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Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Center

Professor Adrienne Edgar of UC-Santa Barbara will be speaking in the Nelson Mandela Auditorium (Global Center) on April 16th from 5:30-7:00PM. She will be presenting on her fascinating new book Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet … Read more

CMEIS Lecture: Mostafa Minawi on Arab-Ottoman Imperialists

Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Center

Dear colleagues and friends, We are happy to announce the last talk of the CMEIS lecture series this year.    Dr. Mostafa Minawi, Director of Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies (CO+POS) and an Associate Professor of History at Cornell University, … Read more

CMEIS Lecture Series: Elora Shehabuddin

Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Center

The Center for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies will be hosting its latest in 2022-2023 lecture series this Monday, March 6! Elora Shehabuddin, Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Global Studies at UC Berkeley, for a talk on Muslim women … Read more

CMEIS Lecture Series: Arash Davari

Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Center

Dr. Arash Davari, Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, will give a talk on "Human Rights Guerrillas: Iran between Global 1968 and Global 1979." The event is going to take place on: Feb 20, … Read more

CMEIS Lecture Series: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite

Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Center

Please join us for the first CMEIS talk of this semester on "Late Imperial Chinese Islam between History, Genealogy, and Memory: The State, the Muslims, and the People Around."   On Monday, Feb 6, we will host Dr. Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Professor … Read more

Krasno Event: Polish Ambassador Marek Magierowski

Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Center

Announcing the first Krasno Event of 2023! The Ambassador of Poland to the U.S, Marek Magierowski, will be our guest at the first Krasno Global Event/Ambassadors Forum this semester on Wednesday, January 25, 2023, 5.30pm.  Ambassador Magierowski will talk about "POLAND and RUSSIA'S WAR ON … Read more

Krasno Event: Prof. Benjamin Hett on “The Death of Democracy”

Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Center

Dear Colleagues and Friends, in many countries around the world democracy has become an endangered species. In its 2022 report Freedom House concluded that "democracy in the United States has suffered serious erosion" and the Economist's 2022 democracy index once again refers to the … Read more

UNC-CES Public Film Screening: Zu Weit Weg (Too Far Away, 2019)

Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Center

UNC's Center for European Studies is hosting a public film screening as part of its "German Week" this fall! PUBLIC FILM SCREENING: ZU WEIT WEG (TOO FAR AWAY, 2019) Thursday, November 3 | 5:30 pm EDT Nelson Mandela Auditorium | FedEx … Read more

UNC-CES Public Talk: Environmentalism during the Weimar Era

Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Center

UNC's Center for European Studies is hosting a public talk as part of it's "German Week" this fall! "Environmentalism during the Weimar Era" Thursday, October 27 | 5:30 pm EDT Nelson Mandela Auditorium | FedEx Global Education Center Public Talk … Read more

“The Conference” Film Screening & Discussion

Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Center

As part of the 2022 Campus Weeks: Germany on Campus, join us for a film screening and discussion of the 2022 German film, The Conference! Originally entitled Die Wannseekonferenz, the film depicts the notorious January 1942 meeting of Nazi leaders at … Read more