Thursday, January 24, 2019

Upcoming Events

Information on other events that may be of interest to our members:




All Welcome

PROGRAM - SPRING 2019 
all events take place in the Pleasants Family auditorium of the Wilson Library on the main campus of UNC-Chapel Hill

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Thursday, February 7, 2019 - 5.30pm:
 John Judis 
(prominent journalist & author, formerly senior editor at the New Republic)
"THE POPULIST EXPLOSION:
How the 'Great Recession' Transformed American & European Politics" 

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Thursday, February 21 – 5.30pm:
Lawrence Wilkerson 
(former Chief of Staff to Colin Power & deputy director of the Policy Planning Staff in the U.S. State Department)
Rob Bracknell
(Assistant Legal Adviser, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO, Norfold, VA)
Comments by Prof. Richard Kohn (UNC-Chapel Hill)
“HAS AMERICA LOST ITS WAY? 
Leadership in Times of Crisis & the U.S. and the Rule of Law”

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Tuesday, March 5, 2019 - 5.30pm:
Norman Houston, OBE
(Director, Northern Ireland Bureau, Washington, DC; Senior Official, Northern Ireland Civil Service, Belfast, UK) 
"NORTHERN IRELAND and BREXIT:
The 'Troubles,' the Border, and the Future" 

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Tuesday, March 26, 2019 - 5.30pm:
Roundtable with leading academics: 
Susan Colbourn
(Yale University, New Haven, CT)
Mathias Hausler
(University of Regensburg, Germany)
Stephan Kieninger
(Wilson Center, Washington, DC)
"FROM CRISIS TO CRISIS: TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS
from the Days of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher
to Donald Trump, Angela Merkel, and Brexit"


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Wednesday, April 24, 2019 - 5.30pm:
Susan  Thornton 
(former Acting Assistant Secretary & Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State, 2016-2018); now senior research scholar at Yale University's Paul Tsai China Center & Fellow at Brookings)
"CAN WE LIVE WITH CHINA?
U.S.-Chinese Relations in Tumultuous Times"

The events will be introduced & moderated by Prof. Klaus Larres (UNC-Chapel Hill)

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