Buffett First Friday Lunch | Syria After Assad with Wendy Pearlman

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.

This event is hosted by the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. We from the Geopolitical Forum can continue the conversation and hang out past 1:45, the scheduled end time of the event, perhaps over a coffee.

Please register for free at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/buffett-first-friday-lunch-syria-after-assad-tickets-1665322015979?aff=PlanitPurple. Act sooner rather than later, while there are still seats left.

Please also RSVP here to help us find one another at the event.