Presentation

Program: 1:00 PM: INTRODUCTION & WELCOME REMARKS (Nancy Condee, REEES & Randall Halle, ESC) 1:15 PM: PROVOCATION: As geopolitical actor Europe aspires to empire/ has fallen into insignificance (Nancy Condee, REEES and Slavic Mohammed Bamyeh, Sociology Allyson Delnore, UCIS and History) 2:30 PM BREAK 3:15 PM: PROVOCATION: The strength of Euroscepticism, of illiberal parties and governments, is growing across the entire EU and is justified/unreasonable (Sean Guillory, REEES and History Donna Harsch, History (Carnegie Mellon University) Randall Halle, ESC and German) 4:45 PM: BREAK 5:00 P

Program: 1:00 PM: INTRODUCTION & WELCOME REMARKS Nancy Condee, REEES & Randall Halle, ESC 1:15 PM: PROVOCATION As geopolitical actor Europe aspires to empire/ has fallen into insignificance. Nancy Condee, REEES and Slavic Mohammed Bamyeh, Sociology Allyson Delnore, UCIS and History 2:30 PM BREAK 3:15 PM: PROVOCATION The strength of Euroscepticism, of illiberal parties and governments, is growing across the entire EU and is justified/unreasonable. Sean Guillory, REEES and History Donna Harsch, History (Carnegie Mellon University) Randall Halle, ESC and German 4:45 PM: BREAK 5:00 PM: KE

Have you ever wondered where those beautiful scenes come from on the big screen in the Global Hub? Wanted to see more Pitt students in them? At this event, you will hear from the 3 undergraduate students who participated in the inaugural UCIS Digital Narrative Workshop Series last Spring, before they embarked on global adventures over the Summer! During the event, these students will share about their global experiences and their experiences participating in this workshop series, and we will get to see each of the sort clips they curated while abroad, in Mexico, South Korea, and Argentina.

Olga Baranova, Senior Director of the Moscow Community Centre for LGBT+ Initiatives, will speak on the challenges LGBT+ communities face in Russia and the North Caucasus while exploring how Moscow is a conduit for refugees seeking safety and asylum and also a place under increased state surveillance. Now based in New York, Ms. Baranova is a Russian human rights activist. Her work has been featured in the 2020 award-winning documentary Welcome to Chechnya! Inside the Russian Republic's Deadly War on Gays directed by the American filmmaker David France.

This past June, the Global Studies Center and the University Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh hosted the Interdisciplinary Global Educators Working Group, where teachers came together virtually to design an interdisciplinary global unit or lesson. They were provided time, space, and materials to gather with like-minded colleagues and collaborate on unique and inspired lesson plans across subject areas.

Chair: John Lyon, Chair of the German Department, University of Pittsburgh Speakers: Schengen’ in fin de siècle Europe? Borderless Mobility in the Nineteenth Century - Jan Musekamp, DAAD Associate Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh Salvador de Madariaga and the ‘Solidarity of Being’: Limits and potential of an imagined ‘free movement of persons’ in Europe - Cristina Blanco Sío-López, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Senior Global Fellow, University of Pittsburgh / Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

Join Karen Lue, Pitt Global Hub Manager, for an information session on how you can Be Global Ready. Learn about all of the international and global opportunities Pitt has to offer: on-campus co-curricular activities, study abroad programs, international studies certificates, foreign languages, overseas internships, and more! Students looking to internationalize their Pitt experience are encouraged to attend.

Join Karen Lue, Pitt Global Hub Manager, for an information session on how you can Be Global Ready. Learn about all of the international and global opportunities Pitt has to offer: on-campus co-curricular activities, study abroad programs, international studies certificates, foreign languages, overseas internships, and more! Students looking to internationalize their Pitt experience are encouraged to attend.

The Euro Challenge is a national competition for cash prizes where 9th and 10th grade high school students test their knowledge and understanding of the European economy and the Euro, the currency shared by many of the 28 countries of the European Union. The European Studies Center is proud to host the Western Pennsylvania regional competition for Euro Challenge at the University of Pittsburgh. Participation can be in-person or remote.