European Studies Center, European Union Center of Excellence
Repeats every week until Tue Dec 11 2012 .
Tuesday, December 4
Film -- Weimar Cinema Screenings (German Cinema 1919-1933)
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Lawrence Hall, Room 209
European Studies Center
Department of German
Free
Randall Halle
412.648.2614
randall.halle@gmail.com
All films will have subtitles accessible to non-German speaking audiences. All film screenings are open to the public. All films will be DVD projection. Many of these films are rare and hard to find. I would encourage you to bring friends so they can take advantage of the experience.
Tuesday September 11 Nerven [Nerves] (Robert Reiner 1919) Die Austernprinzessin [The Oyster Princess] (Ernst Lubitsch 1919)
Tuesday September 25 Die freudlose Gasse [Joyless Streets] (Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1925) Asphalt (Joe May 1929)
Tuesday October 2 Die Elf Teufel [The Eleven Devils] (Zoltan Korda 1927) König der Mittelstürmer [The Champion of the Stadium] (Fritz Freisler 1927)
Tuesday October 9 Metropolis (Fritz Lang 1927) Algol (Hans Werckmeister 1920) Wunder der Schöpfung [Our Heavenly Bodies] (Hanns Walter Kornblum 1925)
Tuesday October 16 Berlin, die Sinfonie der Großstadt [Berlin the Symphony of the Great City] (Walter Ruttmann 1927) Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed [The Adventures of Prince Achmed] (Lotte Reiniger, 1923-26)
Tuesday October 23 Büchse der Pandora [Pandora’s Box] (Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1929)
Der Letzte Mann [Last Laugh] (F. W. Murnau 1924)
Tuesday October 30 Der Blaue Engel [The Blue Angel] (Josef Von Sternberg 1930)
Tuesday November 6 Anders als die Andern [Different from the Others] (Richard Oswald 1919) Mädchen in Uniform [Girls in Uniform] (Leontine Sagan 1931)
Tuesday November 13 Menschen am Sonntag [People on Sunday] (Robert Siodmak 1930)
Tuesday November 20 Die Dreigroschenoper [Three Penny Opera] (Georg Wlhelm Pabst 1931)
Tuesday November 27 Kuhle Wampe [To Whom Does the World Belong?] (Slatan Dudow 1932)
Tuesday December 4 Die Drei von der Tankstelle [Three Men and Lilian] (Wilhelm Thiele 1930) Der Kongress Tanzt [The Congress Dances] (Erik Charell 1931)
Thursday, December 6
Lecture Series / Brown Bag -- Avoiding Bad Moves: Relocation, Work/Family Conflict, and Japanese Career Women
Blaine Connor, Director of Academic Programs, College of General Studies
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
4130 Posvar Hall
Asian Studies Center, International Business Center
asia@pitt.edu
Relocation can lead to professional growth and career advancement, but can also lead to work/family conflict. In this talk Connor will present the stories of three Japanese career women whose relocations led to personal crises. These crises resulted from a workplace policy which made periodic relocation obligatory for male and female employees alike. By analyzing how they faced these crises and what gave rise to them, Connor aims to shed light on issues of work-life balance, gender equity, and obstacles to social and cultural change.
Presentation -- Vernacularity and Alienation
Dr. Philipp Rosemann
4:30 pm
European Studies Center, European Union Center of Excellence
Department of Classics, Department of English, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Associate Dean for..., Duquesne University’s Center for the Catholic Intellectual..., Humanities Center, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, National Institute for Newman Studies
Jennifer Waldron
jwaldron@pitt.edu
A native German trained in Ireland and Belgium, and now working in the U.S., Professor Rosemann has written academic work in German, French, and English, and has reflected deeply on the linguistic and cultural impacts of colonialism while teaching in Uganda. During this presentation he will reflect on how the meaning of vernacular language and culture might change in the future under pressures of globalization. This lecture is designed particularly with an undergraduate audience in mind.
Friday, December 7
Lecture -- Centripetal Heritage in a Socialist State: Politics of Archaeology and Urbanism in Bucharest, Romania (1953-1971)
Emanuela Grama, Visiting Assistant Professor and Oberlin/Michigan Postdoctoral Fellow
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Department of Anthropology
Center for Russian and East European Studies
Department of Anthropology
Free
The talk will explore the tension between the architects seeking to redefine the urban texture of Romania’s major cities according to the modernist principles, and the archaeologists searching for new data on these cities’ early history. I analyze the urban modernization of socialist Romania during the 1950s and 1960s with an eye to understanding the reconfiguration of political alliances and the formation of transnational networks of technological expertise in post-1945 Europe. The urban modernization, I argue, was accompanied by a parallel process, whereby the socialist Romanian state relied on archaeologists to endorse a shift from a representation of “national heritage” as buildings to that of heritage as archaeological artifacts, which would be further collected and displayed in a national network of museums. A centralized heritage not only literally made room for a modern urban development of the Romanian cities, but also functioned as a cultural counterpart to the centralized economy. By hoarding archaeological artifacts and rearranging them into a temporally homogenous framework, the state could assert its agentive power in defining “national heritage” as a more mobile and porous form of materiality.
I focus on the debates over the meanings and urban remodeling of a central area of Bucharest, the Old Court area (Curtea Veche, in Romanian) circumscribed by the ruins of one palace built by a prince of Wallachia at the end of the 17th century and abandoned a century later. The area’s historical importance was resuscitated under the post-1945 socialist regime, when the Old Court came to occupy a central point in the network of archeological digs opened in the city center. The results of the successive excavations—the unearthing of the walls of the court and some rooms of the royal palace—led the archeologists to lay new claims over the site. The Old Court suddenly became a highly problematic case, because, instead of allowing the architects to close it down, the archeologists pursued its transformation into a “historical conservation area”—that is, a space to be taken out of the radical remodeling of the city’s center. We encounter in the case of the Old Court a dual project of radical re-ordering: whereas the architects aimed at producing a sense of social order via a spatial remaking of the city’s form, the archeologists working in the area aimed at reordering the site’s own history. The struggle over the meanings of the Old Court—ranging from representing a historical site of national importance for archeologists, to being dismissed as ruins buried underground by the architects working on the remodeling of the area—points out the more complex mechanisms of the struggle for resources through diverging disciplinary visions on what the past was and where could it be found in Romania of the 1950s and 1960s.
Presentation -- Tradition and Deconstruction
Dr. Philipp Rosemann
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Duquesne University
European Studies Center, European Union Center of Excellence
Department of Classics, Department of English, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Associate Dean for..., Duquesne Universitys Center for the Catholic Intellectual..., Humanities Center, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, National Institute for Newman Studies
Free.
Jennifer Waldron
jwaldron@pitt.edu
Dr. Rosemann will examine the relationship between the Christian intellectual tradition and the postmodern deconstructionist approach. Arguing that although tradition and deconstruction may appear inimical, he will present a case for why they imply and require each other. Dr. Rosemann's talk will take the form of a dialogue between texts by the Belgian Denis the Carthusian, the great 15th-century theologian who lived in Germany, and Martin Heidegger, the German philosopher whose reflections on Destruktion in Being and Time remain seminal for the deconstructionist method.
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
Wednesday, February 6
Lecture Series / Brown Bag -- Power Cuts and Predictability: Interpreting Infrastructure Failures in South India
Laura C. Brown, assistant professor in Anthropology
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
4130 Posvar Hall
Asian Studies Center, International Business Center
Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series - all are welcome to join and bring a lunch or snack! Abstract TBA.
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
Wednesday, February 13
Lecture Series / Brown Bag -- TBA
Elisabeth Kaske, Associate Professor in History, CMU
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
4130 Posvar Hall
Asian Studies Center
asia@pitt.edu
Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series - all are welcome to join and bring a lunch or snack! Abstract TBA.
Wednesday, February 20
Lecture Series / Brown Bag -- The Birth of the Modern Expert Witness in Early Twentieth-Century China
Daniel Asen, Visiting Assitant Professor in History
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
4130 Posvar Hall
Asian Studies Center
asia@pitt.edu
Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series - all are welcome to join and bring a lunch or snack! Abstract TBA.
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, February 27
Lecture Series / Brown Bag -- Redefining Urban Chinese Women's Identity Via the Global Workplace in Shanghai
Zhongxin "Cindy" Sun, ASC Center Associate and Sociologist
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
4130 Posvar Hall
Asian Studies Center, International Business Center
asia@pitt.edu
Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series - all are welcome to join and bring a lunch or snack! Abstract TBA.
Friday, March 1 (All day)
Conference -- 9th Annual Graduate Student Conference on the EU
various
(All day)
European Studies Center, European Union Center of Excellence
EUSA
Allyson Delnore
412-624-5404
adelnore@pitt.edu
Wednesday, March 6
Lecture Series / Brown Bag -- The Invention of the Human in Early China: Rereading the Analects of Confucius
Vincent Leung, Assistant Professor in History
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
4130 Posvar Hall
Asian Studies Center
asia@pitt.edu
Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series - all are welcome to join and bring a lunch or snack! Abstract TBA.
Thursday, March 7 (All day)
Conference -- Japan Anthropology Workshop (JAWS) Conference
The 23rd JAWS Conference will be held from Thursday 07 March 2013 through Saturday 09 March 2013, at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh PA, USA. Further details will be posted on the Conferences page as they are available.
Wednesday, March 20
Lecture Series / Brown Bag -- Gamelan and Musical Healing
Kaitlyn Myers, Graduate student, Department of Music
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
4130 Posvar Hall
Asian Studies Center
asia@pitt.edu
Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series - all are welcome to join and bring a lunch or snack! Abstract TBA.
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
Wednesday, March 27
Lecture Series / Brown Bag -- Austronesian Languages & Language Contact/Policy
Jody Garcia, Graduate student in Linguistics
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
4130 Posvar Hall
Asian Studies Center
asia@pitt.edu
Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series - all are welcome to join and bring a lunch or snack! Abstract TBA.
Wednesday, April 3
Lecture Series / Brown Bag -- TBA
Clark Chilson, Associate Professor in Religious Studies
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
4130 Posvar Hall
Asian Studies Center
asia@pitt.edu
Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series - all are welcome to join and bring a lunch or snack! Abstract TBA.
Friday, April 5 (All day)
Cultural Event -- Cast of Characters Exhibition
(All day)
709 Gallery, 709 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA
Asian Studies Center
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Featuring:
FriendsWithYou: Experiential Art, L.A.
Rei Sato: Mixed Media, Tokyo
Mark Newport: Knit Sculpture, Detroit
Jeff Schwarz: Ceramic Sculpture, Brooklyn
Mr. Glaubitz: Illustration, Tijuana
Janet Towbin: Photography, Phoenix
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
