Events


- 10:00 am to 3:00 pm
- online via Zoom
The free online Summer Institute for Global Educators, with the support of the Longview Foundation and the National Resource Center Program of the U.S. Department of Education, will allow in-service and pre-service secondary educators in all subject areas to develop courses and lesson plans with enhanced global and regional studies content. Educators from Title I schools are especially encouraged to apply. Online synchronous and asynchronous sessions will include the use of film and media, simulations, games, and technology to enhance global learning and teaching. Pitt College in High School (CHS) teachers will have the opportunity to meet with CHS staff on foregrounding global issues while meeting University and district requirements. Participating Pennsylvania teachers can apply for Act 48 credits.

- Dr. Claudio Fabian Szlafsztein
- 5:00 pm
- 4130 Posvar/Zoom
For this workshop CLAS has partnered with the Global Studies Center to introduce topics associated with the sustainability, development and conservation of the Amazon region. This course introduces significant topics associated with the sustainability of the Amazon region, where more than 30 million people live, inside an area comprising part of nine countries in South America. Almost 80% of the Amazon’s population is settled in urban areas.

- (All day)
The Working Group on Comparative Slavery (Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University and The Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh) invite you to submit an abstract for the international conference Plantation Societies in Comparative Perspective at the University of Pittsburgh on October 14-15, 2022. Abstracts should be sent by June 12 and the final paper by October 1 to plantation.societies@gmail.com. View Call for Papers: https://loom.ly/RMjOnE0

- (All day)
The Working Group on Comparative Slavery (Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University and The Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh) invite you to submit an abstract for the international conference Plantation Societies in Comparative Perspective at the University of Pittsburgh on October 14-15, 2022. Abstracts should be sent by June 12 and the final paper by October 1 to plantation.societies@gmail.com. View Call for Papers: https://loom.ly/RMjOnE0

- 2:00 pm to 8:00 pm
- Posvar Patio
The Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh is thrilled to welcome back students, stafff, and the Pittsburgh community for the 40th Annual Latin American and Caribbean Festival! The Festival has had many years of success and every year it seems to improve in the number and quality of groups that participate and the scope of media coverage. As the Latino and Hispanic population in Pittsburgh continues to grow, it makes the Festival one of the largest gatherings of Latinos in Western Pennsylvania. The mission of the festival is to showcase the cultures of Latin America in Pittsburgh and to inform the students and the general public of the resources that can be found in Pittsburgh.

- Barbara Weinstein
- (All day)
Barbara Weinstein is the Silver Professor of History at New York University and Past President of the American Historical Association. Her publications include The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920 (1983), For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo (1996), and The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil (2015). Her research has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

- Barbara Weinstein
- (All day)
Barbara Weinstein is the Silver Professor of History at New York University and Past President of the American Historical Association. Her publications include The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920 (1983), For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo (1996), and The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil (2015). Her research has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.