"Street Angel" (马路天使) Chinese Film Showing - Tuesday, January 29
3:30 PM - Gardner Hall 307 - Free and open to the public
Dir. Yuan Muzhi, 1937. Running time 100 min.

Exhibition Opening - "Didi: Conversations on Nepali Womanhood" - Tuesday, February 3
A photographic exhibit by Megan Hamilton in collaboration with the women of Princess Home
7:00 PM - FedEx Global Education Center - Free and open to the public

This photographic exhibit chronicles Carolina Alum Megan Hamilton's time in Nepal working with women and girls in Princess Home, a rehabilitation home for those most vulnerable to abuse and sex trafficking. A collection of stark black-and-white photographs taken by Megan and vibrant color images taken by the women of Princess Home creates a cross-cultural dialog about life in Nepal, the conditions that put women at risk, and the hope of survival.

Join us for the opening reception, featuring refreshments from Med Deli and comments by Megan Hamilton. The reception is hosted by the Carolina Women's Center and the Office of International Affairs.

Exhibit runs through March 31. The Global Education Center is open to the public weekdays from 8am to 9pm and Saturdays from 8am to 4:30pm. For more information visit global.unc.edu.

"Beijing Bicycle" (十七岁的单车) Chinese Film Showing - Tuesday, February 10
3:30 PM - Gardner Hall 307 - Free and open to the public
Dir. Wang Xiaoshuai, 2001. Running time 93 min.

Senior Honors Thesis Info Session -Tuesday, February 10
6:00 PM - Hanes Art 215
This info session is for Asian Studies majors (and is especially of interest for juniors, but freshmen and sophomores are also welcome!) who are interested in doing a senior honors thesis. Dr. Jan Bardsley will give a short presentation on the honors thesis process, followed by a Q&A. Seniors currently writing honors thesis will also be present to talk about their experiences. Pizza will be served.

Dr. Mohja Kahf, Syrian-American poet and novelist, visits UNC - Monday, February 16
5:00-6:15PM - Nelson Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Education Center - Poetry and Prose Reading
6:15-6:30PM - FedEx Global Education Center room 4003 - Book signing
6:30-7:30PM - FedEx Global Education Center room 4003 - Reception
7:30-8:30PM - FedEx Global Education Center room 4003 - Lecture in Arabic: Reflections on Arab American and Muslim American Literature

"Farewell My Concubine" ( 霸王别姬) Chinese Film Showing - Tuesday, February 17
3:30 PM - Gardner Hall 307 - Free and open to the public
Dir. Chen Kaige, 1993. Running time 157 min.

Women's Studies Luncheon Colloquium with Dr. Michelle King – “Re-thinking Female Infanticide in Late Nineteenth Century China” - Wednesday, February 18
12:00-1:00 PM - Toy Lounge, Dey Hall, 4 th Floor

Female infanticide has long stood as an emblematic marker of cultural difference in Western notions about China. It remains, along with a range of other traditional practices perceived as anti-female, an outsized metonym for Chinese cruelty and indifference. Where do these impressions come from, historically? Is there any basis for these assertions? How have Chinese regarded this social practice within the framework of their own culture? This talk addresses the surprising absence of historical scholarship on female infanticide in late imperial China and proposes new ways of approaching the subject.

Public Lecture on Thailand - Friday, February 20
12:00 PM - FedEx Global Education Center, room 3024

"Thailand: Does tourism growth help the poor? Do disruptions hurt them?"
Public Lecture by Ian Coxhead, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Free and open to the public. Hosted by the Carolina Asia Center.

"Suzhou River" ( 苏州河 ) Chinese Film Showing - Tuesday, February 24
3:30 PM - Gardner Hall 307 - Free and open to the public
Dir. Lou Ye, 2000. Running time 92 min.

Public Lecture on Thailand - Monday, February 23, 2009
5:30 PM - FedEx Global Education Center, room 1005

"Internet Politics in Thailand "
Public Lecture by Ian Coxhead, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Free and open to the public. Hosted by the Carolina Asia Center.

"Chicks, Kids, and Couples: Icons of Indian Modernity" with Dr. Patricia Uberoi - Friday, February 27
5:00-6:00 PM - FedEx Global Education Center, room 1005 - Free and open to the public
Light refreshments will be served

In this illustrated lecture, Patricia Uberoi draws attention to visual idioms for representing the nation and Indian modernity in popular print culture: Drawing on a personal archive of Indian 'calendar art', she looks at three different categories of prints: pin-ups (called 'beauties' or latterly 'ladies' in trade shorthand); the range of so-called 'baby' iconography, a type that is so ubiquitous that it has scarcely merited any critical notice; and representations of the conjugal couple, or nuclear
family unit, a theme that seems to have been occluded or displaced in contemporary nationalist iconography. All three types provide a connection between the visualization of the developmental state in the first post-Independence decades, and the new idiom of neo-liberal consumerist modernity represented in the still-unstudied medium of commercial advertising.

Professor Patricia Uberoi is the Nannerl Keohane Distinguished Professor at UNC in Spring 2009. Born in Canberra, Australia, Dr. Uberoi has lived and worked in India for over 40 years (she is a naturalized citizen of
India). Her very original work has helped to found a new subfield of visual culture in South Asian studies; her ethnographic work on gender and the family provides a bedrock for that field; and her immensely original
and creative way of putting these two scholarly specialties together has influenced and inspired many scholars of visual culture in South Asia.

Dr. Uberoi’s most recent book is Freedom and destiny: Gender, family and popular culture in India (Oxford University Press, 2006), which draws on several different genres of Indian popular culture -- calendar art, popular films, and women's magazines -- for sociological insights into contemporary questions of family and gender. Co-edited books on the history of sociology and anthropology in India (Anthropology in the East: Founders of Indian Sociology and Anthropology, Permanent Black) and on Gender, Marriage, Migration and Gender, Sage Publications) are forthcoming
in 2007-08. She also is currently engaged in research on family, kinship, marriage and gender, and on aspects of popular culture and social policy, in reference to both India and China. She has published widely on these themes, including a popular and well-regarded text, Family, kinship and marriage in India (edited, Oxford University Press, 1993), and Social
reform, sexuality and the state (edited, Sage publications, 1996), and co-edited Tradition, pluralism and identity: In honour of T.N. Madan (Sage publications, 1999). She was Co-Editor of the journal, Contributions to Indian sociology (1992-2006) and is on the editorial board of several other academic journals.

"Shower" ( 洗澡 ) Chinese Film Showing - Tuesday, March 3
3:30 PM - Gardner Hall 307 - Free and open to the public
Dir. Zhang Yang, 1999. Running time 94 min.

"Comrades, Almost a Love Story" ( 甜蜜蜜) Chinese Film Showing - Tuesday, March 17
3:30 PM - Gardner Hall 307 - Free and open to the public
Dir. Peter Chan, 1996. Running time 116 min.

"Cell Phone" ( 手机) Chinese Film Showing - Tuesday, March 24
3:30 PM - Gardner Hall 307 - Free and open to the public
Dir. Feng Xiaogang, 2003. Running time 107 min.

"Chungking Express" (重庆森林) Chinese Film Showing - Tuesday, March 31
3:30 PM - Gardner Hall 307 - Free and open to the public
Dir. Wong Kar-wai, 1994. Running time 102 min.

"Eat, Drink, Man, Woman" (饮食男女) Chinese Film Showing - Tuesday, April 7
3:30 PM - Gardner Hall 307 - Free and open to the public
Dir. Ang Lee, 1994. Running time 123 min.

"Infernal Affairs" (无间道) Chinese Film Showing - Tuesday, April 14
3:30 PM - Gardner Hall 307 - Free and open to the public
Dir. Lau Wai-keung, 2002. Running time 101 min.