Past Events
- Harris Theater
A story of Celia, an 11-year-old girl who studies at a nuns' school in 1992. Celia is a good girl; she is a responsible student and a considerate daughter. The arrival of a new classmate will open a little window through which Celia will discover a whole new world. Together with her new friend and some older girls, Celia will enter a new stage of her life: adolescence, the stage of first-times. Her body needs to experiment, try new things, and stop being a little girl, even if that entails confronting her mother and everything that meant comfort and security. COUNTRY: Spain (2020) DIRECTOR: Pilar Palomero Harris Theater (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust) 809 Liberty Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15206 Get Tickets Here: https://trustarts.org/production/84780 PROMO CODE for discounted tickets: EUPITT (* Pitt Students, Staff and Faculty Only)
- Harris Theater
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)
- Harris Theater
Lola, 18 years old, bleach blonde hair, lives in a foster home with Samir, her only friend. Impulsive and lonely, she is trying to get her diploma as a veterinary assistant. When her mother passes away, her father, Phillip makes sure that Lola will miss the ceremony. Two years before that, Philip was throwing her out of the family home: at the time, Lola was still Lionel - Philippe is determined to fulfill Catherine's last wish: to be dispersed to the North Sea, in the dunes of her childhood home. Lola, on the other hand, is furious against her father, but she will not leave her mother alone on this last journey. So they take off together, both unwilling to share a car but determined to take Catherine home. COUNTRY: France (2019) DIRECTOR: Laurent Micheli Harris Theater (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust) 809 Liberty Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15206 Get Tickets Here: https://trustarts.org/production/84772 PROMO CODE for discounted tickets: EUPITT (* Pitt Students, Staff and Faculty Only)
- Harris Theater
Following fictionized lives of the inhabitants of Greenland, THE RAVEN AND THE SEAGULL tenderly recreates and overimagines the myths and misconceptions which exist between the people and landscapes of Greenland and Denmark. Examining a colonial history embedded not only in the heartbreakingly beautiful Greenlandic terrain but also in the infinite landscapes of a country’s mind, this docu-legend by Danish filmmaker and artist Lasse Lau prompts the turning of a new lens on a national past and future promise. COUNTRY: Denmark (2018) DIRECTOR: Lasse Lau- will be present at the screening for Q&A followed by Night Ride (Noćna vožnja) Country: Croatia DIRECTOR: Vida Skerk Night Ride (Noćna vožnja) explores quarter-life identity crisis through the perspective of a twentysomething student in Croatia. Dunja, the main character, questions her decision to move to a bigger city and regrets leaving behind the safety of her hometown where she could always count on the support of her close friend, Sara. Exploring the “borders” and boundaries of the film medium itself, the film is constructed as a series of dreams and nightmares which evade a linear narrative structure, and retain the qualities of a more stream-of-consciousness type of approach, presenting to the viewer Dunja’s inner world in its most authentic, raw and honest form. Harris Theater (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust) 809 Liberty Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15206 Get Tickets Here: https://trustarts.org/production/84739 PROMO CODE for discounted tickets: EUPITT (* Pitt Students, Staff and Faculty Only)
- Harris Theater
Christmas 1944. Soviet soldiers invaded Hungary and dragged 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)
- Harris Theater
- Harris Theater
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 (* Pitt Students, Staff and Faculty Only)
- Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň
- Zoom
SPEAKER: Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň Institute of International Relations, Prague Czech Republic Senior Researcher at the Centre for Global Political Economy of the Institute of International Relations Prague. He has a PhD in International Economic Relations and a Master’s in International Trade and European Integration from the University of Economics in Prague. Among other positions, he worked as Deputy Director for Research. His professional interests include the governance of global and sustainable development, development cooperation, and gender. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), a member of the IIR Board, and the president of the IIR’s Trade Union. MODERATOR: Pawel Lewicki, University of Pittsburgh
- Jennifer Keating
- Zoom Webinar
The organizer and moderator of this panel is Jennifer Keating, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh Panelist: Garrett Carr, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland John Carson, Carnegie Mellon University Mairead McClean, Artist and Filmmaker, from Bath, England and Northern Ireland Eve Patten, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Ireland’s relationships with Europe have safeguarded features of national identity from the early twentieth century to the present as the region negotiated its long-standing and historically fraught relationship with the United Kingdom. In recent years, Ireland’s role in the EU has further solidified these regional relationships as a counterpoint to its tangled politics with the UK, especially in complex concepts of national identity in Northern Ireland. In the midst of ongoing political tumult in the UK and the complexity of Britain’s extraction from the EU through Brexit, what does Irish nationalism look like today north and south of the border? Please join Professor Eve Patten, Director of the Long Room Hub at Trinity College Dublin, artist and filmmaker Mairéad McClean and Professor Garrett Carr, Seamus Heaney Center at Queen’s University Belfast, as we discuss manifestations of Irish nationalism today. Professor Patten will discuss ongoing relationships between the Long Room Hub, its resident artists and scholars and governmental grant programs at Trinity College. Mairéad McClean will discuss her recent Beyond 22 residency supported by the Decade of Centenaries grant to undertake work with the Irish Archives and the Long Room Hub and her exhibition Here, at Belfast Exposed in Northern Ireland. Garrett Carr will discuss his book, The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland’s Border.
- Mark Best, Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Film and Media Studies at University of Pittsburgh
In this third installment of the 2022 Global Issues Through Literature Series (GILS), educators will convene to discuss Kate Evans' Threads: From the Refugee Crisis, a full-graphic novel of the refugee drama addressing one of the most pressing issues of modern times to make a compelling case, through intimate evidence, for the compassionate treatment of refugees and the free movement of peoples. GILS is a reading group for K-16 educators to literary texts from a global perspective. Content specialists present the work and its context, and participants brainstorm innovative pedagogical practices for incorporating the text and its themes into the curriculum. This year’s theme is Graphic Novels in Global Context: Social Justice Through Illustration and Text. See registration for more information!
- William Pitt Union simulation, European Union
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.
- Various
- Zoom
- Mohammed Bamyeh
- Zoom Webinar
- Deomocracy in Europe
This panel considers several aspects of the current state of democracy in Europe, with special attention to the rise of right-wing populism, illiberal forms of democracy, declining party loyalty, and evidence of increasing disenchantment with the current state of democracy in Europe. The panel will seek to discuss these issues with the help of a broad comparative and historical perspective. Professors Mohammed Bamyeh and John Markoff, Department of Sociology, Pitt, will moderate a panel discussion on "The State of Democracy in Europe." The panel members include: Timm Beichelt, Professor of Social and Cultural Sciences, Viadrina University, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany Donatella della Porta, Dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Science, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Italy Jae-Jae Spoon, Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh Daniel Ziblatt, Eaton Professor of Government, Harvard University
- Pitt Global Hub (1st floor, Posvar Hall)
The Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship program is a prestigious and competitive award that allows select Pitt undergraduate and graduate students to devote full-time attention to their chosen modern foreign language and area studies specialty. There are separate competitions for the Academic Year FLAS Fellowship and the Summer FLAS Fellowship. Attend this info session with representatives from the Asian Studies Center, Center for African Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, Global Studies Center, European Studies Center, and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Center to learn more about the requirements and how to submit a strong application.
- Various
- Zoom
The European Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh, along with the Institute for European Studies at Indiana University – Bloomington, is happy to invite you to a virtual roundtable titled: Insights into European Elections: Sweden, Italy, and Denmark. In this discussion, four experts and political scientists from Denmark, Italy, Sweden, and the United States will shed light on the results of the recent elections in Europe. This will include discussions on the transformations of European social democratic parties, the rise of right-wing populism, and how these impact European Union politics. This discussion will provide insights into the current European political developments in EU member-states and the possible directions of their futures. Moderator: Jae-Jae Spoon, University of Pittsburgh Prof. Jae-Jae Spoon, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh (Moderator) (spoonj@pitt.edu) Jae-Jae Spoon is Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Political Science Department and a former director of the European Studies Center. She is co-editor Research & Politics (R&P). Her research focuses on comparative electoral behavior primarily in Europe. She is interested in understanding political party strategies and their outcomes for the party, its elected officials, and voters, and how party type and size, institutions, and context influence parties’ decision‐making at both the domestic and European levels. She has a particular interest in the behavior of new and small political parties. Professor Spoon received her PhD from the University of Michigan. Before coming to Pittsburgh, she taught at the University of Iowa and the University of North Texas and was a visiting researcher at the University of Mannheim. Speakers: Prof. Rune Stubager, School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University (stubager@ps.au.dk) Rune Stubager is professor of Political Science at Aarhus University, Denmark. His research interest is political behaviour with a particular emphasis on electoral behaviour. He is one of the principal investigators in the Danish National Election Study. He is the author (with Kasper Møller Hansen, Michael Lewis-Beck and Richard Nadeau) of The Danish Voter. Democratic Ideals and Challenges (2021 University of Michigan Press). His work investigates also the continuinuos social and political importance of social class to citizens of advanced democracies. For more information, please visit http://person.au.dk/en/stubager@ps.au.dk. Prof. Andrea Ceron, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan (andrea.ceron@unimi.it) Andrea Ceron is associate professor at the University of Milan, where he teaches Italian Political System, Polimetrics and Multivariate Analysis. He has been visiting scholar at Harvard University, co-founder and board member of Voices from the Blogs Srl, an academic spinoff in the field of sentiment analysis. He is currently principal investigator of the PRIN project "DEMOPE: Democracy under Pressure" and editor of the Encyclopedia of Technology and Politics. He has published 8 books and 50 articles in international peer-reviewed journals. Prof. Timothy Hellwig, Department of Political Science, Indiana University – Bloomington (thellwig@indiana.edu) Professor of Political Science and Academic Director of the Europe Gateway at Indiana University. My interests include comparative and international political economy, mass political behavior, and research methods. I am a team member on the Executive Approval Project. I am author of Democracy Under Siege? Parties, Voters, and Elections after the Great Recession (with Yesola Kweon and Jack Vowles, 2020 Oxford) and Globalization and Mass Politics: Retaining the Room to Maneuver (2014 Cambridge). I teach courses on comparative elections, political economy, European politics, the EU, world politics, and quantitative methods. Professor of Political Science and Academic Director of the Europe Gateway at Indiana University. My interests include comparative and international political economy, mass political behavior, and research methods. I am a team member on the Executive Approval Project. I am author of Democracy Under Siege? Parties, Voters, and Elections after the Great Recession (with Yesola Kweon and Jack Vowles, 2020 Oxford) and Globalization and Mass Politics: Retaining the Room to Maneuver (2014 Cambridge). I teach courses on comparative elections, political economy, European politics, the EU, world politics, and quantitative methods. Timothy Hellwig is a professor of Political Science and Academic Director of the Europe Gateway at Indiana University. His interests include comparative and international political economy, mass political behavior, and reaserch methods. He is a team member on the Executive Approval Project and an author of Democracy Under Siege? Parties, Voters, and Elections after the Great Recession (with Yesola Kweon and Jack Vowles, 2020 Oxford) and Globalization and Mass Politics: Retaining the Room to Maneuver (2014 Cambridge). He teaches courses on comparative elections, political economy, European politics, the EU, world politics, and quantitative methods. Prof. Maria Solevid, Department of Political Science, Gothenburg University (maria.solevid@pol.gu.se) Maria Solevid, Ph.D. and Associate Professor in Political Science, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg. Solevid conducts research within the Swedish National Election Studies Program (SNES), and the Gothenburg Research Group on Elections, Public Opinion and Political Behavior (GEPOP).
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