Buffett First Friday Lunch: Syria After Assad

Syria After Assad

Join the Roberta Buffett Institute for a faculty research lunchtime talk series on the first Friday of every month. Faculty members give a half-hour talk intended for a broad, multidisciplinary audience of Northwestern students, faculty, and staff, followed by a conversational Q&A. Lunch is provided beginning at 12:15 p.m.

January's Buffett First Friday Lunch will feature Wendy Pearlman, Jane Long Professor of Arts & Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University's Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences.

In this talk, Professor Pearlman will examine a pivotal turning point in Syria’s history: the collapse of the Assad regime after decades of dictatorship and war. Drawing from more than 500 interviews with displaced Syrians featured in her two recent books, We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled and The Home I Worked to Make, as well as observations from her recent trip to Syria, Pearlman will put the collapse of the Assad regime in a broader political context and consider what is at stake, in human terms.

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