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PAST EVENTS
| Year & Date |
Event |
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2013 |
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April 24, 2013 |
Prof. Peter Coclanis, UNC Assoc.Provost for Intl Affairs, "Global Crossroads: Southeast
Asia in Economic Perspective" |
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March 15, 2013 |
Fourth Annual Chapel Hill-Carrboro Middle School
Model
United Nations Conference |
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March 27, 2013 |
Shai Tamari, Associate Director,
Carolina Center for the Middle East, "Israel and the Gaza Strip" |
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February 27, 2013 |
Ed Haugh on
International Development Banks |
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January 23, 2013 |
Prof. Norman Christensen, Duke
University Nicholas School of the Environment, "Climate Change:
Dealing with certainties and uncertaincies" |
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2012 |
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December 19, 2012 |
Ali Eshraghi, journalist and
Rotary World Peace Scholar; "US-Iran Conflict: Is there any
breakthrough strategy?" |
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November 28, 2012 |
Ambassador Patrick Duddy,
Visiting Senior Lecturer, Duke University; "Recent Developments
in Venezuela and Their Implications for the United States" |
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November 10, 2012 |
Fourth miniMUNCH - Model UN high school
training conference |
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October 24, 2012 |
Susannah Rosenblatt, Senior
Communications Officer, UN Foundation's Nothing But Nets Campaign,
spoke on "Malaria Kills, Nets Save Lives." |
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September 19, 2012 |
UNC Political Science
Prof. Graeme Robertson spoke on "Russia Following
Putin's Reelection" |
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May 23, 2012 |
Congressman David Price spoke on
"Building Democratic Institutions in Emerging Democracies” |
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April 25, 2012 |
UNC Keenan Flagler Business
School Associate Dean Peter Brews discussed "America in the Post
-Meltdown, Upside Down World" |
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March 28, 2012 |
Duke Professor Hwansoo Kim
discussed Passing the Baton in North Korea |
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March 9, 2012 |
Third Chapel Hill-Carrboro Middle School
Model United Nations Conference |
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February 22, 2012 |
UNC Professor Bereket Selassie
discussed Somalia |
| January
25, 2012 |
Professor Andrew Reynolds, Chair of UNC-CH's Deparment of Global
Studies, discussed "The Arab Spring:
Uprisings, Revolutions and Wars" |
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2011 |
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| December
14, 2011 |
Lunch & Learn meeting experienced
"Fragile States, Global Consequences" seminar for itself |
| November
16, 2011 |
Emeritus Professor William
Leuchtenburg discussed "Eleanor Roosevelt and the UN" |
| November
12, 2011 |
Third miniMUNCH Model UN high
school training conference was held at the Carolina Center for
Educational Excellence. |
| October
26, 2011 |
UN Foundation Public
Policy Director Minh-Thu Pham discussed
"The United Nations - In Everyone's Interest." |
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October
4, 2011 |
Conference on
“Fragile States, Global Consequences.” Details |
| September
28, 2011 |
Professor Norm Christensen,
founding Dean, and research professor, at Duke University’s Nichols
School of the Environment, discussed "Meeting the United Nations
Millennium Development Goals in a Changing Environment" |
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May 25, 2011 |
Dr. Akram Khater, Professor of
History and Director of NCSU’s Middle East Studies Program, provided his expert insights on the implications of the "Arab
Spring." |
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April 27,
2011 |
"Prof. Scott Silliman, Duke
University Professor of the Practice of Law and Executive Director
of Duke University’s Center on Law, Ethics and National
Security, discussed military tribunals versus civilian
trials in the war on terror." |
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April 8, 2011 |
Second Chapel-Hill/Carrboro Middle School Model United Nations
Conference:
90 students from three Chapel Hill-Carrboro middle schools
came together to participate in a day-long conference on
the topic of The Israeli–Palestinian conflict. |
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March 23, 2011 |
Professor Jay Swaminathan, Sr.
Associate Dean of UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School discussed the
implications of the emergence of India for the global balance of
power. |
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February 23, 2011 |
Paul Nolte, Exchange Professor,
UNC Department of
Political Science, on "Whither Germany? 20 years
after reunification: from redemption to unexpected challenges" |
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January 26, 2011 |
Xi Chen, Asst. Prof., Dept of
Political Science, UNC-Chapel Hill;
on "Political Stability
in China and World Politics" |
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2010 |
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December 15, 2010 |
Erdman (Pal) Palmore, Prof. Emeritus,
Duke Univ. Center for the Study of Aging; Pres., UNA West Triangle
Chapter spoke on "Global Aging: Blessing or Curse?" |
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November 17, 2010 |
Georges
Nzongola-Ntalaja, Professor, African and Afro-American
Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill discussed "Problems
of Governance in Africa" |
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November 13, 2010 |
Second miniMUNCH at the Carolina Center for Educational Excellence
50 students from the three Chapel
Hill/Carrboro high schools, the two Orange County high schools,
Durham Academy and South Point High School in Belmont, NC gathered
at the CCEE for the second miniMUNCH, an informal Model UN training
conference, meant to help MUN newcomers in high schools to become
accustomed to MUN procedures. miniMUNCH was chaired by officers of
the UNC UNO club (two committees) and by senior officers from CHCC
high schools (one committee). The conference was organized by AJ
Horowitz, president of the UNC UNO club, and our Board member, Björn
Hennings, Director of the Carolina Center for Educational Excellence
at UNC-Chapel Hill. Photos |
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October 27, 2010 |
Lunch & Learn:
Professor Michael Struett, Assistant
Professor of Political Science in the School of Public and
International Affairs at NC State University, discussed the
relationship between ICC and the UN and its effects on the global
order in his talk: "The UN Security Council and the
International Criminal Court: Working together for Peace and
Justice." |
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September 22, 2010 |
Lunch & Learn:
Robert Jenkins - Director,
Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies, UNC-Chapel
Hill. "Conflict, Vision, and Capacity:
Evaluating Success among International Organizations in the
former Yugoslavia." |
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May 26, 2010 |
Lunch & Learn:
Professor Niklaus Steiner, the Director of UNC - Chapel Hill’s
Center for Global Initiatives, spoke to us on the subject of
Migration and Citizenship, a modern phenomenon
which, in one way or another touches all of us and shapes the
politics and relations of all countries. |
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April 28, 2010 |
Lunch & Learn:
Tom Verner, magician-founder of
Magicians Without Borders, and his wife Janet, a
mime, told us about UNHCR and the vital work it does and share
some of their magic. |
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April 9, 2010 |
First
Chapel-Hill/Carrboro Middle School Model United Nations Conference
120 students from the four Chapel Hill/Carrboro middle schools came together to participate in a day-long conference on the topic
of Iranian Nuclear Development. The conference was organized by the
presidents of the UNC-Chapel Hill Model UN club, Mike
O'Shea and Dominic Dascoli, in cooperation with the Chapel
Hill/Carrboro City Schools, the UNC School of Education and the West
Triangle Chapter of the United Nations Association. |
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March 31, 2010 |
West Triangle UNA Chapter
Presents
The Ciompi Quartet
in a Benefit Concert Provided Anti-Malaria Bed Nets for African
Children.
Nearly half of the world’s
population, about 3.3 billion people, are at risk of contracting
malaria. The disease kills about a million people annually in
Africa, most of them children under five, one of whom dies of
malaria every 30 seconds. One of the best preventatives is
long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets, which can prevent malaria
transmission by up to 90%. The nets stop mosquitoes from biting
during the night and the insecticide on the nets kill the insects
when they land on them.
The proceeds of this
concert, $4,000, went directly to the United Nations Foundation’s
Nothing But Nets
campaign for the
purchase and distribution of the nets and for education about their
proper use.
The Ciompi Quartet
was founded in 1965
at Duke University by renowned Italian violinist Giorgio Ciompi. All
its members are Duke professors and play a leading role in the
cultural life of the University.
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March 24, 2010 |
Lunch & Learn:
Eve Van Devender of the Center for
International Health of RTI (Research Triangle Institute), a leading
research institute based in Research Triangle Park, discussed "Malaria’s
impact on third world developing countries".
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February 24, 2010 |
Lunch and Learn:
UNC Assistant Professor Navin Bapat will
spoke on "Explaining Wars on Terrorism". |
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February 11, 2010 |
Workshop: UN
Peacekeeping - It's History and Effectiveness |
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January 27, 2010 |
Lunch and Learn:
The UNICEF film
"Ujeli - the story of a Nepali girl." |
| 2009 |
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December 16, 2009 |
Lunch and Learn: Ambassador Tom Miller, President,
United Nations Association of the USA |
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November 18, 2009 |
Lunch and Learn: NCSU School of
Public and International Affairs Lecturer Mark Nance discussed
the European and US responses to the "Great Recession".
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October 28, 2009 |
Lunch and Learn: UN Day commemoration
with UNCG Professor/ Director, Lloyd International Honors College, Dr.
Jerry Pubantz discussed "After Iraq and Afghanistan, Where
Does the UN Go From Here?" |
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September 23 , 2009 |
Lunch and Learn: Duke Visiting
Professor Noah Weisbord spoke on "Judging Aggression at
the International Criminal Court When Peace and Justice Clash." |
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May 27, 2009 |
Lunch and Learn: The work of the
Human Rights Center of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, whose mission is
guided by Eleanor Roosevelt’s quote on Universal Human Rights. Our
speakers included the Center’s Director and Assistant Director and
several student volunteers. The Center’s Director is Judith
Blau, Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill. Professor Blau is the author of numerous books on human rights and
the director of UNC’s interdisciplinary minor in Social and Economic
Justice. Rafael Gallegos, the Center’s Assistant Director, is a
doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at UNC-CH. His main
areas of interest are immigration, education, inequality, and human
rights. |
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April 15, 2009 |
Lunch and Learn: Congressman David
Price, Representative for the Fourth Congressional District of North
Carolina spoke on "Challenges and Opportunities Around
the Globe: A Congressional Update." |
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March 25,
2009 |
Lunch and Learn:
Jalil Roshandel, Associate Professor in the Political Science
Department and Director of the Security Studies Program of East
Carolina University. Professor Roshandel has extensive research
and teaching experience at universities in Iran, Europe, the Middle
East, Turkey and the United States; his publications include "The
United States and Iran: Policy, Challenges and Opportunities". He helped us understand
more deeply the volatile relationship between the two countries and
proposed some possible prescriptions for engagement. |
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February 25, 2009 |
Lunch and Learn:
Professor Jonathan Weiler, Director of
Undergraduate Studies and Adjunct Assistant Professor in UNC's
Curriculum in International and Area Studies, helped us answer the
question, "The New Russia -
Same as the Old Russia?" |
|
January 28, 2009 |
Lunch and Learn: Professor Peggy
Bentley, Associate Dean for Public Health of UNC's School of Public
Health spoke at our meeting about "The UN Millennium
Development Goals and the Disastrous State of Maternal and Child Health:
The Case of India." |
| 2008 |
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| December 17, 2008 |
Lunch & Learn:
Robin Kirk, Director of the Duke Human Rights Center, joined us
in commemorating the 60th anniversary of the International
Declaration of Human Rights and international Human Rights Day. |
| November 19, 2008
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Lunch & Learn:
Duke Law Professor-emeritus Horace "Robbie" Robertson
spoke about the "Law of the Sea". |
| October 22, 2008 |
Lunch & Learn: UN
Day commemoration. Our speaker
was Jane Roberts, co-founder of "34 Million Friends of
UNFPA." |
| September 24, 2008
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Lunch & Learn:
Professor Jason West of UNC’s School of Public Health spoke about Global Warming. |
| May 28, 2008 |
Lunch & Learn:
Will Davis, Director of the United Nations Information Center in
Washington DC, discussed "The Future of the UN". |
| April 23, 2008 |
Lunch & Learn:
Professor Madeline Morris, Duke Law School professor and Director,
Duke/Geneva Institute in Transnational Law and Chief Counsel to the
Office of the Chief Defense Counsel for the Military Commission at
Guantanamo spoke about "Terror and Tyranny: Preventive Detention
in the Age of Jihad." |
| April 18, 2008 |
Screening of the documentary
film Panama
Deception Details |
| March 26, 2008 |
Lunch & Learn:
Michael Tigar, Visiting Professor, Duke
University spoke on "Immunity and Impunity: International
Criminal Justice Since Nuremberg."
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| February 27,
2008 |
Lunch & Learn:
Glenn Kessler, Washington Post Diplomatic
Correspondent discussed the development of the Bush
administration's Israeli-Palestinian policy and the prospects for
2008 after Annapolis.
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| January 23,
2008 |
Lunch & Learn:
Julius Nyang'oro, Chairman UNC African &
Afro-American Studies spoke on "Reflections on Current
Developments in U.S. - African Relations"
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| 2007 |
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| December 19,
2007 |
Lunch & Learn:
Shoji Ogawa, Consul General, Government of
Japan discussed "World Problems and the United
Nations: How the United States and Japan Can Make the United Nations
More Effective."
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| November 28,
2007 |
Lunch & Learn:
Kevin Cassidy of the UN
International Labor Organization spoke on "Creating Work for
All: the UN Agenda"
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November
10th, 2007 |
UNA
Traveling Film Festival Durham
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| October 24,
2007 |
Lunch & Learn:
Deborah Derrick, Executive Director of the
Better World Campaign, a leading NGO working to strengthen the
relationship between the United States and the U.N., spoke about
the "U.N.'s Role in the World: What Participation in it Brings to the
Table for the U.S." |
| September 19,
2007 |
Lunch & Learn:
Marty Rosenbluth, Amnesty
International-USA's Country Specialist for Israel, the Occupied
Territories and the Palestinian Authority, discussed "Why Law
Matters in Times of War." |
| May 23, 2007 |
Lunch and Learn:
"Connections: Population Change, Mobility and Emerging Diseases";
the speaker was Prof. Melinda Meade, UNC-CH. |
| April 25, 2007 |
Lunch and Learn:
Professor Omid Safi, of UNC's Department of Religious Studies, whose
specialty is Islamic Studies spoke to us about "Iran Beyond the
'Axis of Evil'." |
| April 14th, 2007 |
Human Rights Conference:
“Human Rights, an Endangered Concept: The United Nations and the
Advancement of Human Rights.” |
| March 28, 2007 |
Lunch & Learn: "Cuba," Prof. Louis Perez, UNC-CH |
| February
28, 2007 |
Lunch & Learn:
Mr. John Sylvester Jr., former US Foreign
Service Officer, spoke on "North Korea: Still the Hermit Kingdom." |
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January 24, 2007 |
Lunch and Learn: Professor Kevin Hewison, Director
of UNC's Carolina Asia Center and an expert on Thailand, discussed
"Thailand's Political Future After the
Coup."
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| 2006 |
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December 20 2006 |
Lunch & Learn:
Prof Andrew Reynolds of UNC's Political
Science Dept spoke on "What Hope for Democratic Stability in
Afghanistan?" |
| November 15, 2006 |
Lunch & Learn: “Maternal Health and Well-Being: A
Cornerstone of the Millennium Development Goals.”
Carol Bellamy, former Executive
Director of UNICEF. |
| October
25, 2006 |
Lunch & Learn:
Prof. Bereket Selassie of UNC's
Department of African and Afro-American Studies spoke on "UN
Peacekeeping Operations: Between A Rock and A Hard Place." |
| October 24, 2006 |
UN Day
(See November 15 commemoration below) |
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September 30, 2006 |
UNA Film Festival: Global Voices of Hope
and Courage |
| September 27, 2006 |
Lunch & Learn: John
Deng, Deputy Representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural
Representative Office in the United States, spoke about Taiwan's
situation in the world. |
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