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Carolina Seminar with Guzel Garifullina

FedEx Global Education Center, DeBerry Board Room 3009 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Popular elections in Russia have often been replaced by some forms of indirect elections or appointments at both regional and municipal level. Scholars have studied various effects such institutional changes have on the characteristics of political leaders. Guzel Garifullina builds … Read more

Africa’s Evolving Forms of Political Critique and Social Movements

FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

This panel discussion will feature case studies on Equatorial Guinea and Sudan. The selected panelists will represent perspectives and stories from across the continent. Participants include Tutu Alicante, Equatoguinean born human rights lawyer and executive director of EG Justice; Isma’il … Read more

Africa’s Evolving Forms of Political Critique and Social Movements

FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

This panel discussion will feature case studies on Equatorial Guinea and Sudan. The selected panelists will represent perspectives and stories from across the continent. Participants include Tutu Alicante, Equatoguinean born human rights lawyer and executive director of EG Justice; Isma’il … Read more

Dominique Reill, ‘A Sense of Self: Propaganda and Nationalism in Post-World War Fiume’

FedEx Global Education Center, DeBerry Board Room 3009 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Fiume, a major Adriatic port city controlled by Habsburg Hungary until 1918 and thereafter left rogue until 1921, presents a fascinating case of how post-Habsburg states could and did employ prior imperial models to navigate the trials and opportunities of … Read more

Douglass Hunt Lecture: Feminist and African: Women’s Resistance to Gendered Pacification

Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Hitchcock Multipurpose Room 150 South Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Africa’s postcolonial states continue to exhibit profound contradictions in the arena of gender politics. While women’s movements have successfully pursued a great many legal and policy reforms, the implementation of new laws and policies remains very challenging, as state structures … Read more