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December 2022
Rioting for Representation: Local Ethnic Mobilization in Democratizing Countries
Ethnic riots are a costly and all too common occurrence during political transitions in multi-ethnic settings. Why do ethnic riots occur in certain parts of a country and not others? How does violence eventually decline? Drawing on rich case studies and quantitative evidence from Indonesia between 1990 and 2012, this book argues that patterns of ethnic rioting are not inevitably driven by inter-group animosity, weakness of state capacity, or local demographic composition. Rather, local ethnic elites strategically use violence to…
Find out more »January 2023
FLAS Information Session
What is FLAS? Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships support students taking less commonly taught language and area studies coursework. This program provides both academic year and summer fellowships to graduate and undergraduate students at the intermediate level and above. The goals of the program include: to assist in the development of knowledge, resources, and trained personnel for modern foreign language and area/international studies; to stimulate the attainment of foreign language acquisition and fluency; and to develop a pool…
Find out more »Beyond Borders: A Roundtable Discussion
What was immigration and migration like before the advent of the modern border regime in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? Dr. Stephanie DeGooyer discusses her new book Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization with a panel of experts from the fields of law, literature, and history. Panel participants David Armitage, a British historian who has written on international and intellectual history, most recently Civil Wars: A History in Ideas. He is chair of the history department and Lloyd C.…
Find out more »No Fairy Tale: German Zionism and the Politics of Literature
Emerging Scholars Lecture with Joshua Shelly, Carolina-Duke German Program. In 1902, the father of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl, published the German novel Altneuland (The Old-New Land). In the work, he depicted a future, model Jewish society in what was then Ottoman Palestine. Emblazoned on its title page, Herzl declared: “If you wish it, it is no fairy tale!” The phrase would soon become a key motto of the Zionist movement, and a few years later, the Hebrew title of the translated novel — Tel Aviv —…
Find out more »February 2023
Career Event: American College of National Security Leaders
Please join the area studies centers of UNC-Chapel Hill for career-advising sessions with the American College of National Security Leaders. Leaders from the ACNSL will meet virtually with students in two sessions: Wednesday, February 1 at 2 p.m. Friday, February 3 at 10 a.m. We are honored to have leading voices in national security and federal service available to provide their advice and answer student questions. Mentors at this year's event are: Gerald Feierstein, an ambassador from the State Department Robert…
Find out more »A Galician Wedding: Yiddish Popular Culture
Emerging Scholars Lecture with Oskar Czendze, department of history. Remote event via Zoom. Registration will be required on Eventbrite in order to receive the Zoom link. Register here. Co-sponsored by the department of history, and the department of American studies. Heel Life credit available; link will be posted in February. A Galician Wedding: Yiddish Popular Culture and Regionalism in American Jewish Immigrant Life, 1910-1938 Between 1881 and 1910 more than 200,000 Jews left the Habsburg province of Galicia, a region…
Find out more »Palm Oil Voices: Making Audible and Tactile Deforested Futures in Indonesia
In cooperation with the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, the Carolina Asia Center is proud to co-host Palm Oil Voices: Making Audible and Tactile Deforest Futures in Indonesia with Bonnie Etherington Dr. Etherington is Lecturer in Literary & Creative Communication in the School of English, Film, Theatre, Media Studies, and Art History at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.
Find out more »Palm Oil Voices: Making Audible and Tactile Deforested Futures in Indonesia
In cooperation with the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, the Carolina Asia Center is proud to co-host "Palm Oil Voices: Making Audible and Tactile Deforest Futures in Indonesia" with Bonnie Etherington. Dr. Etherington is Lecturer in Literary & Creative Communication in the School of English, Film, Theatre, Media Studies, and Art History at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.
Find out more »Russia’s War on Ukraine: Should and Will Ukraine take back Crimea?
Lieutenant General (ret.) Ben Hodges will discuss Crimea and Russia's war on Ukraine with Klaus Larres, Richard M. Krasno Distinguished Professor. This event will take place on Zoom. No registration or RSVP required. This event is organized by the Krasno Global Events Series. This event is supported by the Office of Vice Provost for Global Affairs, the Triangle Institute for Security Studies, the UNC College of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of History.
Find out more »March 2023
Germany’s Global Influence: From Trading Power to the Ukraine War
William Glenn Gray, Associate Professor of History at Purdue University, and Dr. Ulrike Franke, Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, will discuss Germany's global influence and Russia’s war on Ukraine with Klaus Larres, Richard M. Krasno Distinguished Professor. This event will take place on Zoom. No registration or RSVP required. This event is organized by the Krasno Global Events Series. This event is supported by the Office of Vice Provost for Global Affairs, the Triangle Institute for Security Studies,…
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