Conference

Exploring the Legacies of Authoritarianism in Latin America: Archival Research and Collective Memory

Type: 
Thursday, February 13, 2025 - 12:30
Event Location: 
4130 Posvar Hall

Investigating the legacies of authoritarian regimes in Latin America often means confronting the silences embedded within official records, personal testimonies, and collective memory. In this panel, Latin American historians Samantha Quadrat, Lucia Grinberg, and Ludmila Catela da Silva will share their experiences researching archives and engaging with collective memory to examine the military dictatorships that shaped Brazil and Argentina from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Keynote: Authoritarianism, Memory, and Human Rights in Latin America

Type: 
Friday, February 14, 2025 - 15:15
Event Location: 
4310 Center for Urban Education

In 2024, Brazil marks the 60th anniversary of the military coup that initiated a 21-year dictatorship. This coup was part of a broader wave of military interventions across South America, leading to authoritarian regimes in Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina. Although most of these regimes dissolved by the early 1990s, authoritarianism remains a significant element in Latin America’s political memory.

Authoritarianism, Memory, and Human Rights in Latin America

Type: 
Friday, February 14, 2025 - 09:15
Event Location: 
Center for Urbane Education, 4th Floor Posvar Hall

In 2024, Brazil marks the 60th anniversary of the military coup that initiated a 21-year dictatorship. This coup was part of a broader wave of military interventions across South America, leading to authoritarian regimes in Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina. Although most of these regimes dissolved by the early 1990s, authoritarianism remains a significant element in Latin America’s political memory.

Global Migrations: Political, Economic, and Climatic Changes Faculty PD Conference

Type: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 08:30 to 15:30

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.

International Conference

Type: 
Thursday, November 21, 2024 (All day)
Event Location: 
Posvar Hall, Center for Urban Education

The conference will focus on how the categories of gender and race impact recent scholarship on labor history and explore whether and how these two categories intersect in meaningful ways within their research.

Free and open to the public

High School Model United Nations Conference

Type: 
Thursday, October 24, 2024 (All day)
Event Location: 
William Pitt Union and O'Hara Student Club

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.