Steve Sabol, assistant professor in the Department of History, will discuss the future of Europe as the first speaker in the 2017 Great Decisions lecture series. This free, public presentation is scheduled for 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 1, at UNC Charlotte Center City. It will be a special joint program with the Magellan Society, the young professional branch of the World Affairs Council of Charlotte.
Sabol’s research interests include nationalism and national identity, imperialism and colonialism, central Asian and Russian history, First World War, Soviet and Post-Soviet nationalities policy and the American West. He is a recipient of a grant from the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University and the Bradley Fellowship from the Montana Historical Society for his project “An Uncivil War: The Montana Council of Defense and the First World War.” Sabol’s book “The Touch of Civilization: Comparing American and Russian Colonization of the Sioux and Kazakhs” is expected out in mid-February.
The Office of International Programs coordinates the annual Great Decisions lecture series for the Charlotte community each winter to discuss foreign policy issues selected as pressing by the Foreign Policy Association. The series is coordinated in collaboration with Charlotte Country Day School and the World Affairs Council of Charlotte.
More information, including online registration, is available on the web.
Dale Smith from the Department of Global Studies will present “Trade and Politics” on Feb. 8 for the next installment of the lecture series.