MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30
Deadline--African Studies Research Symposium Synopsis and Deadline
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Research Competition- Please submit your research descriptions by November 30 deadline!
The competition is open to graduate and undergraduate students enrolled in the African Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh engaged in research related to Africa. The Research Symposium is a chance for students in the African Studies Program to share their research with others as well as seek constructive feedback from peers, faculty and staff.
Requirements:
1.Students must be enrolled in the African Studies Program.
2.Research proposal must have content relating to Africa.
3.Research description: Summary (1 page single-spaced): A brief synopsis of the research being presented. Deadline for this synopsis November 30th 2009.
4.The research proposal must be typewritten, double-spaced, and should have a minimum of 15 pages and should be no longer than 20 pages.
5.Students must present their proposals at the research symposium on Thursday, March 11 2010, from 3-7pm, 4130 Posvar Hall.
6.Proposals must be submitted via email to: africast@pitt.edu or in person to Sandra Matoushaya at 4138 Posvar Hall, by January 30th 2010.
There are three prizes at each level - undergraduate and graduate students - as follows:
Undergraduate and Graduate Prizes
First Place $150 Second Place $100
Third Place $ 50
Upon completion of the research, students will be asked to present their findings to the African Studies community at the Research Symposium on Thursday, March 11, 2010 from 3-7pm, 4130 Posvar Hall
Sponsored by: African Studies Program
For more information, contact Sandra Matoushaya - 412-624-8143 africast@pitt.edu
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1
Lecture--"The Future of Philanthropy: Making Markets Work to Serve the Poor
3:30 p.m.- 5:30 p.m.
Schenley Lounge, Pittsburgh Athletic Association
Johnson Institute for Responsible Leadership Philanthropy Forum: Jacqueline Novogratz, Chief Executive Officer, Acumen Fund
Fighting poverty around the globe remains a daunting challenge that philanthropy and the marketplace are tackling together. The Acumen Fund
has pioneered ways to make markets serve the very poor with goods and services that change their quality of life. The path from charity to customer creation through sustainable design, access to capital, and the forces of the marketplace will be explored. This event is an approved INCIGHT co-curricular.
Audience: Open to the public
Cost: Free but must register
Announced by: Global Studies Program, Sponsored by the Philanthropy Forum, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs; Swanson School of Engineering; University of Pittsburgh Center for Global Health; and International Executive MBA Program, Katz School.
For more information, contact gspiapf@pitt.edu
Lecture--Rt. Rev. Dr. Benson Kalikawe Bagonza, Bishop of the Karagwe Diocese in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania presents the Role of the Church in Community Development in Africa
6:30p.m.- 8:30p.m.
Room 630, 6th Floor William Pitt Union, University of Pittsburgh
Rt. Rev. Dr. Benson Kalikawe Bagonza
Bishop of the Karagwe Diocese in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania
Rt. Rev. Dr Benson Kalikawe Bagonza is bishop of the Karagwe Diocese in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT). He earned a Master of Sacred Theology (STM) from Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa, and a PhD in Theology from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (Illinois), with a focus on theology and development. He has also done extensive studies on African theology, ethics and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Since his ordination in 1993, he has served with ELCT as parish pastor, mission developer and general secretary within the Karagwe Area.
The role of the church in community development has been highly disputed. Many believe the church should only be involved in the spiritual calling of service whereas others believe it is its mission to change existing failing structures and create social, economic and political conditions for development. In most parts of Africa the church has been called to play an increasing role in nation-building, and economic and social development in view of poverty levels, political instability, destructive ethnic conflicts, crime and violence, disease, famine and corruption.
*Reception to follow lecture*
Please RSVP by sending an email to africast@pitt.edu
http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/africa/
Audience: Open to the Public
Cost: Free
Sponsored by: African Studies Program
For more information, contact Sandra Matoushaya - 412-624-8143 africast@pitt.edu
Information Session--From Andorra to Zimbabwe: Study Abroad Options for Global Village Residents
8:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m.
Sutherland Hall- First Floor Lounge
You're already interested in global issues- now learn how to make your mark on the world by studying abroad! Come and chat with study abroad alumni in an informal setting and begin your own adventure overseas.
Audience: Open to all Pitt Students
Cost: Free
Sponsored by: Study Abroad Office, Global Studies Program, International Studies Living Learning Community
For more information, contact Global Studies Program - 412-648-5085 global@pitt.edu
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2
Rt. Rev. Dr. Benson Kalikawe Bagonza, Bishop of the Karagwe Diocese in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania presents Religion and Politics in Africa
4:30p.m.- 6:30p.m.
4130 Posvar Hall
Rt. Rev. Dr. Benson Kalikawe Bagonza
Bishop of the Karagwe Diocese in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania
Rt. Rev. Dr Benson Kalikawe Bagonza is bishop of the Karagwe Diocese in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT). He earned a Master of Sacred Theology (STM) from Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa, and a PhD in Theology from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (Illinois), with a focus on theology and development. He has also done extensive studies on African theology, ethics and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Since his ordination in 1993, he has served with ELCT as parish pastor, mission developer and general secretary within the Karagwe Area.
Many have questioned whether religion shapes society less or more than society shapes religion. Religion plays a major role in Africa despite its diversity in tradition, beliefs and practices. This lecture takes a look at the ongoing debate on the role that religion should play when it comes to politics. The lecture also looks at how religion has affected societies in Africa as well as how it is reshaping the future.
Please RSVP by sending an email to africast@pitt.edu
http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/africa/
Audience: Open to the Public
Cost: Free
For more information, contact Sandra Matoushaya - 412-624-8143 africast@pitt.edu
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3
Lecture--Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series: Peace Dividend and Regional Stability in the Korean Peninsula: Focusing on the South-North Korea Cooperation Fund Allocation
12:00 p.m.- 1:00 p.m.
4130 Posvar Hall
A presentation by Bok-gyo Jonathan Jeong, PhD Student, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Mr. Jeong will discuss the possibility of a peace dividend concept in the Korean Peninsula with an attempt to establish a Northeast Asia security community. Starting with an examination of the background of the peace dividend concept and the situation in Northeast Asia compared to those on the global level, he asserts that this concept can be leveraged as tools for facilitating change in regard to dynamism among the government, nongovernmental organizations, and private companies in the three domain models. He will employ the South-North Korea Cooperation Fund as a proxy data that demonstrates the two approaches based on the peace dividend��'mobilization of civil society and market. Join us every Thursday for a weekly discussion about Asia-related topics, and we invite you to bring your lunch!
Audience: Open to the public
Cost: Free
Sponsored by: Asian Studies Center
For more information, contact Jennifer Murawski - jennm@pitt.edu
Panel Discussion--Colloquium discussion of selected chapters from "In The Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain and Peru"
12:30 p.m.
526 Cathedral of Learning
This is a colloquium or panel discussion built around the visit of Short-Term Fellow, professor Sabine MacCormack (Classics and History, Notre Dame). The discussion will focus on chapters 1 and 5 of her book "In The Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain and Peru".
Responses from University of Pittsburgh professors: Gonzalo Lamana (Hispanic Languages and Literatures), Bruce Venarde (History), and Lara Putnam (History).
Text to be distributed in advance. Email humctr@pitt.edu for a copy of the reading.
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Audience: general public
Cost: free
Announced by: Center for Latin American Studies, and sponsored by the Humanities Center
For more information, contact humctr@pitt.edu
Seminar--In The Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain and Peru
12:30 p.m.
526 Cathedral of Learning
Visit of Short-Term Fellow, Sabine MacCormack (Classics and History, Notre Dame)
Colloquium discussion of chapters 1 & 5 from her book In The Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain and Peru. Responses from Gonzalo Lamana (Hispanic), Bruce Vernarde (History), and Lara Putnam (History) Text to be distributed in advance. For a copy of the reading email: humctr@pitt.edu
Audience: Open to the public
Cost: Free
Announced by: Global Studies Program, Sponsored by: The Humanities Center
For more information, contact humctr@pitt.edu
Lecture--"The Poetics of Representation in Viceregal Peru: A Walk Round the Cloister of San Agustin in Lima" a lecture by Sabine MacCormack
5:00 p.m.
501 Cathedral of Learning
A lecture by Short-Term Fellow, Sabine MacCormack, Classics and History Department, University of Notre Dame.
Audience: open to all interested
Cost: free
Announced by: Center for Latin American Studies, and sponsored by the Humanities Center
For more information, contact humanctr@pitt.edu
Film--Africa Film Series- "Where the water meets the Sky"
5:00 p.m.- 7:00 p.m.
4130 Posvar Hall
Sometimes a single story can unite an entire community.
Narrated by Morgan Freeman, Where the Water Meets the Sky is the story of a remarkable group of women in a remote region of northern Zambia, who are given a unique opportunity: to learn how to make a film, as a way to speak out about their lives and to challenge the local traditions which have, until now, kept them silent.
Many in the group can't read or write, most are desperately poor, and few have been exposed to film or television. But with the help of two teachers, this class of 23 women learn to shoot a film that portrays a subject of their own choosing. It involves an issue that is traumatic for them all, and rarely spoken about: the plight of young women orphaned by AIDS.
Their film recounts the real-life experiences of Penelop, an 18-year-old orphan, and her struggle to provide for herself and her siblings in the wake of her parents' deaths.
What begins as a workshop about filmmaking, and a quest to tell Penelop's story, becomes a journey in empowerment as the women rise to the challenge of pressing their community to change.
Uplifting and poignant, Where the Water Meets the Sky is the story of an unforgettable group of women who defy long traditions of silence and who demonstrate with courage, humor and resilience that their futures are once again something of promise.
http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/africa/
Sponsored by: African Studies Program
For more information, contact Sandra Matoushaya - 412-624-8143 africast@pitt.edu
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4
Panel Discussion--Discussion on Jose de Acosta's travel narrative, led by professor Sabine MacCormack
1:00 p.m.
526 Cathedral of Learning
This is a panel discussion built around the visit of Short-Term Fellow, professor Sabine MacCormack (Classics and History, University of Notre Dame). The discussion will focus on Jose de Acosta's travel narratives.
Text to be distributed in advance. Email humctr@pitt.edu for a copy of the reading.
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Audience: open to all interested
Cost: free
Announced by: Center for Latin American Studies, and sponsored by the Humanities Center
For more information, contact humanctr@pitt.edu
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10
Film--Global Health Film Series "Pandemic: Facing AIDS"
6:00 p.m.- 8:00 p.m.
A115 Crabtree; post-film reception in 109 Parran Hall
In recognition of World AIDS Day (12/1), this month's film provides insights from individuals from five very different countries who are fighting the AIDS battle for themselves and for others. This event is an approved INCIGHT co-curricular.
Audience: Open to the public
Cost: Free
Announced by: Global Studies Program, Sponsored by the Global Health Student Association and the Center for Global Health.
For more information, contact Tara Capece - tac46@pitt.edu
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12
Lecture--Religion Unbound: Converting Transnational Communities in America and the Hapsburg Empire, 1890-1914
3 p.m.-
3703 Posvar Hall
Joel Brady of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pittsburgh will deliver this lecture.
Sponsored by: European Studies Center, European Union Center of Excellence
SATURDAY, JANUARY 9
Reception--Recetion for IDMA Students, East Asian Faculty and Staff
4:00 p.m.- 5:30 p.m.
Croghan-Schenley Room,( 156 Cathedral of Learning)
Cost: Free
Sponsored by: Asian Studies Center, Department of East Asian Languages and Literature
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25
Film--Africa Film Series- "THE BIBLE AND THE GUN"
5:00 p.m.- 7:00 p.m.
4130 Posvar Hall
This film gives a history of Africa from many locations showing life as it is today which includes an archived film and dramatized reconstructions. It looks at the succession of Europeans which came to Africa: explorers, missionaries, empire-builders. The 1880's then saw a 30-year "scramble for Africa" when nearly the entire continent became subject to European colonial rule.
http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/africa/
Sponsored by: African Studies Program
For more information, contact Macrina Lelei - 412-648-2058 africast@pitt.edu
THURSDAY, MARCH 18
Film--Africa Film Series- "RAPE IN THE CONGO"
5:00 p.m.- 7:00 p.m.
4130 Posvar Hall
Winner of the Sundance Special Jury Prize in Documentary and the inspiration for a 2008 U.N. Resolution classifying rape as a weapon of war, this extraordinary film, shot in the war zones of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), shatters the silence that surrounds the use of sexual violence as a weapon of conflict. Many tens of thousands of women and girls have been systematically kidnapped, raped, mutilated and tortured by soldiers from both foreign militias and the Congolese army. A survivor of gang rape herself, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Lisa F. Jackson travels through the DRC to understand what is happening and why.
Produced in association with HBO Documentary Films and the Fledgling Fund, this film features interviews with activists, peacekeepers, physicians, and even, chillingly the indifferent rapists who are soldiers of the Congolese Army. Harrowing moments of the film come as dozens of survivors recount their stories with an honesty and immediacy that is pulverizing in its intimacy and detail, but this powerful film also provides inspiring examples of resiliency, resistance, courage and grace.
http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/africa/
Sponsored by: African Studies Program
For more information, contact Macrina Lelei - 412-648-2058 africast@pitt.edu
SATURDAY, MARCH 27
Festival--30th Annual Latin American and Caribbean Festival
12:00 p.m.- 12:00 a.m.
William Pitt Union
Celebrando desde 1979!
Come and join us for music, food, dance and children's activities from Latin America and the Caribbean.
The festival will feature Mexican artist Armando Jimenez Aragon.
Cost: Free and open to the public
Sponsored by: Center for Latin American Studies, Latin American Cultural Union (LACU), and Med Health Services & The Pittsburgh Cardiovascular Institute
For more information, contact Luz Amanda Hank - lavst12@pitt.edu
FRIDAY, APRIL 9
Award Ceremony--Student Recognition Reception
1:00 p.m.- 3:00 p.m.
University Club
This is a recognition reception in honor of all African Studies undergraduates and graduates receiving African Studies Certificates in the spring of 2010. All are invited to attend to help congratulate recipients and wish them well as they begin another chapter in their lives.
http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/africa/
Sponsored by: African Studies Program
For more information, contact Macrina Lelei - 412-648-2058 africast@pitt.edu
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