World Region: Eastern Europe, Russia and Eurasia
New Perspectives on the Holodomor
From 1932 to 1933 a man-made famine ravaged the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, claiming close to 4 million lives. Today, that famine is known as the Holodomor – “hunger death” or “death by hunger” in Ukrainian. As awareness of the famine has … Read more
UNC Global’s 2018 Passport Drive Sees Record Number of Applicants and Renewals
UNC Global’s annual Passport Drive took place on November 7 and 8 at the FedEx Global Education Center. The event welcomed students, faculty, staff and their families to apply for or renew their passports. Officials from the U.S. Department of State were on campus both days to accept new passport and passport renewal applications.
Wayne Landsman Fosters International Business Exchange
If you ask Wayne Landsman, the KPMG Distinguished Professor of Accounting at UNC Kenan-Flagler, he will tell you he never imagined traveling and teaching business on an international scale. “When I graduated with my doctorate in business from Stanford in … Read more
Marko Dumančić ’10 PhD Explores Conceptions of Masculinity in Eastern Europe and Russia
Despite growing up in Croatia, attending high school and college in the Northeast United States, and teaching at universities in Ohio and Kentucky, when Marko Dumančić returns to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for a public talk … Read more
UNC Historian Explores Many Meanings of Walking in Co-Edited Volume ‘Walking Histories: 1800-1914’
Therefore, let the moon Shine on thee in thy solitary walk; And let the misty mountain-winds be free To blow against thee: and, in after years, When these wild ecstasies shall be matured Into a sober pleasure; when they mind … Read more