Events

On the occasion of Getty’s publication of Cultural Heritage and Mass Atrocities, co-edited by James Cuno, president emeritus, J. Paul Getty Trust, and Thomas G. Weiss, Presidential Professor of Political Science, and director emeritus of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the City University of New York Graduate Center, please join The Pearson Institute and the Oriental Institute for an afternoon discussion with experts on cultural heritage, post-conflict challenges, and conflict management. 

February 1 at 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Breasted Hall, Oriental Institute 

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The Pearson Institute's January speaker series will feature Cultural Anthropologist Greta Uehling, who will speak about civilians' capacity to deliver comfort and care in spite of violent military conflict. 

Drawing upon her ethnographic research in Ukraine, and utilizing examples from Israel, Great Britain, and the former Yugoslavia, she will explore the only seemingly mundane practices that emerge from moral thinking about human vulnerability and relatedness in landscapes filled with destruction, death, and cruelty.

Thursday, January 19

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CST

*In-person only. 

Keller Center, Room 0001

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The Pearson Institute's November Speaker Series will feature Peace Activist Jon McCourt, who will address issues of struggle, loss, division, polarization, hope, and healing. McCourt will share personal moments and reflections that bring Irish history together with a global struggle and social change. 

Wednesday, November 9, 2022
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM CST
Keller Center, Room 0001
or on Zoom

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