Past Events

A conversation with renowned Brazilian Poet Salgado Maranhão.

Free screening and open to the public. A crime-thriller about judicial cover-ups and corruption in Argentina, told through flashbacks. Pizza provided!

Mesa-redonda: A diversidade linguístico-cultural no mundo lusófono / "Cultural Linguistic Diversity in the Lusophone World". Virtual roundtable with Kaio Carvalho Camona (Universidade Agostinho Neto - Angola), Gustavo Cerqueira Guimarães (Universidade Eduardo Mondlane - Moçambique), and Camila Oliveira Macêdo (Universidade de São José - Macau-China). Moderated by Ana Paula Carvalho (Portuguese Program Coordinator, University of Pittsburgh) and Naiara Sales Araújo Santos (Leitora do Instituto Guimarães Rosa, University of Pittsburgh). Event will be held in Portuguese.

The University Center for International Studies (UCIS), with funding from Pitt's Title VI National Resource Centers, has embarked on a four-year initiative to increase the number of LAC courses offered on campus. Join us to learn more about LAC and how you can combine your personal world language proficiency with your non-language teaching/research expertise and provide students with exciting opportunities to enhance their learning. Any faculty, administrators, and students who are interested in LAC courses are welcome.

UCIS presents a national scholarship alumni panel to offer unique perspectives on international scholarship experiences such as the Fulbright and Boren programs. Students will gain information on these global opportunities, receive application tips, and more!

Castilleja is a PhD candidate in Biological Sciences. She is an ecologist whose research focused on forest dynamics and biodiversity. She teaches a minor in her department and is getting a graduate certificate in Latin American Studies. Her work has been funded by Mellon, Gutierrez, and Aguirre fellowships at Pitt and by the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship for her tropical field work.

Join us for a conversation with Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos (University of Oxford), Paula Muñoz (Universidad del Pacífico), Nara Pavão (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco), and Viviana Baraybar Hidalgo (University of Oxford) about their book Prosecutors, Voters, and the Criminalization of Corruption in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Hosted by Alisha Holland (Harvard University).