If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The Sister Schools Abroad Conference represented a partnership between Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Sister Cities International Program, the Mayor's Office of International Relations, the Center for International Studies, and the International House at the University of Chicago.The purpose of the conference was to bring...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The Sister Schools Abroad Conference represented a partnership between Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Sister Cities International Program, the Mayor's Office of International Relations, the Center for International Studies, and the International House at the University of Chicago.The purpose of the conference was to bring...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The Sister Schools Abroad Conference represented a partnership between Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Sister Cities International Program, the Mayor's Office of International Relations, the Center for International Studies, and the International House at the University of Chicago.The purpose of the conference was to bring...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The Sister Schools Abroad Conference represented a partnership between Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Sister Cities International Program, the Mayor's Office of International Relations, the Center for International Studies, and the International House at the University of Chicago.The purpose of the conference was to bring...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. A panel discussion with Steven Wilkinson, Martha Nussbaum, Tarini Bedi, Robert Pape, and Manan Ahmed.On November 26, 2008, the world watched while terror attacks paralyzed Mumbai, India's financial capital and largest city. Mumbai bounced back, but the bold, new strategies of the attacks shifted the discourse of the global war on...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The Sister Schools Abroad Conference represented a partnership between Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Sister Cities International Program, the Mayor's Office of International Relations, the Center for International Studies, and the International House at the University of Chicago.The purpose of the conference was to bring...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. A panel discussion with: Alejandro Bendana, Centro de Estudios Internacionales, Nicaragua; Michel Gobat, Professor, History, Iowa University; and Rose Spalding, Professor, Political Science, DePaul University.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Time and The Sacred is a collection of photographs, taken by Dr. Pance Velkov, which redresses the general lack of knowledge about religious art of the Republic of Macedonia, and at the same time it provides a venue for acquainting viewers with a unique environment in which Christianity and Islam have coexisted for more than six...

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Time and The Sacred is a collection of photographs, taken by Dr. Pance Velkov, which redresses the general lack of knowledge about religious art of the Republic of Macedonia, and at the same time it provides a venue for acquainting viewers with a unique environment in which Christianity and Islam have coexisted for more than six...

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