• PLCY 390: The New Entrepreneurs
  Wednesdays, Spring 2020 | 2:30 – 3:45 PM | Graham Memorial 210
  This class is focused on teaching the entrepreneurial mindset through a project based, problem-solving method with an intentionality of supporting the diverse voices and perspectives among UNC students, particularly women and minorities.

• Newman’s Own Foundation Fellowship
  12/16 Deadline
  The Newman’s Own Foundation (NOF) Fellowship program is a 12 month paid cohort-based Fellowship for 2020 college graduates that are interested in the nonprofit/philanthropic sector. We are looking for NOF Fellows who and are committed to using their skills and talents to roll up their sleeves, do good, and be a part of organizations that work for the common good.Critical Language Scholarships | Deadline: November 19, 2019

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• The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program is an intensive overseas language and cultural immersion program for American students enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities. Students spend eight to ten weeks abroad studying one of 15 critical languages. The program includes intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences designed to promote rapid language gains.

CLS, a program of the U.S. Department of State, is part of a wider government initiative to expand the number of Americans studying and mastering foreign languages that are critical to national security and economic prosperity. CLS plays an important role in preparing students for the 21st century’s globalized workforce and increasing national competitiveness.

Most languages offered by the CLS Program do not require applicants to have any experience studying critical languages. The CLS Program seeks participants with diverse interests, and from a wide range of fields of study and career paths, with the purpose of representing the full diversity of the United States. Participants are selected based on their commitment to language learning and plans to apply their language skills to their future academic or professional pursuits. Please note that CLS is an intensive group-based language program.

 

• Call for Submissions for the Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs | Deadline: November 20, 2019

The Journal welcomes original social science research papers written on issues relevant to politics, security, economy, culture, and society of contemporary Asia, including Pakistan and Afghanistan. Our publication highlights the works of young scholars alongside those of well-established experts, providing a valuable opportunity for graduate students to expand upon their academic portfolio.

Submissions will be considered on a rolling basis until Nov 20, 2019. All manuscripts should be 5,000-9,000 words in length. For more details on our formatting guidelines and expectations, please refer students to the “Notice to Contributors” section on our website. For any points not addressed therein, we welcome questions and comments sent to our email (gjaa@georgetown.edu).

 

• New Class offering: ENVR 475/775 – Global Climate Change: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

–  1 credit, P/F for undergraduates

–  First year through PhD students, from any background

–  A different speaker from a different discipline each week

–  Themes: Climate Science, Impacts, Energy, Communications, Policy

–  For both environmental majors and non-majors.

• Koobi Fora Field School

We are recruiting students for a National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (NSF REU) opportunity with the Koobi Fora Field School.

Students accepted into the 7-week program will conduct hands-on research in Kenya alongside faculty mentors. Our program, in collaboration with the National Museums of Kenya, brings students to the Turkana Basin in northern Kenya to learn anthropological experimental design and field methods on topics including paleolithic archaeology, paleontology, ecology, and/or human biology. If taken for course credit, this is offered through The George Washington University.

Field School Dates: June 8 – July 20, 2020 (subject to slight change)

Program Information and Application: http://cashp.columbian.gwu.edu/koobi-fora-field-school

We have 8 fellowship spots available this year. The REU fellowships include the full cost of the field school, as well as airfare to Kenya and a $3,000 stipend. Students will participate in our post-fieldwork workshop in November of 2020, with expenses covered by the REU fellowship. Students who receive the fellowship are required to participate in the entire program, including an online preparatory course beginning in May of 2020. Fellowship students are required by NSF to be US citizens or permanent residents enrolled in an undergraduate program. Female and minority students are especially encouraged to apply to this opportunity. For full consideration for the REU fellowship, completed applications should be received December 10. Application includes transcripts, letter of recommendation, statement of purpose, and supplementary application.

Please pass this information to undergraduate students who might be interested in field research. If you have any questions, please feel free to email any of the program faculty or our program email (koobiforafieldschool@gmail.com). We work to promote a safe and inclusive environment for learning, and our code of conduct policies are available online.

 

• SUA Career Workshop | October 1 @ 5:15 pm in Alumni 308

• Bridging Scholarships | Deadline: October 10, 2019

  The Bridging Project offers scholarships to American undergraduate students participating in study-abroad programs in Japan. Funding from private foundations and major U.S. corporations, through donations to the nonprofit US-Japan Bridging Foundation, makes it possible to award about 100 scholarships each year to assist students with the travel and living expenses they will incur while studying abroad in Japan for a semester or an academic year. Applications are accepted twice a year for Bridging Scholarships.

• Princeton in Asia | Deadline: October 31, 2019

  Founded in 1898, Princeton in Asia (PiA) has been building bridges between the U.S. and Asia for over a century. PiA’s original mission is as meaningful and urgent today as it was 121 years ago. The need to educate Americans about Asia and to help Asian communities better understand the United States has never been higher.

  PiA sponsors over 150 internships and fellowships in 22 countries and regions and is the oldest and largest organization of its kind, unique in its scope, size, century-long expertise and emphasis on service. The essence of PiA is to provide transformative, service-oriented experiences for bright, talented graduates and to serve the needs of Asia as determined by our host institutions and Asian partners. PiA arranges fellowships and internships with Asian host organizations that contribute to important global issues at the local level: education, public health, environmental sustainability, access to information/media, economic development and social justice. Fellowships are the means of fostering person-to-person diplomacy, enhancing mutual understanding, contributing to communities with unmet needs and providing transformative experiences for fellows and host communities.

• Interested in Careers and Graduate Schools in Public and International Affairs?

  Information Session

  Thursday, October 3, 2019

  5:30 – 7:00 p.m.  in  the FedEx GEC 1009

   

  Our focus is on careers, curriculum, faculty, admissions, and financial aid. The format for the information session will include a five-minute presentation by each admissions representative about the distinctive characteristics of each program, a group question and answer session with prospective students, and an opportunity for students to talk individually with us.

• Scoville Peace Fellowship

  October 7, 2019: Spring 2020 Fellowship | January 6, 2020: Fall 2020 Fellowship

  Calling all recent (and soon-to-be) college and graduate school alumni!

  If you’re passionate about international peace and security issues, and looking to work on them in Washington, DC, the Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship may be for you! The next application deadlines are October 7, 2019 (spring 2020 semester) and January 6, 2020 (fall 2020 semester).

  For complete details and FAQs, see http://scoville.org/

  See our Facebook post for more information: http://bit.ly/2lUi6YU

• Pedro X. Molina Speaking on The Art of Resistance

October 8 @ 5:30 pm- FedEx Global Education Center 4003

 

In 2017 Pedro X. Molina was a prolific participant in the #FreeNseRamon campaign demanding freedom for fellow illustrator and political cartoonist, Ramón Nsé Esono Ebalé, who was imprisoned for his work criticizing his country’s government, Equatorial Guinea.

Pedro X. Molina, also known as ‘PxMolinA,’ is an internationally acclaimed political cartoonist, illustrator and journalist from Nicaragua. In December 2018, when the offices of news media outlet Confidencial were taken over by government forces and during a national crackdown on journalists and government critics, Molina fled his country. He and his colleagues continue to publish daily in Confidencial.com.ni, either from exile or from other locations in Nicaragua. In summer 2019, Molina won the prestigious Maria Moors Cabot Award in international journalism from Columbia’s School of Journalism. In 2018, Molina won the Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award from Cartoonists Rights Network International, as well as the Excellence in Journalism award from the Inter American Press Association.

Esono Ebalé’s work and Molina’s contributions to the #FreeNseRamon campaign are both featured in ‘The Art of Resistance’ exhibition on display throughout the FedEx Global Education Center until December 13, 2019. Come hear/see Molina share his work in Nicaragua and his efforts to support freedom of expression everywhere.

• Relentless: Making the Impossible Inevitable – Tolo Olubunmi

October 8 @ 3:30 pm- FedEx GEC room 2008 – Special session over coffee

October 8 @ 5:30pm – 7:30pm – FedEx Global Education Center, Nelson Mandela Auditorium- Public talk

Join CEO of Lions Write, Tolu Olubunmi to learn more about global advocacy for migrants, refugees, and internally displaced people. This event is cosponsored by the UNC College of Arts & Sciences, the UNC European Horizons Club, UNC Global, and the UNC TransAtlantic Masters Program. There will also be a special session with students over coffee Tuesday at 3:30 pm in GEC room 2008. Please join us- Tolu is an extremely inspiring person! Additional information be may found @https://twitter.com/EuHorizonsUNC

 

• The River Grew Tired of Us: New Flows Along the Mekong River 

October 9 @ 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM- FedEx GEC 1009

Open lecture with Andrew Johnson, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University.

Along the Mekong, where it creates the border between Thailand and Laos, hydropower projects have triggered a transformation. Strange floods and ebbs disrupt fish migrations, undercut riverbanks, and sweep away nets. Facing this new landscape, fishermen on the Mekong seek out new, hidden sources of potency that have revealed themselves at the same time as other powers fade in importance. Via an ethnographic study of Mekong ‘river beings,’ this article addresses a reconfiguration of sources of power on the river away from the proximate and material, and towards the inaccessible, distant and spectral.

• Princeton in Asia Information Session

October 9 @ 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM in FedEx GEC 3024

Princeton in Asia offers paid year-long fellowships for graduating seniors and recent graduates. We work in 20 Asian countries and regions in a variety of fields: access to education, environmental sustainability, economic development, public health, and peace, justice and access to information. We also offer you the opportunity to form relationships with people that live thousands of miles away from everything you’ve ever known, and discover true and lasting friendship in the most unexpected places.

If you are interested in transformational experiences— as in stepping out of the country, out of your comfort zone, and out of the cubicle– we invite you to spend next year working on improving road safety in Vietnam, reporting for a English daily newspaper in South Korea, or teaching English to future diplomats in Beijing. Or have you considered spending a year exploring Mongolia as a finance analyst with a micro-finance lending bank?

 

• Kranso Event Series: Harsh Vardham Shringla, “India in Global Affairs”

October 10 @ 5:30PM-7:30PM – FedEx Global Education Center, Nelson Mandela Auditorium

This talk by His Excellency Harsh Vardham Shringla, the Ambassador of India to the United States, is part of the Krasno Global Business Affairs Council Event Series. The Ambassador will be introduced by North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine F. Marshall.

This event will be introduced and moderated by Klaus Larres, Richard M. Krasno Distinguished Professor of History and adjunct professor of the Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense. A reception will follow in the FedEx Global Education Center James and Florence Peacock Atrium

• Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Yong Soon Min

October 10 @ 6:00 pm – Hanes Art Center

 

Born in a village near Seoul the year the Korean War ended with an armistice without peace, and the continued division of the country, Yong Soon Min calls herself a Cold War baby. At age seven, she immigrated with her mother and brother to join their father in Monterey, CA. Min became an Asian Pacific/Korean American in New York City during the 80s where she cut her political teeth.
An endowment established in 1983 through the generosity of Nancy and Robin Hanes supports the Art Department’s Visiting Artist Series. This important program brings both established and emerging artists to campus to discuss their work in public lectures and to offer individual critiques to our M.F.A. students. The Hanes Visiting Artist series greatly enriches both our academic programs and our outreach to the wider community. All lectures are free and open to the public.

 

• UNC Forum on Southeast Europe Presents Sarajevo: Writing & Translating a City in Wartime

October 11 @ 12:00pm-1:30pm in the Toy Lounge, Dey Hall

Join Ellen Elias-Bursać and Paula Gordon for a lunch conversation. The conversation will center on their translations of literary works that deal with the war in Bosnia in the 1990’s, and specifically the four-year-long siege of Sarajevo, the country’s capital.

RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSedgqtjkbOZTjpqm7ADnKEl3_hWFKYCgc3xtMNLiLFZ6gsGPQ/viewform

 

• Discussion: Through Her Lens: Modern Arab Women Telling Their Stories through Art and Literature
  

  October 11 @ 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. – Ackland Art Museum

   

Carolina Public Humanities is teaming up with the Ackland Art Museum to explore the ways in which Modern Arab Women are speaking out through art and literature. Celebrate female storytellers with Nadia Yaqub, professor of Asian Studies, in a lively discussion of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize-winning novel Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi, the first female Omani novelist to be translated into English. Carolyn Allmendinger, Ackland’s Director of Academic Programming, will then guide us through their newest exhibition, She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World.

Cost: $38 per person, includes a copy of the book and light snacks. Registration required. Register here or call us at 919.962.1544. For more information, visit here.

Sponsored by Carolina Public Humanities and the Ackland Art Museum.

• Driving Innovation: Technology and India’s Rise as a Global Power | October 10-11, 2019

  This event is free for UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff, but registration is required in advance.

  The Modern Indian Studies Initiative at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host a conference entitled Driving Innovation: Technology and India’s Rise as a Global Power on October 10-11, 2019.

  Driving Innovation will explore India’s increased role in global affairs and how technology influences India’s development challenges while also promoting business innovation and entrepreneurship, U.S.-India trade, and the global economy.

  The conference brings together experts from industry, government, and academia to highlight the forces behind India’s economic innovation and will explore the dynamic and evolving relationship between India and the United States. Themes will include the impact of technology on financial inclusion and business growth, innovations in affordable healthcare, and U.S.-India technological trade flows.

  Non-UNC affiliates are welcome to attend the conference for a $75 registration fee per person (inclusive of lunch).

• Performance: Munni Begum Ghazal and Qawwali

October 11 @ 8:00 p.m. -Hanes Art Center Auditorium

Join world-renowned vocalist Munni Begum for a live concert, SHAAM-E GHAZAL (an evening of song). Munni Begum is a Pakistani ghazal singer. She began her career as a singer in Karachi in the 1970s and released her first album of ghazals in 1976. This concert is free and open to the public. For information, contact Afroz Taj at 919-999-8192 or taj@unc.edu.

Sponsored by the Carolina Asia Center with funding from The UNC Performing Arts Special Activities Fund and the South Asia Faculty Working Group. Co-sponsored by the Urdu Majlis Literary Society.

 

• Persian Art Center in Carolina: A Study of Mysticism in Persian Poetry and Literature with Mr. Sadegh Hossenini

October 13 @ 4:00pm – 8:00pm at The Club House

Join the Persian Art Center in Carolina for a study of mysticism in Persian poetry and literature. This is event is in Persian.

The program will begin with a social from 4:00-4:30pm. There will be a welcome and introduction by Dr. Amir Rezvani, 4:30-4:45pm. From 4:45-6:30pm, there will be a presentation by Sadegh Hoseini followed by discussion. From 6:30-8:00pm, there will be refreshments, poetry readings by the audience and live Persian music.

Sponsored by Persian Art Center in Carolina. The Persian Art Center in Carolina honors, respects and promotes freedom of speech and expression. For more information, please call 919-259-0959.

 

• Lynn Stephen, ‘Why Central American Women Fleeing Violence Seek Asylum’

October 14 @ 6:00- 7:30 pm – FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1005

 

Stephen’s scholarly work centers on the impact of globalization, migration, nationalism and the politics of culture on indigenous communities in the Americas. Her current collaborative research explores the structural opportunities and challenges that facilitate and impede indigenous women’s access to gendered justice in Guatemala and the U.S. She explores this question through comparative research on two routes to gendered justice that some indigenous Guatemalan women have used: specialized courts for crimes of femicide and other forms of violence against women in Guatemala and gender-based asylum in U.S. immigration courts.

For more information, visit the Institute for the Study of the Americas website.

 

• UNC Boren Awards Info Session

October 16 @ 12:30 pm- 1:30 pm – Graham Memorial Room 039

Interested in travel and language study? Meet a representative and past winners from the Boren Awards, a scholarship opportunity that provides funding for U.S. students to study less commonly taught languages and cultures in regions like Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Boren Awards offers up to $30,000 in international study! Join us for pizza and info on Wednesday, October 16, 12:30-1:30 pm at Graham Memorial Room 039. RSVP here!

 

• “Counternarratives from Women of Color Academics: Bravery, Vulnerability, and Resistance”

October 17 @ 3:00-6:00 pm – Stone Center

3:00-4:30pm: Public Dialogue (Stone Center Auditorium)

4:30-6:00pm: Reception (Stone Center Lobby)

REGISTRATION REQUESTED

 

Manya Whitaker is an Associate Professor of Education at Colorado College. She is a developmental educational psychologist with expertise in social and political issues in education.

Eric Grollman (they/them/theirs) is an Associate Professor at the University of Richmond and a Black queer non-binary scholar-activist. They are a scholar, broadly defined, placing importance on research, teaching, and service, as well as the connections among these domains of the academy.

Manya and Eric will discuss the book ‘Counternarratives from Women of Color Academics: Bravery, Vulnerability, and Resistance’

 

• Work Abroad: Strategies for an International Job Search

October 22 @ 5:30-7 pm- FedEx Global Education Center

 

Are you interested in working in a foreign country after graduating? Come plan your strategy for landing a job abroad, and receive helpful resources that will enable you to effectively market yourself and target the countries and organizations where your skills would be most useful. Bring your computer to this interactive and practical workshop, and be prepared to leave with a plan for your job search! Roderick Lewis, Senior Associate Director of University Career Services, will lead the session and share his experiences working in various countries.

 

• “Money Laundering & Corrupt Dictators: why criminals and terrorists love to ‘wash’ their money in the U.S.”

October 24 @ 5.30pm – Wilson Library, Pleasants Family room

A talk and discussion with Ross Delston (Attorney and Expert Witness, Washington, DC).

 

• US-Israel Relations: Between the White House, Congress, and the Israeli Government

   

October 29 @5:15-6:45pm, Room 1005, FedEx Global Education Center

 

There is a growing split between Democrats and Republicans, as well as between the White House and Congress, on the issue of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In addition, Israel went through two elections within five months, and could have another one quite soon. Israeli journalist Amir Tibon will discuss recent events in Washington, DC and in Israel and the impact they could have on the U.S.-Israel relationship, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the broader Middle East.

 

For more information, contact Shai Tamari at tamari@unc.edu.

Co-sponsors: Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies; Carolina Center for Jewish Studies; Curriculum in Global Studies; North Carolina Hillel; Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies.