Events

Join us for a Pearson Speaker Series event with Andrew Lavali, Executive Director of the Institute for Governance Reform (IGR), a research and advocacy think tank in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The discussion will focus on the experience of collaborating on a World Bank-funded citizen engagement program focused on improving health.

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CDT

Keller Center, Sky Suite

FREE

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Join The Pearson Institute and Harris Public Policy's International Development Policy Association for the North American premiere of the documentary film Congo Calling and a conversation with Director Stephan Hilpert and Harris Professor and film protagonist Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra.

About the Film: In crisis-ridden eastern Congo, three European development aid workers are forced to question what it means to help. Featuring deeply personal insights from its subjects, the film asks a myriad of questions, helping to nuance, humanize, and problematize the question of the Global North's relationship with Africa. Watch the trailer here. 

Friday, April 1, 2022

5:30 PM - 8:00 PM CDT

Harris School of Public Policy (Keller Center), Forum 

*This event will be presented in the in-person format only. 

Free

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The Pearson Institute's March Speaker Series will feature leading scholar-practitioner Carter Malkasian who will share insights from his latest book, The American War in Afghanistan: A History. 

Monday, March 7, 2022

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Keller Center, Sky Suite

Free

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