Global Health explores the risks and opportunities of globalization for the health of the world population, including the increased spread of diseases across borders and oceans, and the enhanced ability to alert populations and health organizations about epidemics. It also addresses international emergency response systems for health epidemics in different parts of the world.
Global Economy
Global Economy explores the changing reach and nature of economic flows and political organization under conditions of globalization, raising issues such as international economic growth and crisis, global competition.
Global Security
Global Security explores international, ethnic, and religious conflicts, and considers ways of preventing and resolving conflicts, including negotiation and fostering of deeper cross-cultural understanding. It raises issues such as the role of the United Nations, armed intervention, non-governmental organizations, humanitarian relief, terrorism, international law, and diplomacy.
Global Society
Global Society explores how our understanding of who we are changes under globalization, exploring issues such as race, religion, nationality, history, and gender. It addresses the interchange of ideas between cultures, movements of people, international rights, and other factors impacting cultural development in different parts of the world.
Join us on December 7 at 12PM in 4217 Posvar Hall for a light lunch and to view the posters of our Fall 2012 graduates. We will also have information available on upcoming FLAS fellowships, Spring 2013 mini-courses, and more!
One credit mini-courses organized by Global Studies Center and Carnegie Mellon University. Students can take these courses for credit and the community and K-12 educators can attend at no charge.
Upcoming Events
Thursday, December 13
Film -- "Home is Where You Find It"
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lecture Room 1, Scaife Hall
Global Studies Center
Global Health Student Association, The Center for Global Health
Free
The Global Health Film Series provides a regular forum for bringing together students, faculty, and others who are interested in emerging issues in global health. Two-hour program includes the featured film, a post-film discussion, and light refreshments.
Film synopsis:
What happens when a pediatrician who is also an award-winning producer (Law & Order - Special Victims Unit) gives a kid a camera and shows him how to use it? In this case, Alcides Soares, a 16-year-old AIDS orphan in Mozambique, chronicles about his journey to find a new family and make a new life in a country in which a half-million children share his situation.
Thursday, January 10
Seminar -- The Black Death: Panzootic and Pandemic
Bruce C. Campbell, Queen’s University
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
4130 Posvar
Global Studies Center
World History Center
Free
Friday, February 8 (All day)
Workshop -- Academic WorldQuest
(All day)
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum
Global Studies Center, International Business Center
UPMC, UPMC Healthcare, World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh
Thursday, February 21
Lecture -- Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln: An Unexpected Convergence
Robin Blackburn (University of Essex)
7:30 pm
University of Pittsburgh, Oakland Campus
European Studies Center, Global Studies Center
Department of History, The Humanities Center, The World History Center
Marcus Rediker
(412) 648-7477
marcusrediker@yahoo.com
The XIXth Annual E.P. Thompson Memorial Lecture
Robin Blackburn is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. He was educated at Oxford University and the London School of Economics and served as editor of New Left Review. He is author of many important books, including an influential trilogy on origins and history of Atlantic slavery: The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848 (1988), The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 (1997), and The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights (2011).
Wednesday, March 20
Seminar -- In a brown mantle'? South Asian politics, the Indian Ocean sphere and the making of East African independence, 1923-1978
Gerard McCann, University of York
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
4130 Posvar
Global Studies Center
World History Center
Free
Friday, April 5
Conference -- Conference on Global Humanities and World History
April 5, 2013 Friday 10:00 am – 2:15 pm.
10:00 am - 2:15 pm
European Studies Center, European Union Center of Excellence, Global Studies Center
