? We designed a quasi-experimental study to … Read more
“Air-Conditioned Socialism” examines the transformative atmospheres of modernity in Vietnam, from the days of revolutionary struggle to the rise of market socialism. This transformation is most starkly visible during the Second Indochina War, or the Vietnam War, when America’s chemical … Read more
Join us for the FLAS info session with recent recipients: Nicole Nguyen, Undergraduate Mandarin Chinese, Taiwan Caroline Todd, Undergraduate Mandarin Chinese, China Mike Hawkins, Graduate Tagalog, the Philippines Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowship(FLAS) are academic year and summer-long grants … Read more
Interested in a career in foreign service? Come and talk to Justin Walls (Foreign Service Officer) about his experience as a foreign service officer currently stationed at the U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou, China, and learn all about the Foreign Service … Read more
Our second China Speaker series will feature Jia Lin, Teaching Assistant Professor in China, Asian Studies department, on "Foreign Language Construct, Framework, and Assessment." Foreign language education is significant since it directly impact a country’s national security, economic development, and … Read more
In the variegated landscape of Filipino paranormal practice, one phenomenon garnered worldwide attention in the last quarter of the twentieth century: psychic surgery. A form of spiritual healing in which the practitioner, or espiritista, usually male, operates on the body of … Read more
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