Through experiential learning, high school students engage directly with global issues by assuming the role of world leaders and negotiating responses to timely topics.
Responding to the record low birthrate, in 2023, then Prime Minister Fumio Kishida declared Japan “on the brink of not being able to maintain social functions.” Seeing this as a crisis of social reproduction, he announced policies to incentivize young people into having children—to reembrace the family as the center of life/livelihood. As sociality continues to downsize in Japan—to single households, solo lifestyles, childless futures—the keynote asks how these changes affect the elderly who once counted on “the family” to both care for and bury them.
Please join us on Friday, November 8, 2024 from 8:30 am-3:30 pm ET for this FREE online faculty professional development conference that will explore the topic of migration today through the lens of politics, economics, and climatic changes. The day's schedule will be comprised of four presenters who will each address the topic through different globally thematic and regional perspectives. A Zoom meeting link will be emailed to registrants one week before the conference and again the day before the conference.
Join us for a critical workshop titled "Local Governance and the Path to Peace in Myanmar," organized by the Center for Governance and Markets at the University of Pittsburgh. This event is a timely response to the rapidly evolving situation in Myanmar, aiming to foster discussions and strategies for resolving long-standing conflicts and building trust among diverse ethnic and regional groups in the country.
Dear Colleagues,
Model UN, a simulation of the sessions of the United Nations, provides an opportunity for high school students to apply their studies to real-world contexts and practice diplomacy, negotiating, and resolution writing.
When and Where
Pitt MUN will take place on Tuesday, October 24, 2024. We are planning to host this event in-person in the William Pitt Union and O'Hara Student Center on the University of Pittsburgh’s Oakland campus. Registration will open at 8:00am; the conference will end at 4:00pm.
Screening of Out of State (2017), Ciara Lacy, a documentary focusing on the lives of several Native Hawai'ian inmates of a private for-profit Arizona prison. It's an intimate look at tradition, home, and self.
Mai Khôi is an award-winning singer, composer, and activist. She rose to stardom in 2010 after winning the Vietnam Television Song and Album of the Year awards as one of the first female songwriters in Vietnam. As a pop star, Khôi released seven albums in genres of Vietnamese pop and dance, and made regular nationally televised performances. Several years later she became increasingly uncomfortable having to submit her work to government censors and, thinking she could reform the system from within, nominated herself to run in the National Assembly elections on a pro-democracy platform.
A panel discussion on 'belonging' for AAPI members of the University of Pittsburgh, and the general Pittsburgh community.
Moderated by Katelan Hudson, this panel will discuss the effects a lack of sense of belonging has had on their mental health and experiences with a goal of moving forward with proposed solutions. From this panel, participants will develop an understanding of the AAPI experience in higher education, the importance of targeted efforts towards cultivating belonging for AAPI students, and how to be an ally to these efforts.
Yun-Oh Whang's opening Keynote for the Identity, Inclusion, and Information: The AANHPI Experience Conference.
The University of Pittsburgh observes AAPI month during January (instead of May), this conference seeks to celebrate and acknowledge what it means to be a person of AANHPI heritage at Pitt. An examination at the challenges people of AAPI descent face in Pittsburgh and a recognition of their 'belonging'.
