Cultural Event

Black November

Friday, November 18, 2022 - 17:30
Event Location: 
Cathedral of Learning, Room B50

Join Addverse Poesia and Casa Brasil in celebrating Blackness in tandem with Brazil's Black Consciousness Day, a national holiday celebrated on November 20. It is a day to honor Zumbi dos Palmares, one of the great leaders of the Quilombo dos Palmares, and the legacy of all quilombo communities.

Trans Poetics of Tenderness: An Encounter with Lia García La Novia Sirena

Tuesday, November 9, 2021 (All day) to Thursday, November 11, 2021 (All day)

Lia García (Mexico City, 1991) is a Mexico City-based performance artist, activist, and educator whose work has been featured at the Annual Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Politics and Performance at NYU, Harvard University, and the University of Texas at Austin, among other universities and cultural centers across the Americas and Europe. Her work incorporates transfeminist critical pedagogies, trans*ness, activism through her method of encuentros afectivos, affective encounters.

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I Stand With Immigrants Day of Action

Thursday, October 28, 2021 - 10:00 to 14:00
Event Location: 
Global Hub - 1st Floor Posvar

The I Stand With Immigrants Initiative, powered by FWD.us, leads narrative campaigns that empower immigrants and their allies to share stories and drive action that demonstrate immigration is good for our communities, economy, and country. They do this with the goal of encouraging everyone to explore their individual heritage and celebrate both our distinct and shared experiences.

Join Pitt Global for a Day of Action and sharing how immigrants have inspired you. Stop by the Global Hub to participate in our photo booth and show your support for our immigrant community.

Thinking Across Migrant and Indigenous Struggles

Monday, October 11, 2021 - 17:00 to 19:00
Event Location: 
William Pitt Union Patio

Hostile Terrain 94 Pittsburgh is hosting an event to commemorate the 3,200+ migrant lives lost at the U.S. Southern border due to hostile immigration policies. Join us to honor these lives and explore shared and cross-cutting issues of exploitation that shape both border violence and dispossession of Indigenous groups. Fill out toe-tags to help honor each individual migrant who lost their life attempting to cross the Sonoran desert from Mexico to the United States. Learn from experts Dr.

Language Coffeehouse

Friday, February 14, 2020 - 11:00 to 13:00
Event Location: 
Assembly Room, William Pitt Union

Take a break from studying to order and enjoy kaffe and kanelbullar in Swedish, chai and chakli in Hindi, or gazoz and kuru pasta in Turkish! Instructors and students from the LCTL Center will teach you how to place your order in Swahili, Quechua, Irish, Greek, Amharic, Vietnamese, or one of the 15 languages we offer. Then you can place your order at the LCTL Coffeehouse and enjoy free drinks and snacks from around the world. This is the international study break you have been waiting for!