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Date & Time March 4, 2021 2:00pm - 3:00pm
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A Conversation with Public Intellectual Eddie Glaude, Jr on the complex dynamics of the American experience

Public Intellectual and frequent Media Commentator Eddie S. Glaude Jr. speaks to the complex dynamics of the American experience.  His most well-known books, Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul, and In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America, take a wide look at black communities, the difficulties of race in the United States, and the challenges our democracy face. 

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Date & Time January 22, 2021 1:00pm - 2:15pm
Location
Virtual
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Former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson on Creating a More Just World

Jeh Johnson is the former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security. He served in that position from December 2013 to January 2017. Johnson now practices law again in New York City at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP. Johnson has been affiliated with Paul, Weiss off and on since 1984, and he was elected the firm’s first African American partner in 1993. In private life Johnson has also been a regular commentator on NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, FOX, FOX Business, NPR and Bloomberg News. He is on the board of directors of Lockheed Martin, U.S.

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Date & Time March 4, 2020 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location
Virtual
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Global Perspectives on Race, Justice and Equity with Eddie Glaude, Jr

Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is an intellectual who speaks to the complex dynamics of the American experience. His most well-known books, Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul, and In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America, take a wide look at black communities, the difficulties of race in the United States, and the challenges our democracy face. He is an American critic in the tradition of James Baldwin and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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Date & Time December 9, 2020 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Location
Virtual
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Panel with NYT's China Correpondent, Dr. Chris Buckley [Co-hosted by SURGE and Hemispheres]

This coming Wednesday, we welcome Dr. Chris Buckley from the New York Times to talk about his experience as a foreign journalist working in China.

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Date & Time March 18-20, 2021 10:00am - 4:00pm
Location
Virtual
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The Norris and Margery Bendetson EPIIC International Symposium

China and the World
March 18-20, 2021

Symposium schedule

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Date & Time November 15, 2020 4:30pm
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Comparing the US and EU Response to COVID-19

Join European Horizons and the European Student Association for a discussion on the US and EU response to the COVID19 crisis.

The Trump administration has attracted international criticism, for downplaying the virus and ignoring the advice of medical experts. The United States has been unable to effectively address the pandemic due to political polarisation and the lack of a national strategy.

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Date & Time November 13, 2020 12:00pm - 1:00pm
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The Rohingya Crisis: Causes of the Mass Exodus and the Potential for Justice and Reconciliation

The Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar has been one of the gravest atrocities ongoing since 2016 and arguably even before that. Yet, the Rohingyas are a long way from receiving both social and legal justice. According to the Human Rights Watch, about 900,000 Rohingya are currently living in overcrowded camps in Bangladesh, after having fled from persecution since August 2017 and the estimated 600,000 Rohingya who remain in the Rakhine State are subject to more government persecutions and violence than ever before.

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Date & Time November 9, 2020 9:00pm
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MERG Discussion: Blackness in MENA

Social upheaval and the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States invariably spread to almost every part of the world. While many in the MENA region expressed their support for the Black Lives Matter movement in America, it was followed by reckoning in terms of attitudes towards blackness and black bodies in the Middle East and North Africa Region.

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Date & Time October 30, 2020 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Location
Virtual
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Migration and Humanitarian Work in the Middle East

Please join the Middle East Research Group (MERG) for a panel on migration and humanitarian work in the Middle East. The panel will feature Tufts alums Andreas Ashikalis, Biz Herman, Georgie Nink, and Aline Sara.  They will discuss topics such as entering humanitarian work from undergraduate and graduate positions, the needs and opportunities present in the field today, and living and working abroad. The panelists work in various roles across migration, refugee, and humanitarian work.

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Date & Time October 27, 2020 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Location
Virtual
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SURGE Annual Book Talk: 'China's Good War' with Professor Rana Mitter

We welcome Professor Rana Mitter from the University of Oxford to talk about his new book - China's Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism. The book reviews China's radical reassessment of its collective memory of the brutal Sino-Japanese War. Prof. Mitter argues that this new view on its World War II experience is central to China's newfound confidence abroad and to mounting nationalism at home.

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