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2012
"Social Movements and Global Crisis: Coalition and Conflict in Contemporary Social Movements"
Awarded to Jackie Smith (School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology); Suzanne Staggenborg (School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology); Jules Lobel (School of Law); Paul Nelson (Graduate School of Public and International Affairs); and foreign partners from York University and the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru.
The grant supported a research workshop in fall 2012, which brought together an international group of scholars of social movement coalitions and practitioners who have been leaders in coalition-building at international, national (US) and local levels. The participants shared analyses and began the development of theories about coalition-building in contemporary movements for social change. The workshop explored: 1) how organizations bridge differences between local and global arenas of action, and 2) the lessons that can be drawn from both scholarly research and organizing experiences about the factors affecting coalition durability and effectiveness. The workshop advanced scholarship on social movement coalitions in the contemporary, globalized context, and also initiated a collaborative network among scholars and social movement practitioners that can contribute to and inform the agenda and methods of scholarship and practice.
"Addressing Infectious Agents across Oceans: Pitt and the Philippines"
Awarded to James Pipas (School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences);Peter Veldkamp (School of Medicine); Margaret McDonald (Graduate School of Public Health); and foreign partners from the University of the Philippines, and the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, the Philippines.
Conference to be held spring 2013. Since 2008, a working relationship has been established between Pitt, the University of the Philippines Manila (UPM) and the Research institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM), also in the Philippines. These collaborating institutions have the following goals that the conference will help them move toward implementation of: (1) lead to additional joint research projects, initially in the areas of virus discovery and infectious diseases that hold the potential for federal and/or philanthropic funding; (2) stimulate faculty and student exchanges between the US and the Philippines; and (3) advance Pitt’s multidisciplinary global research agenda. Major Pitt units participating in the initiative include Arts and Sciences, the Center for Vaccine Research, Graduate School of Public Health, School of Medicine and the School of Pharmacy.
2011
“Anglophone Asian novels Conference, 1945-Present”
Awarded to Susan Z. Andrade (School of Arts and Sciences, Department of English); Andrew Weintraub (School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Music); Joseph S. Alter (School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology); and foreign partners from the University of Hong Kong and the University of the Philippines.
The grant supported a research conference in fall 2011, from which a large, edited collection of critical essays will be published. The conference succeeded in outlining a set of literary histories of the English-language novel in Asia, and by so doing addressed the Global Studies Center focus areas of Changing Identities in a Global World and Communication, Technology and Society. As part of the process of preparing the edited book, the conference examined critical writings about local national literary cultures and explored themes across states and language families, including South Asia, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and the Philippines. Participants included academics from: Grinnell College, New York University, Penn State University, Purdue University, Temple University, University of Chicago, University of the Philippines and University of Pittsburgh. Co-sponsors included: Department of English, Office of the Provost, Global Studies Center, University Center for International Studies, A&S Faculty Research and Scholarship Program, Asian Studies Center, Cultural Studies Program, Humanities Center, and Indo-Pacific Council. Conference Web site:
http://www.english.pitt.edu/asiannovels/index.php.
“The Idea of France/L’Idée de la France”
Awarded to Todd W. Reeser (School of Arts and Sciences, Department of French and Italian Languages and Literatures); Giuseppina Mecchia (School of Arts and Sciences, Department of French and Italian Languages and Literatures); Vivian Curran (School of Law); and foreign partners from the Université Stendhal Grenoble 3 and the University of Glasgow.
The grant supported a research conference in fall 2011, which explored how “Frenchness” has been imagined from a variety of perspectives. The conference took an approach to the subject that was simultaneously global, transnational and interdisciplinary, as it examined “Frenchness” across numerous forms (language, literature, film, TV, museums, visual art and dance) and across time (Middle Ages to the 20th Century). The conference papers will be published in an edition of the journal Contemporary French and Francophone Studies. Participants included academics from: Albright College, California State University-Long Beach, Case Western Reserve University, Catholic University of America, City University of New York, Dartmouth University, DePaul University, East Carolina University, Duke University, EPHE-Sorbonne, Furman University, Georgia Gwinnett College, Gӧteborgs Universitet, Harvard University, Indiana University, Iowa State University, James Madison University, Johannes Gutenberg, Kenyon College, Laval University, Lehigh University, Nassau Community College, New York University, Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle, Penn State University-Erie and State College, Point Park University, Princeton University, Purdue University, Ryerson University, Saint Peters College-Oxford, Universität-Mainz, Universität Wien, Université Helwan, University of Akron, University of California-Los Angeles, University of Dschang, University of Illinois, University of Maryland-College Park, University of Massachusetts, University of Memphis, University of Minnesota, University of New Mexico, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, University of Orléans, University of Pittsburgh, University of Utah, University of Virginia, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and Madison, Washington University, Washington and Lee University and West Virginia University. Co-sponsors included: Department of French and Italian Languages and Literatures, Office of the Provost, Global Studies Center, University Center for International Studies, A&S Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, A&S Faculty Research and Scholarship Program, Cultural Studies Program, Department of Anthropology, Department of Sociology, Eighteenth-Century Studies at Pitt, European Union Center of Excellence/European Studies Center, Film Studies Program, Humanities Center, Jewish Studies Program, School of Law, University Honors College and World History Center. Conference Web site:
http://www.ideaoffrance.pitt.edu/.
2010
"Film and the End of Empire"
Awarded to Colin MacCabe (School of Arts and Sciences, Department of English); Patrick Manning (School of Arts and Sciences, Department of History); Nancy Condee (School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures); and foreign partners from University College London and the British Film Institute (London)
This grant will support a research conference representing the culmination of a three-year project and to make available to scholars and the general public a huge archive of colonial film that currently languishes unwatched by all but the most dedicated and specialized researchers. The central aim of the conference is to develop both historical and contemporary understandings of Empire and cinema. It will address the GAP priorities of Changing Identities in a Global World and Communication, Technology, and Society. To fulfill these goals, the conference will inaugurate a global exchange among researchers into the British Empire and post-colonialism in fields as diverse as Film Studies and Visual Culture, Museum Studies, History, Anthropology, and Global Studies.
"Achieving Sustainable Development in Africa"
Awarded to Joseph Adjaye (School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Africana Studies); Ravi Sharma (Graduate School of Public Health, Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences); and foreign partners from the University of Ghana (Accra) and the University of Witwatersrand (Johannesburg).
This grant will support a conference in 2011 that will bring together academics to focus on health and environmental sustainability, education improvement, gender equality and empowering women, and conflict mitigation and institutional governance. The goal is to generate a publication based on the papers presented.
"Collaborating for Global Innovation Advantage: A Cross Country Comparison of Institutions and Inter-organizational Relationships in the Machine Tool and Pharmaceutical Industries"
Awarded to Susan Cohen (Katz Graduate School of Business); Janice Mueller (School of Law); Turanay Caner (Jenkins Graduate School of Management, North Carolina State University); and foreign partners from the Beijing Jiaotong University (Beijing).
This grant will support a workshop in January 2011 bringing together scholars from economics, law and management to explore the question of how firms should organize their innovation activities in order to learn from and profitably transact with globally distributed suppliers, customers, competitors, complementors, universities, and other centers of excellence.
2009
“Youth, Labor, and Neoliberal Governmentality in East Asia”
Awarded to Gabriella Lukacs (assistant professor of anthropology in Pitt’s School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Anthropology); Hiroshi Nara (associate professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures in Arts and Sciences’ Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures); Muge Kokten Finkel (adjunct professor of politics in Pitt’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs); and foreign partners from Sophia University, Japan and Temple University Japan.
The grant will support a spring 2010 international symposium bringing together prominent junior and senior scholars from various disciplines, including anthropology, urban studies, sociology, East Asian studies, women’s studies, as well as business and management. The participants of the symposium will investigate two salient trends in East Asia—youth unemployment and underemployment. The symposium is sponsored by Pitt’s Office of the Provost, Global Studies Program, and University Center for International Studies (UCIS).
“Improving Maternal and Child Health Outcomes in Zambia”
Awarded to Jeannette South-Paul (professor of medicine and chair of Pitt’s School Medicine Department of Family Medicine); Steven M. Albert (professor of public health in Pitt’s Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences); and foreign partners from the University of Zambia and Churches Health Association of Zambia.
The grant will support a workshop—to be held at Pitt in July 2009—that will seek to identify clinical research needs, perspectives, and priorities for academic and community leaders in Zambia; prepare a five-year maternal-child health collaborative clinical research agenda; and define potential resources available in both countries. The conference is sponsored by Pitt’s Center for Global Health, and the Global Studies Program.
“The State of Globalization in the Steel Industry: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead”
Awarded to Ravi Madhavan (associate professor of business in the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business); Frank Giarratani (professor of economics in Pitt’s Center for Industry Studies in the Department of Economics); and foreign partners from Tohoku University, Japan and POSCO Research Institute, South Korea.
The grant will support a one-day workshop to be held in the early fall 2010. This workshop will bring together an international group of researchers from the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America to present and discuss position papers as well as articulate plans for focused studies dealing with the current and future challenges of globalization in the steel industry. The workshop is sponsored by Pitt’s International Business Center within the Katz School and the Global Studies Program.
2008
Three $20,000 Global Academic Partnership (GAP) grants have been awarded to fund three international conferences/workshops. The grants are intended to strengthen interdisciplinary research and curriculum development on critical global issues while enhancing international scholarly ties and raising the international profile of the University of Pittsburgh.
“The Arts, Human Development, and Human Rights: 21st Century Intersections and Ramifications”
Awarded to Kathleen DeWalt (professor of anthropology in Pitt's School of Arts and Sciences' Department of Anthropology and director of the Center for Latin American Studies in the University Center of International Studies); David Barnard (professor of medicine and director of palliative care education in Pitt's School of Medicine and Center for Bioethics and Health Law); the Andy Warhol Museum; and foreign partners from the University of Fluminese, Brazil.
The grant will support a March 2009 international conference bringing together artists, scholars, educators, and activists from the United States and Brazil. The event will facilitate intellectual exchange and planning for future collaboration in the fields of art history and art in society, law, medicine, public health, education, political science, and Latin American studies. The conference is sponsored by the Office of the Provost, Global Studies Program, and University Center for International Studies (UCIS).
“Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia”
Awarded to Andrew Weintraub (associate professor of music in Pitt's School of Arts and Sciences' Department of Music); Bambang Parmanto (associate professor of health information management and biomedical informatics in Pitt's School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences' Department of Health Information Management); and foreign partners from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and the University of Malaya, Malaysia.
The grant will support an international conference in October 2008. The conference will explore the relationship between Islam and popular culture in the Malay world-analyzing the forms and practices of production, circulation, marketing, and consumption of Islam. The conference is sponsored by the Office of the Provost, Global Studies Program, and UCIS.
“A New Rational Approach to Resolving Conflicts; the Case of the Middle East”
Awarded to Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business faculty members Thomas Saaty (University Professor of business administration) and H.J. Zoffer (Dean Emeritus and professor of business administration); Kevin Kearns (professor of public and urban affairs in Pitt's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs); and foreign partners from King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia, and Osmangazi University, Turkey.
The grant will support an October 2009 international workshop on conflict resolution, analyzing conflict in Israel through the framework of the Analytic Network Process. The workshop is sponsored by the International Business Center within the Katz Business School and the Global Studies Program.
2007
The Global Studies Program is pleased to announce the winners of the annual Global Academic Partnership (GAP) program grant competition. GAP is an initiative of the Global Studies Program (University Center for International Studies/Graduate School of Public and International Affairs) and the Office of the Provost. It aims to strengthen interdisciplinary research and curriculum development on critical global issues, while enhancing international scholarly ties and raising the international profile of the University of Pittsburgh.
This year awards are for two grants of $20,000 each sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the University Center for International Studies.
Andre Gunder Frank's Legacy of Critical Social Science
Patrick Manning (History) with John Beverley (Hispanic Languages and Literature) and Thomas Rawski (Economics) and foreign partners from the University of Newcastle, England.
The project will support an international conference honoring the life and work of Andre Gunder Frank, a pioneer in global analysis in history and social science. The international conference will focus on the scholarly assessment of Frank’s work and the current status of analysis in the fields in which he worked. The conference will address six topical areas: (1)Underdevelopment and dependency in Latin America; (2) World accumulation and world system; (3) 5000-year world system; (4) East Asia in the World Economy; (5) Social Movements; and (6) Contemporary political and economic analysis. To be held March 2008.
Research and Training: Global Health and Sustainable Development
Joseph Alter (Anthropology), P. Sudhakar Reddy (Cardiology), and Eric Beckman (Chemical and Petroleum Engineering) and foreign partners from the MediCiti Institute of Medical Sciences in Hyderbad , India.
The project will support a workshop focusing on global health and sustainable development. The workshop will concentrate on research, training, curriculum development and collaborative projects between the University of Pittsburgh, The MediCiti Institute of Medical Sciences ( Hyderabad ) the University of Hyderabad and Jawaharlal Nehru University ( New Delhi ). The purpose of the workshop is to bring faculty from the institutions mentioned above together to identify mutual interests, interdisciplinary strengths, opportunities for programmatic interface, additional funding sources and to agree on initial pilot research and training programs. To be held November 2007.
2006
Globalization and Diversity/Inequality in Latin America : Challenges, Opportunities, and Dangers
Elizabeth Monasterios (Hispanic Languages and Literatures) with Aníbal Pérez-Liñán (Political Science) and foreign partners from the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés.
The project will support an international conference on the current crises facing two structural models of building societies—neocolonial and neoliberal. In this light, four interrelated panels will discuss four key issues in the Latin American/Caribbean regions: (1) Global Communications and New Technologies; (2) Increasing/Decreasing Inequality; (3) Leadership and Access to Power; and (4) Social Movements in National and Transnational Contexts. To be held March 2007.
Research in Sustainable Community Development
Kathleen Dewalt (Anthropology and Public Health; Center for Latin American Studies) with Larry Shuman (Industrial Engineering), Eric Beckman (Chemical and Petroleum Engineering), and foreign partners from the University of Brazil and the University of Puerto Rico.
The project will support an international workshop to address needed research in the areas of green construction and water, aimed at generating a comprehensive research agenda attentive to cross-cultural and ethical issues. The project will additionally provide important training for Pitt's IGERT Sustainable Engineering Fellows who will conduct research in Brazilas part of Pitt's Mascaro Sustainability Initiative. Held in April 2007.
States at Risk: Building Knowledge About Children in Armed Conflict
Simon Reich (Public and International Affairs; Ford Institute for Human Security), with Barry Ames (Political Science), Maureen McClure (Administrative and Policy Studies), Charli Carpenter (Public and International Affairs), and foreign partners from the Peace Research Institution of Oslo and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.
The project will support one in a series of in international workshops on the issue of children in armed conflict. The workshop will be designed to examine different explanations for the phenomenon of child soldiering and to consider policy options aimed at limiting their military recruitment. The workshop will generate collaborative long-term research. To be held September 15-17, 2006.
2005
High-End Outsourcing: Developing a Strategy of Sustainable Collaboration
John Camillus, Donald R. Beall Professor of Strategic Management and professor of business administration (Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business); Bopaya Bidanda, chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering.
Research conference on "high-end outsourcing" to be held in April, 2006, in which activities and functions that add significant value and are strongly knowledge-based—such as research, design, and enhanced manufacturing— are contracted out to offshore organizations. Camillus and Bidanda will collaborate with foreign partners from the Indian Institute of Technology (Madras and Kharagpur) and the Indian Institute of Management (Bangalore and Ahmedabad). Cosponsored by Pitt's International Business Center (IBC) within the Katz Graduate School of Business.
Societal Inequality and Individual Outcomes
Salvatore Babones, assistant professor of sociology; John Marx, professor of sociology; Siddharth Chandra, associate professor of public and international affairs; Mark Ginsburg, professor of administrative and policy studies (School of Education) and professor of sociology; Ravi Sharma, assistant professor of behavioral and community health sciences (GSPH); Ken Thompson, associate professor of psychiatry (School of Medicine) and behavioral and community health.
International conference to be held in May 2006 on the relationship between societal inequality in terms of the overall distribution of resources and individual or aggregate health. The project involves foreign partners from the University of Nottingham (United Kingdom) and the Singapore Management University (Tanglin). Cosponsored by Pitt's Office of the Provost and UCIS.
HIV/AIDS East of the Urals
Robert Hayden, professor of anthropology and director of Russian and East European studies; Richard Day, assistant professor of biostatics (GSPH); Linda Frank, assistant professor of infectious diseases and microbiology (GSPH).
International workshop held in June 2005, bringing together Russian bio-behavioral scientists concerned with controlling the spread of HIV/AIDS in the eastern region of the Russian Federation, with a large interdisciplinary group of Pitt behavioral, medical, and public health scientists. The team partnered with colleagues from the Siberian Academy of Medical Science and the Siberian Center for AIDS Prevention. Cosponsored by Pitt's Office of the Provost and UCIS.
The CISG After 25 years: Conflict Resolution and Conflict Avoidance in a Globalized Economy
Harold Flechtner, professor of law; Ronald Brand, professor of law and director of the Center for International Legal Education; and Kenneth Lehn, Samuel A. McCullough Professor of Finance in the Katz Graduate School of Business.
Conference held in November 2005, marking the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, and involving foreign partners from the University of Augsburg (Germany) and the University of Ghent (Belgium). Law and business professionals from around the globe gathered to discuss the development of uniform law for international business and the goal of uniform interpretation of that law, as well as its application in a manner that facilitates more predictable and efficient trade relationships. Cosponsored by the School of Law.
2004
Love of Country: Intimacy and Nation in Italy's Migrations
Donna Gabaccia, professor of history; Giuseppina Mecchia, assistant professor of French and Italian; Paula Kane, associate professor of religious studies.
Conference in April 2005 focusing on the 25 million persons who left Italy as migrants to live and work on four continents. Research led by an international team including partners from the University of Toronto and the University of Western Australia, who explored the relationship between human mobility, intimate (or "private") behavior and the acquisition of national identities. Cosponsored by the Office of the Provost.
Comparative Postcolonialities: Aesthetics, History, Locality
Shalini Puri, associate professor of English; Marcus Rediker, professor of history; Joseph Alter, associate professor of anthropology.
A new conference series on postcolonial studies, initiated with an international conference that "rethinks" the field of postcolonial studies in light of global trends that have transformed the maps of postcoloniality. In an effort to create a new model for the field, it considers the critiques of both postcolonial and area studies and draws in the work of emerging scholars. Cosponsored by the Office of the Provost.
The Financial Dimensions of Terrorism: the Raising, Movement, and Disbursement of Terrorist Funds
Philip Williams, professor in the Graduate School for Public and International Affairs; Kenneth Sochats, assistant professor of information sciences.
On March 19-20, 2004, a workshop on the financing of terrorism brought together a diversity of specialists including international partner Rohan Gunaratna, the pre-eminent academic specialist on Al-Qaida, from the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. The workshop, which will result in an edited volume, will illuminate the dimensions of terrorist financing, the tradeoffs between the Bush administration's freeze campaign and the possibility of following funds as a warning indicator of a potential attack, achievements to date, and further policy considerations. Cosponsored by the International Business Center of the Katz Graduate School of Business.
2003
Representing Genes
Paul E. Griffiths (history and philosophy of science) and Jeffrey H. Schwartz (anthropology)
A January 2004 workshop looking at diverse conceptualizations of the gene in contemporary biology and their impact on interdisciplinary communication and public dissemination, involving partners from Germany, Israel, and the United Kingdom, as well as from universities across the United States.
Global Knowledge Agents and the State of Globalization in the Steel Industry
John Prescott and Ravindranath Madhavan (Katz Graduate School of Business) and Frank Giarratani (economics)
Workshop held in the spring of 2004. Joined by collaborators from Belgium, Japan, Switzerland, and United Kingdom. Cosponsored by the International Business Center at the Katz Graduate School of Business.
2002
U.S./U.K. Dialogue on Eliminating Health Inequities in Post De-industrial Regions: How Can Community/University Partnerships Help?
Kenneth Thompson, School of Medicine/Graduate School of Public Health; Stephen Thomas, School of Social Work/Center for Minority Health; Margaret Potter, Center for Public Health Practice, Graduate School of Public Health; Denys Candy, Community Partners Institute; Anthony Silvestre, Department of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine; Tracy Soska, School of Social Work
Workshop held on April 23-25, 2003, on the causes of and policy responses to health disparities between racial/ethnic communities and socioeconomic groups in post de-industrialized areas, with particular focus on university/community health partnerships. The workshop included partners from Edinburgh, Fife, Glasgow, Newcastle, and Staffordshire, United Kingdom.
Demand Aggregation for Broadband Deployment in Rural Communities
Martin Weiss, Department of Information Science and Telecommunications, School of Information Sciences; Kenneth Sochats, Department of Information Science and Telecommunications, School of Information Sciences; Dennis Galletta, Katz Graduate School of Business
Workshop on March 3-5, 2003, to create a set of resources to assist community leaders with identifying and accumulating existing and potential demand for broadband access. Partner institutions in Australia, Norway, and the United Kingdom. Project site:
www.sis.pitt.edu/~demand/Meeting.htm
Environmental and Public Health Recovery and Protection in Serbia and Montenegro
Radisav Vidic, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering; Richard D. Day, Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health; Robert Hayden, Anthropology/Law/Center for Russian and East European Studies
With collaborators from the schools of engineering and public health, from the faculty of arts and sciences, and from institutions in Yugoslavia, the conference held on April 7-8, 2003, explored the environmental and public health consequences of armed conflict.
Hazard Reduction and Response in Metropolitan Regions: An Interdisciplinary Model
Louise Comfort, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs; Hassan Karimi, Department of Information Science and Telecommunications, School of Information Sciences
The workshop, held on March 16-18, 2003, included collaborators from Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, and Japan to discuss metropolitan models of risk assessment and responses to man-made and natural disasters.
