Past Events

- Global Hub, Posvar Hall
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.

- Various
- WPU, Lower Lounge
Final Event of this two-day event Part I: Panel Discussion Moderator: Randall Halle, European Studies Center Panelists: Dr. Patrick Shirey — Geology and Environmental Science, University of Pittsburgh Lisa Freeman — Freeman and Family Farm State Representative Emily Kinkead, PA House District 20, Chair of the Legislative Hunger Caucus Dr. Jesko Hirschfeld — Humboldt University of Berlin Part II: Breakout / Discussion Groups Group A: Urban Farming Challenges and Opportunities Group B: Climate resilience strategies in cities Group C: Ensuring nutrition security for vulnerable populations **Lunch will be provided

- Dr. Jesko Hirschfeld, Humboldt University of Berlin
- 4130 Posvar Hall
This event is part of a two-day series focusing on sustainability in Europe and Pittsburgh. About the Keynote Speaker: Jesko Hirschfeld studied economics at the universities of Bonn, Frankfurt am Main, and the Free University of Berlin. From 1996 to 1998, he worked as a scientific staff member for the German Federal Parliament (Bundestag), and from 1998 to 2002, he worked on his doctorate with a scholarship by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in the Research Training Group “Agriculture and Environment” at the University of Göttingen. Since 2002, he has been a research associate and later subject area manager for water and land management at the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) in Berlin in the research field “Environmental Economics and Policy.” From 2017 to 2020, in addition to his work at the IÖW, he was a visiting professor for landscape economics at the Technical University of Berlin. From 2022 to 2024, he taught as a visiting professor of environmental economics at Humboldt University in Berlin. He has worked on numerous inter- and transdisciplinary projects on natural climate protection, nature-based adaptation to climate change, land and water use, and integrated coastal zone management, focusing primarily on economic aspects and ecological-economic assessments. In recent years, he has focused on urban ecosystem services provided by urban green spaces, parks, and gardens.

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- Victoria Harms, John Hopkins University
- 4130 Posvar Hall
Victoria Harms, Associate Teaching Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and author of the book The Making of Dissidents: Hungary's Democratic Opposition and Its Western Friends, 1973-1998, in conversation with Gregor Thum, Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. Interview followed by live audience Q&A. Introduction by Kati R. Csoman, Director of the Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs.

- WPU, Lower Lounge

- Claire Meachen
- Global Hub

- Frick Fine Arts Building, Auditorium

- Center for Creativity- Hillman Library 4th Floor
Please join the staff of the Andy Warhol Museum, as they provide an overview of Warhol's blotted line technique. Registration is required due to limited space. About Blotted Line Technique: Blotted line combines drawing with basic printmaking. Warhol began by copying a line drawing in pencil on a piece of non-absorbent paper, such as tracing paper. Next, he hinged this piece of paper to a second sheet of more absorbent paper by taping their edges together on one side. With a fountain pen, Warhol inked over a small section of the drawn lines. He then transferred the ink onto the second sheet by folding along the hinge and lightly pressing or “blotting” the two papers together. The process resulted in the dotted, broken, and delicate lines that are characteristic of Warhol’s illustrations. Warhol often colored his blotted line drawings with watercolor dyes or applied gold leaf. For this project, we will be using fabric ink instead of watercolor to make t-shirts or tote bags.

- Lina Insana, Department of French and Italian
- 4217 Posvar Hall
European Studies Center Brown Bag Lunch and Learn Series In 2022, the Meloni government renewed plans to connect Sicily and the Italian mainland— plans that had lain dormant for more than a decade—and build the largest single-span suspension bridge in the world. What does this most recent chapter of the bridge’s story tell us about Sicily’s place in the Italian nation, in Europe, and in frameworks of integration and security? And how do the politics of this moment resonate with earlier plans to bind this notoriously “seismic” island to more “stable” ground? Bio: Dr. Lina Insana Associate Prof of Italian Director of Italian Graduate Studies Italian Program Coordinator Lina Insana’s research and teaching focuses on modern and contemporary Italian cultural production. Most of her work on Italian writer and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi is concerned with textual mediation, translation, and adaptation; newer research—on Sicilian cultural belonging and manifestations of italianità in the American interwar period (1919-1939)—seeks to interrogate formations of transnational identity at the margins of conventionally accepted definitions of Italianness.

- Claire Meachen
- Global Hub

- Ground Floor, Posvar Hall

- Center for African Studies
- Posvar Patio African Festival
The Celebrate Africa Festival brings students, faculty, and staff together with the vibrant African diaspora community in Pittsburgh. There is food, song & dance, artisans, children's activities, and more! It is a wonderful opportunity to engage with the diversity of Africa and the Pittsburgh community, as well as network with local African organizations and businesses.

- 4130 Posvar Hall
As part of the "German Pop and Pittsburgh N'at: Cool Culture, Crass Cultivation and Cosmopolitan Connections" Documentary, 96 min, Germany 2022 Directed by Cem Kaya LOVE, DEUTSCHMARKS AND DEATH tells the story of the independent and largely unknown music of immigrants from Turkey and their children and grandchildren in Germany in a very lively way, full of rhythm. In the form of a documentary essay, director Cem Kaya takes his viewers into a dazzling universe of musical diversity. In a cinematic experience of the highest sound quality, he brings the energy and spirit of those years to life.

- Claire Meachen
- Global Hub
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