Jeffrey W. Rubin is Associate Professor of History and Research Associate for the Boston University Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA). He is the author of Decentering the Regime: Ethnicity, Radicalism, and Democracy in Juchitán, Mexico (Duke 1997) and co-author of Sustaining Activism: A Brazilian Women’s Movement and a Father-Daughter Collaboration (Duke 2013).  A specialist on social movements in Latin America, Rubin combines innovative methodological approaches with the study of democratic possibility in Latin America over the past thirty years. Sponsored by the…

* Come learn about the possibility for an exciting and fulfilling internship in India. Madhu Vaishnav, Founder and Director of the Institute for Philanthropy and Humanitarian Development (IPHD), & Jaclyn McCosker Saheli, Designs Director and IPHD adviser, will be here in person. The Institute for Philanthropy and Humanitarian Development (IPHD) is located in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. We provide internship and research opportunities in Rajasthan which are embedded in a structured and ongoing Training and Education framework.  We have identified key competencies…

Dan Morrison, an international career and the OECD Join us in the FedEx Global Education Center room 3009 on April 8, 2016 at 10am for a Skype session with Dan Morrison, a UNC Alumnus and the Head of Global Media at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Dan will speak to us about his career and about the OECD! Breakfast will be served, so please email Sarah (tam@unc.edu) if you plan to attend. Dan Morrison is originally from North Carolina and graduated from UNC-CH with a BA in…

Early 20th century Britain succumbed to what people called "pageant fever." Inspired by Louis Napoleon Parker's influential pageant at Sherbone, Dorset, in 1905, committees up and down the country staged outdoor historical reenactments before audiences that could number in thousands. Large casts performed chronological selections of scenes, real and mythical, authentic and fabricated, from the ancient, medieval and early modern pasts of towns, cities and villages. This lecture describes the origins and development of historical pageantry, emphasizing the grand scale...

The Helsinki Final Act, signed in 1975 after three years of East-West negotiations, was a landmark in Cold War diplomacy and the culmination of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev’s strategy of détente. But the substance of the 35-country agreement only dimly reflected the Soviets’ original ambitions. Instead, the Final Act embodied Western principles of international order—especially regarding sovereignty, security and human rights—which defined the course of the Cold War in the years that followed. This talk will explain the Soviets’ hopes…

Focusing on the apparel industry, John Pickles will discuss the broader issues raised in his new book Articulations of Capital: Global Production Networks and Regional Development. His presentation will focus on the integration of East Central European economies into both global and local production and economic development strategies. Pickles is the Earl N. Phillips Distinguished Professor of International Studies in the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research currently focuses on global production networks, European economic and…

Join us to learn more about the Fulbright U.S Student Program and Peace Corps. This information session is geared towards graduating seniors, but all are welcome to attend. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program allows graduating seniors and recent graduates to self-design a research study project, or serve as an English Teaching Assistant in one of more than 140 countries. The campus deadline is September 18 and you can find more information by coming to this info session or here. The Peace…

The politics of history has been one of the constitutive elements of the new democracies in east central Europe after 1989. ‘Coming to terms with the communist past’ was especially important as a means of securing the legitimacy of new democratic regimes. The communist past increasingly became a field of political struggle with distinct variants of politics of memory being used as expedient political tools. The most visible of these was the anti-communist memory politics symbolized by newly created, powerful…

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In the early twentieth century, the anthropological function of film was carried out on the mimetic dimension of the gesture. Everywhere, from South America to East Asia, intellectuals and theorists addressed the increasing importance of the movies for the transnational transformation of embodied attitudes for modernization, usually highlighting the female body, which became a framework whereby the history of the present could be outlined as desire. Film carried the gestures necessary for modernization. Focusing on the writings by the Japanese…