This one and a half hour, in-person lecture is part of the conference on Democracy in Europe, Democracy Beyond Europe. The speaker is Amber Reed, Spelman College. This session will be moderated by Joshua Bloom, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh

This conference is a mix of Zoom and in-person lectures and panels. All lectures and panels can be attended virtually. Some can also be attended in person. The Zoom link is the same for all sessions. In-person sessions are all in the Sociology Colloquium Room 2432 Posvar Hall. See individual lecture or panel information for more details.

Wednesday, Jan 25:
Total 48
Non-Pitt Faculty: 14
Pitt Faculty/PhD: 30
Community: 4

Thursday, Jan 26: 10:30 AM
Total: 26
Non-Pitt Faculty: 10
Pitt Faculty/PhD: 14
Community: 2

Afternoon Session: 1:00
Total: 15
Non-Pitt Faculty: 8
Pitt Faculty/Ph.D.: 6
Community: 1

3-4:00 PM Session:
Total: 12 Virtual
Hybrid
Virtual:
Non-Pitt FAculty: 6
Pitt Faculty/PhD: 6
Community 1

4:30-5:30 PM
Total: 11
Non-Pitt Faculty: 5
Pitt Faculty/PhD: 5
Community: 1

Friday, Jan 27, 2023
Total: 20
Non-Pitt Faculty: 9
Pitt Faculty/PhD: 10
Community: 1

Panel I
Total: 23
Non-Pitt Faculty: 12
Pitt Faculty/PhD: 10
Community: 1

Panel II: Hybrid
Total: 14
Non-Pitt Faculty: 6
Pitt Faculty/PhD: 8
Community: 0

Roundtable: 18
Non-Pitt Faculty: 12
Pitt Faculty/PhD: 6
Community:

SAVE THE DATE: More information to come.

SPEAKER:
Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň
Institute of International Relations, Prague
Czech Republic

Senior Researcher at the Centre for Global Political Economy of the Institute of International Relations Prague. He has a PhD in International Economic Relations and a Master’s in International Trade and European Integration from the University of Economics in Prague. Among other positions, he worked as Deputy Director for Research. His professional interests include the governance of global and sustainable development, development cooperation, and gender. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), a member of the IIR Board, and the president of the IIR’s Trade Union.

MODERATOR:
Pawel Lewicki, University of Pittsburgh

The organizer and moderator of this panel is Jennifer Keating, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh

Panelist:

Garrett Carr, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
John Carson, Carnegie Mellon University
Mairead McClean, Artist and Filmmaker, from Bath, England and Northern Ireland
Eve Patten, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Ireland’s relationships with Europe have safeguarded features of national identity from the early twentieth century to the present as the region negotiated its long-standing and historically fraught relationship with the United Kingdom. In recent years, Ireland’s role in the EU has further solidified these regional relationships as a counterpoint to its tangled politics with the UK, especially in complex concepts of national identity in Northern Ireland. In the midst of ongoing political tumult in the UK and the complexity of Britain’s extraction from the EU through Brexit, what does Irish nationalism look like today north and south of the border?

Please join Professor Eve Patten, Director of the Long Room Hub at Trinity College Dublin, artist and filmmaker Mairéad McClean and Professor Garrett Carr, Seamus Heaney Center at Queen’s University Belfast, as we discuss manifestations of Irish nationalism today. Professor Patten will discuss ongoing relationships between the Long Room Hub, its resident artists and scholars and governmental grant programs at Trinity College. Mairéad McClean will discuss her recent Beyond 22 residency supported by the Decade of Centenaries grant to undertake work with the Irish Archives and the Long Room Hub and her exhibition Here, at Belfast Exposed in Northern Ireland. Garrett Carr will discuss his book, The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland’s Border.

In this third installment of the 2022 Global Issues Through Literature Series (GILS), educators will convene to discuss Kate Evans' Threads: From the Refugee Crisis, a full-graphic novel of the refugee drama addressing one of the most pressing issues of modern times to make a compelling case, through intimate evidence, for the compassionate treatment of refugees and the free movement of peoples.

GILS is a reading group for K-16 educators to literary texts from a global perspective. Content specialists present the work and its context, and participants brainstorm innovative pedagogical practices for incorporating the text and its themes into the curriculum. This year’s theme is Graphic Novels in Global Context: Social Justice Through Illustration and Text. See registration for more information!

The High School Model European Union is an annual event for area high school students. The goal of the Model EU is to give high school students a chance to learn about the workings of the European Union through a hands-on simulation. Playing the roles of presidents and prime ministers, students spend a day engaged in intense negotiations over conflicting issues about the EU. The objective is to simulate a specific European Council meeting that focuses on recent current events impacting the EU. Model EU enhances students’ understanding of classroom learning and gives them a real sense of the challenges involved in the decision-making process of the European Union.

This panel considers several aspects of the current state of democracy in Europe, with special attention to the rise of right-wing populism, illiberal forms of democracy, declining party loyalty, and evidence of increasing disenchantment with the current state of democracy in Europe. The panel will seek to discuss these issues with the help of a broad comparative and historical perspective.

Professors Mohammed Bamyeh and John Markoff, Department of Sociology, Pitt, will moderate a panel discussion on "The State of Democracy in Europe."

The panel members include:

Timm Beichelt, Professor of Social and Cultural Sciences, Viadrina University, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
Donatella della Porta, Dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Science, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Italy
Jae-Jae Spoon, Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
Daniel Ziblatt, Eaton Professor of Government, Harvard University

The Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship program is a prestigious and competitive award that allows select Pitt undergraduate and graduate students to devote full-time attention to their chosen modern foreign language and area studies specialty. There are separate competitions for the Academic Year FLAS Fellowship and the Summer FLAS Fellowship.

Attend this info session with representatives from the Asian Studies Center, Center for African Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, Global Studies Center, European Studies Center, and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Center to learn more about the requirements and how to submit a strong application.

The European Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh, along with the Institute for European Studies at Indiana University – Bloomington, is happy to invite you to a virtual roundtable titled: Insights into European Elections: Sweden, Italy, and Denmark.

In this discussion, four experts and political scientists from Denmark, Italy, Sweden, and the United States will shed light on the results of the recent elections in Europe. This will include discussions on the transformations of European social democratic parties, the rise of right-wing populism, and how these impact European Union politics. This discussion will provide insights into the current European political developments in EU member-states and the possible directions of their futures.

Moderator:

Jae-Jae Spoon, University of Pittsburgh

Prof. Jae-Jae Spoon, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh (Moderator) (spoonj@pitt.edu)
Jae-Jae Spoon is Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Political Science Department and a former director of the European Studies Center. She is co-editor Research & Politics (R&P). Her research focuses on comparative electoral behavior primarily in Europe. She is interested in understanding political party strategies and their outcomes for the party, its elected officials, and voters, and how party type and size, institutions, and context influence parties’ decision‐making at both the domestic and European levels. She has a particular interest in the behavior of new and small political parties. Professor Spoon received her PhD from the University of Michigan. Before coming to Pittsburgh, she taught at the University of Iowa and the University of North Texas and was a visiting researcher at the University of Mannheim.

Speakers:

Prof. Rune Stubager, School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University (stubager@ps.au.dk)
Rune Stubager is professor of Political Science at Aarhus University, Denmark. His research interest is political behaviour with a particular emphasis on electoral behaviour. He is one of the principal investigators in the Danish National Election Study. He is the author (with Kasper Møller Hansen, Michael Lewis-Beck and Richard Nadeau) of The Danish Voter. Democratic Ideals and Challenges (2021 University of Michigan Press). His work investigates also the continuinuos social and political importance of social class to citizens of advanced democracies. For more information, please visit http://person.au.dk/en/stubager@ps.au.dk.

Prof. Andrea Ceron, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan (andrea.ceron@unimi.it)
Andrea Ceron is associate professor at the University of Milan, where he teaches Italian Political System, Polimetrics and Multivariate Analysis.
He has been visiting scholar at Harvard University, co-founder and board member of Voices from the Blogs Srl, an academic spinoff in the field of sentiment analysis.
He is currently principal investigator of the PRIN project "DEMOPE: Democracy under Pressure" and editor of the Encyclopedia of Technology and Politics.
He has published 8 books and 50 articles in international peer-reviewed journals.

Prof. Timothy Hellwig, Department of Political Science, Indiana University – Bloomington (thellwig@indiana.edu)
Professor of Political Science and Academic Director of the Europe Gateway at Indiana University. My interests include comparative and international political economy, mass political behavior, and research methods. I am a team member on the Executive Approval Project. I am author of Democracy Under Siege? Parties, Voters, and Elections after the Great Recession (with Yesola Kweon and Jack Vowles, 2020 Oxford) and Globalization and Mass Politics: Retaining the Room to Maneuver (2014 Cambridge). I teach courses on comparative elections, political economy, European politics, the EU, world politics, and quantitative methods.
Professor of Political Science and Academic Director of the Europe Gateway at Indiana University. My interests include comparative and international political economy, mass political behavior, and research methods. I am a team member on the Executive Approval Project. I am author of Democracy Under Siege? Parties, Voters, and Elections after the Great Recession (with Yesola Kweon and Jack Vowles, 2020 Oxford) and Globalization and Mass Politics: Retaining the Room to Maneuver (2014 Cambridge). I teach courses on comparative elections, political economy, European politics, the EU, world politics, and quantitative methods.
Timothy Hellwig is a professor of Political Science and Academic Director of the Europe Gateway at Indiana University. His interests include comparative and international political economy, mass political behavior, and reaserch methods. He is a team member on the Executive Approval Project and an author of Democracy Under Siege? Parties, Voters, and Elections after the Great Recession (with Yesola Kweon and Jack Vowles, 2020 Oxford) and Globalization and Mass Politics: Retaining the Room to Maneuver (2014 Cambridge). He teaches courses on comparative elections, political economy, European politics, the EU, world politics, and quantitative methods.

Prof. Maria Solevid, Department of Political Science, Gothenburg University (maria.solevid@pol.gu.se)
Maria Solevid, Ph.D. and Associate Professor in Political Science, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg. Solevid conducts research within the Swedish National Election Studies Program (SNES), and the Gothenburg Research Group on Elections, Public Opinion and Political Behavior (GEPOP).

Thinking about law school? Have questions about the LSAT? Join us and the School of Law for an information session on how to make your law school application stand out!

2022-2023 MEET EU EMERGING FILMMAKER
In partnership with the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence at Florida International University, Center for European Studies of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and University of Pittsburgh’s European Studies Center, this year's MEET EU Emerging Filmmaker Residency goes to Vida Skerk from Zagreb Croatia.

The European Studies Center will be featuring her 2022 short film Night Ride (Noćna vožnja), a discussion with the director and reception to follow in the Frick Arts Cloister.

About: Night Ride explores quarter-life identity crisis through the perspective of a twentysomething student in Croatia. Dunja, the main character, questions her decision to move to a bigger city and regrets leaving behind the safety of her hometown where she could always count on the support of her close friend, Sara.
Exploring the “borders” and boundaries, the film is constructed as a series of dreams and nightmares which evade a linear narrative structure and retain the qualities of a more stream-of-consciousness approach, presenting to the viewer Dunja’s inner world in its most authentic, raw and honest form.

The European Studies Center in cooperation with Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies and History Department is launching a new study certificate focused on history, culture, economy, and their entanglements of and in central Europe - historically, politically and culturally the most diverse and dynamic region of Europe since 1800s that can be placed between Russian, Ottoman, German, and Habsburg empires, between Rhine and Dnepr and Baltic and Adriatic Seas. It is a place where two world wars started and genocides took place, where Cold War started and ended and where European integration emerged with its new dynamic. What insights can we gain on Europe and the world by looking at this region? The Central European Studies Certificate is for those students who are interested in exploring specific experience of Central European societies. This includes formation of identities, migration, nationalism, and collective memory, racism, religious and ethnic diversity, economy development in variety of political, artistic, and social forms.

Whether identified as ethnonationalist, pan-European, anti-colonial, or or pan-Islamic, "civilizationist" identification is in the foreground of many nationalist, racist, often white supremist narratives. Such approaches to identification extract concepts and mechanisms from earlier nationalist projects and feed them into the larger narratives of civilizationism taking hold today. While doing so, they tend to reproduce a radicalized approach to history, art, literature, material culture, and demography. This talk will address the broader implications of "civilizationism" with a historicist approach.

How have immigrants inspired you? Come support immigrants with an activity and have your photo shared on our social media.

Through experiential learning, high school students engage directly with global issues by assuming the role of world leaders and negotiating responses to timely topics.

Join University of Pittsburgh, Newcastle University in the United Kingdom, and colleagues from across the globe for a virtual collaborative conference on 19 - 20 October.

Building on last year’s conference we will explore and share best practices on how Universities advance place-based approaches through community and student engagement and importantly how we measure our impact and demonstrate accountability to our communities and stakeholders.

The conference will include a program of concurrent sessions focused on the themes of sustainability, health, culture and cities and places. Plenary sessions will draw upon the role universities play in their place, looking at a range of international contexts and approaches to impact and evaluation.

Register for the event at https://newcastle-pittsburgh.online-event.co/registration/universities-h...

First-year students enrolled in the Academic Foundations Community: Europe traveled to Washington, D.C., to learn more about Europe and the EU. They visited a Vermeer exhibit at the National Gallery of Art, enjoyed Norwegian cuisine, and met with the EU Delegation to the US and the Embassy of Portugal.

It's never too late or too early to be planning for future years. Join the six UCIS centers and learn tips for applications from program representatives and faculty decision makers from the Dietrich School A&S, Graduate School of Public Health, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and the School of Education.

When thinking of German businesses, we usually mean West German ones. To add nuance to this perspective, this event will focus on two successful East German companies that had to restart after 1989 when Communism fell and the German government privatized thousands of companies. While some did not succeed, the numerous stories of those that thrived are often overlooked.
Moderator: Jan Musenkamp, University of Pittsburgh

Panelist:
Wendy Carlin, University College of London.
Florian Mezger from Carl Zeiss

Students will have to opportunity to question the companies about internship opportunities.

What is Donald Trump's personality like? What was his family like? What is his ideology? What have been the highlights of his performance as a businessman, candidate, and head of the government of the most powerful country in the world? These questions require multi-causal answers that go beyond the clichés that have been spread by his defenders, his detractors, and Trump himself. The 45th president of the United States has been both praised and reviled. His personality, his professional career, and his emergence in American and world politics have been the subject of biased and didactic analyses. This book attempts to offer a more nuanced explanation, underpinned by hundreds of articles, books, and interviews on the character and his historical context.

To understand the “Trump phenomenon” it is necessary to analyze its origins, as well as the political, social and economic dynamics of the United States. For better or worse, Trump is not a historical anomaly, but rather a product of his time. However, some of the most controversial actions of his mandate, which put democratic coexistence on the ropes, were largely his responsibility. His style of doing politics is still alive, as are the circumstances that made for his rise to power in 2016. Will he return to the White House in 2024?

Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger is a German journalist who previously served as the Foreign Editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. His writing has focused on the United States, European, transatlantic, and international politics. Mr. Frankenberger holds a master’s degree in Political Science, Economics, and American Studies from Frankfurt University. In 1980, he participated in an exchange program with the University of Mississippi. From 1982 to 1985 he was a research associate at the Center for North-American Studies at Frankfurt University. Mr. Frankenberger was a Congressional Fellow in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1985 to 1986 and a Marshall Fellow at Harvard University in 1990. He has lectured at several American universities. In 2011, he was a Bosch Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington, D.C. Since he joined the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany’s leading national daily, in 1986, he served in various capacities, as European, International, and Editorial Page Editor. Mr. Frankenberger was a Member of the Trilateral Commission and of the Scientific Council of the Institute for European Politics in Berlin. He also served on the Advisory Board of the Federal Academy for Security Policy in Berlin and is associated with several organizations that deal with the transatlantic relationship.

Learn more about all that is planned for the 2022-23 academic year by the Asian Studies Center, the Center for African Studies, the Center for Ethnic Studies Research, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, the European Studies Center, and the Global Studies Center. Celebrate with us the recent award of 12 new federal grants and learn how that money will support faculty and students interested in the world. Find new opportunities to study, research, or teach about the world. This event is open to all faculty and students and is an opportunity to meet others who share similar interests. Representatives from Pitt's Global Experiences Office and Office of International Studies, as well as the Nationality Rooms, will also be on hand.

Panelist: Tim Bale, Queen Mary University of London, Jane Green, University of Oxford, Robert Ford, University of Manchester and Robert Johns, University of Essex
Moderator: Jae-Jae Spoon, University of Pittsburgh

Henry Koerner's transformative years as a poster artist in WWII. Join Dr. Florian Traussnig for an illuminating lecture on the Vienna-born, Jewish refugee Heinrich Sieghart Korner, later Henry Koerner, who created some of the most iconic posters for the US Office of War Information and later became known as a Pittsburgh-based "master of magical realism." Learn how the artist fused the kulturellen Rucksackhe brought from Austria to American art and culture.

REGISTER:

https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctduqoqj0rGtbDhe99CTdiCnu0I65-jkRm

Sponsors:

Austrian Nationality Room Committee

European Studies Center

The OrJames Lab

University of Graz, Austria

The Center for African Studies (CAS) is hosting its inaugural Celebrate Africa Festival from Friday, September 16 to Saturday, September 17, 2022 and you are invited to attend!

On Friday, join scholars and leaders from the African continent and Pitt faculty for a seminar, round table, alumni webinar, documentary screening, reception, and keynote address by renowned pan-African historian Dr. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza.

On Saturday join us for the festival that will bring students, faculty, and staff together with the vibrant diaspora community of Pittsburgh. We’ll gather outside the Posvar Patio to celebrate the many cultures of Africa through music & dance, food, and artisans and children's activities. It will also be a day for networking with African organizations and businesses.