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The Future of Work in a Transatlantic Context

This panel is designed for students and alumni who want to work with/for European companies/organizations in emerging technologies. Experts in health, science, environment, automation, and artificial intelligence will speak about their experiences, and will advise students about a successful career … Read more

THE ROMANIAN FILM FESTIVAL, 9TH EDITION: “HomeLands”

The 9th edition of the RFF titled Homelands reflects on this year’s current events, while celebrating the power of film to map out new meanings into a world where people have been displaced by wars, economic crises, political instability, and … Read more

Education and Inequality in the US and Germany

FedEx Global Center #4003 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

This in-person event is part of the TransAtlantic Masters Program Fall Friday Lecture Series. Please attend! GEC 4003 at noon ET. Nora Weber ’18 at the University of Indiana Bloomington, and Tess Snodgrass ‘16 at UMass, Amherst.   Tess Snodgrass … Read more

Region of Suffering and Hope: The Czechoslovak Borderlands after World War II through the Eyes of Local Jews

Fedex Global Center #2008-2010 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

After the Second World War, the Czechoslovak borderlands (known as the Sudetenland during the war) endured continued violence and ethnic cleansing, which also affected German-speaking Jews, many of whom had just returned from concentration or labor camps. In 1947, representatives … Read more

Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire in Palestine

FedEx Global Center #1005 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Covering more than two hundred years of history, Caroline Elkins reveals an evolutionary and racialized doctrine that espoused an unrelenting deployment of violence to secure and preserve the nation’s imperial interests. She outlines how ideological foundations of violence were rooted … Read more

Field of education and the transnational cleavage

FedEx Global Center #4003 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

This in-person event is part of the TransAtlantic Masters Program Fall Friday Lecture Series. We develop a micro approach to assess how social structure is expressed in voting for Green and TAN parties. This study seeks to do three things. … Read more

Film Screening: I Never Cry (Jak Najdalej Stad)

Nelson Mandela Auditorium, Fedex Global Center 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

  Ola must travel to Ireland to bring her father's body back to Poland after he died working at a construction site. But never mind her dad, Ola wants to know if he saved money for the car he had … Read more

Film Screening: Eternal Winter (Örök Tél)

Nelson Mandela Auditorium, Fedex Global Center 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

  Christmas 1944. Soviet soldiers invade Hungary and drag every young woman with German origins away from their villages and transport them to a brutal Soviet labour camps. Here they are forced to work in the coal mines under inhumane … Read more

Film Screening: Let There Be Light (Nech J Svetlo)

Nelson Mandela Auditorium, Fedex Global Center 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

  A Slovakian man who does construction work in Germany learns that his son has joined a paramilitary youth group and was involved in the bullying and death of a classmate.   This event is part of the 2023 EU … Read more

Film Screening: The Raven and the Seagull (LYKKELÆNDER)

Nelson Mandela Auditorium, Fedex Global Center 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

  This documentary explores the myths and misconceptions which exist between the people and landscapes of Greenland and Denmark.   Refreshments will be provided. Parking will be available in the GEC parking deck during the screenings.   This event is … Read more