Global Dialogues

Peacebuilding After Conflict: Youth-Led Change in Rwanda and Beyond

Gakire Dieudonné
April 28, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Join us for a powerful conversation with Gakire Dieudonné, Rwandan author, peacebuilder, and survivor of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. Drawing from his lived experience and ongoing work in education and community development, Gakire shares stories of resilience, hope, and youth-led change in post-conflict societies.

Surveillance States: How AI is Reshaping Borders, Refugee Lives and Human Rights

Global Dialogues with Lydia Emmanouilidou
Ingraham Hall, Room 206
April 14, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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In this talk, investigative journalist Lydia Emmanouilidou will delve into how artificial intelligence and surveillance technologies are transforming border management and impacting the lives of refugees. Drawing on her reporting from refugee camps in Greece …

Surveillance States: How AI Reshapes Borders, Refugee Lives & Human Rights

The Guitar: Tracing the Grain Back to the Tree

Chris Gibson
Online
March 19, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Guitars are played by millions of people around the world; but what gives each one a unique sound and feel? The technique of the player, the skill with which its wood was cut, or the …

Chris Gibson on The Guitar: Tracing the Grain Back to the Tree

Pacific Power Paradox: Understanding Asia’s Global Influence

Virtual
February 5, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Join author Van Jackson for a thought-provoking discussion about his latest book, Pacific Power Paradox: American Statecraft and the Fate of the Asian Peace. Jackson explores the "Asian Peace," a period of relative stability in the Asia-Pacific region since 1979, and critically examines the United States’ role as both a stabilizing force and a source of tension.

Pacific Power Paradox: Understanding Asia’s Global Influence, with Van Jackson

How Bureaucrats Culturally Entrench Inequalities in Refugee Resettlement

Jake Watson
206 Ingraham
December 2, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
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Join IRIS NRC on December 2nd at 11:00am in 206 Ingraham for the next event in our Global Dialogues series, "How Bureaucrats Culturally Entrench Inequalities in Refugee Resettlement," with Jake Watson.

How Bureaucrats Culturally Entrench Inequalities in Refugee Resettlement with Jake Watson

The Making of Rare Earth Frontiers with Julie Klinger

Julie Michelle Klinger
Online
October 30, 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Rare earths, such as copper and lead, make possible the miniaturization of electronics, green energy and medical technologies, and essential telecommunications and defense systems. But where are they extracted from? And at what environmental cost? …

The Making of Rare Earth Frontiers with Julie Michelle Klinger

Chips war? The Geopolitics of Global Electronics Production

IRIS NRC Presents: Global Dialogues with Author Henry Wai-chung Yeung
Online
October 3, 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Semiconductor chips can be found in almost every technology that is essential to modern life, from cars, to ventilators, to smartphones. No wonder then, that a shortage of these silicon wafers during the pandemic generated …

The History and Future of Drinking Water with James Salzman

IRIS NRC Presents: Global Dialogues with Author James Salzman
Online
September 25, 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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How has the way that societies think about drinking water changed over time? How are these changing ideas related to different strategies for managing access to water? Professor James Salzman (Duke University), author of Drinking Water: A History, joins us to discuss the global past and future of one of the essential requirements for human life.