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January 2021
Virtual: Clouding: Shape and Sign in Asian Art
From January 20, 2021-February 13, 2022, the Ackland Art Museum will be exhibiting a year-long installation that explores the diverse forms and functions of clouds in the arts of Asia. This exhibition will juxtapose works of art in different media and from different time periods spanning the Bronze Age to the present. Clouds have long held a significant place in human imagination and thought. Clouds elude straightforward perceptual and symbolic identification. The diversity of forms of clouds in Asian arts…
Find out more »July 2021
Beads of Distinction: Yoruba Royal Caps from the Collection of Rhonda Morgan Wilkerson
The Yoruba peoples of southwestern Nigeria and adjacent regions have developed a rich and vibrant tradition of beadwork designs, especially after the introduction of glass beads through European trade from the late eighteenth century. The small, brilliantly colored beads were often used to decorate the regalia that denotes and celebrates the powers of the ruler (oba). This included headgear for non-ritual, minor occasions and daily wear, such as the five beaded caps in this installation, dating from the late nineteenth…
Find out more »August 2021
UNC Global Hosts Exhibition Featuring NC Artists of Latin American Heritage
Being and Belonging: Perspectives in North Carolina, an exhibition featuring the work of 13 artists, will open at the FedEx Global Education Center (GEC) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Aug. 18, 2021. The exhibition, organized by UNC Global in conjunction with the Institute for the Study of the Americas, will be on display through Dec. 12. Being and Belonging brings together artists of Latin American heritage from across the state of North Carolina whose work evokes questions of identity, environment and home. The artwork represent a range of mediums, including print, paint and ceramics. …
Find out more »September 2021
Diplomatic Discussion: Cultural Diplomacy with Prof. Popy Rufaidah of the Indonesian Embassy
As part of the ongoing Diplomacy Initiative at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Carolina Asia Center is delighted to host a conversation with Prof. Popy Rufaidah, the Education and Cultural Attaché of the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 22. Prof. Popy will share from her expertise on the nature of cultural diplomacy, why countries engage in this kind of work as part of their diplomatic outreach, and Indonesia’s strategies for…
Find out more »Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Jiha Moon
Registration link can be found here. Jiha Moon’s gestural paintings, mixed media, ceramic sculpture, and installations explore fluid identities and the global movement of people and their cultures. She says, “I am a cartographer of cultures and an icon maker in my lucid worlds.” She is taking cues from wide ranges of history of Eastern and Western art, colors and designs from popular culture, Korean temple paintings and folk art, internet emoticons and icons, fruit stickers and labels of products from all over…
Find out more »Germany—A Nation in its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500- 2000
This book shows how the concept of the German nation developed and changed over half a millennium, demonstrating that nationalism was only one possible way of imagining the nation. Using evidence from maps and literature, material culture and high politics, this book precisely delineates constantly altering constellations of national imaginings and charts epistemological ruptures between chronologically distinct and essentially different ways of defining the nation. Modern nationalism is part of this larger story, but only a part, and one, moreover,…
Find out more »UNC Russian Flagship Program: Conversation with Michele Berdy
Join the Russian Flagship Program for a conversation with Michele Berdy, the Arts Editor for the Moscow Times and the author of the Russian Word’s Worth, a collection of her columns. This online event via Zoom will take place on September 24 at 2 p.m. Register here. Michele A. Berdy has lived and worked in Moscow for more than 40 years. After graduating magna cum laude from Amherst College, she studied at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow and then worked as a translator and editor…
Find out more »Virtual: Iranian Literary Diasporas: Parvaneh Hosseini in Conversation with Author Hamed Esmaeilion
This virtual lecture series is dedicated to exploring how Iranian diaspora authors reflect on the community’s attempts at carving out forms of belonging to their host nations. Authors and discussants may address specific modes of power and representation that Iranian diaspora community has developed to rehabilitate their position as members of a minoritized population with ambivalent feelings of belonging. September 25, 2021 @ 12:00pm-1:00pm Parvaneh Hosseini in Conversation with author Hamed Esmaeilion Register here. Convener: Claudia Yaghoobi, Roshan Associate Professor…
Find out more »20 Years in Afghanistan: A Foreign Correspondent’s Long View
The Hussman School of Journalism and Media will host a Wednesday, Sept. 29 webinar with two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Zucchino ’73, who has been reporting from Afghanistan for two decades. Zucchino, a Terry Sanford High School (Fayetteville, NC) and UNC Hussman graduate, is a contributing writer for the New York Times. He has reported from more than three dozen countries. Join Zucchino and Dean Susan King for a discussion followed by a Q&A session between Zucchino and the webinar…
Find out more »Introduction to Kazakhstan
Sept.30, 6 p.m., Registration via Zoom Explore Kazakh culture and history with Dr. Eren Tasar, associate professor of history. Learn more about the region and opportunities to study abroad in Almaty, Kazakhstan through the Russian Flagship Program.
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