Past Events

Join us and celebrate Hungarian culture through local history and food. Representatives of Hungary-related organizations and resources, both on and off campus, will provide remarks on the Hungarian Nationality Room, Hungary-related material in the Pitt archives, and the vibrant history of Pittsburgh’s Hungarian community. Remarks: Kati Csoman, Director, Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs Jonathan Naser, Chair, Hungarian Nationality Room Committee Viktoria Batista, Associate Professor of Hungarian, LCTL Éva Lovra, Hungarian Fulbright Visiting Professor Clare Withers, University of Pittsburgh Library System Dan Pennell, University of Pittsburgh Library System Katherine Novak, Chair, Board of National Directors, William Penn Association Judy Torma, Owner, Huszar Restaurant

The University of Pittsburgh and the International Studies Consortium of Georgia (ISCOG) invite you to join the introductory session in an ongoing series focused on development, conservation, and sustainability contrasting dynamics and processes in different world regions. The sessions have been designed to help educators develop and enhance global content complementing their curricula. In addition to learning about thematic local/global intersections, educators will also explore Pitt’s Historical context, Ethics, Language proficiency, Media literacy, Social science methodologies (HELMS) framework for the area, and global studies. This series engages and promotes critical thinking about Amazonia’s current and future sustainability. We will work through approaches to the region’s role in water and food security, clean energy supplies, climate change, art, music, and cultural expressions. This collaborative series is funded through U.S. Department of Education National Resource Center grants. Participants will be able to learn about issues related to Amazonia, particularly related to development, sustainability, and conservation. Improve understanding of diversely different and clearly interconnected dynamics that affect daily lives all over the planet. This will allow educators to have resources at hand to teach in their classroom as well as satisfy the requirement of teaching to the standards. For questions, please email lavst12@pitt.edu

During and before World War II the Nazis stole art from Jewish families and then from occupied countries during the war. After the war and continuing until now, there have been many efforts to recover the stolen art and return it to their rightful owners. In this panel, Lynn Nicholas, author of "The Rape of Europa", will provide a history of the looting and efforts to recover and return the art. Vivian Curran will discuss current cases in the United States. The panel will be moderated by Vivian Curran of the Pitt Law School Panelists are: Vivian Curran, Distinguished Professor of Law Lynn H. Nicholas, Author of "The Rape of Europe."

This IRB information session is helpful to determine if you are conducting human subject research under the jurisdiction of the University of Pittsburgh IRB as well as stey-by-step instructions on how to apply for approval.

The 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. For more information and to apply, please visit: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/creees/urs. APPLICATION DEADLINE: January 8, 2023 Limited travel grants are available to help defray travel expenses for accepted participants located outside of the Pittsburgh region. SYMPOSIUM: March 31, 2023

Daniela Fargione, Fulbright Fellow from Italy and Associate Professor of American Literature, University of Turin, Italy. We are living at the cusp of extinction, an impending event marked by a baffling paradox: while it has mass-death proportions, it prodigiously escapes our gaze. In the backdrop of this dramatic (and seemingly invisible) contraction of bio- and cultural diversity, a whole repertoire of well-intended, even passionate narratives resort to the conventions of elegy and tragedy to foster a restoration ecology (Heise 2010). Not only do these narratives amplify the urgency to tell stories that imagine human rebirth, but they also imply potential escapes from loss and death. This complacent anthropocentric standpoint urgently calls for a reconfiguration of the ontological “exceptionality” of the human and solicits alternative, more inclusive perspectives. As a consequence, the traditional approaches to the humanities need to be reconsidered as well, including the questions that we ask about ourselves and the ways in which we explore the world to find adequate answers. What emerges is the need to rely on a novel interdisciplinarity, where scientific disciplines are in dialogue with the humanities in new and exciting ways. Reception to Follow.