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A Conversation with Larry Summers

FedEx Global Education Center

Global Research Institute Advisory Board Chair William B. Harrison interviewed Larry Summers as part of the institute’s speaker series. For more information about this event, click here.

Global American South Conference

FedEx Global Education Center

A collaboration between the Global Research Institute, the Center for Global Initiatives, and the Center for the Study of the American South, the conference brings together academics, practitioners, and the community to focus on the theme “Globalization, the Economic Crisis, … Read more

Global Research Institute Water in Our World Speaker Series

FedEx Global Education Center, Nelson Mandela Auditorium

We met the Millennium Development Goal for drinking water– now what? Clarissa Brocklehurst, GRI research fellow and former Chief of UNICEF’s Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Section, will address the issues of how the global water community has come to the … Read more

Global Research Institute Water in our World Speaker Series

FedEx Global Education Center, 4th floor

Cholera Management in Haïti: Some observations from a sanitary engineer. Pete Kolsky recently joined the UNC faculty as a Professor of the Practice,Environmental Sciences & Engineering in the Gillings School of Global Public Health,  and  as Associate Director for Teaching … Read more

Global Research Institute Water in Our World Speaker Series

FedEx Global Education Center, 4th floor

James Salzman, who holds joint appointments at Duke University as the Samuel Fox Mordecai Professor of Law at the Law School and as the Nicholas Institute Professor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment, will deliver a free … Read more

Global Research Institute Water in Our World Speaker Series

FedEx Global Education Center, 4th floor

Don Reid, professor of History at UNC-Chapel Hill and a historian of modern France and a labor historian will discuss his book Paris Sewers and Sewermen: Realities and Representations (Harvard University Press, 1993) which examines the expansion of the Paris sewer … Read more