Join the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Nadia Y. Kim on February 3 at 4:00 p.m. as a part of the 2020-2021 Speaker Series: Blackness in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Kim is a professor of sociology … Read more
The last time Palestinians held national elections was in 2006, with Hamas winning the majority of seats in parliament. Since then, a deep divide has occurred among Palestinian leadership living in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem, mostly between … Read more
While there are rich cultural and historical connections between North and sub-Saharan Africa, complex divisions exist in the conceptualization of African, Black, and Arab identities. In this roundtable discussion, panelists will address the legacies of colonialism, slavery and the construction … Read more
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gamelan Nyai Saraswati, directed by John Caldwell is a free music concert with special guest artist, Midiyanto (UC Berkeley).
The conventional wisdom of Western media continues to characterize communication in China as censored, sanitized, and, with the hyper-technologized dominance in facial recognition technologies, “techno-authoritarian.” This talk presents evidence that, although ubiquitous, off-record communications are often not the results of … Read more
Chinese seniors are often painted as loving elders, but seldom as elderly lovers. The prevalence of dating among seniors after the 1980s has done little to dispel the common perception that the elderly are physically and emotionally asexual. This talk … Read more
Shaoling Ma will speak on “China in Loops: Signals from 1900 and 2018” in a series organized by UNC’s Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. The project of knowing China finds itself in varying loops. Around the turn of … Read more
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 … Read more
Dr. Goodlander is a master dalang (puppeteer) and a professor of comparative literature, theater, performance studies, folklore and ethnomusicology at Indiana University.The workshop is free and open to the public. If you cannot attend in person, please join via this Zoom … Read more
Join the UNC Center for the Middle East & Islamic Studies and Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies for a night of music and poetry as guest musician from Beirut, Raffi Chilingirian, will play the Armenian duduk (wind instrument) … Read more
