Past Events
- Rob Mucklo
- Global Hub
- Zoom Webinar
EU ENLARGEMENT LECTURE SERIES: 20th Anniversary of the EU Enlargement As part of our continued efforts to bring together experts with diverse perspectives to discuss contemporary issues facing Europe, the European Studies Center/European Union Center of Excellence (ESC/EUCE) along with the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES) offers a new lecture series to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the EU Enlargement. This virtual lecture series will be held on the last Thursday of each month. 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the biggest enlargement of the European Union in its history. Ten countries, mainly former socialist Eastern European states, almost doubled the EU from 15 to 25 member states. May 1, 2004, was the triumphal return to the European Family for many. But for some, it initiated a process of disenchantment with the EU and the West. Each month, the ESC/EUCE, together with REEES at the University of Pittsburgh, will focus our attention on a specific country or a group of countries in the EU by inviting experts and eyewitnesses to discuss the hopes and realities of the EU integration before and after expansion to address what hopes were fulfilled and what new hopes exist for the Union in the present. Each session is recorded and later posted on the internet with suggested additional readings and further resources. Please check out our webpage for more details and mark the last Thursday of the month to attend this event. Moderator: Panelist:
- Professor Robin Visser
- Posner Hall 340
In this talk, Robin Visser will speak about her new book, Questioning Borders: Ecoliterature of China and Taiwan. Published by Columbia University Press in 2023, the book engages with the intersection of ethnic minorities and environmental studies in modern China from a comparative, interdisciplinary, and global context. Lunch provided.
This event is sponsored by the Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research, Global Studies in the History Department, the Environmental Humanities Research Seminar, and the Humanities Scholars Program.
- Dr. Viktoria Batista
- Braun Room, 12th floor, Cathedral of Learning
- 4217 Posvar Hall
Peter Haslinger is Director of the Herder Institute for Research on East Central Europe. He is a distinguished professor in history at the University of Giessen. His main areas of interest are security and conflict studies; minorities, multilingualism and intersectionality; nationalism, regionalism and historical memory; spatial turn and historical cartography. He has published widely on gaps in theory and model building that are related to theories of secularization and their spatial and cultural aspects. Peter Haslinger has been co-investigator in the LOEWE research cluster "Regions of Conflict in Eastern Europe" (2017-2021), the Jean Monnet Network SecurEU, as well as Principal Investigator in the collaborative research center (SFB) "Dynamics of security" (since 2014), where he was also the speaker of the concept group "Spaces of Security."
Agenda
Session I: New Trends in Security and Conflict Studies--Introductions, background, and statement of interests. Questions and discussions.
Session II: Critical Perspectives on Security and Conflict--Securitization Theory and/vs. Conflict studies. What is the added value of perspectives from humanities and cultural studies.
Session III: The War of Russia against Ukraine, as an example--Open Thesis: Putin's regime, history of Russian-Ukrainian relationship, novel character of the war (cyber aspects), the significance of war for Europe, and on the global level (China, Africa, grain supply and migration crisis). What can we learn from the war for security and conflict studies?
Session IV: Final Discussion and Wrap Up.
Facilitated by Randall Halle, Director, European Studies Center.
- Rob Mucklo
- Global Hub
- Rob Mucklo
- Global Hub
- Rob Mucklo
- Global Hub
- Rob Mucklo
- Global Hub
- Dr. Lea Horvat, Dr. Snezana Stankovic, Dr. Ana Sekulic
- Zoom
Kapka Kassabova's writing eschews a narrow register of academic writing and explores different chronotypes of nourishment, from the "Red Riviera" of the Black Sea coast to the interconnected lakes Ohrid and Prespa and the valley of the river Mesta, abundant with local practices of healing. Join us for a discussion about situated, in-depth histories of well-being, care, and nourishment as we collectively contemplate the potential of the Balkans as a space of nourishment. This lecture is the keynote address of "The Balkans as A Place of Nourishment" Conference, which is taking place November 16th-18th in Jena, Germany. This conference explores the region's rich history as a space and idea of nourishment, whether of plants and land, non-human and animals and human relationships, or collective solidarity in challenging surroundings that often receive little attention, whether in scholarship or in public. The conference espouses theoretical approaches that highlight attention to compassion, healing, and eco-restorative practices of companionship.
- Dr. Sunnie Rucker-Chang
- Zoom and 4217/4130 Posvar Hall
In the second installment of the Global Issues Through Literature Series (GILS), educators will convent to discuss The Roads of the Roma: A PEN Anthology of Gypsy Writers. This year's theme is: Marginalized Voices in Global Context: Centering Overlooked Narratives in Literature This reading group for K-16 educators explores literary texts from a global perspective. Content specialists present the work and its context, and participants brainstorm innovative pedagogical practices for incorporating the text and its themes into the curriculum. Sessions this year will take place in a hybrid format, with virtual and in-person discussions taking place on Thursday evenings from 5-8 PM (EST). A copy of the book and 3 Act 48 credit hours are provided for each session.
- Rob Mucklo
- Global Hub
- Dr. Viktoria Batista
- Braun Room, 12th floor, Cathedral of Learning
- Zoom Webinar
- Sasha Senderovich (University of Washington in Seattle)
- William Pitt Union, Room 548
Sasha Senderovich will discuss his new book, "How the Soviet Jew Was Made", which offers a close reading of postrevolutionary Yiddish and Russian-language literature and film that recasts the Soviet Jew as a novel cultural figure: an ambivalent character navigating between the Jewish past and Bolshevik modernity. Senderovich urges us to see the Soviet Jew anew, as not only a member of a minority group, but also a particular kind of liminal being.
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