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European Defense and Transatlantic Relations: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue

FedEx Global Center #3009 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

David Armitage will discuss the implications of recent European security and defense initiatives on transatlantic relations, placing these moves in a broader historical context. David Armitage is the Senior Analyst for Europe at the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of … Read more

Urban-Rural Divides in Europe | TAM Friday Lecture Series

FedEx Global Center #3009 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Rahsaan Maxwell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The central question for his research is how national boundaries operate. Within that theme, he has pursued numerous topics including … Read more

Populism in Central Europe and Beyond: The Hungarian Case | TAM Friday Lecture Series

FedEx Global Center #3009 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Are we witnessing a populist momentum (Zeitgeist) worldwide? In Europe, especially in the Central European region, where former communist states have been successfully transformed to liberal democracies, we see the emergence of populist political forces as a significant tendency in … Read more

Info Session: Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships

FedEx Global Center #3009 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Learn more about Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships! Meet FLAS coordinators from the four Area Studies/global centers that provide FLAS awards, hear about details including the application process, and ask your burning questions. Check the Facebook event for … Read more

Brexit in Context | TAM Friday Lecture Series

FedEx Global Center #3009 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Susan Dabney Pennybacker’s research centers upon the political culture of modern Britain and the former British empire. Her book-in-progress, entitled Fire By Night, Cloud by Day: refuge and exile in postwar London, concerns the movement of individuals between metropolitan London … Read more

The Populist Challenge: A European Perspective

FedEx Global Center #3009 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

CES Visiting Scholar Christiane Lemke will address the rise of right and left-wing populism after the Eurozone crisis and the refugee crisis. Relevant to the upcoming 2019 European Parliament elections, her talk will suggest some conceptual commonalities but also differences … Read more

Banking on Markets: The Transformation of Bank-State Ties in Europe and Beyond | TAM Friday Lecture Series

FedEx Global Center #3009 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Dr. Rachel Epstein is Professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies and Academic Co-Director of the Colorado European Union Center of Excellence. Her research and teaching focus on the relationship between the economy and security outcomes, international organizations … Read more

Marente de Moor Book Reading

FedEx Global Center #3009 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Join EU Prize for Literature winner Marente de Moor for a reading of selections from her book The Dutch Maiden. Learn more about de Moor and the EUPL here. Contact Sarah Hutchison, PhD, to receive a few free copies of … Read more

American Decline, Europe and the end of the Bipolar World Order: Raymond Aron’s Neoconservative turn of the 1970s

FedEx Global Center #3009 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Dr. Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Yale University April 17 | 5.15-6.45 pm 3009 FedEx Global Education Center, UNC-CH Cosponsored by the Carolina Seminar on Transnational and Modern Global History and UNC-CH Center for European Studies Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins is a historian of Modern … Read more