September 2018
Tar Heel Beginnings: Global Hangout
Meet new friends from North Carolina and around the world in this highly interactive, fun-filled fest! This event includes international music, appetizers, activities and prizes. The prizes include two tickets to see the performance of your choice at Memorial Hall! This event is presented by the Center for Global Initiatives, the Center for Student Success and Academic Counseling, International Scholar and Student Services and the Writing Center.
Find out more »February 2019
Lantern Festival Event
The Friendship Association Of Chinese Students And Scholars is holding the Lantern Festival Fair to introduce traditional Chinese culture to attendees. There will be games, chances to win prizes and traditional rice dumplings.
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Transnational Korean Cinema and Media Conference
The Carolina Asia Center is hosting the Triangle East Asia Colloquium 2019 on the theme of Transnational Korean Cinema and Media. The events will feature short films and panelists from all around the states. The reception will take place at 5:30 pm, followed by four film screenings at 6 pm and end with a Q and A at 8 pm with directors Juhui Kwon and Nick Neon. Juhui Kwon is an independent writer-director based in New York City, hailing from South Korea.…
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Southeast Asian Language Workshop
Coordinated by the Carolina Asia Center, Southeast Asian Language Workshop is open to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students, faculty and staff and members of the community. The workshop offers three languages—Bahasa Indonesia, Vietnamese and Thai. To register visit the Carolina Asia Center website.
Find out more »Europe Week Closing Reception: Celebrating the EU Through Sights, Sounds and Stories
Europe Week’s closing reception will feature musical performances, winning images from the Europe Week Photo Contest and the winners of the EU Today Essay Contest. Both photo and essay contest winners will present their work to the audience and explain the significance and meaning it has in characterizing the EU and contemporary Europe. The winners will also be awarded gift certificates to Flyleaf Books. The cuisine served will showcase the cultural diversity of various EU member states. This event is…
Find out more »Southeast Asian Language Workshop
Coordinated by the Carolina Asia Center, Southeast Asian Language Workshop is open to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students, faculty and staff and members of the community. The workshop offers three languages—Bahasa Indonesia, Vietnamese and Thai. To register visit the Carolina Asia Center website.
Find out more »Southeast Asian Language Workshop
Coordinated by the Carolina Asia Center, Southeast Asian Language Workshop is open to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students, faculty and staff and members of the community. The workshop offers three languages—Bahasa Indonesia, Vietnamese and Thai. To register visit the Carolina Asia Center website.
Find out more »September 2019
Fifth Annual Global Hangout
Meet new friends from North Carolina and around the world while enjoying international music, appetizers, activities, games and prizes! Prizes include two tickets to see the performance of your choice at Memorial Hall.
Find out more »‘The Art of Resistance,’ Opening Reception
The Art of Resistance, an exhibition featuring the work of world-renowned graphic novelist and political cartoonist Ramón Nsé Esono Ebalé, is on display August 19 through December 13, 2019 at the FedEx Global Education Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A reception celebrating the exhibition and featuring Ramón Nsé Esono Ebalé will take place on September 24, 2019. Katie Bowler Young, director of Global Relations at UNC-Chapel Hill, will provide welcoming remarks. Emily Burrill, director of…
Find out more »October 2019
ISSS Autumn Fest
Join International Student and Scholar Services for our 6th annual Autumn Fest! Celebrate the season and learn more about holidays, traditions and events that are held in the U.S. and in Chapel Hill in the fall. Taste the flavors of fall (including pumpkin-spiced everything), join in the fun at the arts and crafts table or have your picture taken at the Autumn Fest Photo Booth – there will be something for everyone! Families with children are welcome.
Find out more »Opening Reception: NC Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green and Artist Judith Ernst Installation
A new art piece is on display in the FedEx Global Education Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill through July 2020. North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green and renowned artist Judith Ernst will discuss their collaborative public art project and honor the 100th anniversary of W.B Yeats’s seminal poem, "The Second Coming," at an opening reception on October 9, 2019 beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the Florence and James Peacock Atrium of the FedEx Global…
Find out more »November 2019
Korean Studies Major Launch Celebration
Please join the Carolina Asia Center and Department of Asian Studies in celebrating the launch of the new Korean Studies major at UNC-Chapel Hill with Korean food Q&A and a K-pop cover contest. Food will be catered from Namu. If you’re interested in participating in the contest, please submit your name(s) and music to kief@unc.edu by October 27th. There will be prizes for winners of the K-pop contest. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to showcase your skills! This event…
Find out more »January 2020
Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China
On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for 37 days. The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf, and activists inundating social media with #FreetheFive messages. But the Feminist Five are only symbols of a much larger feminist movement of university students, labor activists, civil rights lawyers, performance artists and online warriors that is prompting an unprecedented awakening among China’s…
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POSTPONED: Listening Salon: Music and Intimacy in ‘The Americans’ Or, Listening to the Cold War on TV
This listening salon, inspired by the television show The Americans, is curated by Andrea Bohlman (UNC-CH) and Ryan Dohoney (Northwestern University). Their public conversation will allow us to listen and watch together, be excited, entranced, and moved by the series again, and to put these feelings in the context of contemporary geopolitics. The Americans, a six-season television series on FX, was one of the most suspenseful spy dramas in recent years. Fabulously building on a true Cold War story, the…
Find out more »CANCELED: African Languages Fair/Night
Get to know African language instructors, meet past and current African language students, hear about African languages, and watch African language students speak, sing and perform in the languages they are studying. African Language Night will be held at 5 PM in the Global Education Center Atrium and the African Languages Fair will be held 10 Am- 1 PM in the Pit. Please drop by the African Studies Center table and learn more about African languages at UNC. Please Contact:…
Find out more »CANCELED: Lunchtime Interlude: Opera | Europe Week
UNC student Melody Zhuo will be performing French, German, and Italian art songs! For a preview, read a feature on her experiential learning in Italy. This is one of the Center for European Studies Europe Week 2020 lunchtime interludes, a series of noon-adjacent pop-up events! Please note that this event takes place during the day. If you are planning to stay on campus later, please visit these guidelines for information on weeknight parking on campus.
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CANCELED: Lunchtime Interlude: Celtic Musicians | Europe Week
Hear some tunes from Piobadh na Triantan (“Piping in the Triangle”), a local Celtic music group! They are a small ensemble with a varied repertoire of Scottish and Irish music. Piobadh na Triantan incorporates pleasing harmonies and counterpoint melodies and different percussion instruments, and one of their number is a current UNC student! Read more about the band for a preview. This is one of the Center for European Studies' Europe Week 2020 lunchtime interludes, a series of noon-adjacent pop-up events! Please note…
Find out more »CANCELED: Lunchtime Interlude: Fika (Swedish Coffee Break) | Europe Week
Catch a delicious Swedish coffee break! Get a preview of this delectable tradition, practiced in both the mornings and afternoons in Sweden. Representatives from the Swedish Women’s Educational Association of North Carolina will be hosting the event. This is one of the Center for European Studies' Europe Week 2020 lunchtime interludes, a series of noon-adjacent pop-up events! Please note that this event takes place during the day. If you are planning to stay on campus later, please visit these guidelines for information on weeknight parking…
Find out more »CANCELED: Tunes, Treats & Thoughts: Europe Week Closing Reception | Europe Week
Join the Center for European Studies for a closing reception to celebrate the 5th annual Europe Week! Winners of the Europe Week 2020 Contest will be recognized. Enjoy delicious refreshments plus contemporary French music by UNC ’16 alum Tess Mygatt (catch a preview!). This event is part of Europe Week 2020! Please visit these guidelines for information on weeknight parking on campus.
Find out more »October 2021
‘Being and Belonging’ Opening Programming
A program celebrating the opening of Being and Belonging: Perspectives in North Carolina, an art exhibition at the FedEx Global Education Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will be held on Oct. 5. Programming will begin at 5:30 p.m., with remarks starting at 6:00 p.m. in the Florence and James Peacock Atrium. Each artist has been invited to speak about their work. Being and Belonging brings together 13 artists of Latin American heritage from across North Carolina whose work evokes questions of identity, environment and home. The…
Find out more »April 2022
EU’re an Artist!
This event is part of Europe Week 2022. EuroVision Brackets, EU Photo Booth, European Coloring Sheets & T-Shirt Design Contest! This event will occur daily in the FedEx GEC Atrium from 11:00am – 1:00pm.
Find out more »European Resource Fair
This event is part of Europe Week 2022. Join representatives from units across campus in the Atrium of the FedEx Global Education Center to learn about opportunities for European careers, study abroad, research, and more at UNC and in Europe! Co-Sponsored by the Ackland Art Museum, the Russian Flagship Program, the Office for Undergraduate Research, the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Department of Romance Studies, the Study Abroad Office, the Office for Distinguished Scholarships, and the UNC…
Find out more »November 2022
The Art of the Warlis with Sampada Kodagali Agarwal
Modern Indian Studies, the Carolina Asia Center, and UNC Global proudly present: The Art of the Warlis Learn the traditional tribal art of the Warlis (from Western India) and create your own work of art with local artist Sampada Kodagali Agarwal. Samosas and chai will be provided. Sampada Kodagali Agarwal is a passionate visual artist, who has spent more than 15 years exploring traditional Indian folk and tribal arts. Her work has been accepted in a number of exhibitions/shows and she…
Find out more »April 2023
Modern Indian Studies: Bhangra Workshop with Lavesh Pritmani
On Monday, April 24 from 5:30p.m.-7:00p.m. in the FedEx Center for Global Education Atrium, the Modern Indian Studies (MIS) Initiative in collaboration with UNC Global Affairs, UNC Chalkaa, and Bhangra Elite are hosting a Bhangra Workshop event. Join UNC alumnus and founder of Learn Bhangra, Lavesh Pritmani, for an interactive lecture-demonstration and workshop about the dance tradition of Bhangra! The event will include snacks and tea, a lecture-demonstration about the history of Bhangra, and an interactive participatory workshop. Students, staff, faculty,…
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