Prof. Deborah Seligsohn of Villanova University will speak from both her recent research on U.S.-China health, climate and science diplomacy, and her long experience as a practitioner, both as the Science Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing (2003-2007) and … Read more
Interested in working in National Security? Join Roy Savoy, an Executive Liaison Support Officer for the Defense Language and National Security Education Office, for a discussion on career opportunities in the government and non-government sectors. Mr. Savoy will discuss how … Read more
Nothing says love like poetry! Join the Russian Flagship Program in Toy Lounge on February 15 for an evening of love poems and chocolate. Sign up to read a poem in a Slavic language of your choosing and stick around … Read more
In the wake of the Holocaust, a religious phenomenon arose in Israel fueled by survivors who had converted to Catholicism as well as by Catholics determined to address the anti-Judaism inherent in their religious tradition. This talk examines this “Judeocentric … Read more
The rugged Lao-Vietnamese borderlands have long been a zone of refuge and encounter, of conflict and exchange. This is particularly true for the early years of French colonial expansion, when local powerbrokers from diverse ethnic groups assessed, negotiated or resisted … Read more
The UNC-Duke Abiayala group presents, 'What Does it Mean to Be From the Páramo? Ethnicity, Politics & Development in the Ecuadorian Andes,' with Luis Alberto Tuaza Castro, who is an Indigenous Kichwa scholar, and a professor and researcher at the … Read more
As part of the Countering Hate Initiative and ENGLISH 265, Mab Segrest will present “Memoir of a Race Traitor: Fighting Racism in the American South.” In 1994, Mab Segrest first explained how she “had become a woman haunted by the … Read more
Thirty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. This one event was linked to so many others: an election in Poland, a dismantled electrified fence in Hungary, candlelit marches and a human chain of people joining hands up and down the … Read more
Thirty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. This one event was linked to so many others: an election in Poland, a dismantled electrified fence in Hungary, candlelit marches and a human chain of people joining hands up and down the … Read more
Join Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger, an Israeli, and Shadi Abu Awwad, a Palestinian, as they share the successes and challenges of their groundbreaking grassroots organization, Roots: A Local Palestinian Israeli Initiative for Understanding, Nonviolence and Transformation. This event is part of … Read more
