Come explore internships and study abroad options. Going abroad can enrich you experience as a budding anthropologist and maybe you can even exercise some skills you have learned in class!
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Globalizing Inequality: Housing, Air, and Water Quality in Industrial Zones in Hanoi, Vietnam
Odum Institute 95th Anniversary Speaker Series | Professor Mai Nguyen
In honor of our 95th anniversary, the Odum Institute is organizing a speaker series to highlight the interdisciplinary impacts of social science research. As part of this series, Professor Mai Nguyen of the UNC-CH Department of City and Regional Planning will lead a talk on her research in affordable housing and environmental quality in Vietnam, followed by a Q&A session. Refreshments will be provided.
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SUA Interest Meeting | September 17, 2019 in Alumni 308 @ 5:30pm
- Fulbright U.S Student Program| Deadline: September 19, 2019
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program allows graduating seniors, master’s students, doctoral candidates, and recent graduates to self-design a research/study project,or serve as an English Teaching Assistant in one of more than 160 countries. Visit UNC Fulbright to learn more about the program and application process!
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A Conversation with Filippo Grandi | September 19 @ 7:00 PM in Memorial Hall
Join a conversation between Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and Susan Stigant (UNC ’05), Director for Africa Programs, US Institute of Peace, to gain a deeper understanding of why there are now more displaced people around the world than ever before.
Filippo Grandi has been engaged in international cooperation for 33 years, primarily with the United Nations. He was born in Milan in 1957 and has been engaged in refugee and humanitarian work for more than 30 years. From 2010 to 2014, he served as Commissioner-General of UNRWA, the UN Agency for Palestine refugees, having previously been its Deputy Commissioner-General since 2005. He also served as Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Afghanistan and has worked with NGOs and UNHCR in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and at Geneva headquarters.
Grandi is the 11th United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He was elected by the UN General Assembly on 2016 to serve a five-year term.
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Justice After Dictatorship in Thailand: Lecture by Tyrell Haberkorn | September 20 @ 3:30PM-5:00PM – Carolina Hall 220
On 22 May 2014, a military junta calling itself the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) launched a coup and ousted the elected government in Thailand. On 16 July 2019, the NCPO formally ceased to exist when a new civilian cabinet was sworn in following a national election. When the NCPO launched the coup, they promised to restore the rule of law after ten years of political conflict but their regime instead undermined its most fundamental principles. The NCPO employed the arbitrary, disproportionate and politicized use of law to violate the rights of civilians, facilitate extrajudicial violence, and guarantee impunity for the coup and subsequent crimes. Justice, long tenuous in Thailand, disappeared entirely for those deemed to be enemies of the junta. This paper takes this moment of transition as a point of departure at which to reflect on how the past five years of dictatorship might be redressed and justice forged. The urgency of justice is framed with an initial accounting of the laws broken and principles of human rights violated by the NCPO. Then, inspired by feminist court decision rewriting projects, the paper revisits a series of cases in which the court adjudicated in favor of the coup and the abrogation of the people’s rights. Plotting alternative logics, interpretation of evidence and conclusions is a way to at once imagine what justice might look like and assess the depth of legal, social, and political transformation necessary to make it real.
Tyrell Haberkorn is Associate Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focus is on state violence and dissident cultural politics in Thailand from the end of the absolute monarchy in 1932 until the present.
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2019 Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film Kick-Off | September 29 @ 4:00pm: Varsity Theater, 123 E. Franklin St. Chapel Hill
Join us at the Chapel Hill landmark Varsity Theater as we kick off the 2019 Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film with a screening of Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart.
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Passport to GO!| Deadline: September 30, 2019
Never had a U.S. passport? If this is your first year at UNC and you have financial need, we welcome you to campus by funding your first U.S. passport! The Passport to Go! program not only helps you apply and pay for your passport, but it will also connect you to a network of global opportunities on campus and abroad. The application is short and simple, so don’t wait. Apply now!