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 … Read more
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. … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Till Knobloch (PhD Candidate, UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of History) will present on The ‘Manufactured Crisis.’ The Outbreak of World War II in Europe.Comment: Chad Bryant (Associate Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill, Dept. of History)For the URL please contact the NCGS graduate … Read more
The Russian Flagship Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites you to a conversation with Vladimir Sorokin. Preeminent among Russian authors today, Sorokin has crafted a parallel fictional universe where his native country’s traumas and nightmares … Read more
This virtual event is part of the TransAtlantic Masters Program Fall Friday Lecture Series. Register for the event. Brandon Bohrn joined the Bertelsmann Foundation in January 2020 as Manager of Transatlantic Relations. Specifically, he manages the German-American relations project. Before … Read more
On March 6, 2022, only several days after Russia waged its war against Ukraine, the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill stated that this war “has not a physical, but metaphysical meaning.” Indeed, Putin’s metaphysical ideas about the world … Read more
On Zoom Registration Link (available until start of event). NOTE: This lecture will not be available later as a recording. Asian futures, without Asians is a new multimedia presentation by artist and curator Astria Suparak, which asks: “What does it mean … Read more
