Events

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The Pearson Institute's April Lunch and Learn will feature Roberto Brodsky, Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service; former Head of Cultural Affairs Office in the Embassy of Chile; and acclaimed writer, including of the films Machuca and Mi vida con Carlos.

Originally scheduled date: Thursday, April 23, 2020

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The fourth annual Reverend Dr. Richard L. Pearson Lecture will feature Miriam Coronel-Ferrer, Senior Mediation Adviser at the UN and Professor of Political Science at the University of the Philippines. Miriam Coronel-Ferrer became the world's first-ever female chief negotiator to sign a final peace accord when the government of the Philippines reached the 2014 agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. 

Originally scheduled date: April 14, 2020

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The Pearson Institute, with University of Chicago's Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, will cosponsor ascreening of For Sama, the Academy Award-nominated documentary of Waad al-Kateab’s life during five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria.

Originally scheduled date: Saturday, April 11, 2020