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Changing Diasporic Relations: Old Emigrants and New Mobilities in Shenzhen

FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003 Chapel Hill, NC, United States

This talk explores the transformations of Pine Mansion—a Shenzhen former emigrant community—and its members’ changing relationship with their diaspora around the world. For over a century, inhabitants of Shenzhen’s villages have migrated to South-east Asia, the Pacific, North and South … Read more

NUS @ UNC mixer

FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003 Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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Welcome to the Digital Village: Networking Geographies of Agrarian Change

FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003 Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Almost 5 billion people—two thirds of the global population—now go online. The Internet has changed how we work, learn, govern, and fall in love. Yet despite its digital turn, geography has failed to grapple with the patterns and significance of … Read more

Southeast Asian Poet Panel

FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003 Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Southeast Asian Approaches Carolina Seminar welcomes NC poets Ina Cariño and Eric Tran to do a reading of their selected poetry and host a question and answer session. This event will be moderated by Trisha Remetir, a graduate student in … Read more

Dave Carson’s Brownface Empire

FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003 Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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

CANCELLED: Meja Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian Table)

FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003 Chapel Hill, NC, United States

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED IN RESPECT OF THE MENTAL HEALTH DAY ANNOUNCED BY THE UNC-CHAPEL HILL ADMINISTRATION FOR OCTOBER 12, 2021. Come learn some Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) or practice the language with native speakers! Each week we will have … 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.