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Politics and Journalism in Turkey: Between the EU and Middle East

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

Cüneyt Özdemir co-founded CNN Türk and hosted the 5N1K program in Turkey. There will be a coffee hour starting at 4:30pm that students, faculty, staff and members of the general public are welcome to attend. A public lecture will follow at 5:30pm. … Read more

Spanish Language Lunch

Weathervane Restaurant University Place, 201 S Estes Drive , Chapel Hill , NC, United States

Featuring Frede Castelloes, Senior Lecturer in Portuguese and Spanish Interested in polishing or refreshing your Spanish speaking skills in a warm and welcoming environment? Join UNC faculty discussion leaders at Weathervane restaurant in Chapel Hill for a lunch where participants … Read more

$20

May ’68: New Approaches and Perspectives

National Humanities Center 7 T.W. Alexander Drive, Durham, NC, United States

The main goal of the May ’68: New Approaches and Perspectives colloquium is to bring together, for a day of intensive intellectual exchange, scholars interested in May ’68 in France, as well as its sources, parallels, and after-effects, from a … Read more

Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century

569 Hamilton Hall 102 Emerson Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

This event is part of the North Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop Series. Based on six dozen autobiographies of the age cohort born during the Weimar Republic, this project looks at the ruptures of German history from below which … Read more

French Language Lunch

Weathervane Restaurant University Place, 201 S Estes Drive , Chapel Hill , NC, United States

Featuring Jessica Tanner, Assistant Professor of French Interested in polishing or refreshing your French language speaking skills in a warm and welcoming environment? Join UNC faculty discussion leaders at Weathervane restaurant in Chapel Hill for a lunch where participants are … Read more

$20

The two steps of the “Europeanization” of EU elections: A comparative analysis of Germany, Italy, and Spain

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

Conventional wisdom and much of the specialized literature state that national politics drive the voting decision-making process in the European Parliament (EP) elections, leaving European matters aside. This Spring Lecture by CES Visiting Scholar Mariano Torcal will argue that the EU dimension … Read more

German Language Lunch

Weathervane Restaurant University Place, 201 S Estes Drive , Chapel Hill , NC, United States

Featuring Inga Pollman, Assistant Professor in German Interested in polishing or refreshing your German language speaking skills in a warm and welcoming environment? Join UNC faculty discussion leaders at Weathervane restaurant in Chapel Hill for a lunch where participants are encouraged … Read more

$20

THE HISTORY AND CONTEXTS OF TODAY’S MIGRANTS TO EUROPE

Flyleaf Books 752 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd (Historic Airport Rd), Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Niklaus Steiner, Director, Center for Global Initiatives What is the difference between “immigrants” and “refugees,” both subsets of “migrants?” This talk will explore these differences which have important ethical and practical implications for contemporary Europe as it contends with an … Read more

French Language Lunch

Weathervane Restaurant University Place, 201 S Estes Drive , Chapel Hill , NC, United States

Featuring Jessica Tanner, Assistant Professor of French Interested in polishing or refreshing your French language speaking skills in a warm and welcoming environment? Join UNC faculty discussion leaders at Weathervane restaurant in Chapel Hill for a lunch where participants are … Read more

$20