One Book, One Community Lecture Series:
"The Worldwide Fusarium Keratitis Epidemic of 2004-2006: What Would Dr. John Snow and Dr. Henry Whitehead Have Done?"
John Bullock, MD, MPH, MSc. Bullock is an infectious diseases epidemiologist at Wright State School of Medicine.
Also, part of the C.F. Reynolds Medical History Society Lecture Series.
TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, STARTING FEBRUARY 2, 2012
“EUROPE AT 8:00” Eurochannel Short Films Tour
8:00 – 9:30 p.m., 4130 WWPH
Discover the newest perspectives of the European film scene through a series of short films from fifty-four film directors. The Eurochannel Short Films Tour has a strong regional footprint, revealing the creative genius of how cinema can be very diverse and surprising. Shaped by geographical and cultural features, those shorts films are as much charming as a work of the director’s passion. Stories of love or friendship in an adult’s brutal world, paintings of childhood feelings, stories of war or poverty, and comedies with unpredictable humor, Europe at 8:00 brings you the complexity of humanity as the European artists of the new generation see it. This series reflects unknown and unfamiliar dimensions of European reality.
Sponsored by: the European Union Center of Excellence/European Studies Center, the Russian & East European Studies Center
Europe at 8:00 – Film Schedule
Thursday, February 2
From Luxembourg: X on a Map, by Jeff Desom 13 minutes
From Portugal: Alfama, by João Viana 15 minutes
From France: Port of Call, by Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec 6 minutes
From Belgium: The End of the World, by Michael Havenith 10 minutes
From Azerbaijan: Theatrical Life, by Ilqar Najaf 22 minutes
From Latvia: Signs of Light, by Ilze Kunga 18 minutes
Tuesday, February 7
From Switzerland: Scribbling & Tingling, by Amaury Berger 13 minutes
From England: I’ll Tell You, by Rachel Tillotson 10 minutes
From Spain: Worstward Ho, by Alex Brendemühl 12 minutes
From Scotland: A Cheeky 20, by Chris Fallen 3 minutes
From Austria: Little World, by Marco F. Zimprich 18 minutes
From Poland: Endless Beginners, by Justyna Nowak 30 minutes
Thursday, February 9
From Bosnia & Herzegovina: I Don’t Dream in German, by Ivana Lalovic 13 minutes
From Italy: The Other Half, by Pipo Mazzepesa 9 minutes
From France: Last Markdown, by Nicolas Slomka 14 minutes
From Georgia: The Highway, by Sandro Japaridze 10 minutes
From Slovakia: Viliam, by Veronika Obertová 8 minutes
From Russia: Nail, by Michael Lockshin 13 minutes
From Albania: Snowdrops, by Robert Budina 26 minutes
Tuesday, February 14
From Belgium: Marie, by Jozefien Scheepers 17 minutes
From Switzerland: Parents, by Fernando Tiberini 11 minutes
From Spain: Lala, by Esteban Crespo Garcia 19 minutes
From Kosovo: The Dinner, by Blerta Zeqiri 17 minutes
From the Netherlands: Cat & Mice, by Nova van Dijk 9 minutes
Thursday, February 16
From the Czech Republic: Saharan Sands, by Josef Tuka 18 minutes
From Croatia: That Little Hand of Yours, Sara Hribar 23 minutes
From Ireland: The Ballad of Kid Kanturk, by John Butler 12 minutes
From Italy: From the 41st Minute, by Matteo Pellegrini 9 minutes
From Hungary: With a Little Patience, Laszlo Nemes 14 minutes
From Denmark: Peaceforce, by Peter Gornstein 19 minutes
Tuesday, February 21
From Serbia: Old Mountain, by Goran Stankovic 18 minutes
From Malta: .303, by David Serge 11 minutes
From Spain: Let’s Go to Plan B, by Paz Piñar 14 minutes
From Turkey: Snow, by Erol Mintas 22 minutes
From Wales: Skimming Pebbles, by Tariq Ali 9 minutes
From Romania: The Cage, by Adrian Sitaru 17 minutes
Thursday, February 23
From Montenegro: Masks, by Andro Martinovic 13 minutes
From Germany: Lumen, by Philip Koch 29 minutes
From Sweden: The Last Things, by Levan Akin 20 minutes
From Lithuania: Grandpa, by Andrius Paskevicius 11 minutes
From Moldova: Sasa, Grisa & Ion, by Igor Cobileanski 11 minutes
From Macedonia: Glow, by Tamislav Aleksov 15 minutes
Tuesday, February 28
From Switzerland: Laterarius, by Marina Rosset 3 minutes
From Cyprus: Trachoni, by Nick Kapros 10 minutes
From Ukraine: Her Seat is Vacant, by Bohdana Smymova 17 minutes
From Northern Ireland: Paint, by Ryan Tohill 9 minutes
From Iceland: Safe Journey, David Óskar Ólafsson 22 minutes
From Norway: A Tale of Balloons, by Torfinn Iversen 14 minutes
From Spain: Duck Crossing, by Koldo Almandoz 12 minutes
Thursday, March 1
From Belarus: Life is Infinite Return, by Vladimir Piskunovic 17 minutes
From Armenia: Ararat, by Renaud Armanet 13 minutes
From Bulgaria: Someone Else’s Steps, by Neda Morfova 4 minutes
From Greece: Samurai, by Theo Papadoulakis 26 minutes
From Finland: Kirkonkyla Kyrkby, Elise Pietarila 14 minutes
From Estonia: Champion, by Kaupo Kruusiauk 13 minutes
Jeffrey S. Sposato, Associate Professor of Musicology
Moores School of Music, University of Houston
What can we learn about Johann Sebastian Bach’s church music practices by looking at his Leipzig successors? Scholars have previously assumed that when Gottlob Harrer took over as Thomaskantor after Bach’s death in 1750, he fundamentally rethought the musical priorities of the Leipzig service, increasing the importance of the concerted Latin mass and diminishing the role of the cantata. This paper uses Leipzig church diaries and the contents of Bach’s and Harrer’s libraries to demonstrate that the shift in musical focus from cantatas to masses attributed to Harrer was likely more gradual and began with Bach during the 1730s.
Jeffrey S. Sposato is Associate Professor of Musicology at the Moores School of Music, University of Houston. His most recent book, The Price of Assimilation: Felix Mendelssohn and the Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitic Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2006), was named a Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Title for 2006 and a Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award finalist. He is currently working on a new book entitled Leipzig After Bach: Musical Life in a German City, 1750–1850. In 2011–2012, he is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh.
Trust in political institutions is one of the key elements which make representative democracies work. Trust creates a connection between citizens and representative political institutions. Democratic governments which enjoy a large degree of trust also tend to have higher degrees of legitimacy and policy efficacy. In Europe's multi-level governance structure, it is imperative to learn more about the determinants of trust in EU institutions. With the increasing salience of EU issues, are domestic proxies still a key determinant of evaluating EU institutions? Are there differences across the institutions and across the member states?
Galina Zapryanova received her PhD in April 2011 from the University of Pittsburgh. She was a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence Italy 2010-2011. Since receiving her doctorate, she has been working as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Truman State University in Missouri. In June 2012, Dr. Zapryanova will begin a research fellowship at the Mannheim Center for European Social Research in Mannheim, Germany.
Lecture “Mediascapes of the Cold War” by Short-Term Fellow Katie Trumpener (Yale).
Colloquium, “To the Unknown Cinemagoers: German Cinema as an Occupation Cinema,” with responses from Mark Lynn Anderson (English), Lina Insana (French and Italian) and Barbara McCloskey (History of Art and Architecture).
French Immersion institutes are designed for middle and high school French teachers, as well as French majors to broaden their cultural understanding of current events and international studies regarding French-speaking countries, to strengthen their French listening and speaking skills, and to share strategies for the teaching of French language and culture. We will be offering the following workshop spring, 2012
Topic: "Les Elections Présidentielles et Législatives Françaises de 2012
With Jean-Dominique Le Garrec, Consul Honoraire de France and Jean Pierre Collet, Ancien Consul Honoraire de France
Program Director : Bonnie Adair-Hauck, Ph.D.
Time: 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Room: 5200 Posvar Hall
Cost: $10.00 per workshop
Includes: ACT 48 credit, workshop; continental breakfast; lunch
Pennsylvania ACT 48 credit available for participants.
*****************All activities are conducted in French*****************
On March 20, the regional Euro Challenge Competition will be held at the University of Pittsburgh. Co-sponsored by Global Solutions, WISE, and the European Union Delegation to the United States, regional high school teams will present on issues and fiscal policy regarding the Euro, the Euro Zone, and the European Union. Two teams will be selected to compete in the national Euro Challenge competition in New York City.
Colloquium, Ruth Bottigheimer (Stony Brook), “What’s Eastern and What’s Western in the Arabian Nights?” with responses from Susan Andrade (English) and Giuseppina Mecchia (French and Italian).
The Seventh Annual Graduate Student Conference on the European Union will welcome graduate students from around the world to present the research on "Crisis, Cooperation, and Change in the EU." Jan Techau, Director of Carnegie Europe, will give the keynote address Saturday night.
“Europe East & West” Undergraduate Research Symposium
Symposium Date: March 30, 2012
The Undergraduate Research Symposium is an annual event designed to provide undergraduate students from the University of Pittsburgh and other colleges and universities in the region with advanced research experiences and opportunities to develop presentation skills. The event is open to undergraduates from all majors and institutions who have written a research paper from a social science, humanities, or business perspective focusing on the study of Eastern, Western, or Central Europe, the European Union, Russia, or other countries of the former Soviet Union. The Symposium is held on the University of Pittsburgh-Oakland campus. After the initial submission of papers, selected participants are grouped into panels according to their research topics. The participants then give 10- to 15-minute presentations based on their research to a panel of faculty and graduate students. The presentations are open to the public.
Colloquium on Germany, Sabine Von Dirke (German), "White Collar Blues: Immaterial Labor and its Discontent,” with responses from Stephen Brockmann (Carnegie Mellon) and Lisa Brush (Sociology).
Dr. Scorza took his M Phil from the Warburg Institute in the Survival of the Classical Tradition and then completed a PhD in Art History at the Warburg. He has published significant articles on a variety of topics in The Burlington Magazine, the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, and elsewhere. He has also contributed to exhibition catalogues, most recently for the Giorgio Vasari exhibition in Arezzo celebrating the 500th anniversary of Vasari’s birth. He has given papers in several international conferences, including one titled “The Iconography of Slavery.”
This talk is sponsored by the Department of the History of Art and Architecture and co-sponsored by the Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Humanities Center, the History Department, and the Department of French and Italian.
April 6, 2012 : 2012 Jean Monnet Symposium "Empires of the Past and Present: Is the EU a New Empire?" LOCATION TBA
The 2012 Jean Monnet Symposium hosted by the European Union Center of Excellence and European Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh will bring together historians and political scientists to discuss empires old and new. Its goal is to advance the current discussion of how to define empire, look at how empires have defined themselves in the past, and build upon our understanding of historical empires to refine new categories of analysis applicable to the European Union of the present. Featured presenters include Patrick Manning, Martha Chaiklin, and Peter Karsten from the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh; along with Magali Gravier (Copenhagen Business School), Josep Colomer (George Washington University), and Joshua W. Walker (German Marshall Fund).
Co-sponsor: World History Center
Lecture by J.G.A. Pocock (Johns Hopkins), “From Filmer and Locke to Burke and Gibbon: Cambridge Histories of Political Thought, 1950 – 2010.”
Sociology Colloquium, "The Hidden Qualifiers of Globalization," presented by Dr. Leslie Sklair, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics.
Estelle Lingo is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Washington. She specializes in early modern European art, especially sculpture. Her first book, François Duquesnoy and the Greek Ideal (Yale, 2007), examined seventeenth-century Flemish sculptor François Duquesnoy and his pursuit in Rome of a modern artistic practice in "the Greek manner." The study reconstructs the understanding of Greek art from 1550 to 1650 and the contributions of Duquesnoy's circle to the coalescence of the Greek ideal within European culture. This seventeenth-century vision of Greek art is shown to have formed the basis of Johann Joachim Winckelmann's early understanding of the formal perfections of Greek sculpture, overturning the longstanding assumption that no meaningful distinction between ancient Greek and Roman art was made prior to Winckelmann's work. Her current book project focuses on the Tuscan sculptor Francesco Mochi (1580-1654); the study takes Mochi's sculptures as the entry point for an inquiry into the historical and cultural forces reshaping sculpture at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Other research interests include Caravaggio, Gian Paolo Panini's Gallery Views, and the Italian perspective on the Grand Tour.
This talk is sponsored by the Department of the History of Art and Architecture and co-sponsored by the Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
From medieval pogroms to modern racial science, Jewish history in Europe has come to stand as a test case for thinking about problems of historical continuity and change, embodied most clearly in the tension between narratives emphasizing a timeless antisemitism and arguments for the distinctive mentalities associated with discrete historical periods. Our colloquium, “The Holocaust and the Middle Ages,” seeks to reexamine Jewish history as a multi-layered problem of narrative and conceptualization, in which deeply interested anti-Jewish narratives from the premodern world form points of explosive contact with modern literary and historical modes of analysis. Part of our work is to examine how later historical lenses, such as the interests of post-Reformation history and the consuming project of Holocaust history, have substantially dictated the terms of modern understanding of Jewish-Christian relations, often with distorting effects. At the same time, medieval paradigms of religious conflict continue to operate as the unacknowledged foundations for contemporary efforts to think about problems of political conflict rooted in religious difference.
Our objective is to bring together a small group of scholars and encourage significant interdisciplinary dialogue between medievalists and specialists in later fields, including particularly Reformation history and Holocaust studies. In doing so, we hope to move beyond generalities about the evolution of Western patterns of religious conflict to gain critical purchase on the ways in which our narratives for thinking about these problems are deeply imbricated in the assumptions, needs, and theories at work within discrete moments of historical thought.
For more information, please visit our website (www.medren.pitt.edu) or contact the Director, Professor Jennifer Waldron (jwaldron@pitt.edu).
