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Colloquium: Dr. Diego Riveros-Iregui ‘A Research Update from the Carbonshed Lab’

Carolina Hall, Room 220 220 E Cameron Ave., Chapel Hill, NC, NC, United States

Dr. Diego Riveros-Iregui, Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Professor of Geography, Interim Co-Director of UNC Center for Galapagos Studies, will give a talk on Geography Colloquium Series on Friday, September 9, 2022 during 3:30-5:00pm. Title: A Research Update from the … Read more

Tyrell Haberkorn, ‘Justice After Dictatorship in Thailand’

Carolina Hall, Room 220 220 E Cameron Ave., Chapel Hill, NC, NC, United States

On May 22, 2014, a military junta calling itself the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) launched a coup and ousted the elected government in Thailand. On July 16, 2019, the NCPO formally ceased to exist when a new … Read more

Waleed Ziad, ‘How Peshawar revived Bukhara’s Sanctity: The Remarkable Story of Hazrat Jio Sahib Peshawari (d. 1816)’

Carolina Hall, Room 220 220 E Cameron Ave., Chapel Hill, NC, NC, United States

From the mid-18th century, the political landscape of the Persianate world underwent dramatic transformations. While decentralized states gradually emerged across Central Asia, the Durrani Afghans began carving out an empire from eastern Iran to north India. This turbulent period also witnessed … Read more

Kirsi Pauliina Kallio and Jouni Hakli, ‘Political Agency in Vulnerable Life Situations: Studying Refugee Political Subjectivities’

Carolina Hall, Room 220 220 E Cameron Ave., Chapel Hill, NC, NC, United States

In these events Kirsi Pauliina Kallio and Jouni Hakli will present the findings of their research project that includes in-depth interviews with asylum seekers in Cairo, Egypt, and Tampere, Finland. This project aims to gain a better understanding about the … Read more