Professor Michele Rivkin-Fish’s second book, Unmaking Russia’s Abortion Culture: Family Planning and the Struggle for a Liberal Biopolitics (Vanderbilt UP, 2025) traces the work of health professionals, writers, and activists who drove a revolution in Russian reproductive practices by enabling the routine … Read more

This presentation examines the suspension of legal boundaries by state healthcare institutions and professionals during the initial months of the full-scale war in Ukraine and shows how state entities prioritized prompt delivery of medicine to patients over the legal procedure. … Read more

Andrei Kureichik is a Belarusian Playwright, Screenwriter, and Political Activist. On November 8, he hosts a lunch-and-learn book presentation focusing on his new work about Belarusian political prisoners and the power of art in resisting repression. Insulted. Belarus; Voices of … Read more

Professor Letitia Guran (UNC-CH) will lead a fascinating exploration of Langston Hughes’s involvement with communism in the 1930s and his subsequent reflections on race and repression in the U.S. and Soviet Russia. Her talk will examine Hughes’s writings during his … Read more

Welcome to the 2023-24 lunch & learn series for DEIA in the world language and content classroom at UNC. Through this series, we will engage with language departments, faculty, area studies centers, and visiting scholars to discuss challenges to and … Read more

The key to understanding today‘s Czech theatre lies in the nineties – with the Velvet Revolution of 1989 and the transformation processes towards democratization and a market economy, new themes and artistic approaches to reality had to be found. The … Read more

Hear from a panel of phenomenal UNC alumni in globally focused careers! Panelists represent a variety of career options: government, private industry, NGOs, and more. They will share their professional journeys from studying (like you!) at UNC, through the career … Read more

UNC CSEEES Lunch and Learn Series Presents: Graeme Robertson is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A specialist in comparative politics, Graeme’s work focuses on political protest, opposition and the dynamics … Read more