The History Department has narrowed its search for a new China historian to three candidates, each of whom will be giving a talk on their research interests. The Department welcomes you to these talks. Please see this announcement for more details.

Carolina Asia Center Seminars

The ACEH Peace Process: Achievement and Prospects

Dr. Damien Kingsbury

Date: Monday February 6, 2006
Time: 3:30 PM
Location: Toy Lounge, 4th Fl Dey Hall

On August 15, 2005, the Free Acheh Movement (GAM) and the Government of Indonesia signed a peace agreement to end almost three decades of separatist conflict. The Indonesian government faced numerous pressures, primarily from its military and other hardliners who wanted to continue the failed 'military sollution'. GAM, meanwhile, would not accept the status quo, as offered by Indonesia, holding out for real political gains. By finally agreeing to considerable local autonomy for Aceh, the peace deal offers the potential for sustainable peace in Aceh. GAM, meanwhile, has embraced democratization and is transforming from a military organization into a political party. The peace agreement has flaws, and there are serious obstacles to its implementation. However, the framework for peace now exists, so that the parties can return to it should implementation stumble.

Dr. Damien Kingsbury is Associate Professor in the School of International and Political Studies and Director of International and Community Development, Deakin University, Australia. He holds an MA and PhD from Monash University, Australia and an MS from Columbia University. He has written or edited numerous books on Indonesia, including Violence in Between: Conflict and Security in Archipelagic Southeast Asia (MAI/ISEAS 2005), The Politics of Indonesia (Oxford, 2005, 3rd ed.), and Power Politics and the Indonesian Military (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003). Dr Kingsbury was political adviser to the Free Acheh Movement at the Helsinki peace talks and is currently engaged in a democratization training project for Aceh.

This award-winning documentary (dir. David Redmon, 2005, 72 min.) takes an up-close look at globalization through the example of Mardi Gras beads. This screening will be followed by a Q&A talk with the director. Please see this announcement for more details.

Temporary Migration in Lhasa in 2005: Characteristics and Structures
Dr. Ma Rong, Peking University, China

Economic Development and Poverty Reduction in Vietnam
Dr Nguyen Quy Thanh, Professor of Sociology at Vietnam National University

This talk will provide a brief introduction to economic development in Vietnam as a background for the discussion of the issue of poverty. Dr Nguyen will discuss the state of poverty in Vietnam, the causes of poverty, and what measures have been implemented for the alleviation of poverty. He will delineate achievements and challenges that face Vietnam today and will review the plans being developed to address poverty

Dr Nguyen currently is Visiting Scholar at the University of Puget Sound and is Professor of Sociology at Vietnam National University. His most recent book is World Bank Safeguards Policies in The Development Projects - Technical Guidelines for Transportation and Agriculture and Rural Development Sectors, Statistical Publishing House, 2005.

Date: Wednesday, March 8, 2006

Time: Noon to 1 PM

Place: West House Conference Room

Seating is limited, Bring your own lunch

Coffee and tea will be available from 11:45 AM

East Asia: Tradition and Transformation

March 22-23

Explore the history, culture, and politics of China, Japan, and Korea with leading scholars from Duke, NC State, and UNC-Chapel Hill. A full program is attached to this email or can be viewed online at: http://www.unc.edu/world/EastAsia_seminar_schedule.shtml

In addition, Middle and High Schools have the opportunity to create a Chinese school partnership. World View is working with North Carolina in the World and The China Exchange Initiative on this project. The East Asia Seminar will offer a session with the China Exchange Initiative (CEI) that will explain the process and gather school profiles. Then CEI will travel to China to find matches for interested schools.

Registration Re-opened for World View’s March 22-23 East Asia Seminar!
Registration had been closed as we had reached the facility capacity, but we have a new room and can keep registration open!
ALL educators are welcome to register for this exciting day-and-a-half seminar.

Register today and pay later! Background materials, readings, and a study guide have already been sent to those who have registered, so register online today and we will send you a packet immediately. 1 ½ CEUs will be offered for those attending all sessions and the completion of a study guide. You may bring payment on the day of the program or have your school or college mail a check at a later date. Registration is $135 per person, or $425 for a team of four. Each additional person is just $75! To register online please go to: http://www.unc.edu/world/regform.shtml

Come join us to learn about East Asia and connect with a Chinese school!

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"AIDS Rumors and Moral Panics in China"

Dr. Jing Jun, Tsinghua University, China
Jing Jun holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Harvard University. He taught and received tenure at the City University of New York before returning to China in 2000. He has since worked at Tsinghua University in Beijing, teaching Anthropology and directing an AIDS Policy Research Center. He is author of "The Temple of Memories" and the editor of "Feeding China's Little Emperors". In past three years, he has worked with various UNC professors to research the impact of mass media on Chinese children's eating habits. He is currently a visiting scholar at Harvard University and writing a book on the AIDS epidemic in China.

Date: March 28, 2006
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Rm 1301 MacGavran-Greenberg (School of Public Health)

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Okinawa Dream Show at UNC Chapel Hill
A Retrospective of the Films of Takamine Go

Date: March 29 & 30
Time: 7:00 PM
Place: Swain Hall 01A

Takamine Go will be our guest for both evenings
Admission is Free for all films

Intensely personal, subversively political, Takamine’s films are dreamlike narratives of life in Okinawa, an island crushed by Japanese colonialism and occupied by the American military. While Takamine explores the dark and tragic experiences of Okinawan history, he does so with playful wit and enthusiasm for the details of everyday life. A tireless experimenter, he brings a mastery of avant-garde cinema to his fascination with folklore and traditional performing arts, creating a surreal vision of the modern world. Takamine has been awarded the Cagliari Film Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival and his work has been screened in the New Directors/New Films series at MoMA. In 2003, the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in Japan presented a series of his films, and the first American retrospective of his work will be held this month at Anthology Film Archives in New York.

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See Posters for his Films designed by Takamine Go
kadekaru rinshu
paradise view
tsuru henry

WXYC-Chapel Hill 89.3 FM and Global Music

In collaboration with the UNC Area Studies Centers, WXYC is launching a new monthly radio program. The program focuses on a particular world region each month, integrating both music from this part of the world and relevant expertise of university faculty. Each broadcast will be a live lesson interspersing music with dialogue. For more information on the Global Music program and schedule, please visit the WXYC homepage at www.wxyc.org.

Date: April 7, 2006
Time: 5:00 to 6:00PM
Guest: Tom Martineau, Associate Director, Carolina Asia Center
Show Topic: Chinese Pop and Rock Music since 1995: How I Escaped Karaoke.

UNC Department of Sociology and CEI Reseach Seminar Series

Time Efficiency and Social Investment Techniqies in Entrepreneurial Networks: A Case STtudy of State - Private Business Relationships in China

Professor David Wank
Department of Sociology, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan

Date: Friday, April 7, 2006
Time: 12 Noon
Place: 271 Hamilton Hall

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WXYC Global Music: April 7, 2006 5 - 6 PM Chinese Pop and Rock Music since 1995: How I Escaped Karaoke, featuring Tom Martineau, Associate Director of the CAC. See Events

Thailand's Political Crisis: Analyzing Thaksin Shinawatra's Downfall
April 17, 2006, Murphey 105, 11:00

China Initiative Awards

The first fellowships for Chinese studies and travel have been awarded to four faculty members at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill through the Grier/Woods Presbyterian China Initiative.The initiative aims to further develop Chinese studies in UNC's College of Arts and Sciences through faculty support, language instruction and study abroad opportunities. It was created through a gift to UNC in 2004 from Amy Woods Brinkley, a 1978 Carolina graduate, and her husband, Robert G. Brinkley, of Charlotte. The gift was in memory of Amy Brinkley's great-grandparents and other family members who were Presbyterian missionaries to China.

See http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/may06/grierwoods050406.htm for details.