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Brazil at a Glance

Event Date:April 25, 2012 – 3:30 PM to April 26, 2012 – 4:59 PM Location:Dale Halton Reading Room, Atkins Library The last installation of this year’s series will feature Dr. Salomão Alencar De Farias, Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence in the International Business Department at Central Piedmont Community College.

Dr. Salomão Alencar de Farias

Event Date:April 25, 2012 – 3:30 PM to April 26, 2012 – 4:59 PM Location:Dale Halton Reading Room, Atkins Library Dr. De Farias will deliver “Brazil at a Glance,” a multi-media presentation with information on Brazil’s language, demographics and cultural heritage as well as the country’s current economic situation. Dr. De Farias is a 2011-2012 […]

International Speaker Series: Dr. Katherine Bliss

Event Date:February 9, 2012 – 3:30 PM to February 10, 2012 – 4:59 PM Location:Dale Halton Reading Room, Atkins Library Dr. Katherine Bliss, Director, Project on Global Water Policy; Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Global Health Policy Center; and Senior Fellow, Americas Program with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., will […]

Dr. Katherine Bliss

Event Date:February 9, 2012 – 3:30 PM to February 10, 2012 – 4:59 PM Location:Atkins Library Halton Reading Room Dr. Bliss is Director, Project on Global Water Policy; Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Global Health Policy Center; and Senior Fellow, Americas Program with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. Bliss has […]

International Speaker Series: Ambassadors to the United States of Monaco and Turkey

Event Date:January 20, 2012 – 3:30 PM to January 21, 2012 – 4:59 PM The 4th Annual International Speaker Series continues with His Excellency Gilles Noghès, Ambassador of Monaco and Ambassador of Turkey Namik Tan.

Ambassadors to the US from Monaco and Turkey

Event Date:January 20, 2012 – 3:00 PM to January 21, 2012 – 4:59 PM Location:Atkins Library Halton Reading Room Gilles Noghes, Ambassador to the U.S. from Monaco, will discuss “Image of a Country: The Case of Monaco,” and Namik Tan, Ambassador from Turkey, will present “Turkey in a Changing World.” A question-and-answer session will follow. […]

Robert Guest

Event Date:November 11, 2011 – 3:00 PM to November 12, 2011 – 3:59 PM Location:Atkins Library Halton Reading Room Guest is the Economist’s business editor and an author. His latest work examines how migration—for all the disruption it causes—makes the world wealthier and happier. Guest’s book, “Borderless Economics: Chinese Sea Turtles, Indian Fridges and the […]

Former Ambassador Edward Peck

Event Date:October 25, 2011 – 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM Location:Atkins Library Halton Reading Room Edward Peck is a retired career United States diplomat whose thirty-two years of service included: Chief of Mission in Baghdad during the Carter Administration and Deputy Director of the White House Task Force on Terrorism in the Reagan Administration. He […]