EPIIC

Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship. Through innovative and rigorous curricula and projects, EPIIC prepares young people to play active roles in their communities, whether at the local, national or global level.

Date & Time October 20, 2018 11:15am - 12:45pm
Location
Granoff Music Center, Distler Performance Hall
Program
EPIIC

Preventing Deadly Conflict Lecture with Abi Williams

As a part of Parents Weekend, IGL Director Abi Williams will be giving a speech about "Preventing Deadly Conflict" in the Granoff Music Center, Distler Performance Hall on Saturday.

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Date & Time March 7-9, 2019 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Location
TBD
Program
EPIIC

The Norris and Margery Bendetson EPIIC International Symposium

The international symposium is an annual public forum designed and enacted by EPIIC students. It features international practitioners, academics, public intellectuals, activists and journalists who come to Tufts each year for four days of discussion and debate in panels and small-group discussions determined by students in the EPIIC course. Students who conduct research projects also have the opportunity to present alongside the invited experts.

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Date & Time September 4, 2018 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Location
Lane 100
Program
EPIIC

2018-2019 Colloquium: Migration in a Turbulent World

The 2018-2019 EPIIC Colloquium will critically examine the multidimensional aspects of migration. Migration has become a worldwide phenomenon and its importance today is clear. Concerns with the demographic, economic, social, security, legal and political consequences of international migration have also increased.

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Date & Time February 27, 2018 8:00pm
Location
Barnum 104
Program
EPIIC

2018 EPIIC Film Series: A World in Disarray

"A World in Disarray", a VICE special report, is a feature-length documentary that explores the disorder in today's international landscape, how it arose, and how it plays out in four areas of conflict and tension: Syria, Ukraine, the South China Sea, and North Korea.

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Date & Time February 20, 2018 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location
Barnum 104
Program
EPIIC

The 2018 EPIIC Film Series: THE SQUARE

2014 Academy Award Nominated Documentary: THE SQUARE

The Egyptian Revolution had been an ongoing rollercoaster for two and a half years and the news only offered a glimpse of the bloodiest battle, an election, or a million man march. At the beginning of July 2013, Egypt deposed its second president within the span of three years.

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Date & Time February 16, 2018 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location
Mugar 200, The Fletcher School
Program
EPIIC

Building a Fair and Constructive Sino-US Partnership with Shen Dingli

A key independent academic voice in China in arms control and nonproliferation, he is Professor of International Relations at Fudan University and Founder and Director of China’s first non-government-based Program on Arms Control and Regional Security. His research areas cover the China-U.S. security relationship, nuclear arms control and disarmament, nuclear weapons policy of the US and China, regional nonproliferation issues concerning South Asia, Northeast Asia and Middle East, test ban, missile defense, export control, as well as China’s foreign and defense policies.

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Date & Time February 13, 2018 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Location
Barnum 104
Program
EPIIC

The EPIIC 2018 Film Series on “Is the Liberal World Order Ending?” presents Siege of Jadotville

In September 1961, Carey was a 24-year-old lieutenant, Gorman a wide-eyed 17-year-old private, part of an Irish contingent of United Nations peacekeepers deployed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to stop the country descending into chaos. Even at a distance of 55 years, their voices crack with emotion as they recall how their mission turned into a battle for survival in Ireland’s first ever international military deployment.

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Date & Time March 1-3, 2018 9:00am - 7:00pm
Location
TBD
Program
EPIIC

EPIIC 2018 Symposium: Is The Liberal World Order Ending?

The international symposium is an annual public forum designed and enacted by EPIIC students. It features international practitioners, academics, public intellectuals, activists and journalists who come to Tufts each year for four days of discussion and debate in panels and small-group discussions determined by students in the EPIIC course. Students who conduct research projects also have the opportunity to present alongside the invited experts.

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Date & Time October 12, 2017 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Location
Cabot Auditorium
Program
EPIIC

The Challenge of Peace-Making and the Pursuit of Justice with Mac Maharaj

Mac Maharaj was a member of Nelson Mandela’s inner circle during the days of resistance in South Africa. In 1977, after spending 12 years in prison on Robben Island, he was appointed secretary of the Internal Political and Reconstruction Department of the ANC. He served on the Revolutionary Council and National Executive Committee of the ANC, an underground program of armed resistance against the apartheid government.

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Date & Time September 12, 2017 3:00pm - 5:30pm
Location
Lane 100
Program
EPIIC

Seats Open Until Tuesday in EPIIC 2017-18 "Is the Liberal World Order Ending?" (EXP 0079 XF)

EPIIC (Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship), a yearlong course of the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts, is a carefully integrated, multidisciplinary program that focuses on a different topic of international importance each year, bringing in a broad range of speakers to the classroom throughout the year and providing students the opportunities to design and enact an international symposium, film series, and other programming on campus.

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