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Jovan Baclious and Austin Blair, ‘Millennial Jihad’

Hamilton Hall, Room 569 102 Emerson Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Do you like video games? Have you ever played Call of Duty (CoD)? Then you have something in common with tens of thousands of young men terrorist groups have tried to recruit. Two seniors in the Department of Peace, Ware … Read more

Timothy May, ‘Combined Arms Warfare in the Mongol Empire’

Hamilton Hall, Room 569 102 Emerson Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The typical image of the Mongol conquests is one of fur-clad warriors on horseback pillaging and plundering with swords and shooting their enemies with bows and arrows. While not completely inaccurate, it misses not only the complexity of the Mongol … Read more

Film Screening: ‘Documenting the War in Afghanistan’ and Discussion

Chapman Hall, Room 201 Chapel Hill|, NC, United States

Meg Mackenzie Prior is a combat photographer and filmmaker who has embedded with U.S. Army Infantry, Combat Aviation and Special Forces Units to record the missions and operations conducted by International Security Assistance Forces in Afghanistan beginning in 2010 with … Read more

POSTPONED: American Diplomacy in a Disordered World | Ambassador William Burns

Gillings School of Global Public Health, Rosenau Room 133 135 Dauer Dr., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Note: This event has been postponed. Please join Ambassador William Burns – president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, former U.S. deputy secretary of state, and former U.S. ambassador to Russia and Jordan – for a conversation on “American … Read more

CANCELED: Film Screening: Tel Aviv on Fire

Hanes Art Center, Room 121 115 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Join the UNC Department of Asian Studies for a screening of Tel Aviv on Fire, a 2018 internationally co-produced comedy-drama satire film directed by Sameh Zoabi and co-written by Zoabi and Dan Kleinman. The film premiered internationally at the 75th Venice International Film … Read more