The Transatlantic Forum for Education and Diplomacy (TFED), in partnership with UNC Global and the Carolina Forum for Education and Diplomacy (CFED), is proud to host UNC alum, Sean Olson, for a special guest seminar on government consulting, career growth, networking, … Read more
Speakers participating in the China Visiting Scholars Program and the Vietnam Implementation Science Advancement Program (VISA) will present their work-in-progress during their time at UNC Chapel Hill. UNC faculty members Mike Cohen, Irving Hoffman, Joe Tucker, Vivian Go, and Weiming … Read more
Jane Ferguson's book: Repossesing Shanland Prof. Jane Ferguson of the Australian National University will speak on her new book: Repossessing Shanland: Myanmar, Thailand, and a Nation-State Deferred (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021). Around five million people across Southeast Asia identify as Shan. Though … 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
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
The sixteenth annual Duke-UNC Middle East and Islamic Studies Graduate Student Conference will take place on March 2nd from 9:00 - 4:30 in room 1009 in the FedEx Global Education Center. This event is free and open to the public. … Read more
Please join the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations on Saturday September 8 for the next monthly meeting of Urdu Majlis, the Triangle's Urdu Literary Forum. This Urdu Majlis will concentrate on the life … Read more
“What can I do? The people need a god,” said Joseph Stalin as he was endeavoring to wipe out religious traditions in the Soviet Union. As occurred in many other countries where communist parties came to power, the Vietnamese communists … Read more
The 2017 German-language film 'Magical Mystery' follows Karl, a former Berlin rock musician who returns to the scene after years away due to a nervous breakdown. He agrees to serve as designated driver for his old buddies, a group of … Read more
In no country were hunger and malnutrition politicized more than they were in twentieth-century China. Mao Zedong triumphantly declared the founding of a new socialist regime on the 1st of October 1949. At the moment, however, China was facing an … Read more
