BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:35399@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260109T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260109T134500 DTSTAMP:20251111T195400Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/buffett-first-friday-lunch-syria-af ter-assad/ SUMMARY:Buffett First Friday Lunch: Syria After Assad DESCRIPTION:\nWendy Pearlman presents "Syria After Assad."\n\n\n\n\nSyria A fter Assad\n\nJoin the Roberta Buffett Institute for a faculty research lu nchtime talk series on the first Friday of every month. Faculty members gi ve a half-hour talk intended for a broad\, multidisciplinary audience of N orthwestern students\, faculty\, and staff\, followed by a conversational Q&\;A. Lunch is provided beginning at 12:15 p.m.\n\nJanuary's Buffett F irst Friday Lunch will feature Wendy Pearlman\, Jane Long Professor of Ar ts &\; Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Northwestern Univ ersity's Weinberg College of Arts &\; Sciences.\n\nIn this talk\, Profe ssor Pearlman will examine a pivotal turning point in Syria’s history: t he collapse of the Assad regime after decades of dictatorship and war. Dra wing 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 W orked to Make\, as well as observations from her recent trip to Syria\, Pe arlman will put the collapse of the Assad regime in a broader political co ntext and consider what is at stake\, in human terms.\n\nPlease note that 720 University Place is not an ADA-accessible space. Increasing physical a ccess to buildings and facilities is a goal of the University\, but not al l buildings and venues have been updated.\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 025/11/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_1117720663_246845114470_1_original.jp eg LOCATION:\, 720 University Pl\, Second Floor Evanston\, IL\, 60208\, United States GEO:42.051051;-87.680732 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=720 University Pl\, Second Floor Evanston\, IL\, 60208\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=:ge o:42.051051,-87.680732 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR