The Olympic Games may have been founded to serve as a political-free zone to foster peace, but it hasn’t always worked out that way. As the world turns its attention to for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, we’re talking about the intersection of politics and the Olympics with UNC College of Arts and Sciences’ history lecturer Andrew Matthews.
Join us every other Wednesday for the University’s new podcast as we talk with Carolina’s newsmakers and experts. Each episode, students, faculty, staff and alumni will discuss what’s going on in classrooms, labs and around campus, and how it pertains to the local, national and international headlines.