Events


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Tuesday, December 3

BCMS Conversation Table
Time:
10:00 am to 11:00 am
Location:
Global Hub
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies and Global Hub

Come practice your conversational BCMS with fellow students at this conversation table!

Fall 2024 Global Distinction Drop-In Hours
Time:
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Presenter:
Molly McSweeney
Location:
Global Hub
Sponsored by:
Asian Studies Center, Center for Ethnic Studies Research, Center for African Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, European Studies Center, Global Studies Center, Global Hub, Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs, Office of International Services and Global Experiences Office
Contact:
Molly McSweeney
Contact Email:
mcm206@pitt.edu

Attention: Undergraduate students! Are you looking to gain experience that will help prepare you for a globally-connected job market? Stop by Drop-In Hours to learn more about getting the Global Distinction added to your academic transcript, receiving special recognition at graduation, and standing out to prospective employers

Slovak Conversation Table
Time:
2:30 pm to 3:30 pm
Location:
Global Hub
Announced by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies and Global Hub on behalf of

Come practice your conversational Slovak with your classmates.

Hungarian Conversation Table
Time:
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Presenter:
Viktoria Batista
Location:
Braun Room
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies

Come practice your conversational Hungarian with fellow students!

Wednesday, December 4

Pitt in Romania Info Session
Time:
3:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Location:
Global Hub
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies and Global Experiences Office
Contact:
Kelsey Sobecki
Contact Phone:
4126487413
Contact Email:
kls299@pitt.edu

Come by the Global Hub in Posvar Hall to learn more about the Pitt in Romania Summer 2025 program and speak to the faculty leader!

Russian Conversation Table
Time:
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Global Hub
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies and Global Hub

Come practice your conversational Russian with your peers at the Russian conversation table!

Thursday, December 5

Eurasian Environments in Global Context
Time:
3:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Presenter:
Eve Darian Smith
Location:
Zoom
Sponsored by:
Asian Studies Center, Center for Ethnic Studies Research, Center for African Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, European Studies Center and Global Studies Center

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently predicted that global average temperatures will rise 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in the mid-2030s. Over the last decades, a global network of scholars, policy makers, activists, and others have organized to offer ways to mitigate and even reverse the effects of climate change. What offramps can these solutions and movements offer our collective humanity?

“Eurasian Environments” seeks to provide some reflections to mark the UN’s 2024 Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan. This series will examine social justice and sustainability efforts to address climate change by putting scholars of Eurasia in conversation with their peers specializing on Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The series will comprise six events that will illuminate the challenges and possible solutions to climate change in Eurasia in regional and global contexts.

This event is part of the Eurasian Environments: Climate Justice and Sustainability in Global Context series.

Friday, December 6

Slavic Koleda Winter Holiday Celebration
Time:
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Presenter:
Olga Klimova
Location:
Global Hub
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies and Global Hub along with Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
Contact:
Olga Klimova
Contact Email:
vok1@pitt.edu

Join the Slavic Languages and Literatures Department and Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies for a winter holiday celebration from different Slavic cultures.

Tuesday, December 10

BCMS Conversation Table
Time:
10:00 am to 11:00 am
Location:
Global Hub
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies and Global Hub

Come practice your conversational BCMS with fellow students at this conversation table!

Fall 2024 Global Distinction Drop-In Hours
Time:
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Presenter:
Molly McSweeney
Location:
Global Hub
Sponsored by:
Asian Studies Center, Center for Ethnic Studies Research, Center for African Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, European Studies Center, Global Studies Center, Global Hub, Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs and Office of International Services
Contact:
Molly McSweeney
Contact Email:
mcm206@pitt.edu

Attention: Undergraduate students! Are you looking to gain experience that will help prepare you for a globally-connected job market? Stop by Drop-In Hours to learn more about getting the Global Distinction added to your academic transcript, receiving special recognition at graduation, and standing out to prospective employers!

Slovak Conversation Table
Time:
2:30 pm to 3:30 pm
Location:
Global Hub
Announced by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies and Global Hub on behalf of

Come practice your conversational Slovak with your classmates.

Hungarian Conversation Table
Time:
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Presenter:
Viktoria Batista
Location:
Braun Room
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies

Come practice your conversational Hungarian with fellow students!

Wednesday, December 11

Russian Conversation Table
Time:
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Global Hub
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies and Global Hub

Come practice your conversational Russian with your peers at the Russian conversation table!

Friday, January 10

European and Eurasian Undergraduate Research Symposium 2025 - Call for Proposals
Time:
(All day)
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies and European Studies Center along with University Center for International Studies; Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia (GOSECA); Consortium for Educational Resources on Islamic Studies (CERIS); Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Contact:
Zita Toth-Shawgo
Contact Phone:
412-648-4433
Contact Email:
zita.toth-shawgo@pitt.edu

Thursday, January 23

Wild Weather, Mass Migration
Time:
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
Presenter:
Sarah Cameron, Edna Wangui
Location:
4130 Posvar Hall
Sponsored by:
Center for African Studies, Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies and Global Studies Center

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently predicted that global average temperatures will rise 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in the mid-2030s. Over the last decades, a global network of scholars, policy makers, activists, and others have organized to offer ways to mitigate and even reverse the effects of climate change. What offramps can these solutions and movements offer our collective humanity?

“Eurasian Environments” seeks to provide some reflections to mark the UN’s 2024 Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan. This series will examine social justice and sustainability efforts to address climate change by putting scholars of Eurasia in conversation with their peers specializing on Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The series will comprise six events that will illuminate the challenges and possible solutions to climate change in Eurasia in regional and global contexts.

Friday, January 24

Bodies in Focus: Endangered Bodies and Activism
Time:
11:00 am to 12:30 pm
Presenter:
Various
Location:
Zoom
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies

Moderated by Darya Tsymbalyuk, with speakers Zhanar Sekerbayeva, Oksana Kazına, and Aydin Khalilov.

11:00 am - 12:30 pm (EST) | 10:00 am - 11:30 am (CST) | 8:00 -9:30 am (PST)

This six-part virtual event series will examine body matters within Eurasia through a variety of disciplines and themes. The body-as-method has emerged recently to provide novel insights on society, culture, and identity by foregrounding alternatives to Western traditions that marginalized the corporeal dimensions of social and personal existence.

Why is the body good “to think with” on both intellectual and professional matters?
How do classed, diversely abled, gendered, and raced bodies interact in the daily lives we study or inhabit through our avocations?
What is the continuously evolving relationship between the body and the body politic, whether the nation, empire, the EU, or NATO?
Is research and teaching disembodying and can recentering “embodied and uncomfortable knowledge” therefore move liberation in East European and Eurasian Studies forward?
To address these questions, "Bodies in Focus" will have six virtual, recorded panels featuring speakers from various disciplines and institutions. Panelists and the audience will explore how bodies matter for the study and teaching of East European and Eurasian social and material environments, our understanding of power and equity, and for the cultivation of human capacities in our field.

This panel is part of the series Bodies in Focus; Power, Subjectivity, and Practice in East European and Eurasian Studies. For the full schedule, see https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/creees/content/bodies-focus

Thursday, February 6

Kicking the Hydrocarbon Habit
Time:
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
Presenter:
Pawel Czyzak, Zhaojin Zeng
Location:
4130 Posvar Hall
Sponsored by:
Asian Studies Center, Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies and Global Studies Center

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently predicted that global average temperatures will rise 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in the mid-2030s. Over the last decades, a global network of scholars, policy makers, activists, and others have organized to offer ways to mitigate and even reverse the effects of climate change. What offramps can these solutions and movements offer our collective humanity?

“Eurasian Environments” seeks to provide some reflections to mark the UN’s 2024 Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan. This series will examine social justice and sustainability efforts to address climate change by putting scholars of Eurasia in conversation with their peers specializing on Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The series will comprise six events that will illuminate the challenges and possible solutions to climate change in Eurasia in regional and global contexts.

This event is part of the Eurasian Environments: Climate Justice and Sustainability in Global Context series.

Friday, February 28 to Saturday, March 1

Navigating Global Challenges: Eurasian Innovation and Local Solutions
Time:
9:00 am to 7:00 pm
Presenter:
Various
Location:
TBD
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies along with The Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia

Join the Graduate Organisation for the Study of Europe and Central Asia for their 22nd Graduate Student Conference

Thursday, March 13

To Govern What We Eat
Time:
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
Presenter:
Natalia Mamonova, Susanne Wengle
Location:
4130 Posvar Hall
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, European Studies Center and Global Studies Center

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently predicted that global average temperatures will rise 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in the mid-2030s. Over the last decades, a global network of scholars, policy makers, activists, and others have organized to offer ways to mitigate and even reverse the effects of climate change. What offramps can these solutions and movements offer our collective humanity?

“Eurasian Environments” seeks to provide some reflections to mark the UN’s 2024 Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan. This series will examine social justice and sustainability efforts to address climate change by putting scholars of Eurasia in conversation with their peers specializing on Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The series will comprise six events that will illuminate the challenges and possible solutions to climate change in Eurasia in regional and global contexts.

This event is part of the Eurasian Environments: Climate Justice and Sustainability in Global Context series.

Thursday, March 27

Front-Line Issues: War, Climate, and Refugees
Time:
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
Presenter:
Daniel Briggs, Lauren Herzer Risi
Location:
4130 Posvar Hall
Sponsored by:
Asian Studies Center, Center for Ethnic Studies Research, Center for African Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, European Studies Center and Global Studies Center

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently predicted that global average temperatures will rise 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in the mid-2030s. Over the last decades, a global network of scholars, policy makers, activists, and others have organized to offer ways to mitigate and even reverse the effects of climate change. What offramps can these solutions and movements offer our collective humanity?

“Eurasian Environments” seeks to provide some reflections to mark the UN’s 2024 Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan. This series will examine social justice and sustainability efforts to address climate change by putting scholars of Eurasia in conversation with their peers specializing on Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The series will comprise six events that will illuminate the challenges and possible solutions to climate change in Eurasia in regional and global contexts.

This event is part of the Eurasian Environments: Climate Justice and Sustainability in Global Context series.

Friday, March 28

European and Eurasian Undergraduate Research Symposium 2025
Time:
(All day)
Location:
Posvar Hall
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies and European Studies Center along with University Center for International Studies; Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia (GOSECA); Consortium for Educational Resources on Islamic Studies (CERIS); Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Contact:
Zita Toth-Shawgo
Contact Phone:
412-648-4433
Contact Email:
zita.toth-shawgo@pitt.edu

The European and Eurasian Undergraduate Research Symposium is an annual event since 2002 designed to provide undergraduate students, from the University of Pittsburgh and other colleges and universities, with advanced research experiences and opportunities to develop presentation skills. The event is open to undergraduates from all majors and institutions who have written a research paper from a social science, humanities, or business perspective focusing on the study of Eastern, Western, or Central Europe, the European Union, Russia, or Central Eurasia.

After the initial submission of papers, selected participants are grouped into panels according to their research topics. The participants then give 10- to 15-minute presentations based on their research to a panel of faculty and graduate students. The presentations are open to the public.

SYMPOSIUM: Friday, March 28, 2025

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Friday, January 10, 2025

https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/creees/urs

QUESTIONS? Contact Zita Tóth-Shawgo

SPONSORS
Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Consortium for Educational Resources on Islamic Studies
European Studies Center
University Center for International Studies
Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences

Thursday, April 10

Green Cities for the Future
Time:
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
Presenter:
Maria C. Taylor
Location:
4130 Posvar Hall
Sponsored by:
Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies and Global Studies Center

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently predicted that global average temperatures will rise 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in the mid-2030s. Over the last decades, a global network of scholars, policy makers, activists, and others have organized to offer ways to mitigate and even reverse the effects of climate change. What offramps can these solutions and movements offer our collective humanity?

“Eurasian Environments” seeks to provide some reflections to mark the UN’s 2024 Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan. This series will examine social justice and sustainability efforts to address climate change by putting scholars of Eurasia in conversation with their peers specializing on Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The series will comprise six events that will illuminate the challenges and possible solutions to climate change in Eurasia in regional and global contexts.

This event is part of the Eurasian Environments: Climate Justice and Sustainability in Global Context series.