The book project, “Shakespeare and the Senses,” charts Shakespeare’s diverse experiments with cross-modal sensory and linguistic effects in relation to recent developments in historical phenomenology and current research in cognitive neuroscience.
*With responses by Bruce McConachie (Theater), Marianne Novy (English).
Matilda of Canossa - familiar to scholars of medieval papal history as a champion of Pope Gregory VII during the Investiture Controversy - is best known to seventeenth-century scholars through the controversy which erupted from the “holy robbery” of her body in 1633. Under the cloak of night and the pope’s command, Matilda of Canossa’s body was taken from its tomb at the Lombard monastery of San Benedetto Polirone, much to the public outcry of the local religious community who venerated the eleventh-century noblewoman’s remains as “holy relics.” Her body was brought to Rome, and placed within an elaborate tomb in a strategic spot on the second right pier on the right aisle of St. Peter’s – a location that situated her directly on route to the Porta Sancta, through which Juibilee pilgrims would have to pass to receive an Indulgence of the Holy Year.
Through text, painting, and sculpture commissions, the celebratory “cult” of the Guelph noblewoman and papal supporter was invigorated on a grand scale under the cultural patronage of Pope Urban VIII (1623-1644). The tomb monument to Matilda of Canossa (1637) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, remains one of the master sculptor’s least appreciated works; art historians quick to characterize the work as “expressionless,” “disappointing,” and “lifeless,” have dubbed the statue “Chilly Matilda.” However, such a critical reception belies the influential role that the monument played in seventeenth-century monument design. Seventeen years after the monument’s unveiling, Pope Alexander VII commissioned Bernini to complete an equestrian monument of Emperor Constantine, asking that the monument be made in the likeness of the monument to Matilda. Equally, when Pope Innocent XII commissioned the funerary monument for Queen Christine of Sweden he requested the work be similar to that of the Countess Matilda (“a somoglianza della quello Contessa Matilda”).
Using the lens of agency, Cymbala’s paper investigates why Matilda’s sculpted image became so central to papal commissions in the later half of the seventeenth century. Examining the sculptural interplay between the monuments to Matilda, Constantine, and Christine of Sweden, Cymbala will highlight the papal goals and political messages that such sculptural relationships espoused in the age of Catholic Reform in Rome.
All films will have subtitles accessible to non-German speaking audiences. All film screenings are open to the public. All films will be DVD projection. Many of these films are rare and hard to find. I would encourage you to bring friends so they can take advantage of the experience.
Tuesday September 11
Nerven [Nerves] (Robert Reiner 1919)
Die Austernprinzessin [The Oyster Princess] (Ernst Lubitsch 1919)
Tuesday September 18
Schloß Vogeloed [Castle Vogeloed] (F.W. Murnau 1921)
Nosferatu (F,W. Murnau 1922)
Tuesday September 25
Die freudlose Gasse [Joyless Streets] (Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1925)
Asphalt (Joe May 1929)
Tuesday October 2
Die Elf Teufel [The Eleven Devils] (Zoltan Korda 1927)
König der Mittelstürmer [The Champion of the Stadium] (Fritz Freisler 1927)
Tuesday October 9
Metropolis (Fritz Lang 1927)
Algol (Hans Werckmeister 1920)
Wunder der Schöpfung [Our Heavenly Bodies] (Hanns Walter Kornblum 1925)
Tuesday October 16
Berlin, die Sinfonie der Großstadt [Berlin the Symphony of the Great City] (Walter Ruttmann 1927)
Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed [The Adventures of Prince Achmed] (Lotte Reiniger, 1923-26)
Tuesday October 23
Büchse der Pandora [Pandora’s Box] (Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1929)
Der Letzte Mann [Last Laugh] (F. W. Murnau 1924)
Tuesday October 30
Der Blaue Engel [The Blue Angel] (Josef Von Sternberg 1930)
Tuesday November 6
Anders als die Andern [Different from the Others] (Richard Oswald 1919)
Mädchen in Uniform [Girls in Uniform] (Leontine Sagan 1931)
Tuesday November 13
Menschen am Sonntag [People on Sunday] (Robert Siodmak 1930)
Tuesday November 20
Die Dreigroschenoper [Three Penny Opera] (Georg Wlhelm Pabst 1931)
Tuesday November 27
Kuhle Wampe [To Whom Does the World Belong?] (Slatan Dudow 1932)
Tuesday December 4
Die Drei von der Tankstelle [Three Men and Lilian] (Wilhelm Thiele 1930)
Der Kongress Tanzt [The Congress Dances] (Erik Charell 1931)
All films will have subtitles accessible to non-German speaking audiences. All film screenings are open to the public. All films will be DVD projection. Many of these films are rare and hard to find. I would encourage you to bring friends so they can take advantage of the experience.
Tuesday September 11
Nerven [Nerves] (Robert Reiner 1919)
Die Austernprinzessin [The Oyster Princess] (Ernst Lubitsch 1919)
Tuesday September 18
Schloß Vogeloed [Castle Vogeloed] (F.W. Murnau 1921)
Nosferatu (F,W. Murnau 1922)
Tuesday September 25
Die freudlose Gasse [Joyless Streets] (Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1925)
Asphalt (Joe May 1929)
Tuesday October 2
Die Elf Teufel [The Eleven Devils] (Zoltan Korda 1927)
König der Mittelstürmer [The Champion of the Stadium] (Fritz Freisler 1927)
Tuesday October 9
Metropolis (Fritz Lang 1927)
Algol (Hans Werckmeister 1920)
Wunder der Schöpfung [Our Heavenly Bodies] (Hanns Walter Kornblum 1925)
Tuesday October 16
Berlin, die Sinfonie der Großstadt [Berlin the Symphony of the Great City] (Walter Ruttmann 1927)
Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed [The Adventures of Prince Achmed] (Lotte Reiniger, 1923-26)
Tuesday October 23
Büchse der Pandora [Pandora’s Box] (Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1929)
Der Letzte Mann [Last Laugh] (F. W. Murnau 1924)
Tuesday October 30
Der Blaue Engel [The Blue Angel] (Josef Von Sternberg 1930)
Tuesday November 6
Anders als die Andern [Different from the Others] (Richard Oswald 1919)
Mädchen in Uniform [Girls in Uniform] (Leontine Sagan 1931)
Tuesday November 13
Menschen am Sonntag [People on Sunday] (Robert Siodmak 1930)
Tuesday November 20
Die Dreigroschenoper [Three Penny Opera] (Georg Wlhelm Pabst 1931)
Tuesday November 27
Kuhle Wampe [To Whom Does the World Belong?] (Slatan Dudow 1932)
Tuesday December 4
Die Drei von der Tankstelle [Three Men and Lilian] (Wilhelm Thiele 1930)
Der Kongress Tanzt [The Congress Dances] (Erik Charell 1931)
How do precarious workers employed in call-centres, universities, the fashion industry and many other labour markets organise, struggle and communicate to become recognised, influential political subjects? “Media Practices and Protest Politics; How Precarious Workers Mobilise” reveals the process by which individuals at the margins of the labour market and excluded from the welfare state communicate and struggle outside the realm of institutional politics to gain recognition in the political sphere.
In this important and thought provoking work Alice Mattoni suggests an all-encompassing approach to understanding grassroots political communication in contemporary societies. Using original examples from precarious workers mobilizations in Italy she explores a range of activist media practices and compares different categories of media technologies, organizations and outlets from the printed press to web application and from mainstream to alternative media.
Explaining how activists perceive and understand the media environment in which they are embedded the book discusses how they must interact with a diverse range of media professionals and technologies and considers how mainstream, radical left-wing and alternative media represent protests. Media Practices and Protest Politics offers important insights for understanding mechanisms and patterns of visibility in struggles for recognition and redistribution in post-democratic societies and provides a valuable contribution to the field of political communication and social movement studies.
Come to the German Conversation Table at Caribou Coffee from 8-10 pm. Practice conversing with other German speakers or just learn a little more about the language.
Come to the Italian Conversation Table from 5-6 pm at Crazy Mocha to practice speaking in Italian or to learn more about the language. Listen and speak with other Italian speakers as a way to improve your knowledge of the language.
All students with an interest in international studies are welcome to join us for a free workshop with the international studies certificate program advisors and Alyson Kavalukas, Pitt's Internship Coordinator, to learn about how to find international studies internships and volunteer opportunities both locally in Pittsburgh, in the United States, and overseas, through Pitt and on your own! We will discuss who can help find an internship that fits your goals, how to make use of your skills to build your resume or experiences, and you will meet with some current Pitt students who have had a variety of internship and volunteer experiences who will talk about what they did and answer your questions!
4:00-5:00 pm - Information session on internships, volunteering, networking, and where to start
5:00-6:00 pm - Student panel and open Q&A session
STUDENT PANELISTS:
Alexa Verink: Participant in the IIP in Madrid, Spain, majoring in Global Management and Marketing; certificate in Latin American Studies.
Laura Amster: Global Solutions Pittsburgh (GSP), majoring in Economics and minoring in French; certificate in Global Studies.
Cody Dickerson: Study abroad and volunteer experience in Beijing, China, majoring in Chinese; certificate in Asian Studies.
Jim Baraldi: Intern with Unite For Sight (Honduras), studied abroad in Istanbul, Turkey, and Wuhan, China, majoring in Chemistry and Neuroscience; certificate in Asian Studies.
Katarina Deshotel: Master's in International Development (Human Security), Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, interned at Amnesty International; graduate certificate in Asian Studies.
Hosted by the University Center for International Studies and the Office of Career Development & Placement Assistance
Experts on German politics and society will engage in an interactive multi-site discussion focusing on the German Chancellor, her politics and personality. How has she been represented in the press and popular culture throughout Europe? To what extent has Chancellor Merkel (her preferences, style, skills, background) shaped contemporary Europe? To what extent has she become a symbol of the current crises impacting Germany and other member states of the European Union?
Come to Crazy Mocha on Oakland Ave. from 5:30-6:30 pm to participate in the French Conversation Table. Converse with other French speakers to improve your own language skills or simply to learn more about the language.
The first in a series of six workshops focusing on different global issues and how educators can use literature to further explore the topic. The first workshop will focus on Europe and the topic of immigration. Dr. Bernard Hagerty will discuss the novel Bruno, Chief of Police, by the journalist Martin Walker. It is a remarkable portrayal of the new, multicultural French countryside. North African immigrants are central to the plot and are portrayed in an evenhanded and nuanced way, and rural people themselves appear as a pressured minority. History matters, and the EU is omnipresent.
Participants will receive a copy of the novel 2 weeks prior to the workshop. Act 48 credit will be given at the end of the series.
Come to the Portuguese Conversation Table in room 527 of the William Pitt Union at 4 pm to practice speaking Portuguese or to learn more about the language. Meet other Portuguese speakers and make some new friends too!
Lynn Festa will be leading a workshop seminar on her paper, "Things in Kid Gloves." Please contact Chloe Hogg at hoggca@pitt.edu for a copy of the paper, to be circulated in advance to workshop participants. This workshop seminar is open to interested faculty and graduate students.
The French Club is a student run organization at the University of Pittsburgh dedicated to promoting the awareness and appreciation of French and francophone cultures around the world.
All films will have subtitles accessible to non-German speaking audiences. All film screenings are open to the public. All films will be DVD projection. Many of these films are rare and hard to find. I would encourage you to bring friends so they can take advantage of the experience.
Tuesday September 11
Nerven [Nerves] (Robert Reiner 1919)
Die Austernprinzessin [The Oyster Princess] (Ernst Lubitsch 1919)
Tuesday September 18
Schloß Vogeloed [Castle Vogeloed] (F.W. Murnau 1921)
Nosferatu (F,W. Murnau 1922)
Tuesday September 25
Die freudlose Gasse [Joyless Streets] (Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1925)
Asphalt (Joe May 1929)
Tuesday October 2
Die Elf Teufel [The Eleven Devils] (Zoltan Korda 1927)
König der Mittelstürmer [The Champion of the Stadium] (Fritz Freisler 1927)
Tuesday October 9
Metropolis (Fritz Lang 1927)
Algol (Hans Werckmeister 1920)
Wunder der Schöpfung [Our Heavenly Bodies] (Hanns Walter Kornblum 1925)
Tuesday October 16
Berlin, die Sinfonie der Großstadt [Berlin the Symphony of the Great City] (Walter Ruttmann 1927)
Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed [The Adventures of Prince Achmed] (Lotte Reiniger, 1923-26)
Tuesday October 23
Büchse der Pandora [Pandora’s Box] (Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1929)
Der Letzte Mann [Last Laugh] (F. W. Murnau 1924)
Tuesday October 30
Der Blaue Engel [The Blue Angel] (Josef Von Sternberg 1930)
Tuesday November 6
Anders als die Andern [Different from the Others] (Richard Oswald 1919)
Mädchen in Uniform [Girls in Uniform] (Leontine Sagan 1931)
Tuesday November 13
Menschen am Sonntag [People on Sunday] (Robert Siodmak 1930)
Tuesday November 20
Die Dreigroschenoper [Three Penny Opera] (Georg Wlhelm Pabst 1931)
Tuesday November 27
Kuhle Wampe [To Whom Does the World Belong?] (Slatan Dudow 1932)
Tuesday December 4
Die Drei von der Tankstelle [Three Men and Lilian] (Wilhelm Thiele 1930)
Der Kongress Tanzt [The Congress Dances] (Erik Charell 1931)
Lynn Festa is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers. Her publications include Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France (John Hopkins University Press, 2006) and, as co-editor, The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialisms and Postcolonial Theory (Oxford University Press, 2009).
*Part of the yearlong series, “Speaking in Tongues”
What is German Identity? What is European Identity? Where do these concepts overlap and where do they diverge? Join us for a discussion in German about the concepts of identity past and present, and how these concepts affect responses to immigration, integration, and the future of Europe.
*CGS Student Government/Alumni Society Networking Social*
Join the CGS Student Government and the CGS Alumni Society for the opening of the new McCarl Center
Photography Exhibit, “An Evening in Paris.” This exhibit features the photography of CGS Student Government
President Brian Coleman. Brian captured Paris’s joie de vivre while participating in Pitt’s Study Abroad Program
in France this past summer. Meet Brian and several other CGS students and alumni who have studied abroad, as
well as representatives from the Study Abroad Program and find out how you too might study in another country
as part of your Pitt experience.
*Refreshments will include French pastries.
The “Night of Broken Glass” on November 9-10, 1938
Music by CMU Klezmer Band
Introductory Remarks by Alexander Orbach and Clark Muenzer
Readings by Pitt Students
Video Excerpts from Witnesses and Survivors
With responses by Stephen Carr (English), Louise Lippincott (Carnegie Art Museum), Adam Shear (Religious Studies).
Faculty and graduate students in Pitt Humanities departments can access readings for colloquia by logging in to , clicking on the tab “My Resources,” clicking on “Humanities Center,” and then clicking on “Colloquium Series” where there is a link to the pdf files. Anyone else wishing to access the readings may request the reading at humctr@pitt.edu.
What does Tuesday's outcome mean for Europe?
Three experts on European politics from the University of Pittsburgh discuss European reactions to the results of the U.S. presidential election. How do Europeans understand the electoral process? What effects will the presidential election have on U.S.-Europe relations? What are the implications of the U.S. election for the Euro Crisis? How do Europeans view the winner of the presidential election? Audience participation in the discussion is encouraged.
Lunch will be served.
All films will have subtitles accessible to non-German speaking audiences. All film screenings are open to the public. All films will be DVD projection. Many of these films are rare and hard to find. I would encourage you to bring friends so they can take advantage of the experience.
Tuesday September 11
Nerven [Nerves] (Robert Reiner 1919)
Die Austernprinzessin [The Oyster Princess] (Ernst Lubitsch 1919)
Tuesday September 18
Schloß Vogeloed [Castle Vogeloed] (F.W. Murnau 1921)
Nosferatu (F,W. Murnau 1922)
Tuesday September 25
Die freudlose Gasse [Joyless Streets] (Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1925)
Asphalt (Joe May 1929)
Tuesday October 2
Die Elf Teufel [The Eleven Devils] (Zoltan Korda 1927)
König der Mittelstürmer [The Champion of the Stadium] (Fritz Freisler 1927)
Tuesday October 9
Metropolis (Fritz Lang 1927)
Algol (Hans Werckmeister 1920)
Wunder der Schöpfung [Our Heavenly Bodies] (Hanns Walter Kornblum 1925)
Tuesday October 16
Berlin, die Sinfonie der Großstadt [Berlin the Symphony of the Great City] (Walter Ruttmann 1927)
Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed [The Adventures of Prince Achmed] (Lotte Reiniger, 1923-26)
Tuesday October 23
Büchse der Pandora [Pandora’s Box] (Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1929)
Der Letzte Mann [Last Laugh] (F. W. Murnau 1924)
Tuesday October 30
Der Blaue Engel [The Blue Angel] (Josef Von Sternberg 1930)
Tuesday November 6
Anders als die Andern [Different from the Others] (Richard Oswald 1919)
Mädchen in Uniform [Girls in Uniform] (Leontine Sagan 1931)
Tuesday November 13
Menschen am Sonntag [People on Sunday] (Robert Siodmak 1930)
Tuesday November 20
Die Dreigroschenoper [Three Penny Opera] (Georg Wlhelm Pabst 1931)
Tuesday November 27
Kuhle Wampe [To Whom Does the World Belong?] (Slatan Dudow 1932)
Tuesday December 4
Die Drei von der Tankstelle [Three Men and Lilian] (Wilhelm Thiele 1930)
Der Kongress Tanzt [The Congress Dances] (Erik Charell 1931)
A screening of works and a conversation with Masayo Kajimura, a Berlin-based video and installation artist. In her work Masayo creates a rich multi-layered flow of images that draw on settings and motifs from various global locations and cultural settings. Sharp insights and provocations underlie these evocative, lyrical, and associative projects.
Masayo Kajimura was born in Berlin in 1976, coming of acte before the fall of the Wall. In 2004 she received her MA in Cultural Studies and Art History from the premier programs at the Humbolt University. Already during her studies she began exhibiting video and installation work. She then studied advanced media arts in Gifu, Japan. In 2011 she had two solo exhibitions and more are in the planning stages. Although based in Berlin, she travels between Germany and Japan and has had artist in residence stays in multiple global locations including most recently in Estonia. In addition to her own artistic production, Kajimura works as a curator of the influential Made in Europe film series at the Werkstatt der Kulturen.
Teams of high school students from throughout the Pittsburgh region participated in the annual Pitt Model United Nations simulation.
Business does not only influence science in 21st-century America. This talk reveals how entrepreneurial science has been with us since the scientific revolution, and exposes how product marketing, patent litigation, and ghostwriting pervaded the practice of natural history and anatomy, the big sciences of the early modern era. It argues that the growth of global trade in the Dutch Golden Age gave rise to a transnational network of entrepreneurial science, connecting natural historians, physicians, and curiosi in Amsterdam, London, St Petersburg, or Danzig. These practitioners were out there to do business. They bought and sold exotica, preserved specimens, anatomical prints, and botanical atlases. This talk shows how, in their trade, Dutch naturalists relied on such mercantile innovations as postal networks and international banking, and also developed their own infrastructure for managing the long-distance, monetary exchange of scientific knowledge and curiosities. In the process, they contributed to the growth of modern science, and imbued its ethos and practices with financial undertones. Entrepreneurial rivalries, secrecy, and marketing strategies transformed the honorific, gift-based exchange system of the early modern Republic of Letters into a competitive marketplace. Emphatically, this talk also claims that trade brought about a culture of scientific debate in the Netherlands, thoroughly influencing the visual epistemology of early modern science. Market competition pitted naturalists against each other, and compelled them to develop philosophical arguments to promote the representational claims of their imaging techniques. This talk reconstructs how financial motives spurred a pamphlet war over the proper method to represent human anatomy, and also engendered the early eighteenth-century debate over Newtonian and Aristotelian color theory.
All films will have subtitles accessible to non-German speaking audiences. All film screenings are open to the public. All films will be DVD projection. Many of these films are rare and hard to find. I would encourage you to bring friends so they can take advantage of the experience.
Tuesday September 11
Nerven [Nerves] (Robert Reiner 1919)
Die Austernprinzessin [The Oyster Princess] (Ernst Lubitsch 1919)
Tuesday September 18
Schloß Vogeloed [Castle Vogeloed] (F.W. Murnau 1921)
Nosferatu (F,W. Murnau 1922)
Tuesday September 25
Die freudlose Gasse [Joyless Streets] (Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1925)
Asphalt (Joe May 1929)
Tuesday October 2
Die Elf Teufel [The Eleven Devils] (Zoltan Korda 1927)
König der Mittelstürmer [The Champion of the Stadium] (Fritz Freisler 1927)
Tuesday October 9
Metropolis (Fritz Lang 1927)
Algol (Hans Werckmeister 1920)
Wunder der Schöpfung [Our Heavenly Bodies] (Hanns Walter Kornblum 1925)
Tuesday October 16
Berlin, die Sinfonie der Großstadt [Berlin the Symphony of the Great City] (Walter Ruttmann 1927)
Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed [The Adventures of Prince Achmed] (Lotte Reiniger, 1923-26)
Tuesday October 23
Büchse der Pandora [Pandora’s Box] (Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1929)
Der Letzte Mann [Last Laugh] (F. W. Murnau 1924)
Tuesday October 30
Der Blaue Engel [The Blue Angel] (Josef Von Sternberg 1930)
Tuesday November 6
Anders als die Andern [Different from the Others] (Richard Oswald 1919)
Mädchen in Uniform [Girls in Uniform] (Leontine Sagan 1931)
Tuesday November 13
Menschen am Sonntag [People on Sunday] (Robert Siodmak 1930)
Tuesday November 20
Die Dreigroschenoper [Three Penny Opera] (Georg Wlhelm Pabst 1931)
Tuesday November 27
Kuhle Wampe [To Whom Does the World Belong?] (Slatan Dudow 1932)
Tuesday December 4
Die Drei von der Tankstelle [Three Men and Lilian] (Wilhelm Thiele 1930)
Der Kongress Tanzt [The Congress Dances] (Erik Charell 1931)
MONDAY OCTOBER 29, 5-7PM
“THE LAST ILLUSION/DER RUF”
Director: Josef von Baky, b/w, 104 min., 1948/49
A German-Jewish university professor’s return to Germany at the end of the war brings
with it a difficult departure from his American émigré community, an unexpected
reunion with his ex-wife and a final battle against anti-Semitism. This film is based on
the displacement of actor and director Fritz Kortner and contains autobiographical elements.
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 7, 5-7PM
“THE SONG IN ME/DAS LIED IN MIR”
Director: Florian Cossen, colour, 94min, 2010
During a stopover in Buenos Aires, Maria Falkenmayer hears a Spanish nursery song
and reacts in a troubled way. Where does she, a young German, remember this
melody and these lyrics from? In the search for an answer, she learns the truth about
her family, her origin, and her identity.
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 14, 5-7PM
“CLOUD NINE/WOLKE NEUN”
Director: Andreas Dresen, colour, 100 min., 20007/08
Inge meets Karl, impulsively falls passionately in love with him and leaves Werner,
her husband of 30 years, to go and live with Karl. Sounds like many other love stories,
apart from the fact that all parties involved are well into their sixties or even seventies.
Films will be shown from 5-7pm, 4217 WWPH. PIZZA WILL BE SERVED
*Part of the The A. W. Mellon Distinguished Lectures in the History of Science
"Newton’s Shadow: Francesco Algarotti and the Passion for Science in the Eighteenth Century"
Paula Findlen is the Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History at Stanford University.
Visit of Short-Term Fellow Amy Kaminsky (Minnesota)
Dr. Kaminsky will be presenting her paper "A Discontinuous Voice" on English-Spanish bilingualism.
Responses by Daniel Balderston (Hispanic), Susan Andrade (English), Lina Insana (French and Italian), Piotr Gwiazda (Visiting Scholar, University of Maryland Baltimore County).
Faculty and graduate students in Pitt Humanities departments can access readings for colloquia by logging in to , clicking on the tab “My Resources,” clicking on “Humanities Center,” and then clicking on “Colloquium Series” where there is a link to the pdf files. Anyone else wishing to access the readings may request the reading at humctr@pitt.edu.
*Part of the The A. W. Mellon Distinguished Lectures in the History of Science
"Newton’s Shadow: Francesco Algarotti and the Passion for Science in the Eighteenth Century"
Paula Findlen is the Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History at Stanford University.
All films will have subtitles accessible to non-German speaking audiences. All film screenings are open to the public. All films will be DVD projection. Many of these films are rare and hard to find. I would encourage you to bring friends so they can take advantage of the experience.
Tuesday September 11
Nerven [Nerves] (Robert Reiner 1919)
Die Austernprinzessin [The Oyster Princess] (Ernst Lubitsch 1919)
Tuesday September 18
Schloß Vogeloed [Castle Vogeloed] (F.W. Murnau 1921)
Nosferatu (F,W. Murnau 1922)
Tuesday September 25
Die freudlose Gasse [Joyless Streets] (Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1925)
Asphalt (Joe May 1929)
Tuesday October 2
Die Elf Teufel [The Eleven Devils] (Zoltan Korda 1927)
König der Mittelstürmer [The Champion of the Stadium] (Fritz Freisler 1927)
Tuesday October 9
Metropolis (Fritz Lang 1927)
Algol (Hans Werckmeister 1920)
Wunder der Schöpfung [Our Heavenly Bodies] (Hanns Walter Kornblum 1925)
Tuesday October 16
Berlin, die Sinfonie der Großstadt [Berlin the Symphony of the Great City] (Walter Ruttmann 1927)
Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed [The Adventures of Prince Achmed] (Lotte Reiniger, 1923-26)
Tuesday October 23
Büchse der Pandora [Pandora’s Box] (Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1929)
Der Letzte Mann [Last Laugh] (F. W. Murnau 1924)
Tuesday October 30
Der Blaue Engel [The Blue Angel] (Josef Von Sternberg 1930)
Tuesday November 6
Anders als die Andern [Different from the Others] (Richard Oswald 1919)
Mädchen in Uniform [Girls in Uniform] (Leontine Sagan 1931)
Tuesday November 13
Menschen am Sonntag [People on Sunday] (Robert Siodmak 1930)
Tuesday November 20
Die Dreigroschenoper [Three Penny Opera] (Georg Wlhelm Pabst 1931)
Tuesday November 27
Kuhle Wampe [To Whom Does the World Belong?] (Slatan Dudow 1932)
Tuesday December 4
Die Drei von der Tankstelle [Three Men and Lilian] (Wilhelm Thiele 1930)
Der Kongress Tanzt [The Congress Dances] (Erik Charell 1931)
*Part of the The A. W. Mellon Distinguished Lectures in the History of Science
"Newton’s Shadow: Francesco Algarotti and the Passion for Science in the Eighteenth Century"
Paula Findlen is the Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History at Stanford University.
*Part of the yearlong series, “Speaking in Tongues”
*Part of the 2012 Second Language Research Forum "Building Bridges Between Disciplines: SLA in Many Contexts"
Aptitude in adult SLA is claimed to correlate with learning, although the strength of correlation varies considerably (e.g., Skehan, 2012). One of the most studied and used components of aptitude is grammatical sensitivity (as measured by the MLAT). Grammatical sensitivity is assumed to measure an individual’s ability to see relationships among words, which in turn presumably underlies “grammar learning.” In a variety of empirical studies on classroom learners, grammatical sensitivity is indeed shown to correlate with rule learning (e.g., de Graff, 1998; Robinson, 1995; see also Sawyer & Ranta, 2001). But what if language learning is not characterized as rule learning? What if learning is characterized as the interaction of input with internal mechanisms (e.g., Universal Grammar), mediated by processing? In the present talk, I report the results of four studies in Spanish, Russian, French, and German in which we examined learners experiencing processing instruction with canonical and non-canonical word orders as these intersected with the First-noun Strategy. We used two measures (trials to criterion and posttest results). Unlike other research, we found no correlations between grammatical sensitivity and the two measures for any language for any structures. I will discuss these results in terms of how both language and language acquisition are conceptualized more generally in the literature on instructed SLA.
Bill VanPatten is Professor of Spanish and Second Language Studies as well as Director of Romance Language Instruction at Michigan State University. He has published extensively in the fields of second language acquisition and second language instruction. His research interests include second language input processing/sentence processing, the relationship between syntax and morphology, and instructed SLA.
Femme morocaine
Osvaldo Golijov’s unique, Grammy Award-winning chamber opera reunites the artists of Quantum’s acclaimed 2011 production Maria de Buenos Aires. To this point, it seems appropriate that we are in East Liberty again- this time, at the beautiful East Liberty Presbyterian Church. Ainadamar tells the story of Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca’s life as a young artist at the eve of the Spanish revolution and of his relationship with Margarita Xirgu, the great Catalan tragedian who was his muse. A flamenco-based score - Deep Song, as it’s called – articulates the pounding of horses’ hooves, the guns of the Falangists, and ultimately, the powerful, undeniable cry for freedom that could not be silenced. With a libretto by theatrical giant David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) and spectacular site-specific staging.
• POST-SHOW DISCUSSION: Sunday, October 21
Join Artistic Director, Karla Boos and Music Director, Andres Cladera, as well as members from the cast for a post-show Q&A session. Buy Tickets.
• LADIES NIGHT: Tuesday, October 23, 6:30pm
Join friends and meet new ones at this ladies-only reception and viewing of Ainadamar. Reception will be held at 6:30pm across the street at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater lobby. Buy Tickets.
• GRAPENUTS: Friday, October 26, 6:30pm
A special pre-show wine tasting and reception. In keeping with the play's theme, we will taste an assortment of Spanish and Latin American wines. Thanks to The Beauty Shoppe (6014 Penn Avenue) for hosting us! Buy Tickets.
Order online or Contact Quantum to book your tickets: 412-362-1713
*Part of the yearlong series, “Speaking in Tongues”
*Part of the 2012 Second Language Research Forum "Building Bridges Between Disciplines: SLA in Many Contexts"
This lecture describes a body of work exploring translation ambiguity, which occurs when a word in one language has more than one translation into another language. For example, the Spanish word "muñeca" translates to both "doll" and "wrist" in English. Our research demonstrates that such ambiguity leads to: (1) slower translation, (2) less accurate translation, and (3) less robust word learning. Furthermore, knowledge that a pair of words share a translation in a later-learned second language impacts the level of perceived relatedness between those words in a first language. For example, native English speakers who learn Spanish as a second language may consider the words "doll" and "wrist" to be more related than native English speakers who do not know Spanish. These findings will be discussed in terms of the ways that the relationship among word meanings across languages influences language learning, processing, and representation.
Natasha Tokowicz is currently Associate Professor of Psychology and Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh. She received a B.A. in psychology with a minor in Spanish from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1995. She then earned Master's (1997) and Doctoral degrees (2000) in cognitive psychology at Penn State University. She was a post-doctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University and at the University of Pittsburgh prior to beginning her faculty position. Her research focuses on the cognitive processes related to adult second language learning and use. One line of this research focuses on translation ambiguity, which occurs when a word has multiple translations across languages. Another line of this research focuses on second language morpho-syntactic processing in relation to the similarities and differences between the native language and the second language. She uses event-related brain potentials (ERPs) in addition to behavioral measures, such as reaction time and accuracy, to examine these issues.
Joseph Luzzi is Associate Professor of Italian and Director of Italian Studies , and Co-Director of the first year seminar pro-gram at Bard College. . He received his Ph.D. in Italian Litera-ture from Yale university in 2000. Since then he has written a book, Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy, which has re-ceived the Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies from the Modern Language Association of America in 2009. He has also pub-lished reviews in the Los Angeles Times Book Review
We are very proud to welcome the 2012 Second Language Research Forum to Pittsburgh, PA. Pittsburgh is known as the "City of Bridges", and we hope to use this idea to highlight the bridges that exist between the various disciplines involved in SLA research. SLRF 2012 will build on this theme with the aim of bridging gaps between individual disciplines that all share a common goal: to improve our understanding of second language learning, acquisition, instruction, and use. This conference will highlight the strengths of each discipline while providing a platform for an open dialogue between fields. To this end, we are inviting proposals for papers and colloquia from any field of study that addresses SLA.
The Department of History of Art & Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh is pleased to announce its 2012 graduate student symposium titled “Exhibition Complex: Displaying People, Identity, and Culture.” Organized in collaboration with the Carnegie Museum of Art, our topic is inspired by the museum's fall 2012 exhibition Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs, 1851-1939. This year's symposium sets out to analyze the many modes of display, types of artistic production, and built and existing structures that constitue ephemeral exhibition spaces. The keynote address will be delivered by Saloni Mathur, Associate Professor of Art History at UCLA and author of India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display (2007).
All films will have subtitles accessible to non-German speaking audiences. All film screenings are open to the public. All films will be DVD projection. Many of these films are rare and hard to find. I would encourage you to bring friends so they can take advantage of the experience.
Tuesday September 11
Nerven [Nerves] (Robert Reiner 1919)
Die Austernprinzessin [The Oyster Princess] (Ernst Lubitsch 1919)
Tuesday September 18
Schloß Vogeloed [Castle Vogeloed] (F.W. Murnau 1921)
Nosferatu (F,W. Murnau 1922)
Tuesday September 25
Die freudlose Gasse [Joyless Streets] (Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1925)
Asphalt (Joe May 1929)
Tuesday October 2
Die Elf Teufel [The Eleven Devils] (Zoltan Korda 1927)
König der Mittelstürmer [The Champion of the Stadium] (Fritz Freisler 1927)
Tuesday October 9
Metropolis (Fritz Lang 1927)
Algol (Hans Werckmeister 1920)
Wunder der Schöpfung [Our Heavenly Bodies] (Hanns Walter Kornblum 1925)
Tuesday October 16
Berlin, die Sinfonie der Großstadt [Berlin the Symphony of the Great City] (Walter Ruttmann 1927)
Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed [The Adventures of Prince Achmed] (Lotte Reiniger, 1923-26)
Tuesday October 23
Büchse der Pandora [Pandora’s Box] (Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1929)
Der Letzte Mann [Last Laugh] (F. W. Murnau 1924)
Tuesday October 30
Der Blaue Engel [The Blue Angel] (Josef Von Sternberg 1930)
Tuesday November 6
Anders als die Andern [Different from the Others] (Richard Oswald 1919)
Mädchen in Uniform [Girls in Uniform] (Leontine Sagan 1931)
Tuesday November 13
Menschen am Sonntag [People on Sunday] (Robert Siodmak 1930)
Tuesday November 20
Die Dreigroschenoper [Three Penny Opera] (Georg Wlhelm Pabst 1931)
Tuesday November 27
Kuhle Wampe [To Whom Does the World Belong?] (Slatan Dudow 1932)
Tuesday December 4
Die Drei von der Tankstelle [Three Men and Lilian] (Wilhelm Thiele 1930)
Der Kongress Tanzt [The Congress Dances] (Erik Charell 1931)
Jen Waldron and Ryan McDermott will lead an informal seminar on Nicholas Watson’s "Censorship and Cultural Change: Vernacular Theology, the Oxford Translation Debate, and Arundel's Constitutions of 1409" (1995).
*Part of the yearlong series, “Speaking in Tongues”
Join GSPIA’s EU and the World Organization President Marina Duane and Vice-President Andrew Stark as they talk about their experience interviewing policy-makers, EU civil servants , and visiting major institutions in Brussels & Luxembourg as participants in the EU in Brussels Program, co-sponsored by Pitt’s EUCE/ESC & GSPIA. Marina and Andrew’s presentation will emphasize how the experience shaped their individual research projects and goals.
Pizza will be served.
UCIS affiliated faculty and staff presented a professional development workshop via videoconferencing for faculty from the Nine University and College International Studies Consortium of Georgia.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11: EUROPE DAY!
Are you interested in studying and eventually working in Europe? Then join us for this series of events that will give you information and resources to successfully include Europe in your plans.
Europe Day Fair
11:00am – 2:00pm, Lower Lounge – William Pitt Union
The Europe Day Fair has been designed to promote Europe related programs and resources on campus, and help undergraduate students understand the ways they can Europeanize their studies and post graduate plans while at Pitt. Come meet with representatives from Europe related centers, academic programs, clubs and organizations on campus, and learn about Europe related resources at the office of Career Development & Placement Assistance. Also learn about European study abroad options and the many ways study abroad can be paid for with scholarships and financial aid.
Panel: “Your Interests in Europe and International Relations: Where Can They Lead?”
3:00 – 4:30, 4130 WWPH
Interested in learning how to match your interests in (Europe related) International Relations and Political Science with academic options and choices for graduate programs and professional fields? Join us for tips & suggestions and to brainstorm about your own interests and plans.
Panelists include: Ron Linden, Director, EUCE/ESC; Bob Hayden, Director, REES; Gemma Marolda, Faculty, EUCE and Political Science Dept; Kristian McCloud – Career Development and Placement Assistance Office
“Passport Career” Orientation
6:00 – 8:30, Lower Lounge – WPU
Passport Career is a useful tool for Pitt students and alumni who may be considering a job or internship search abroad and allows users to search for information by city and country of interest. Susan Musich, the founder Executive Director of Passport Career, will introduce this new resource to students interested in exploring possibilities of working abroad.
As this second installment in our series of interactive videoconferences this year, Conversations in Europe, the EUCE/ESC will bring experts together via remote connection to discuss the range and level of European influence in the Middle East. Europe has, until recently, been an attractive model for countries in democratization, because of the non-threatening, non-military way Europe—and the EU in particular—attracted adherents. Almost two years after the Arab Spring, does Europe retain any influence, any ability to influence events? Panelists will include: Mohammed Bamyeh (University of Pittsburgh); Tal Sadeh (Tel Aviv University); Urfan Khaliq (Cardiff University); Beverly Crawford (University of California, Berkeley); and Eva-Maria Maggi (Helmut-Schmidt-University/University of Washington). Ronald Linden, Professor of Political Science, will moderate. Audience participation is invited.
Reforming the Policy and Practice of Community Engagement of Higher Education featuring keynote addresses by:
Mark A. Nordenberg, Chancellor, University of Pittsburgh
David P. Baker, Penn State
Kassie Freeman, President, Southern University System
Alex Johnson, President, CCAC
Anne Kaplan, Vice President, Northern Illinois University
Josef W. Konvitz, Chair, PASCAL International Observatory
All films will have subtitles accessible to non-German speaking audiences. All film screenings are open to the public. All films will be DVD projection. Many of these films are rare and hard to find. I would encourage you to bring friends so they can take advantage of the experience.
Tuesday September 11
Nerven [Nerves] (Robert Reiner 1919)
Die Austernprinzessin [The Oyster Princess] (Ernst Lubitsch 1919)
Tuesday September 18
Schloß Vogeloed [Castle Vogeloed] (F.W. Murnau 1921)
Nosferatu (F,W. Murnau 1922)
Tuesday September 25
Die freudlose Gasse [Joyless Streets] (Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1925)
Asphalt (Joe May 1929)
Tuesday October 2
Die Elf Teufel [The Eleven Devils] (Zoltan Korda 1927)
König der Mittelstürmer [The Champion of the Stadium] (Fritz Freisler 1927)
Tuesday October 9
Metropolis (Fritz Lang 1927)
Algol (Hans Werckmeister 1920)
Wunder der Schöpfung [Our Heavenly Bodies] (Hanns Walter Kornblum 1925)
Tuesday October 16
Berlin, die Sinfonie der Großstadt [Berlin the Symphony of the Great City] (Walter Ruttmann 1927)
Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed [The Adventures of Prince Achmed] (Lotte Reiniger, 1923-26)
Tuesday October 23
Büchse der Pandora [Pandora’s Box] (Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1929)
Der Letzte Mann [Last Laugh] (F. W. Murnau 1924)
Tuesday October 30
Der Blaue Engel [The Blue Angel] (Josef Von Sternberg 1930)
Tuesday November 6
Anders als die Andern [Different from the Others] (Richard Oswald 1919)
Mädchen in Uniform [Girls in Uniform] (Leontine Sagan 1931)
Tuesday November 13
Menschen am Sonntag [People on Sunday] (Robert Siodmak 1930)
Tuesday November 20
Die Dreigroschenoper [Three Penny Opera] (Georg Wlhelm Pabst 1931)
Tuesday November 27
Kuhle Wampe [To Whom Does the World Belong?] (Slatan Dudow 1932)
Tuesday December 4
Die Drei von der Tankstelle [Three Men and Lilian] (Wilhelm Thiele 1930)
Der Kongress Tanzt [The Congress Dances] (Erik Charell 1931)
Professor Tal Sadeh, Head of the Hartog School of Government and Policy at Tel Aviv University, will discuss the effects of monetary union on supranational identity in Europe.
CHE hosts this monthly meeting to facilitate dialogue about health equity among faculty, students, and staff. We hope to spark an intellectually enriching discussion regarding ways to research a problem or intervene to contribute to the solution.
This month’s meeting is facilitated by Jason Flatt, PhD candidate, and Laura Macia, PhD and features the article Poor People, Poor Places, and Poor Health: the Mediating Role of Social Networks and Social Capital. The "[p]aper is based on qualitative research undertaken in 1996 on two housing estates in East London,UK."
Feel free to bring your lunch.
Provost Lecture at Science 2012
Miranda A. Schreurs, PhD, is a recognized leader in the field of comparative environmental politics and policy in Europe, the United States, and East Asia.
Schreurs grew up in the United States and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Washington and her doctorate in comparative politics from the University of Michigan. She joined the University of Maryland in 1994 and has worked as a guest professor at universities in Japan and Germany. In 2007, she was recruited to the Freie Universität Berlin as professor of comparative politics and director of the university’s Environmental Policy Research Centre, an international team of social science researchers and students who study, evaluate, and provide policy advice related to environmental and sustainable energy politics and policies.
In 2008, Schreurs became a member of the German Advisory Council on the Environment. She is chair of the European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory Councils, a network of advisory councils across Europe. In 2012, German Chancellor Angela Merkel appointed her to the Ethics Commission on a Safe Energy Supply, which was charged with advising the German government on energy questions after the Fukushima nuclear explosion.
Author of several books and many journal articles on energy and environmental policy, Schreurs has held fellowships from the Social Science Research Council–MacArthur Foundation Program on International Peace and Security Affairs, the Fulbright Foundation, and the National Science Foundation/Science and Technology Agency of Japan.
Lunch will be provided
All films will have subtitles accessible to non-German speaking audiences. All film screenings are open to the public. All films will be DVD projection. Many of these films are rare and hard to find. I would encourage you to bring friends so they can take advantage of the experience.
Tuesday September 11
Nerven [Nerves] (Robert Reiner 1919)
Die Austernprinzessin [The Oyster Princess] (Ernst Lubitsch 1919)
Tuesday September 18
Schloß Vogeloed [Castle Vogeloed] (F.W. Murnau 1921)
Nosferatu (F,W. Murnau 1922)
Tuesday September 25
Die freudlose Gasse [Joyless Streets] (Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1925)
Asphalt (Joe May 1929)
Tuesday October 2
Die Elf Teufel [The Eleven Devils] (Zoltan Korda 1927)
König der Mittelstürmer [The Champion of the Stadium] (Fritz Freisler 1927)
Tuesday October 9
Metropolis (Fritz Lang 1927)
Algol (Hans Werckmeister 1920)
Wunder der Schöpfung [Our Heavenly Bodies] (Hanns Walter Kornblum 1925)
Tuesday October 16
Berlin, die Sinfonie der Großstadt [Berlin the Symphony of the Great City] (Walter Ruttmann 1927)
Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed [The Adventures of Prince Achmed] (Lotte Reiniger, 1923-26)
Tuesday October 23
Büchse der Pandora [Pandora’s Box] (Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1929)
Der Letzte Mann [Last Laugh] (F. W. Murnau 1924)
Tuesday October 30
Der Blaue Engel [The Blue Angel] (Josef Von Sternberg 1930)
Tuesday November 6
Anders als die Andern [Different from the Others] (Richard Oswald 1919)
Mädchen in Uniform [Girls in Uniform] (Leontine Sagan 1931)
Tuesday November 13
Menschen am Sonntag [People on Sunday] (Robert Siodmak 1930)
Tuesday November 20
Die Dreigroschenoper [Three Penny Opera] (Georg Wlhelm Pabst 1931)
Tuesday November 27
Kuhle Wampe [To Whom Does the World Belong?] (Slatan Dudow 1932)
Tuesday December 4
Die Drei von der Tankstelle [Three Men and Lilian] (Wilhelm Thiele 1930)
Der Kongress Tanzt [The Congress Dances] (Erik Charell 1931)
David M. Andrews is the Jean Monnet Chair of EU Interdisciplinary Studies, Gabrielle Marie-Louise Jungels-Winkler Chair in Contemporary European Studies, Professor of International Relations, and Director of the European Union Center of California at Scripps College in Claremont, California. His talk will be about the European Debt Crisis, as he is an expert on monetary union and Germany’s place in the EU. While on campus, he will also be visiting the Delegation Collection at the Hillman library to finish up the research for his book on the foundations of the European Union and how efforts to resolve “the German problem” led to monetary union.
*Part of the yearlong series, “Speaking in Tongues”
A great way for students to learn about the opportunities awaiting them on campus, in the city, and even abroad!
In Roses in Winter Rebecca Laroche moves beyond recent readings of recipes, distillation and the procreation sonnets. Focusing closely on how one recipe book treats roses and various rose products, Laroche returns to the sonnets with a new appreciation of how roses in these poems are not merely distilled, but rather they grow. What is more, rose water and oil are not everlasting; they, too, fade, and, in their use, they must be replenished. This close, archivally-driven reading recognizes that the different moments of distillation function variously in the sonnets, as a recipe on distilling rose oil differs from a recipe for damask water and both differ from a recipe that has a water or an oil as an ingredient. The lecture as a whole makes a strong argument for more archival work with manuscripts from the early modern era.
REBECCA LAROCHE is Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Her publications include Medical Authority and and Englishwomen’s Herbal Texts, 1550-1650 (Ashgate, 2010) and Ecofeminist Approaches to Early Modernity (Palgrave, 2011), co-edited with Jennifer Munroe.
A corollary to the traveling exhibit from the National Library of Medicine: "Rewriting the Book of Nature: Charles Darwin and the Rise of Evolutionary Theory."
Dennis Looney will lead an informal seminar on links between Ann Blair’s work (Too Much to Know:
“Information Management in Comparative Perspective") and his research on the systematization of history by Tommaso Porcacchi of the Giolito Press, in the 1560s and 1570s.
*Part of the yearlong series, “Speaking in Tongues”
The background of Peter Paul Rubens’s Miracles of St. Francis Xavier, painted in 1617 for the Jesuit church in Antwerp, contains a surprising detail - a horned Hindu idol that is being destroyed by rays of light emanating from an allegory of the Catholic Faith. Far from being meaningless exotica, the Hindu idol plays an important iconographic role in the larger decorative scheme of the Antwerp Jesuit church. Designed by Rubens in 1620 and executed by his assistants, the ceiling decoration of the side aisles and galleries contains several other images of the destruction of idols by early Christian saints such as St. Eugenia and St. John Chrysostom. There is no other Jesuit church in the world where the themes of iconoclasm and idol smashing are so prominent. This iconography must have had special significance for audiences in Antwerp. In the course of this presentation, I will demonstrate that the events of the late sixteenth century, including the iconoclasm of 1566 and the tyrannical governorship of the Duke of Alba, still resonated in Antwerp and led Rubens to make certain iconographic choices when confronted with the problem of how to depict the destruction of religious images in a city that was still recovering from wounds inflicted by revolt, oppression, mutiny, and war.
All films will have subtitles accessible to non-German speaking audiences. All film screenings are open to the public. All films will be DVD projection. Many of these films are rare and hard to find. I would encourage you to bring friends so they can take advantage of the experience.
Tuesday September 11
Nerven [Nerves] (Robert Reiner 1919)
Die Austernprinzessin [The Oyster Princess] (Ernst Lubitsch 1919)
Tuesday September 18
Schloß Vogeloed [Castle Vogeloed] (F.W. Murnau 1921)
Nosferatu (F,W. Murnau 1922)
Tuesday September 25
Die freudlose Gasse [Joyless Streets] (Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1925)
Asphalt (Joe May 1929)
Tuesday October 2
Die Elf Teufel [The Eleven Devils] (Zoltan Korda 1927)
König der Mittelstürmer [The Champion of the Stadium] (Fritz Freisler 1927)
Tuesday October 9
Metropolis (Fritz Lang 1927)
Algol (Hans Werckmeister 1920)
Wunder der Schöpfung [Our Heavenly Bodies] (Hanns Walter Kornblum 1925)
Tuesday October 16
Berlin, die Sinfonie der Großstadt [Berlin the Symphony of the Great City] (Walter Ruttmann 1927)
Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed [The Adventures of Prince Achmed] (Lotte Reiniger, 1923-26)
Tuesday October 23
Büchse der Pandora [Pandora’s Box] (Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1929)
Der Letzte Mann [Last Laugh] (F. W. Murnau 1924)
Tuesday October 30
Der Blaue Engel [The Blue Angel] (Josef Von Sternberg 1930)
Tuesday November 6
Anders als die Andern [Different from the Others] (Richard Oswald 1919)
Mädchen in Uniform [Girls in Uniform] (Leontine Sagan 1931)
Tuesday November 13
Menschen am Sonntag [People on Sunday] (Robert Siodmak 1930)
Tuesday November 20
Die Dreigroschenoper [Three Penny Opera] (Georg Wlhelm Pabst 1931)
Tuesday November 27
Kuhle Wampe [To Whom Does the World Belong?] (Slatan Dudow 1932)
Tuesday December 4
Die Drei von der Tankstelle [Three Men and Lilian] (Wilhelm Thiele 1930)
Der Kongress Tanzt [The Congress Dances] (Erik Charell 1931)
*Lunch provided*
RSVP to losagio@pitt.edu by Monday, September 17, 2012
Graduate students and faculty are invited to participate in this workshop, which will provide training in the theory and application of the multiliteracies approach to teaching advanced-level foreign language courses. Participants will have the chance to develop their own teaching materials.
Heather Willis Allen is an Assistant Professor of French and Second Language Acquisition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she also serves as Course Chair for the Elementary French program. Allen’s research interests include language-learning motivation, teacher development, and literacy-based approaches to teaching and learning. Her book-length publications include Educating the Future Foreign Language Professoriate for the 21st Century (Heinle Cengage, 2011), co-edited with Hiram H. Maxim, and Alliages culturels: La société française en transformation (in press, Heinle Cengage), a literacy-based introduction to French culture today textbook co-authored with Sebastien Dubreil. Allen’s research has also appeared in the ADFL Bulletin, Foreign Language Annals, the French Review, Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, the Journal of Studies in International Education, the L2 Journal and the Modern Language Journal. Her next project, contracted with Pearson, is a co-authored introduction to foreign language teaching manual entitled A Multiliteracies Framework for Collegiate Foreign Language Teaching.
Dan Selcer will lead an informal seminar on chapters two & three of Ann Blair's Too Much to Know: "Information Management in Comparative Perspective," as a lead-up to the author's visit in October.
Email Jennifer Waldron for directions.
With responses by Nancy Condee (Global Studies), Kathryn Flannery (English), Andrew Weintraub (Music)
Susan McClary is Professor of Music at Case Western University. Her research focuses on the cultural criticism of music, both the European canon and contemporary popular genres. She is best known for her book Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality (1991), which examines cultural constructions of gender, sexuality, and the body in various musical repertories, ranging from early seventeenth-century opera to the songs of the pop queen Madonna. In her more recent publications, she explores the many ways in which subjectivities have been construed in music from the sixteenth-century onward. Modal Subjectivities: Renaissance Self-Fashioning in the Italian Madrigal (2004) won the Otto Kinkeldey Prize from the American Musicological Society in 2005, and its sequel — Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music — appeared in 2012.
Faculty and graduate students in Pitt Humanities departments can access colloquium papers two weeks before the event by logging in to , clicking on the tab “My Resources,” clicking on “Humanities Center,” and then clicking on “Colloquium Series” where there is a link to the pdf file. Anyone else wishing to access the readings may request the reading at humctr@pitt.edu.
The first in our Pizza and Politics Graduate Lecture Series for 2012-2013, EUCE/ESC Visiting Scholar Fatma Yilmaz (Turkey) will be lead a round table discussion about the logic behind EU migration policies toward third countries. Has there been any real change in traditional control-oriented migration policies in terms of foreign policy? Pizza will be served.
The Habsburg Monarchy disappeared in 1918, but many elements of its urban culture survived and even continued to evolve in the years to follow. In popular cinema of the interwar period, we can pick up what Nancy Condee has called, in other contexts, an "imperial trace" and begin to map out a common cultural space that continued to bridge the former twin seats of empire, Vienna and Budapest. For this talk, I will focus on three titles -- Frühjahrsparade (1934), Ernte/Die Julika (1936), and Maria Ilona (1939) -- helmed by Géza von Bolváry, one of the most prolific directors of the period. These films point the way toward a "post-imperial" cinema that both re-enacted and re-imagined the relationship between the Austrian and Hungarian halves of the vanished Dual Monarchy.
All films will have subtitles accessible to non-German speaking audiences. All film screenings are open to the public. All films will be DVD projection. Many of these films are rare and hard to find. I would encourage you to bring friends so they can take advantage of the experience.
Tuesday September 11
Nerven [Nerves] (Robert Reiner 1919)
Die Austernprinzessin [The Oyster Princess] (Ernst Lubitsch 1919)
Tuesday September 18
Schloß Vogeloed [Castle Vogeloed] (F.W. Murnau 1921)
Nosferatu (F,W. Murnau 1922)
Tuesday September 25
Die freudlose Gasse [Joyless Streets] (Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1925)
Asphalt (Joe May 1929)
Tuesday October 2
Die Elf Teufel [The Eleven Devils] (Zoltan Korda 1927)
König der Mittelstürmer [The Champion of the Stadium] (Fritz Freisler 1927)
Tuesday October 9
Metropolis (Fritz Lang 1927)
Algol (Hans Werckmeister 1920)
Wunder der Schöpfung [Our Heavenly Bodies] (Hanns Walter Kornblum 1925)
Tuesday October 16
Berlin, die Sinfonie der Großstadt [Berlin the Symphony of the Great City] (Walter Ruttmann 1927)
Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed [The Adventures of Prince Achmed] (Lotte Reiniger, 1923-26)
Tuesday October 23
Büchse der Pandora [Pandora’s Box] (Georg Wilhelm Pabst 1929)
Der Letzte Mann [Last Laugh] (F. W. Murnau 1924)
Tuesday October 30
Der Blaue Engel [The Blue Angel] (Josef Von Sternberg 1930)
Tuesday November 6
Anders als die Andern [Different from the Others] (Richard Oswald 1919)
Mädchen in Uniform [Girls in Uniform] (Leontine Sagan 1931)
Tuesday November 13
Menschen am Sonntag [People on Sunday] (Robert Siodmak 1930)
Tuesday November 20
Die Dreigroschenoper [Three Penny Opera] (Georg Wlhelm Pabst 1931)
Tuesday November 27
Kuhle Wampe [To Whom Does the World Belong?] (Slatan Dudow 1932)
Tuesday December 4
Die Drei von der Tankstelle [Three Men and Lilian] (Wilhelm Thiele 1930)
Der Kongress Tanzt [The Congress Dances] (Erik Charell 1931)
The lurid biblical story of John the Baptist, King Herod, and Herod’s precocious stepdaughter became an operatic hit in 1905 with Richard Strauss’ Salome. The lecture presents an earlier musical version of this character, la Figlia in Alessandro Stradella’s oratorio San Giovanni Battista (1675), and considers the reasons why femmes fatales ruled the operatic stage in the seventeenth no less than in the late nineteenth century.
Susan McClary is Professor of Music at Case Western University. Her research focuses on the cultural criticism of music, both the European canon and contemporary popular genres. She is best known for her book Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality (1991), which examines cultural constructions of gender, sexuality, and the body in various musical repertories, ranging from early seventeenth-century opera to the songs of the pop queen Madonna. In her more recent publications, she explores the many ways in which subjectivities have been construed in music from the sixteenth-century onward. Modal Subjectivities: Renaissance Self-Fashioning in the Italian Madrigal (2004) won the Otto Kinkeldey Prize from the American Musicological Society in 2005, and its sequel — Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music — appeared in 2012.