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September 2015

Global Projects Showcase

September 15, 2015 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Want to travel next summer? Looking to fund your global project? Enjoy a showcase of students’ research, experiences and travel stories from a variety of fields and global destinations. Learn more about past international summer projects the Center for Global Initiatives has funded from the students themselves. Lunch will be provided.

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October 2015

Global Projects Showcase

October 26, 2015 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Want to travel next summer? Looking to fund your global project? Enjoy a showcase of students' research, experiences and travel stories from a variety of fields and global destinations.  Learn more about past international summer projects the Center for Global Initiatives has funded from the students themselves.  Lunch will be provided. Sheng-Shin Lee, Undergraduate Global Studies, Carolina Global Initiative Award, "BU Study Abroad: International Conflict Resolution" in Switzerland and the UK Joanna Helms, Ph D Musicology, Pre-Dissertation Travel Award, "Radio and the…

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FLAS Info Session

October 28, 2015 @ 9:00 am - 10:00 am

Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships support students taking less-commonly taught language and area studies coursework. This program provides both academic year and summer fellowships to graduate  and undergraduate students at the intermediate level and above. For more information, FAQ and contacts for your languages/regions of interest, visit http://areastudies.unc.edu/flas Deadline to apply is Friday, January 29, 2016 at 11:59 p.m. EST

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Jeffrey W. Rubin: “Studying Enduring Reform & Democratic Possibility in Latin America and Beyond”

October 28, 2015 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

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…

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November 2015

Aqsa Ijaz, “Parallel Narratives of Identity and Self in Contemporary Pakistani Art and Literature”

November 9, 2015 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Free

This lecture will be delivered by Aqsa Ijaz of the Government College University Lahore in Lahore, Pakistan. She is the junior visiting faculty fellow at the joint North Carolina Central University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill American Institute of Pakistan Studies. This presentation introduces the various voices in contemporary Pakistani literature and art that often go unnoticed in international representations of Pakistan. Using recent examples from Urdu and English fiction, Ijaz will bring out various local themes…

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Global Projects Showcase

November 16, 2015 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Want to travel next summer? Looking to fund your global project? Enjoy a showcase of student research, experiences and travel stories from a variety of fields and global destinations.  Learn more about past international summer projects the Center for Global Initiatives has funded from the students themselves.  Lunch will be provided. Julia Stroup, Undergraduate Peace, War, and Defense & Political Science, Carolina Global Initiative Award, "Conflict, Reconciliation, Justice, and International Law in the Hague and Rwanda"

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Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Info Session

November 16, 2015 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Join the Center for Global Initiatives for an info session on the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships. FLAS Fellowships support students taking less commonly taught language and area studies coursework. This program provides both academic year and summer fellowships to graduate and undergraduate students at the intermediate level and above. For more information, FAQ and contacts for your languages/regions of interest, visit the FLAS website. Deadline to apply is Friday, Jan. 29, 2016 at 11:59 p.m. EST.

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Foreign Language and Area Studies Info Session

November 17, 2015 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 pm
Free

Join the Center for Global Initiatives for an info session on the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships. FLAS Fellowships support students taking less commonly taught language and area studies coursework. This program provides both academic year and summer fellowships to graduate and undergraduate students at the intermediate level and above. For more information, FAQ and contacts for your languages/regions of interest, visit the FLAS website. Deadline to apply is Friday, Jan. 29, 2016 at 11:59 p.m. EST.

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January 2016

Global Projects Showcase

January 14, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Want to travel next summer? Looking to fund your global project? Enjoy a showcase of students' research, experiences and travel stories from a variety of fields and global destinations.  Learn more about past international summer projects the Center for Global Initiatives has funded from the students themselves.  Lunch will be provided. Chloe Karlovich, Undergraduate English & Comparative Literature, Carolina Global Initiative Award, "Chole Karlovich's Summer Studying Shakespeare in London and Oxford" Olivia LaSpina-Williams, Undergraduate Psychology, Carolina Global Initiative Award, "An Exploration of…

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Info session: Internship with the Institute for Philanthropy and Humanitarian Development (IPHD)

January 28, 2016 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

* 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…

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March 2016

Global Projects Showcase

March 8, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Want to travel next summer? Looking to fund your global project? Enjoy a showcase of students' research, experiences and travel stories from a variety of fields and global destinations. Learn more about past international summer projects the Center for Global Initiatives has funded from the students themselves. Lunch will be provided.

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Andrei Terian: “Between the Romance World and Eastern Europe: The Geoculture of Romanian Studies”

March 22, 2016 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Free

Dr. Andrei Terian (Lucian Blaga Univ. of Sibiu, Romania) will discuss the conflicting positioning of Romanian Studies in today’s geopolitical world as well as on our evolving intellectual and disciplinary maps. At the beginning of the 20th century, historian Nicolae Iorga famously defined the Romanian people as “a Latin island in a Slavic sea,” attempting to underscore his nation’s belonging to the Romance family, on one side, and, on the other, the difference between the Romanians and their neighbors. Iorga’s views have…

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April 2016

Dan Morrison, an international career and the OECD

April 8, 2016 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 am

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…

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September 2016

Paul Readman, “The Redress of the Past: Historical Pageants in Britain, 1905-2016”

September 14, 2016 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

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...

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Michael Morgan, “The USSR and the origins of the Helsinki Final Act”

September 15, 2016 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

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…

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January 2017

John Pickles, ‘Articulations of Capital: Global Production Networks and Regional Development’

January 17, 2017 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

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…

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September 2017

Fulbright U.S Student Program & Peace Corps Info Session

September 7, 2017 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

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…

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November 2017

Michal Kopeček, ‘The Politics of History in East Central Europe after 1989: From Liberal Consensus to Memory Wars

November 15, 2017 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

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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November 2018

Global Project Showcase

November 5, 2018 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Want to travel while you're at UNC? Looking to fund a global project? Enjoy a showcase of students’ research, experiences and travel stories from a variety of fields and global destinations.   Learn more about past global experiences the Center for Global Initiatives has funded from the students themselves.

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April 2019

Film as Racial Interstice: Temporalizing Film in 1920s Global Modernity

April 9, 2019 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

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…

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“…usually outside and accessible to all”: On Public Marking in Three Acts

April 25, 2019 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Masha Vlasova is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. She holds an MFA from Yale School of Art. Her photographs, sculptures, and films have been exhibited and screened at Smack Mellon, Anthology Archives, Abrons Arts Center, and the Border Project Gallery in New York, among others. Using film and sculpture, artist Masha Vlasova will explore the shifting social, political, and historical roles of monuments, public sculptures, and yard art in Central Asia and the United States. Her talk will address three…

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