Join us for a conversation with Marcus Merkel where he will discuss his experiences, German reunification after 30 years, and more. A general discussion will follow soon after.

Anne Nesbet's novel, Cloud and Wallfish, invites middle-school readers into Berlin in 1989. A limited number of books will be available free of charge to the first registrants for this book discussion.

While the book target grades 5-9, all K-12 teachers are welcome!

Registration link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyIEJS3DMbzcr-LJxa0wUN3timKJ5V....

The 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. Come by the Pitt Global Hub on November 19th from 12PM-1PM to learn how to apply and how to enhance your application!

Waseem Mardini is a 2008 graduate from the University of Pittsburgh. He then went on to obtain his Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University, studying subjects such as Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Sustainable Development. He has worked in New York City and Washington, DC, working for groups such as the Foundation for Middle East Peace, Equitable Origin, and the Arab American Institute. He was the Policy Advisor at Publish What You Pay, where he focused on the corruption in the oil, gas and mining sectors. He also has worked on governance of extractive industries, transparency and accountability, international human rights law, and international corporate responsibility standards. Furthermore, Mr. Mardini has experience in researching human rights violations and conflict in the Middle East. Currently, he works as a Project Manager for KnowTheChain, an organization devoted to educating companies and investors about forced labor and what it means to be transparent and accountable.

With each global health crisis, the interconnectedness of populations around the globe becomes more pronounced. Diseases not only affect the health of communities, but they have a profound impact on political, economic, and social stability within countries and regions. This course engages the interdisciplinary nature of global health by approaching the issue through the lens of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) developed by the United Nations. The SDGs range in focus from good health and well-being to gender equality to clean water and sanitation to affordable, clean energy. By engaging the ways that health has a stake in these goals, the course will bring the expertise of faculty from the University of Pittsburgh and CMU as well as practitioners to understand and address the issue surrounding global health from a myriad of perspectives and avenues. With an applied focus, the course will assist students in engaging and advocating for a community on a global health issue through a policy memo. This iteration of the course will examine gender equality and SDG #5.

How have German cities changed since the fall of the Berlin Wall? Why is Germany rebuilding its palaces? Join us for a discussion of these questions and more!

Tours! Workshops! Networking! The only national conference that focuses on how communities can create, support, and develop reuse economies. To register, visit www.buildreuse.org/conference

Panelists
Dr. Matthew Johnson, Principal, AltaSilva LLC and Associate Fellow, Global Diplomatic Forum
Jonas Parello-Plesner, Executive Director, Alliance of Democracies, Copenhagen and non-resident Senior Fellow, German Marshall Fund
Michelle DeMoor, Senior Trade Advisor, Delegation of the European Union to the U.S.
Dr. Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Executive Director, Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study ofMultinational Corporations

Followed by reception.
Please register for free at euchinaroundtable.eventbrite.com

Could this happen again? The 1918 influenza pandemic was the most severe pandemic in recent history, so deadly that some countries ran out of coffins. The symptoms were horrible, giving it the name of “black flu.” Although there is no universal consensus regarding where the virus originated, it spread worldwide during 1918-1919. It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide. Now 100 years later, we will explore in this two-day minicourse for K-12 educators the origins of the pandemic; its impact in Europe, Asia, and the Americas; and how the field of global health changed from an emphasis on tropical medicine to international health. Free materials, ACT 48, parking, and meals. This mini-course is co-sponsored by the Global Studies Center and the National Consortium for Teaching About Asia, and the European Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh.

To register for the mini-course, go to: https://tinyurl.com/y6trunpp

For more information on the mini-course, go to: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/1918-flu-pandemic-0

Since the mid-20th century, science fiction has shaped our view of the nuclear. The possibilities and horrors of the nuclear has had a comparable impact on utopian and dystopian science fiction. American science fiction fans are well versed in the tropes. What was the relationship between the atom and Soviet/Post-Soviet science fiction? In this live interview, Anindita Banerjee will discuss the imagination of the nuclear in Soviet and post-Soviet science fiction.

As part of our Year of Memory and Politics and 1989 Series, the ESC, in cooperation with REEES, is pleased to welcome Maria Todorova as a Jean Monnet Center of Excellence speaker. Based on her forthcoming book on the perceived “golden age” of the socialist idea, Dr. Todorova will present the results of her research into a rich prosopographical database of circa 3500 biographies of people born in the 19th century. Based upon the diaries, letters, biographies, and autobiographies of several generations of leftists, she investigates the intersection between subjectivity and memory during the period of the Second International and reconstructs the“structures of feeling” that inspired these individuals. Lunch will be provided!

*This event counts for the UCIS1-credit pop-up course

This talk on French writer Violette Leduc examines her particular take on the insult from the perspective of sociology and gender studies, and will ask the following question: how does Violette Leduc overcome her feeling of illegitimacy as a woman writer? I investigate the so-called “tarnation” that Leduc places at the heart of a bastard’s existence. In her works, the “wound” (blessure) is inherited from the “womb” (utérus) and is linked to a female existence. The writer regards her unfortunate birth as a shameful stain that relegates her in the margins of society, excluding her from the prospects of a career, money, success, and love. In this talk, I will show that Leduc’s attitude to her condition as an illegitimate daughter informs and propels her writings. What are the stakes of claiming to be a “bastard” as a literary identity? Leduc’s style and themes redefine the boundaries of sex and gender and consider kinship across generations, as she takes her place in a lineage of powerful writing women.

Award-winning poet Michelle Gil-Montero will discuss her work as a writer, translator, publisher, and director of the literary translation program at Saint Vincent College.

Michelle Gil-Montero is a poet and translator of contemporary Latin American poetry, hybrid-genre work, and criticism. She has been awarded fellowships from the NEA and Howard Foundation, as well as a Fulbright US Scholar’s Grant to Argentina, a PEN/Heim Translation Prize, and a SUR Translation Support grant. She is the author of Attached Houses(Brooklyn Arts Press, 2013), and her poetry has appeared in Poem-a-Day, Verse Daily, Jubilat, Colorado Review, LVNG, Seedings, and other journals. She is Associate Professor of English at Saint Vincent College, where she directs the Minor in Literary Translation. She is the publisher of Eulalia Books (eulaliabooks.com).

Join us for a screening (with English subtitles)and discussion led by film expert Stephen Brockmann (Carnegie Mellon University). Goodbye, Lenin! (2003) was directed by Wolfgang Becker. In this comedy/drama, a dedicated young man, Alex (Daniel Brühl), recreates East Germany in their 77m2 apartment to protect his socialist mother Christiane (Katrin Sass) from the shock of the fall of the Berlin Wall! Can he pull off this elaborate scheme knowing that the slightest shock could prove fatal? Alex strives to keep the fall of the GDR a secret for as long as possible.

*This event counts for the UCIS1-credit pop-up course!

Considering graduate school? Preparing your application materials?

Join us as Pitt graduate program experts from the School of Public Health, GSPIA, Economics, History, and Asian Studies share expertise on crafting strong applications. Learn tips on writing effective personal statements, securing letter writers, and submitting desired credentials. Ask individual questions to admissions professionals at the breakout session.

Dr. Kevin Broom, Director of MHA and MHA/MBA Programs, Vice Chair, Associate Professor, Pitt Public Health
Dr. Emily Rook-Koepsel, Asst. Director for Academic Affairs, UCIS Asian Studies Center
Dr.Michel Gobat , Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor of History
Dr. Daniele Coen-Pirani, Director of Graduate Studies, Professor of Economics
TBA Admissions Professional, GSPIA

Don’t miss out on an opportunity to hear from the experts. Click the link below to secure a spot today!

https://signup.com/go/iWjtzbK

The European Studies Center, the Global Studies Center, and the University Center for International Studies, with the support of the Office of the Provost and the Year of Pitt Global Initiative at the University of Pittsburgh, in partnership with Global Voice and the Workable World Trust, will host the Second Annual Global Town Hall Meeting on UN and Global Governance Reform on Thursday 19 September to Friday 20 September 2019.

The theme for the discussion will be “Climate, Gender, and Sustainable Development: Local to Global”.

In this two-day event, discussions will focus on the need to think synthetically about climate change, gender equity, and sustainable development in reimagining an agenda for global governance reform and reconfiguring citizen activism for social justice.

Schedule:
Thursday, 19 September 2019: Opening Lecture for Global Town Hall - Humanities Center, Cathedral of Learning
5:30 pm –Paulo Magalhães, “Common Home of Humanity: Creating the Legal Environment to Meet Climate and Nature Emergencies”

Friday, 20 September 2019 – Connelly Ballroom, Alumni Hall (The Livestream will begin promptly at 9 a.m.)

8:30 am - check-in - vegan muffins and coffee

9:00am – Welcome
9:30am – Overview: The Road to 2020 – Earl James, Global Voice

10:00am – Expert Panel Plenary: Gender, Climate Change, and Sustainable Development (moderated by Ariel Armony, Vice Provost for Global Affairs, Pitt) - Livestreamed

· Paulo Magalhães, Common Home of Humanity
· anupama jain, City of Pittsburgh Gender Equity Commission
· Katharina Schulze, Green Party Member, State Parliament, Bavaria, Germany
· Raquel Lagunas, Gender Mainstreaming Advisor in the Gender Team in the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, United Nations Development Program

12:00pm – Lunch (free to the first 100 people to register)
1:00 pm - Keynote Address : Wanjira Mathai, wPower and Green Belt Movement (Livestreamed)

2:00pm – Breakout Sessions
· Economics of Sustainability with Paulo Magalhães, Aurora Sharrard (Director of Sustainability, University of Pittsburgh), moderator: Michaël Aklin
· Security with Richard Ponzio (Stimson Center), Grant Ervin (Chief Resilience Officer, City of Pittsburgh), moderator: Burcu Savun
· Gender and Development with Raquel Lagunas and anupama jain; moderator: Muge Finkel
· Climate Action and Social Justice with Nora Löhle (Program Director, Energy and Environment, Heinrich Böll Foundation) and Katharina Schulze, moderator: Michael Goodhart
3:30pm – Break - coffee and vegan cookies

4:00pm – Global Town Hall and Public Discussion of Next Steps (Connelly Ballroom and via Livestream)

Co-sponsors:
Heinrich-Böll Stiftung
Department of Political Science
Center for International Legal Education
African Studies Program
Department of Geology
GSPIA
Office of the Provost
Gender, Sexuality, and Women Studies Program

The Yellow Vests Movement in France will be discussed.

Jewish Studies Work in Progress Series.

Lunch Provided, RSVP by September 9 to jsp@pitt.edu

The graduate program in Critical European Culture Studies with the support of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, the European Studies Center, and the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe (Marburg, Germany) will host an international workshop open to University of Pittsburgh faculty and students. The contemporary period has called forth a re-thinking of methods and approaches to the study of Europe's cultures in the present and the past. Participants in this workshop are at the forefront of considering Europe as a term of debate, analyzing it as a discourse, investigating its cultural apparatuses, and exploring its rich and transforming history. Approaching the term Europe critically (even skeptically), this workshop will offer an opportunity to critically engage with established methods of accounting for the peoples, the arts, and the letters of a European multilingual polyphony and a Europe of multi-spatial and contested relations.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Friday, September 6, 501 Cathedral of Learning

12:45-1:00pm Welcome

1:00-2:00pm Session 1: Novel Europe

Presenters: John Lyon (University of Pittsburgh), "Europeanization and Irrepressible Binaries"
Ilinca Iurascu (University of British Columbia), "Turn-of-the-Century Epistolary Novellas and the European Others of the German Periodical Press"

Respondents: Lina Insana (University of Pittsburgh), Sabine von Dirke (University of Pittsburgh)

2:15-3:15pm Session 2: Europe on Exhibition

Presenters: Katrin Sieg (Georgetown University), "Colonial Presence and Cosmopolitan Temporalities at the Museum"
Emi Finkelstein (University of Pittsburgh), "Synchronicity: Contemporary Europe as a Temporal Project"

Respondents: Felix Germain (University of Pittsburgh) and Anke Biendara (University of California, Irvine)

3:30-3:15pm Session 3: Polity, Sovereignty, Empire

Presenters: Mohammed Bamyeh (University of Pittsburgh), "Post-national Culture, Neo-Imperial Politics"
Nancy Condee (University of Pittsburgh), " Eurasian Sovereignty in Postcommunism’s Third Decade (2009–2019)"

Respondents: Katrin Sieg (Georgetown University) and Randall Halle (University of Pittsburgh)

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10:00-11:00am Session 4: European Integration History

Presenters: Cristina Blanco Sio Lopez (University of Pittsburgh/ European University Institute), "Oral History Assets and Prospects: The Case of European
Integration History"
Randall Halle (University of Pittsburgh), "European Dis/Union as European Cultural Integration Theory"

Respondents: Salvatore Poier (University of Pittsburgh) and Nancy Condee (University of Pittsburgh)

11:15am-12:30pm Session 5: European Margins and Migrants

Presenters: Heath Cabot (University of Pittsburgh), "Humility, Expertise, and the Politics of Relevance on Europe’s Margins"
Lina Insana (University of Pittsburgh), "Migrant Testimony, Translation, Dialect, and Lampedusa/”Fortress Europe”
Salvatore Poier (University of Pittsburgh), "In-Your-Backyard-Research: Advantages and Challenges"

Respondents: Peter Haslinger (Herder Institute/University of Gießen) and Allyson Delnore (University of Pittsburgh)

1:30-2:30pm Session 6: European Territory

Presenters: Jan Musekamp (University of Pittsburgh), "European Integration and Disintegration before 1914: The Case of the European Railroad Network"
Allyson Delnore (University of Pittsburgh), "Making and Unmaking Europe Overseas: The Case of France and French Guiana"

Respondents: Ilinca Iurascu (University of British Columbia) and Jeanette Jouili (University of Pittsburgh)

2:45-3:45pm Session 7: EUropean Cultural Policy

Presenters: Sabine von Dirke (University of Pittsburgh), "No Culture - No EUrope: The Initiative 'Soul for Europe' and the Politics of Affect"
Anke Biendarra (University of California Irvine), "Reframing German-Language Literature as European Literature"

Respondents: John Lyon (University of Pittsburgh) and Cristina Blanco Sio Lopez (University of Pittsburgh/ European University Institute)

4:00-5:00pm Session 8: Other European Solidarities, Territories, Sovereignities

Presenters: Zsuzsánna Magdó (University of Pittsburgh), "Ferenc Balázs, Transylvanism and Global Utopia, 1923-1937"
Peter Haslinger (Herder Institute/University of Gießen), "Cultural Heritage, National Pasts, and the Symbolic Geography of Europe's Eastern Fringe"

Respondents: Jan Musekamp (University of Pittsburgh) and Mohammed Bamyeh (University of Pittsburgh)

5:00-5:15pm Next Steps

Pre-Law School Internship with Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.

Chat with Global Studies Center Alum, Verna Krishnamurthy, (University of Pittsburgh '12 and University of Pennsylvania Law School '15) about program for students interested in law:

The Project Analyst program is a two-year post-graduation program which allows college graduates interested in different areas of corporate law to work with attorneys on different projects and learn about the inner workings of a large law firm. This is a great opportunity for graduates planning on attending law school in the future. Though many Project Analysts have gone on to attend law school, the program's alumni have also enjoyed careers in areas such as banking, medicine, journalism, and consulting. Learn how to submit a competitive application from insider.

https://www.mintz.com/careers/professional-staff/project-analyst-program

Please join the European Studies Center as we kick off the 2019-2020 Academic Year with our annual Welcome Reception. Come meet current and new students, staff, and faculty and learn about our upcoming events. Refreshments will be served.

Join us for our annual EuroFest in celebration of all things Europe in the 'burgh! Food trucks, dancers, local artisans, and more! This is a family-friendly event fun for all ages. Special activities will be available for Pitt students.

2019 ESC and ULS Summer Research Scholar, Ryan Phillips (Lycoming College), will present his work on Democratization and the European Union and share his findings in the Barbara Sloane EU Delegation Collection.

Barrister, PhD and LLB graduate of Trinity College Dublin, Professor Gavin Barrett is a Professor of Law in University College Dublin and sometime Jean Monnet Professor of European Constitutional and Economic Law.

Professor Barrett specializes in European law, with a particular interest in the employment law and constitutional law, in addition to employment law. He is a member of the Irish Centre for European Law, a Council member of the Institute of International and European Affairs and member of the Economic Governance Group, the Eurocrisis Group and the Ireland in Europe Group and a Fellow of the Dublin European Institute.

2019 ESC and ULS Summer Research Scholar, Boyka Stefanova (University of Texas, San Antonio), will present on her research and her findings in the Barbara Sloan EU Delegation Collection.

Explore the Warhol with Donald Warhola, Andy’s nephew, and attend a screening of the film "Jan Palach" with an introduction by Jaroslav Kubera, President of the Czech Senate.

Admission is $25.00 for adults/$15.00 for children under 18. Payment by check only by May 21, 2019. Checks should be made payable to Friends of Via and mailed to:

Friends of Via
PO Box 82556
Pittsburgh, PA 15218

Entrance only with prepaid payment. No ticket sales at the door.

For additional information, send an email to friendsofvia@gmail.com

The University Center for International Studies cordially invites students graduating in Spring and Summer 2019 to celebrate their academic achievements and receive their credentials at the University Center for International Studies’ Graduation Ceremony on Friday, April 26, 3-4 p.m., followed by a reception 4-5 p.m., in the O'Hara Student Center.

Graduating students please look for your personal email invitation from the University Center for International Studies. Contact your UCIS academic advisor with any questions.

We look forward to celebrating your accomplishments!

Written by Mairead Ni Ghrada and Directed by Nic Barilar
A child is dead, a baby girl - and her mother is standing trial for infanticide. Gripping and theatrical, On Trial follows the tragic life of Maura Cassidy, an unmarried single mother. Set in 1960s Catholic Ireland, Maura must find a way to make a life for herself without the support of her family, her child’s father, or society - leading her to make some catastrophic decisions. Told through testimonies and flashbacks, this controversial courtroom drama questions where guilt and blame lie in a world of oppression, prejudice, and hypocrisy. Originally written in the Irish Gaelic language by Máiréad Ní Ghráda - one of Ireland’s preeminent female playwrights - this special addition to the University of Pittsburgh’s current season is the North American premiere of a modern Irish classic.

On May 23-26, 2019, voters across the European Union will head to the polls to elect 751 members of the European Parliament. In this conversation, our panel of experts will discuss the key players, parties and issues at stake (including the role of Brexit) in the upcoming elections. To participate remotely, contact irm24@pitt.edu

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. The Symposium is held on the University of Pittsburgh-Oakland campus. 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.

Almodovar is in prison, Daniel is living in a van, and Xavier hasn't left the house is years.

David Machado's award-winning novel, The Shelf Life of Happiness, follows the story of three adult friends as they navigate and deteriorate under the stresses of Portugal's financial crisis of 2008. The novel won the EU Prize for Literature in 2019.

The ESC, in partnership with UNC Center for European Studies and Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is delighted to present a reading from The Shelf Life of Happiness with David Machado.

This event is free and open to all. Join us to hear some award-winning writing and a brief talk from the author. A Q&A will follow.

Our conference on the Iberian empires and their aftermath will bring a much-needed interdisciplinary focus on the realia and the imaginary of the Spanish and Portuguese colonial world. We will think about the construction and naturalization of an imperial regime that produced hierarchized and racialized ways of being, thinking, knowing, and belonging in society, and interrogate and excavate it, with a view to defamiliarizing and "delegitimizing" the regime and its aftereffects, particularly in light of the present-day iterations and manifestations of the latter. Taking the institutionality of colonial governance as our point of departure, as seen through the historical action of not only church and state, but also of labor and capital, we want to reveal how empire works in the creation of social relations and racialized identities, especially those relating to diasporan "blackness." The taxonomy of racial "types" of Latin America's colonial casta paintings, to take the paradigmatic example, not only reflects a vertical distribution of power in real terms. It constitutes a state-originated artifact whose referents and their racially determined places in society, are reinforced in the textuality of colonial laws and edicts, and reappear in literary discourse, visual culture, theater and the performing arts, and in other areas of material cultural production, while also having a determinative role in the emerging fields of ethnography and anthropology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In examining the longue durée of modern raciology and its effects on black diasporan subjectivity during and after the Iberian empires, we will take both a transhistoric and a translocal approach to critiquing and denaturalizing an inherited regime of truth in many of its discrete instances across the Renaissance, the Colonial, and the Contemporary periods.
Keynote Speakers: John Lipski, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, and director, Program in Linguistics, Penn State University, and Equatoguinean writer Juan Tomás Ávila

A part of passages: translation & the mediation of time & space. Passages is a semester-long series of lectures, workshops, and conversations on translation and its impact.