As President Obama’s second term commences, the continued vitality of America’s oldest alliance remains critical, as seen by recent speculation about a US-EU free trade agreement. Simultaneously, Europe itself is in the midst of change, as its eastward expanding borders force a reassessment of European and EU identity. Ms. Amy Westling, Deputy Director of the Office of European Union and Regional Affairs, joins us from the US Department of State to discuss the continued importance and current initiatives of the evolving transatlantic partnership.
Thursday, January 31st, 2013
"US-European Cooperation" U.S. Department of State Videoconference
Time:
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Presenter:
Amy Westling, Deputy Director of the Office of European Union and Regional Affairs
Location:
3431 WWPH
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, European Studies Center and European Union Center of Excellence
Cost:
Free.
Contact Email:
env1@pitt.edu
Thursday, January 31st, 2013 to Sunday, February 24th, 2013
John Gabriel Borkman
By Henrik Ibsen, Directed by Martin Giles
Time:
(All day)
Presenter:
Quantum Theatre
Location:
Hart Building in East Liberty: 6022 Broad Street
Sponsored by:
European Studies Center
Cost:
$17-$48
Contact Phone:
412.362.1713
Disgraced and destitute following a fraud scandal and imprisonment, John Gabriel Borkman paces alone in an attic room, a nightmare to those below. Downstairs his wife and former mistress--who happens to be her sister--are in for a dark and stormy night. A scorching indictment of 19th-century capitalism, Ibsen's play could be ripped from today's headlines. JGB provides a tour-de-force for three mature actors and a cautionary message for modern audiences about how unbridled lust for money and power can make you crazy.
Discounted tickets for students ($17) and faculty ($30).
Wednesdays-Saturday at 8 PM, Sunday at 7 PM
Tuesday, January 29th, 2013
The Early Modern Media Revolution: An Artist’s Perspective
Time:
5:00 pm
Presenter:
Dror Wahrman (Indiana)
Location:
Cathedral of Learning, Room 602
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Humanities Center
Talk on new media in 17th century England.
POSTPONED: "(Re)Localizing the Welfare State: Multi-leveled Rural Development Policy and Cultural Memory in Wales"
Time:
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Presenter:
Dr. William Russell Schumann III, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford
Location:
4217 WWPH
Sponsored by:
European Studies Center, European Union Center of Excellence and European Union Studies Association
Cost:
Free.
Contact Email:
env1@pitt.edu
An author of several books posing an anthropological perspective on government, political labor, and power, Professor Schumann will offer an argument for the Welsh, UK, and EU development hierarchies, and how the organizational cultures of Welsh rural authorities shape local interpretations and administrations of UK/EU development policies. The discussion will be framed in terms of analyzing civil-state relations in a changing Wales, UK, and Europe. Following the talk Dr. Schumann will welcome questions from the audience.
Friday, January 25th, 2013
The Effects of Correcting Pronunciation of Second Language Learners
Time:
3:00 pm
Presenter:
Maritza Nemoga (Linguistics)
Location:
Cathedral of Learning, Room G-8
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Department of Linguistics
Master's Thesis Defense:
Since the implementation of the communicative approaches in the 1970s, pronunciation in second language instruction has been overlooked. Recent research has proven pronunciation instruction and corrective feedback to be beneficial for students’ second language pronunciation. The purpose of this study was to analyze which correction method, between self-correction and explicit correction, was more effective at improving students’ pronunciation of the Spanish sounds [x] 'j' and -ø- 'h' in word-initial position. A pre-test was conducted in two groups of 18 students taking Spanish II at a private Midwestern college. The participants received instruction and models of how to pronounce words with the studied sounds. For the next seven weeks, one of the two groups used the explicit correction method and the other one used self-correction. A week before the end of the semester the post-test was conducted. A two-way ANOVA analysis served to examine the effects of the two correction methods. The findings have pedagogical implications and will show that the self-correction method benefited students’ pronunciation more.
International Financial Rescues in Europe and Beyond
Time:
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Presenter:
Christina Schneider (UC-San Diego)
Location:
WWPH 4500
Sponsored by:
European Studies Center and European Union Center of Excellence along with Department of Political Science
Abstract:
Why do governments provide bilateral bailouts to countries that experience
financial crises above and beyond what the IMF provides? We argue that
governments face a trade off. On one hand, they have incentives to rescue a crisis
country because they want to prevent the spread of the crisis to their own country.
On the other hand, governments experience pressures from domestic constituents
who are oftentimes opposed to financial rescues. Politicians aim to balance these
countervailing pressures. Whereas they are more likely to provide financial support
when their country’s economy is closely integrated with the crisis country’s economy,
elections may have a detrimental effect on the likelihood of a financial rescue,
particularly if the home country’s economy is not doing well itself. We test our
hypotheses using a new data set on international financial rescues by OECD countries
between 1990 and 2010. Our statistical analysis finds robust support for the
importance of domestic economic and political factors in international cooperation
during financial crises.
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
Openings and Closings in Video-based Computer-mediated Communication
Time:
2:00 pm
Presenter:
Marta Tecedor Cabrero (Iowa)
Location:
Cathedral of Learning 204
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Department of Linguistics
This presentation explores how beginning learners of Spanish perform opening and closing sequences during two videoconferencing exchanges. Data were analyzed using Conversation Analysis and several patterns of interaction were identified. Discussion will focus on description of these interactional patterns and on pedagogical implications.
Marta Tecedor Cabrero, candidate for the Spanish Lecturer/Coordinator position will be on campus January 23rd and 24th.
Ms. Tecedor Cabero is a PHD candidate in Second Language Acquisition, Specialization: Technology at the University of Iowa. Her teaching interests focus on computer-based language learning and instruction, language teaching methods Spanish grammar, Spanish conversation, Spanish language courses (beginning to advanced, intensive, accelerated).
Pizza and Politics: Pomak Identifications across the Greek, Bulgarian, and Turkish Borders
Time:
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Presenter:
Cengiz Haksoz, Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology
Location:
4625 Posvar Hall
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, European Studies Center and European Union Center of Excellence
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Allyson Delnore
Contact Phone:
412-624-5404
Contact Email:
adelnore@pitt.edu
Cengiz Haksoz, a graduate student in the Anthropology Department at Pitt, will present a portion of his dissertation, which focuses on transnational identity formation. Pizza and Politics is the EUCE/ESC’s monthly graduate student speaker forum focusing on European and European Union Studies. For more information, contact Allyson Delnore at adelnore@pitt.edu. PIZZA WILL BE SERVED.
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
Getting Parents Involved: A Field Experiment in Deprived Schools
Time:
3:30 pm
Presenter:
Nina Guyon (Paris School of Economics)
Location:
4716 Posvar Hall
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Department of Economics
Paper abstract
This paper provides novel evidence on the causal effect of parents’ involvement at school on
pupils’ cognitive and non-cognitive skills. Furthermore, it shows how the impact of more
involved parents on their children is amplified at the class level by peer group interaction. We
build on a large scale controlled experiment run in a French deprived educational district,
where parents of middle-school children were invited to participate in a low-cost program of
parent-school meetings on how to get better involved in their children’s education. At the end
of the school-year, we find that treated families have increased their school- and home-based
involvement activities. In turn, pupils of treatment classes have developed more positive
behavior and attitudes in school, and received better marks from their teachers. In particular,
truancy and disciplinary sanctions are reduced by more than 20% in treatment classes. Our
results suggest that improving parents’ involvement in their children’s education can
represent a highly cost-effective input in the human capital production technology.
Sponsored by: Applied Microeconomics Recruiting Seminar
Download Seminar Materials: http://www.ewi-ssl.pitt.edu/econ/files/seminars/130118_sem_Nina%20Guyon.pdf
Conversations on Europe Videoconference: "Croatia"
"The Next Member State: Croatia's Path to the European Union."
Time:
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Presenter:
EUCE/ESC Director Ron Linden, Moderator; REES Director Robert Hayden and Associate Director Andrew Konitzer, Presenters
Location:
4217 WWPH
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, European Studies Center and European Union Center of Excellence
Cost:
Free.
Contact Email:
env1@pitt.edu
The EUCE/ESC, in cooperation with the Center for Russian and East European History (REES) will host the next in our ongoing series of virtual roundtables on the subject of Croatia’s impending accession as the 28th member state of the European Union. The title of the video conference is “The Next Member State: Croatia’s Path to the European Union”. REES Associate Director Andrew Konitzer will moderate. REES Center Director Robert Hayden will join other distinguished panelists from Europe and other EUCEs throughout the U.S. in a discussion of the Europeanization process in the western Balkans, the impact on Croatia (and on the EU) of enlargement, and related topics. Audience participation is welcome.
Thursday, January 17th, 2013
The Impossible Films of Vera, Countess of Cathcart
Time:
5:30 pm
Presenter:
Mark Lynn Anderson (Film Studies)
Location:
Cathedral of Learning, Room 1228
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Film Studies Program
Contact:
David Pettersen or Jennifer Florian
Contact Phone:
412-624-6564
Contact Email:
dpetter@pitt.edu, jrf16@pitt.edu
Mark Lynn Anderson is an associate professor of Film Studies in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. He is interested in the relations between media institutions and radical democracy, and has published essays on star scandals, media censorship, and early film education. His forthcoming book, Twilight of the Idols, examines the relations between early Hollywood stardom and the human sciences.
Wednesday, January 16th, 2013
International Career ToolKit Series: Working or Volunteering Abroad after Graduation
Hear first hand experiences and get contacts for working/volunteering abroad
Time:
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Presenter:
Recent Pitt Alumni and local Peace Corp representative
Location:
4217 Posvar Hall
Sponsored by:
Center for African Studies, Asian Studies Center, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, European Studies Center and Global Studies Center
Contact:
Elaine Linn
Contact Phone:
412 648-2113
Contact Email:
eel58@pitt.edu
Many graduate programs want students to gain "real world" experience before enrolling in their respective programs. This session will help students plan out how and where to work or volunteer abroad. Recent Pitt alumni with experience working in India, El Salvador, Ecuador and Cape Verde will share their stories and how best connect with their organizations, and Pitt staff will have resources on hand to help you to secure overseas experience. Jonnett Maurer, the Peace Corp field based recruiter will also be there to answer questions. Next month (Feb 21, 2013) watch for Teaching English Abroad, as part of the International Career Toolkit Series.
Pulpit, Politics and Pathos: Protestant Rhetoric and the National Socialist Revolution
Time:
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Presenter:
Professor Angela Dienhart Hancock, Assistant Professor of Homiletics and Worship, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Location:
2628 Cathedral of Learning
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of The Religious Studies Department
Cost:
Free.
Contact Email:
relgst@pitt.edu
Professor Hancock’s research interests have been primarily focused on the intersections made between theology, politics, and rhetoric. In this Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium Series, she examines how the dominant political rhetoric at the end of the Weimar years infiltrates the language of the church, questioning what factors influenced the mix of gospel and Germanness.
Friday, December 7th, 2012
Tradition and Deconstruction
Part of the "Speaking in Tongues" Lecture and Seminar Series
Time:
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Presenter:
Dr. Philipp Rosemann
Location:
Duquesne University
Sponsored by:
European Studies Center along with Humanities Center, Department of English, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, Department of Classics, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, National Institute for Newman Studies and Duquesne University Center for the Catholic Intellectual Tradition
Cost:
Free.
Contact:
Jennifer Waldron
Contact Email:
jwaldron@pitt.edu
Dr. Rosemann will examine the relationship between the Christian intellectual tradition and the postmodern deconstructionist approach. Arguing that although tradition and deconstruction may appear inimical, he will present a case for why they imply and require each other. Dr. Rosemann's talk will take the form of a dialogue between texts by the Belgian Denis the Carthusian, the great 15th-century theologian who lived in Germany, and Martin Heidegger, the German philosopher whose reflections on Destruktion in Being and Time remain seminal for the deconstructionist method.
Thursday, December 6th, 2012
Vernacularity and Alienation
Part of the "Speaking in Tongues" Lecture and Seminar Series
Time:
4:30 pm
Presenter:
Dr. Philipp Rosemann
Sponsored by:
European Studies Center along with Humanities Center, Department of English, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, Department of Classics, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, Duquesne University Center for the Catholic Intellectual Tradition and National Institute for Newman Studies
Contact:
Jennifer Waldron
Contact Email:
jwaldron@pitt.edu
A native German trained in Ireland and Belgium, and now working in the U.S., Professor Rosemann has written academic work in German, French, and English, and has reflected deeply on the linguistic and cultural impacts of colonialism while teaching in Uganda. During this presentation he will reflect on how the meaning of vernacular language and culture might change in the future under pressures of globalization. This lecture is designed particularly with an undergraduate audience in mind.
Seminar: Robert Grosseteste at Munich
Time:
12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
Presenter:
PHILIPP ROSEMANN (Dallas)
Location:
Cathedral of Learning 126 (Polish Nationality Room)
Sponsored by:
European Studies Center along with Department of English, Humanities Center, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, Department of Classics, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, Duquesne University Center for the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, National Institute for Newman Studies and Medieval Latin Reading Group
Medieval Latin Reading Group seminar on the reception of mystical theology in fifteenth-century Munich and the significance of “minor” texts for the development of intellectual traditions.
We will discuss a short portion from Robert Grosseteste at Munich, Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations 14 (Louvain and Paris: Peeters, 2012). The reading, approximately two pages, will be circulated in advance in Latin and English translation. All are welcome, regardless of your prior involvement in the reading group. No Latin required.
Prof. Rosemann is chair of the department of philosophy at the University of Dallas. Trained in the history of medieval philosophy and modern continental philosophy, he has written several books at the intersection of these areas: Omne ens est aliquid. Introduction à la lecture du "système" philosophique de saint Thomas d'Aquin (Peeters, 1996); Omne agens agit sibi simile: A "Repetition" of Scholastic Metaphysics (Leuven University Press, 1996); Understanding Scholastic Thought with Foucault (The New Middle Ages series; St. Martin’s, 1999). In recent years, he has combined manuscript and book history with historical theology and institutional history in his studies of Lombard’s Sentences, the foundational text of the medieval university: Peter Lombard (Oxford University Press, 2004); The Story of a Great Medieval Book: Peter Lombard's "Sentences," (University of Toronto Press, 2007); and Mediaeval Commentaries on the "Sentences" of Peter Lombard, vol. 2. (ed.) (Brill, 2010). He edits the series Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations, and is currently working on tradition and transgression.
EuroChallenge Orientation
Time:
(All day)
Sponsored by:
European Studies Center and European Union Center of Excellence
Wednesday, December 5th, 2012
"The Political Ecology of the Early Spanish Caribbean"
Time:
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Presenter:
Molly Warsh, Asst. Professor, Dept. of History
Location:
3703 Posvar Hall
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Department of History European Colloquium
Cost:
Free
Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
Weimar Cinema Screenings (German Cinema 1919-1933)
Time:
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Location:
Lawrence Hall, Room 209
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Department of German
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Randall Halle
Contact Phone:
412.648.2614
Contact Email:
randall.halle@gmail.com
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, December 3rd, 2012
High School Model EU Simulation
Time:
8:00 am to 5:00 pm
Location:
WPU Lower Lounge
Sponsored by:
European Studies Center and European Union Center of Excellence
Thursday, November 29th, 2012
Colloquium: Shakespeare and the Senses
Time:
12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
Presenter:
Jennifer Waldron (English)
Location:
Cathedral of Learning, Room 602
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Humanities Center
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).
Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
Sculpting Matilda: The Sculptural Legacy of Bernini’s Monument of Countess Matilda in St. Peter’s in Rome
Time:
12:00 pm
Presenter:
Amy Cymbala (HAA)
Location:
Room 203, Frick Fine Arts
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Department of History of Art and Architecture
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.
Tuesday, November 27th, 2012
Weimar Cinema Screenings (German Cinema 1919-1933)
Time:
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Location:
Lawrence Hall, Room 209
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Department of German
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Randall Halle
Contact Phone:
412.648.2614
Contact Email:
randall.halle@gmail.com
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)
VIDEOCONFERENCE: Europe in Crisis? The Prospects for a Renewed EU-US Partnership
Time:
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Presenter:
Martin Schultz, European Parliament President
Location:
4217 Posvar Hall
Sponsored by:
European Studies Center and European Union Center of Excellence along with Center for Transaltantic Relations and Johns Hopkins University
Cost:
Free
Tuesday, November 20th, 2012
Weimar Cinema Screenings (German Cinema 1919-1933)
Time:
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Location:
Lawrence Hall, Room 209
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Department of German
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Randall Halle
Contact Phone:
412.648.2614
Contact Email:
randall.halle@gmail.com
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, November 19th, 2012
Media Practice and Protest Politics
Time:
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
Presenter:
Alice Mattoni (Sociology)
Location:
2431 WW Posvar Hall
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Department of Sociology
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.
Thursday, November 15th, 2012
Stammtisch (German Conversation Table)
Time:
8:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Location:
Caribou Coffee
Sponsored by:
European Studies Center, Global Studies Center and International Week
Contact Email:
pittgermanclub@gmail.com
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.
Tavola Italiana (Italian Conversation Table)
Time:
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Crazy Mocha
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of
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.
International Career Toolkit Series: Internships & Volunteering in Pittsburgh & Abroad
Time:
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
4130 Posvar Hall
Sponsored by:
Center for African Studies, Asian Studies Center, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, European Union Center of Excellence, Global Studies Center and Global Experiences Office along with Career Development and Placement Assistance Office
Contact:
Vera Sebulsky
Contact Email:
ved5@pitt.edu
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
Angela Merkel's Germany? Angela Merkel's Europe?
Conversations on Europe
Time:
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Presenter:
Ronald Linden, University of Pittsburgh; Myra Marx Ferree, University of Wisconsin; Alexander Privitera, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies; Gregor Thum, University of Pittsburgh; Konrad Jarausch, University of North Carolina
Location:
4217 WWPH
Sponsored by:
European Studies Center and European Union Center of Excellence along with German Department and Think Transatlantic
Cost:
Free.
Contact:
Karen Lautanen
Contact Phone:
1 (412) 648-8517
Contact Email:
kal70@pitt.edu
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?
Wednesday, November 14th, 2012
Pause Cafe (French Conversation Table)
Time:
5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Location:
Crazy Mocha
Sponsored by:
European Studies Center, Global Studies Center and International Week
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.
Global Issues Through Literature: Europe and Immigration
Time:
5:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Presenter:
Bernard Hagerty (Dept. of History)
Location:
4209 Posvar Hall
Sponsored by:
European Studies Center, European Union Center of Excellence and Global Studies Center
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Veronica Dristas
Contact Email:
dristas@pitt.edu
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.
Carriers or barriers to human mobility? Shipping companies and the rise of modern border controls at a local, national and global scale (1882-1930)
Time:
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Presenter:
Torsten Feys (Ghent University)
Location:
4130 Posvar
Sponsored by:
European Studies Center and Global Studies Center along with World History Center
Cost:
Free
Bate Papo (Portuguese Conversation Table)
Time:
4:00 pm
Location:
527 William Pitt Union
Sponsored by:
European Studies Center, Global Studies Center and International Week
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!
The Methodology of Things and Literary Study
Time:
2:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Presenter:
Lynn Festa (Rutgers)
Location:
Cathedral of Learning, Room 602
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Humanities Center and Department of French and Italian
Contact:
Chloe Hogg
Contact Email:
hoggca@pitt.edu
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.
Tuesday, November 13th, 2012
French Club Meeting/Conversation
Time:
8:00 pm
Location:
232 Cathedral of Learning
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of
Cost:
Free
Contact Email:
pittfrenchclub@gmail.com
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.
Weimar Cinema Screenings (German Cinema 1919-1933)
Time:
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Location:
Lawrence Hall, Room 209
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Department of German
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Randall Halle
Contact Phone:
412.648.2614
Contact Email:
randall.halle@gmail.com
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)
Tahiti and the Global Eighteenth Century
Time:
5:00 pm
Presenter:
Lynn Festa (Rutgers)
Location:
Cathedral of Learning, Room 602
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Department of English, World History Center, Humanities Center, Department of French and Italian and Eighteenth-Century Studies at Pitt
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).
Mock-Heroic before the Enlightenment
Time:
12:30 pm
Presenter:
MICHAEL WEST (English)
Location:
Cathedral of Learning, Room 501G
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Humanities Center and Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program
Contact:
Jennifer Waldron
Contact Email:
jwaldron@pitt.edu
*Part of the yearlong series, “Speaking in Tongues”
German Identity? European Identity?
Conversations on Europe
Time:
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Presenter:
Professor Patrick Altdorfer of The University of Pittsburgh, Moderator; Katrin Sieg of Georgetown University; Mr. Alexander Privitera, Ms. Kirsten Verclas, and Ms. Stephanie Bennett of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies
Location:
4217 WWPH
Sponsored by:
European Studies Center and European Union Center of Excellence along with German Department and Think Transatlantic
Cost:
Free.
Contact:
Karen Lautanen
Contact Phone:
1 (412) 648-8517
Contact Email:
kal70@pitt.edu
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.
Monday, November 12th, 2012
Framing Policy Debates in the European Union
Time:
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Presenter:
Christine Mahoney
Location:
4500 Posvar Hall
Sponsored by:
European Studies Center and European Union Center of Excellence
Contact:
Karen Lautanen
Contact Phone:
412-648-8517
Contact Email:
kal70@pitt.edu
Friday, November 9th, 2012
“An Evening in Paris” Opening
Time:
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Location:
McCarl Center Lounge
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of College of General Studies
*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.
Thursday, November 8th, 2012
Annual Commemoration of Kristallnacht
Time:
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Location:
Hillel-Jewish University Center, 4607 Forbes Avenue
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Jewish Studies Program, Department of German and Hillel Jewish University Center
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
Colloquium: An Eighteenth Century Paradigm of Acculturation: Giuseppe Baretti’s Commonplace Book
Time:
12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
Presenter:
Francesca Savoia (French and Italian)
Location:
Cathedral of Learning, Room 602
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Humanities Center and Department of French and Italian
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.
U.S. Elections: The View from Europe
Time:
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Presenter:
Prof. Ronald Linden (Political Science), Dr. Alberta Sbragia (Vice Provost for Graduate Studies) and Prof. Michael Goodhart (Political Science)
Location:
4217 Posvar Hall
Sponsored by:
European Studies Center and European Union Center of Excellence
Cost:
Free.
Contact:
Allyson Delnore
Contact Phone:
412-624-5404
Contact Email:
adelnore@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.
Tuesday, November 6th, 2012
Weimar Cinema Screenings (German Cinema 1919-1933)
Time:
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Location:
Lawrence Hall, Room 209
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Department of German
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Randall Halle
Contact Phone:
412.648.2614
Contact Email:
randall.halle@gmail.com
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, November 5th, 2012
Movement Images: Masayo Kajimura, an Artist Talk
Time:
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Presenter:
Masayo Kajimura
Location:
602 Cathedral of Learning
Sponsored by:
Asian Studies Center, European Studies Center and European Union Center of Excellence along with Film Studies Program, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and Department of German
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.
Pitt Model United Nations Conference
Time:
(All day)
Location:
William Pitt Union
Sponsored by:
Asian Studies Center, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, European Studies Center, Global Studies Center and International Business Center along with Global Solutions Pittsburgh, United Nations Association of Pittsburgh and Pitt Model United Nations Club
Contact:
Gina Peirce
Contact Phone:
412-648-2290
Contact Email:
gbpeirce@pitt.edu
Teams of high school students from throughout the Pittsburgh region participated in the annual Pitt Model United Nations simulation.
Thursday, November 1st, 2012
"Commercial visions: Building a global marketplace for scientific knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age"
Time:
4:00 pm
Presenter:
Daniel Margócsy, Hunter College, City University of New York
Location:
4130 WWPH
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of World History Center
Contact:
Katie Jones
Contact Phone:
412-624-3073
Contact Email:
joneskh@pitt.edu
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.
Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
Weimar Cinema Screenings (German Cinema 1919-1933)
Time:
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Location:
Lawrence Hall, Room 209
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Department of German
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Randall Halle
Contact Phone:
412.648.2614
Contact Email:
randall.halle@gmail.com
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 29th, 2012
German Film Festival: Identity
Think Transatlantic: Focus Germany
Time:
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Location:
4217 WWPH
Sponsored by:
European Studies Center, European Union Center of Excellence and Global Studies Center
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
Thursday, October 25th, 2012
Science in the Mirror of Enlightenment Europe: Francesco Algarotti and the Remaking of a Cosmopolitan Book
Time:
5:00 pm
Presenter:
Paula Findlen (Stanford)
Location:
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium (Reception to follow in the Cloisters)
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh Press and World History Center
Contact:
Jennifer Waldron
Contact Email:
jwaldron@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.
Colloquium- A Discontinuous Voice
Time:
12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
Presenter:
Amy Kaminsky (Minnesota)
Location:
Cathedral of Learning, Room 602
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Humanities Center
Contact:
humctr@pitt.edu
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.
Wednesday, October 24th, 2012
Writing A Scientific Bestseller: The Making of Newtonianism for Ladies
Time:
5:00 pm
Presenter:
Paula Findlen (Stanford)
Location:
Center for Philosophy of Science, 817 Cathedral of Learning
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh Press and World History Center
Contact:
Jennifer Waldron
Contact Email:
jwaldron@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.
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012
Weimar Cinema Screenings (German Cinema 1919-1933)
Time:
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Location:
Lawrence Hall, Room 209
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Department of German
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Randall Halle
Contact Phone:
412.648.2614
Contact Email:
randall.halle@gmail.com
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 22nd, 2012
Newton’s Prisms: Why Francesco Algarotti Became an Experimental Philosopher
Time:
5:00 pm
Presenter:
Paula Findlen (Stanford)
Location:
Center for Philosophy of Science, 817 Cathedral of Learning
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh Press and World History Center
Contact:
Jennifer Waldron
Contact Email:
jwaldron@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.
Vernacular Theology Before the English Reformation
Time:
4:30 pm
Presenter:
NICHOLAS WATSON (Harvard)
Location:
Cathedral of Learning, Room 501G
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Humanities Center and Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program
Contact:
Jennifer Waldron
Contact Email:
jwaldron@pitt.edu
*Part of the yearlong series, “Speaking in Tongues”
Saturday, October 20th, 2012
Some Recent Research on Aptitude with Some Implications for Instructed SLA
Time:
11:10 am to 12:20 pm
Presenter:
Bill VanPatten (Michigan)
Location:
University Center, Carnegie Mellon University
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh
*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.
French Immersion
Time:
(All day)
Sponsored by:
European Studies Center
Femme morocaine
Friday, October 19th, 2012 to Saturday, November 3rd, 2012
QUANTUM THEATER PRESENTS: Ainadamar
Time:
8:00 pm
Location:
East Liberty Presbyterian Church 116 S. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of
Cost:
Pitt student tickets are $17, and Pitt faculty/staff tickets are $30.
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
Friday, October 19th, 2012
Theorizing the Vernacular
Time:
12:30 pm
Presenter:
DERRICK PITARD (Slippery Rock)
Location:
Cathedral of Learning, Room 602
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Humanities Center and Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program
Contact:
Jennifer Waldron
Contact Email:
jwaldron@pitt.edu
*Part of the yearlong series, “Speaking in Tongues”
Thursday, October 18th, 2012
Translation Ambiguity in Language Learning, Processing, and Representation
Time:
5:15 pm to 6:30 pm
Presenter:
Natasha Tokowicz (Psychology)
Location:
University Center, Carnegie Mellon University
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh
Contact:
Natasha Tokowicz
Contact Phone:
(412) 624-7026
Contact Email:
tokowicz@pitt.edu
*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.
Heirs of a Dark Wood: The Principles and Poetics of Dante's Reception
Time:
5:00 pm
Presenter:
JOE LUZZI (Bard College)
Location:
Cathedral of Learning, Room 332
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Humanities Center, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program and Department of French and Italian
Contact:
Barbara Stolarz
Contact Email:
brs114@pitt.edu
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
From Alchemist to Anatomist: Goethe’s Faust and Gabriel von Max’s Faust Illustrations
Time:
5:00 pm
Presenter:
Jane Brown (Washington)
Location:
Cathedral of Learning, Room 602
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Humanities Center, Eighteenth Century Studies Program and Department of German
Thursday, October 18th, 2012 to Sunday, October 21st, 2012
2012 Second Language Research Forum
Time:
(All day)
Sponsored by:
European Studies Center and European Union Center of Excellence along with Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh
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.
Thursday, October 18th, 2012 to Saturday, October 20th, 2012
CONFERENCE: Exhibition Complex: Displaying People, Identity, and Culture
Time:
(All day)
Location:
Carnegie Museum of Art Theater (CMA)
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, European Studies Center, European Union Center of Excellence and Global Studies Center along with Office of the Provost, Humanities Center, Cultural Studies Program, Department of History of Art and Architecture and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program
Contact Email:
pittgradsymposium@gmail.com
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).
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
Weimar Cinema Screenings (German Cinema 1919-1933)
Time:
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Location:
Lawrence Hall, Room 209
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Department of German
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Randall Halle
Contact Phone:
412.648.2614
Contact Email:
randall.halle@gmail.com
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)
Censorship and Cultural Change: Vernacular Theology, the Oxford Translation Debate, and Arundel's Constitutions of 1409
Time:
12:30 pm
Presenter:
Jen Waldron (English) & Ryan McDermott (English)
Location:
Cathedral of Learning, Room 602
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Humanities Center and Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program
Contact:
Jennifer Waldron
Contact Email:
jwaldron@pitt.edu
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”
Friday, October 12th, 2012
PIZZA & POLITICS: “Inside the Brussels Complex”
Time:
12:00 pm
Presenter:
Andrew Stark, MPIA ’13, GSPIA & Marina Duane, MID ’13, GSPIA
Location:
3610 Posvar Hall
Sponsored by:
European Studies Center and European Union Center of Excellence
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.
Faculty Development Workshop for Nine University and College International Studies Consortium of Georgia
Global Economy and Governance
Time:
(All day)
Location:
4130 Posvar Hall and Southern Polytechnic University
Sponsored by:
Asian Studies Center, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, European Studies Center, European Union Center of Excellence, Global Studies Center and International Business Center along with Nine University and College International Studies Consortium of Georgia
Contact:
Jennifer Murawski
Contact Phone:
412-383-3062
Contact Email:
jennm@pitt.edu
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 11th, 2012
Europe Day
A Series of Events Promoting European Studies and Related Resources on the Pitt Campus
Time:
11:00 am to 7:30 pm
Location:
William Pitt Union, Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, European Studies Center and European Union Center of Excellence
Contact:
Stephen Lund
Contact Email:
slund@pitt.edu
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.
Wednesday, October 10th, 2012
Video Conference: Conversations on Europe: "The End of Soft Power? The EU and the Middle East."
Time:
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Presenter:
Various
Location:
4217 Posvar Hall
Sponsored by:
European Studies Center and European Union Center of Excellence
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Allyson Delnore
Contact Phone:
412-624-5404
Contact Email:
adelnore@pitt.edu
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.
Wednesday, October 10th, 2012 to Friday, October 12th, 2012
2012 International Workshop on Higher Education Reform
Reforming the Policy and Practice of Community Engagement of Higher Education
Time:
(All day)
Presenter:
various
Location:
University of Pittsburgh Campus
Sponsored by:
European Studies Center and European Union Center of Excellence along with Comparative & International Education Society Higher Education Special Interest Group, Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education, Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training, University of British Columbia, Research Consortium of Asian Education and Development Studies, Honk Kon Institute of Education and PASCAL International Observatory
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
Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
Weimar Cinema Screenings (German Cinema 1919-1933)
Time:
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Location:
Lawrence Hall, Room 209
Announced by:
European Studies Center on behalf of Department of German
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Randall Halle
Contact Phone:
412.648.2614
Contact Email:
randall.halle@gmail.com
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)
Did European Monetary Union (EMU) Promote a European Identity?
Time:
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Presenter:
Tal Sadeh, Tel Aviv University
Location:
4217 Posvar Hall
Sponsored by:
European Studies Center and European Union Center of Excellence
Cost:
free
Contact:
Allyson Delnore
Contact Phone:
412-624-5404
Contact Email:
adelnore@pitt.edu
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.