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Looted Art and the Power of Aesthetics

Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Hitchcock Multipurpose Room 150 South Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor 2023-2024 Brett Ashley Kaplan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign   Looted Art and the Power of Aesthetics   Why was the Nazi regime so obsessed with aesthetics in general and art looting in particular? This talk tackles the … Read more

POLISH MOVIE NIGHT ”BACK THEN”

FedEx GEC Nelson Mandela Auditorium 301 Pittsboro St, NC, United States

Marta is a romantic and a victim of fate. She shares a room with her sister Kasia and their grandmother, who tells her granddaughters insurgent stories instead of fairy tales. In the room behind the wall, their parents Tadek and … Read more

The Russo-Ukrainian War and the Future of Democracy

Rosenau Hall Auditorium

Please mark your calendars for a significant event commemorating the second anniversary of Russia’s ongoing incursion and destruction in Ukraine with a talk by renowned historian Professor Serhii Plokhy from Harvard University. The talk will illuminate the complex dynamics of the Russo-Ukrainian … Read more

Queer Focus Series: Politics & Law

Zoom

The impacts of war can be felt far outside the actual battlefield. Russia’s war against Ukraine has set off historic levels of migration, in addition to huge environmental and economic impacts. Modern war also disproportionately affects gender and sexual minorities, … Read more