DAMES Autumn Snapshot
Wondering how DAMES is doing during this strange semester? Check out our Autumn Snapshot below to find out! For a clickable PDF version, please click here!
Wondering how DAMES is doing during this strange semester? Check out our Autumn Snapshot below to find out! For a clickable PDF version, please click here!
Did you know that Ms. Luoyi Cai, Teaching Assistant Professor in Chinese, is a Zoom guru? It’s true! But how does one become a guru? In the summer of 2016, Ms. Cai was invited to participate in the University of … Read more
THANK YOU to Professor Troutt Powell and Professor Sturkey for making the event a huge success. The video of the talk can be found here or on YouTube. The first event in the 2020-2021 “Blackness in Asian and Middle … Read more
Rashad Ahmed Hauter graduated from UNC in 2007 with majors in Biology and Asian Studies, concentrating on Arabic. Professor Nadia Yaqub remembers him well as an enthusiastic student. Rashad was a first-generation college student, the child of Yemeni immigrants who … Read more
Professor Mark Driscoll’s forthcoming book, The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven, considers Western imperialism in Asia in the nineteenth century, and proposes a new theory of “climate caucasianism” that links racism with environmental destruction in an innovative matter, demonstrating the close … Read more
Professor Nadia Yaqub’s recent book Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution (University of Texas Press, 2018) situates Palestinian cinema squarely within mid-20th century political cinema. In her introduction, Yaqub writes “Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution is an … Read more
I welcome the opportunity to write a few words about the career of Professor Lawrence D. Kessler who died at his home near Wilmington on August 10. From my first day on campus in the fall of 1975 I was … Read more
Hi everyone! Welcome to Fall 2020 with the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (DAMES)! We know this year is different from all others we’ve experienced before, but we’re reaching out personally now to let you all know that … Read more
Discussions of the possible launch of a graduate program go back more than a decade in our department, and have involved most of the faculty as well as support from peers in other departments. Ultimately the growth of our undergraduate … Read more
T.J. Turner of Kernersville graduated in the spring of 2020, part of this most unusual class of students who were unable to take part in the standard graduation ceremony and departmental celebrations that typically mark the end of the undergraduate … Read more