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Desperate to help her son, Rabiye Kurnaz, a housewife and loving mother from Bremen, goes to the police, notifies authorities and almost despairs at their impotence and in the end, against all the odds, something truly remarkable happens. COUNTRY: Germany (2022) DIRECTOR: Andreas Dresden Harris Theater (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust) 809 Liberty Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15206 Get Tickets Here: https://trustarts.org/production/84776 PROMO CODE for discounted tickets: EUPITT (* Pitt Students, Staff and Faculty Only)

Speaker: Giovanni Picker Assistant Professor of Sociology at Glasgow University Moderator: Pawel Lewicki, University of Pittsburgh This talk builds on Giovanni Picker's three books, one monograph (2017) and two co-edited volumes (2018 and 2022), which investigate the ways in which various racial structures shape 21st-Century European cities. In the first part of the talk, Dr. Picker will discuss the historical canon of Social Science research on European cities, and the canon's silence regarding colonialism and race. In the second part of the talk, Dr. Picker will discuss the residential segregation of Romani people (the Roma) in Europe, as an illustration of the importance of looking at race and colonial history when researching contemporary European cities. He will focus on the city of Florence (Italy), where since the mid-1980s hundreds of Yugoslav Romani families have been forced to live in two peripheral urban camps. In conclusion, Dr. Pickler will connect the first and the second part by showing heuristic correspondences between 20th-century urban governance in colonized cities, and the 21st-century urban governance of marginalized and segregated urban Romani communities.

This is the first lecture in the conference on Democracy in Europe, Democracy Beyond Europe. The speaker is Siney Tarrow, Cornell University. This lecture will be a one and a half hour Zoom lecture. The talk will be moderated by Suzanne Staggenborg, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh. Lisa Brush, Chair of Sociology will introduce the session with words of welcome.

Christmas 1944. Soviet soldiers invade Hungary and drag every young ethnic German woman away from a small village and transport them to a Soviet labour camp where they are forced to work in the coal mines under inhuman conditions. This is where Irén meets fellow prisoner Rajmund who decides to teach her how to survive. While she is determined to return home to her little daughter and family, history and fate have a different plan: Irén and Rajmund fall in love. Based on a true story. “Eternal Winter” is the very first feature film about the 700,000 Hungarian victims of the Soviet labour camps whose stories remained untold for over 70 years. COUNTRY: Hungary (2018) DIRECTOR: Attila Szász Harris Theater (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust) 809 Liberty Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15206 Get Tickets Here: https://trustarts.org/production/84756 PROMO CODE for discounted tickets: EUPITT (* Pitt Students, Staff and Faculty Only)

Ola, a seventeen-year-old from a small city, sets off to a foreign country on her own. It will turn out to be the trip of her lifetime, a trip into the unknown, on which she will try to reconnect with her estranged father. In Ireland, she will come to know a different world and meet people who will change her approach to life. COUNTRY: Poland (2020) DIRECTOR: Piotr Domalewski Harris Theater (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust) 809 Liberty Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15206 Get Tickets Here: https://trustarts.org/production/84764 PROMO CODE for discounted tickets: EUPITT

Richi (Moisé Curia) is on the road with a little girl (Anna Malfatti) in a camper van through southern Germany. They have a good time with each other, dress up, dance and laugh a lot. He is a seed salesman, she his little doll. An unusual couple, but happy? When the two stop off at a restaurant, the landlord (Heio von Stetten) becomes skeptical. Something is not right here! What's more, the girl speaks a very rare language: Ladin. Meanwhile, in Rome, police inspector Milia Demetz (Cosmina Stratan) is investigating cyberspace and is hot on the heels of a pedophile network. When she discovers a girl in one of the anonymous videos, she is soon certain: the lasciviously photographed child is Magdalena Senoner, who disappeared in Tyrol at the age of five. But who is behind the camera? When the landlord forwards the footage from his surveillance camera to the police, all the threads come together. Can Milia save little Magdalena? COUNTRY: Italy (2019) DIRECTOR: Isabella Sandri Harris Theater (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust) 809 Liberty Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15206 Get Tickets Here: https://trustarts.org/production/84748 PROMO CODE for discounted tickets: EUPITT (* Pitt Students, Staff and Faculty Only)