This talk is cancelled due to winter storm conditions.  Abstract: Few practices are simultaneously as exotic and representative, esoteric and quotidian, instrumental and sensual, political and cultural as the Japanese tea ceremony. While most Japanese have never participated in a formal tea … Read more

Screening in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SEC/AAS), Jan 17-19 Introduced by Simon Partner (History, Duke) Set in a digitally recreated postwar Tokyo (in 1958), Takashi Yamazaki’s Always – Sunset … Read more

This event on medicine in pre-modern Asia will include two talks: “Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China” – C. Pierce Salguero, Assistant Professor of Asian History at The Pennsylvania State University and Humanities Writ Large Visiting Faculty Fellow in the Religion … Read more

The Anthropology Colloquium Serie at UNC Chapel Hill and the Triangle Center for Japanese Studies invite you to join us for a talk by Joseph Hankins, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UC-San Diego. The title of his talk is, “Wounded Futures: Pain, Sympathy, … Read more

Morgan Pitelka, Director of the Carolina Asia Center and Associate Professor of Asian Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, was recently interviewed by The Daily Tarheel, UNC’s student newspaper, about his work on pre-modern Japan. The interview followed Pitelka’s Oct. 29 talk … Read more

Barbara Ambros teaches in the religious department at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her research area is Japanese religions, though she also teaches about religions of East Asia in general. She received her MA in Literature and Ph.D. in Religion from Harvard University. … Read more

Anne Allison is a professor ofcultural anthropology at Duke University where she has conducted research and taught for 20 years. This year she is also acting director of Woman’s Studies. She has worked on Japan for over 30 years. She … Read more

Levi McLaughlin is assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at North Carolina Station University. He is most well know for his research on religion in modern and contemporary Japan. Levi received his B.A. in Japanese Studies … Read more

Interested faculty and graduate students are cordially invited to a talk by Gregory Grieve, Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at UNC-G. The talk will be followed by a reception. Why are there so many Buddhists online? Grieve … Read more

(Goro Miyazaki, 2011, 91 min, Japan, in Japanese with English subtitles, Color, BluRay) With an introduction by Eileen Chow (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke) Goro Miyazaki’s From Up on Poppy Hill was the top-grossing animated film in Japan in 2011, and … Read more