Upcoming Events

Don’t have a chance to travel during fall break?  Join us to experience hospitality of the cultures of Eastern Europe and its surrounding regions through food, music and educational information! This event will bring together Pitt student organizations & academic units, the Nationality & Heritage Room committees, and other community members to learn about and celebrate the rich East European cultural history of the Pittsburgh region.  The first 100 Pitt students with a Pitt ID can get a free treat from Jak’s Bakery and Steel City Chimneys!  Co-Sponsors: NRIEP, Slavic Department, Summer Language Institute, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Montenegrin Program; Hungarian Language Program; Modern Greek Language Program; Polish Language Program; Russian Language Program; Slovak Language Program;  BCMS Club; Polish Culture Club; Russian Club; Slovak Club; Ukrainian Club; Pitt GEO; REEES; GOSECA Nationality and Heritage Room Committees: Czechoslovak, Hungarian, Romanian, and Yugoslav

Interested in studying, researching, or teaching abroad? Join American Councils for International Education to learn about opportunities across Eurasia, East Asia, and beyond. Programs emphasize advanced language study, area expertise, and cultural immersion. Opportunities for faculty and undergraduate & graduate students:
- Explore summer, semester, and year-long options
- Learn about fellowship, scholarship, and financial aid opportunities
- Connect programs to UCIS global and area studies Discover how you can build language skills, expand research, and engage globally with the support of Pitt's University Center for International Studies and American Councils.

Hear the thoughts of the Ukrainian People from Ukraine and in the Diaspora. Collaboration with local artists. Information and tickets @ https://kyivdance.org/my-thoughts-production Ukrainian Marketplace Opens 2pm

Tuesdays, 4-5pm
Braun Room (12th Floor), Cathedral of Learning Come to chat, practice, meet others who are interested in Hungarian and Hungary! All levels are welcome. For more info, contact Dr. Viktoria Batista (vib21@pitt.edu)

Join CMU Associate Professor of Russian Studies Tatyana Gershkovich for the launch of this new book, translated and edited with Stephen H. Backwell, and recently published by Academic Studies Press! Yuli Aikhenvald was one of the most popular and influential Russian literary critics of the early 1900s. His major book, Silhouettes of Russian Writers, went through six ever-expanding editions. A major presence in Vladimir Nabokov’s early career, Aikhenvald has since been neglected by other writers and critics. This collection translates several of Aikhenvald’s key essays, making him available to English-speaking readers for the first time.

In 1945, Shikl Gershberg sang a song about the massacre by German and Romanian troops that killed 437 people in his small Ukrainian town in July 1941. It ended with the haunting line: "Our town of Zhabokrych became a cemetery." For many years, the song was the only memorial to Gershberg's family and community. A physical monument remained unrealized due to restrictions by Soviet authorities. This paper, based on newly discovered archival materials, oral histories, and memoirs, examines how Soviet citizens dealt with state prohibitions against public commemorations of Holocaust victims, and engaged in personal and communal acts of remembrance after the war. Part of the Socialist Studies Seminar series.

The High School Model European Union is an annual event for area high school students. The goal of the Model EU is to give high school students a chance to learn about the workings of the European Union through a hands-on simulation. Playing the roles of presidents and prime ministers, students spend a day engaged in intense negotiations over conflicting issues about the EU. The objective is to simulate a specific European Council meeting that focuses on recent current events impacting the EU. Model EU enhances students’ understanding of classroom learning and gives them a real sense of the challenges involved in the decision-making process of the European Union.