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Date & Time |
Event |
Location |
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Wednesday, September 19,
2007
Noon - 2:00 p.m. |
Lunch & Learn:
Marty Rosenbluth, Amnesty
International-USA's Country Specialist for Israel, the Occupied
Territories and the Palestinian Authority, will discuss "Why Law
Matters in Times of War." |
Carolina Meadows (Whipoorwill
Lane, Chapel Hill) |
|
Wednesday, October 24,
2007
Noon - 2:00 p.m. |
Lunch & Learn:
Deborah Derrick, Executive Director of the
Better World Campaign, a leading NGO working to strengthen the
relationship between the United States and the U.N., will speak about
the "U.N.'s Role in the World: What Participation in it Brings to the
Table for the U.S." |
Carolina Meadows (Whipoorwill
Lane, Chapel Hill) |
|
Saturday, November
10th, 2007
12:00 PM |
UNA
Traveling Film Festival Durham
Free & Open to the Public |
Duke University’s
Richard White Auditorium on the East Campus which is located on Main
Street in Durham
Details |
|
Wednesday, November 28,
2007
Noon - 2:00 p.m. |
Lunch & Learn:
Kevin Cassidy of the UN
International Labor Organization speaking on "Creating Work for
All: the UN Agenda"
|
Carolina Meadows (Whipoorwill
Lane, Chapel Hill) |
|
Wednesday, December 19,
2007
Noon - 2:00 p.m. |
Lunch & Learn:
Shoji Ogawa, Consul General, Government of
Japan will discuss "World Problems and the United
Nations: How the United States and Japan Can Make the United Nations
More Effective."
|
Carolina Meadows (Whipoorwill
Lane, Chapel Hill) |
|
Wednesday, January 23,
2008
Noon - 2:00 p.m. |
Lunch & Learn:
Julius Nyang'oro, Chairman UNC African &
Afro-American Studies speaking on "Reflections on Current
Developments in U.S. - African Relations"
|
Carolina Meadows (Whipoorwill
Lane, Chapel Hill) |
|
Wednesday, February 27,
2008
Noon - 2:00 p.m. |
Lunch & Learn:
Glenn Kessler, Washington Post Diplomatic
Correspondent will discuss the development of the Bush
administration's Israeli-Palestinian policy and the prospects for
2008 after Annapolis.
|
Carolina Meadows (Whipoorwill
Lane, Chapel Hill) |
|
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Noon - 2:00 p.m. |
Lunch & Learn:
Michael Tigar, Visiting Professor, Duke
University speaking on "Immunity and Impunity: International
Criminal Justice Since Nuremberg."
|
Carolina Meadows (Whipoorwill
Lane, Chapel Hill) |
|
Friday, April 18 |
Screening of the documentary
film Panama
Deception Details |
Duke University, East Campus |
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Noon - 2:00 p.m. |
Lunch & Learn:
Professor Madeline Morris, Duke Law School professor and Director,
Duke/Geneva Institute in Transnational Law and Chief Counsel to the
Office of the Chief Defense Counsel for the Military Commission at
Guantanamo will speak about "Terror and Tyranny: Preventive Detention
in the Age of Jihad." |
Carolina Meadows (Whipoorwill
Lane, Chapel Hill) |
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Noon - 2:00 p.m. |
Lunch & Learn:
Will Davis, Director of the United Nations Information Center in
Washington DC, will discuss "The Future of the UN" at noon
at the Carolina Meadows retirement community.
Reservations
Details |
Carolina Meadows (Whipoorwill
Lane, Chapel Hill) |
|
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Noon - 2:00 p.m.
|
Lunch & Learn:
Professor Jason West of UNC’s School of Public Health will be
speaking about Global Warming. |
Carolina Meadows (Whipoorwill
Lane, Chapel Hill) |
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Noon - 2:00 p.m. |
Lunch & Learn: UN
Day commemoration (UN Day formally falls on October 24, but
we’ll be marking it on our closest meeting day). Our speaker
will be Jane Roberts, co-founder of "34 Million Friends of
UNFPA."
|
Carolina Meadows (Whipoorwill
Lane, Chapel Hill) |
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Noon - 2:00 p.m. |
Lunch & Learn:
Duke Law Professor-emeritus Horace "Robbie" Robertson will
speak about the Law of the Sea.
|
Carolina Meadows (Whipoorwill
Lane, Chapel Hill) |
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Noon - 2:00 p.m. |
Lunch & Learn:
Robin Kirk, Director of the Duke Human Rights Center, will join us
in commemorating the 60th anniversary of the International
Declaration of Human Rights and international Human Rights Day
(officially marked worldwide on December 10, but celebrated by the
West Triangle Chapter on our closest meeting date). |
Carolina Meadows (Whipoorwill
Lane, Chapel Hill) |
