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Imagining Burma: A Post-National Film Series
It is with these issues in mind that we are mounting a post-national film series in Chapel Hill and Carrboro that focuses on Burma. In the wake of Cyclone Nargis, the role of the state in relief operations draws attention to the type of image Burma’s state wants to project. "Imagining Burma: A Post-National Film Series" aims to critically explore the issue of blurred national boundaries of Burma through a program of feature-length films and documentaries. The film series also hopes to provide a public venue in the Triangle of North Carolina, where one of the largest concentrations of Burmese refugees has settled. Our goals are to encourage debate on these films and also to assist the Burmese communities who were directly and indirectly affected by the cyclone.
“Imagining Burma” will open with a party from 7pm to 9pm on July 17, 2008 at Weaver Street Market. This outdoor event will feature WXYC DJs spinning Southeast Asian music and free Burmese cuisine. A screening of The Burmese Harp will follow at Southern Rail (The Station) from 10pm to midnight. On July 31, the series will continue with a pair of documentaries, Our Burmese Days and Burma from 7pm to 9pm at Hanes Art Center on UNC's Campus. The third event in the series will be a screening and Southeast Asian Dance party from 9pm to 2am on August 14 at the Nightlight.
For more information, contact Lauren Brenner (lbrenner@email.unc.edu , 919-260-7125) or Joseph Palis (palis@email.unc.edu , 919-360-5519)
Web site: http://imaginingburma.blogspot.com
7th Annual Symposium on Asia in the Curriculum
September 26-28th 2008
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, FedEx Global Education
Center is proud to host the 7th Annual Symposium on Asia in the
Curriculum, September 26-28th 2008.
Like its predecessors; 2007 at Columbia University, website at:
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/eacp/aic/ and 2006 at UCLA, this symposium
will afford our ad-hoc consortium of schools, school districts,
colleges, universities, museums, and other organizations the
opportunity to gather and focus our collective energies on
strengthening teaching about Asia. The program will offer a good blend
of experience-sharing/problem-exploring panels in addition to
presentations focusing on disseminating new resources and techniques
with a special focus on using digital technology and distance learning.
Further information on the Symposium is available at http://global.unc.edu/aic.
This 7th meeting of a national effort supported by the Freeman
Foundation that promotes teaching and learning about Asia in our K-12
schools and universities issues first call for papers, speakers and
presentations to our local North Carolina groups involved in education.
Please see attached MS Word document for additional information.
The symposium will be held in the Southern US for the first time and
provides us with a wonderful opportunity to showcase our local efforts
in education to a national audience while exchanging ideas with
participants from across the country.
For additional symposium background information, please take a look at
the Columbia University website http://www.columbia.edu/itc/eacp/aic/,
or the University of Hawaii, East West Center 2005 Symposium http://education.eastwestcenter.org/asiapacificed/Sym2/index.html
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