UNC Global Affairs will host Ambassador (Ret.) Charles Ries, one of the State Department’s most noted experts on the formation of the EU and beyond, for a Diplomatic Discussion on why Brexit matters and the future of transatlantic issues. Pizza will be served! In June 2016, … Read more
“This case has become much bigger than just Ukraine vs Russia. It has become a test of who will prevail: Russia, or the post-war international legal order.” In 2022, Harold Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, … Read more
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, Thomas Friedman declared globalization the new economic order in The World Is Flat. But the reign of globalization as we’ve known it is over, argues Financial Times columnist and CNN analyst Rana Foroohar, … Read more
Get ready to “face the music” with the UNC Russian Flagship Program. Enjoy a documentary about a new Kazakh pop culture phenomenon: Q-Pop (Qazaq-Pop). Петь свои песни (Eng. Face the Music; Katerina Suvorova, dir.) explores the impact of Q-Pop on … Read more
The UNC Center for European Studies presents MEET EU Film Festival (January 20-24, 2023) in the FedEx Global Education Center's Nelson Mandela Auditorium. Friday, January 20th 5:30pm - I Never Cry (Jak Najdalej Stad) Ola must travel to Ireland to … Read more
Need extra luck this semester? Join the UNC Russian Flagship Program and Chapel Hill Film Society for a screening of the Russian cosmonaut good-luck film and Soviet cult classic Белое солнце пустыни(Eng: White Sun of the Desert; Vladimir Motyl, dir., … Read more
Mark your calendars for the evening of April 21, 2022! Marie Yovanovitch, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan, will speak to the Carolina community in a discussion with Graeme Robertson, professor of political science and director of the … Read more
Few countries have been shaped by war as much as Russia. War, in many ways, is the burden of Russian history. Not surprisingly, Russian cinema (Soviet and post-Soviet) offers some of the most profound representations of war in the history … Read more
What does post-Soviet Russia make of the astonishing but troubled legacy of the USSR’s space exploration program? How does it celebrate it, how does it use it? The Russian Flagship Program cordially invites you to watch and discuss Vremya pervykh … Read more
