Unveiled (Fremde haut)
Director Angelina Maccarone (2005)
Part of the: QUEER & FEMINIST FILM, Public Film Series at the University of Pittsburgh
When: January 9 – April 9, 2012
Cost: Free!
All screenings are open to the public. Bring your friends!
For more information about the series: http://pittqueerfemfilm.wordpress.com/public-film-series/
To learn about the film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428672/
Work-in-Progress Series, "Commemorating Communist East Germany in the Berlin Republic," Katrin Mascha (ABD)
Jeffrey S. Sposato, Associate Professor of Musicology
Moores School of Music, University of Houston
What can we learn about Johann Sebastian Bach’s church music practices by looking at his Leipzig successors? Scholars have previously assumed that when Gottlob Harrer took over as Thomaskantor after Bach’s death in 1750, he fundamentally rethought the musical priorities of the Leipzig service, increasing the importance of the concerted Latin mass and diminishing the role of the cantata. This paper uses Leipzig church diaries and the contents of Bach’s and Harrer’s libraries to demonstrate that the shift in musical focus from cantatas to masses attributed to Harrer was likely more gradual and began with Bach during the 1730s.
Jeffrey S. Sposato is Associate Professor of Musicology at the Moores School of Music, University of Houston. His most recent book, The Price of Assimilation: Felix Mendelssohn and the Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitic Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2006), was named a Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Title for 2006 and a Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award finalist. He is currently working on a new book entitled Leipzig After Bach: Musical Life in a German City, 1750–1850. In 2011–2012, he is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh.
Piyusha Mutreja, Syracuse University
International Trade & Composition Of Capital Across Countries
One Book, One Community Lecture Series:
"The Worldwide Fusarium Keratitis Epidemic of 2004-2006: What Would Dr. John Snow and Dr. Henry Whitehead Have Done?"
John Bullock, MD, MPH, MSc. Bullock is an infectious diseases epidemiologist at Wright State School of Medicine.
Also, part of the C.F. Reynolds Medical History Society Lecture Series.
The Tournées festival features a series of recent French films that will be screened in 35mm in Alumni Hall. It is an exciting group of films, and we hope you'll come and bring your friends, family, and students.
Feb. 23, 7:30 PM - "Welcome"
Feb. 24, 6:00 PM - "La Belle Endormie" (The Sleeping Beauty):
Feb. 24, 8:00 PM - "Boarding Gate"
Feb. 25, 7:00 PM- "35 Rhums" (35 Shots of Rum)
Feb. 25, 9:15 PM - "Hadewijch"
To view the full schedule & film descriptions: http://www.frenchanditalian.pitt.edu/documents/TourneesFrenchfilmseriesf...
Opening Reception to follow Welcome in the Alumni Hall Auditorium Lobby.
The squatting of physical spaces is an important form of protest in European social movements. From
the 1970s onwards, activists began to occupy abandoned buildings transforming them in spaces
where to experiment alternative lifestyles and elaborate radical politics. In Italy, squatted spaces,
usually named “Self-Managed Occupied Social Centers” and first established in the 1970s, became
the backbones of national and transnational social movements that emerged late in the 1990s. Far
from being dismissed, this form of collective action continues to be used in order to create spaces of
resistance and struggle in societies. Through a diachronic perspective, the meeting discusses: the
characteristics and ideological orientation of Social Centers; interactions between Social Centers and
public institutions; the role of Social Centers in social movement scenes.
Prof. Gianni Piazza is Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Catania. He
works on squatted spaces, territorial conflicts and social movements in Italy. Among his recent publications:
Which models of democracy? Internal and external decision-making processes of Italian Social Centers in a
comparative study (2011, CSPS-WP Series); Voices of the Valley. Voices of the Straits. How protest creates
communities (2008, with Donatella della Porta).
Dr. Alice Mattoni is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh. She works on
media practices, precarious workers and social movements in Italy. Among her recent publications: Media
Practices and Protest Politics. How Precarious Workers Mobilise (2012); Mediation and Social Movements
(2012, with Bart Cammaerts and Patrick McCurdy, eds.).
French Socialists & German Social Democrats Confront the Rise of the Far Right in the Bundesrepublik, 1950-52
Brian Shaev, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pittsburgh
4:00 p.m., 3703 Posvar Hall
Sponsored by: the European Union Center of Excellence/European Studies Center, The University of Pittsburgh European Colloquium Series, Department of History
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 21, 2012
Conversations on Europe: “A New Germany in a New EU?”
12 – 1:30 p.m., 4217 WWPH
The EUCE/ESC will host the second in its ongoing series of Conversations On Europe. This series links top experts on the European Union via videoconferencing across several sites. Audiences at all sites will be able to interact with experts on a contemporary topic related to Europe and the EU. This session will be devoted to the topic “A New Germany in a New EU?” and will address, among other issues: Is it a ‘new EU’? Is Germany the new dominant force? Has Germany’s relationship to the EU and other members fundamentally changed? Will we see further replication of the German economic approach at the EU level? What will be the impact of recent developments in Germany? The session will be moderated by Professor Ronald Linden, Director of the EUCE/ESC.
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 17, 2012
Round Table Discussion with Dutch Ambassador Renee Jones-Bos
3 pm, 4130 WWPH
The EUCE/ESC invite you to participate in a round table discussion with Dutch Ambassador Renee Jones-Bos Friday February 17 at 3:00 p.m. in 4130 Wesley W. Posvar Hall. To participate in the round table please register with Karen Lautanen at kal70@pitt.edu. The Dutch Ambassador is visiting Pittsburgh to celebrate the opening of the 2012 Distinctly Dutch Festival hosted by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. The three-month festival will feature dance, theater, music, visual art, film, literature and architecture. More information on the festival can be found HERE: http://dutchfestival.pgharts.org
Although Agnes Varda is recognized as an early avatar of feminist filmmaking, her 1965 film Happiness remains a misunderstood work, frequently criticized for its ostensibly anti-feminist message. This lecture excavates specific sources of imagery from French women’s magazines that idealized the daily drudgery of the housewife and explains how Varda applied this imagery to her characters to challenge feminine ideals. This lecture shows that Happiness expands visually and thematically on two influential texts: Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1949) and Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique (1963). As a director making feminist films in an unreceptive climate, Varda employed a sophisticated strategy of visual irony in Happiness that disputes the film’s narrative and traditional notions of domestic harmony. We can thus discern new depths in postwar feminism and appreciate Varda’s contribution to a complex, trans-Atlantic dialogue about the structure of domestic life.
This year's undergraduate Model EU will take place on the campus of Washington & Jefferson College. The following schools are sending students:
Bowling Green State University
Kent State University
John Carroll University
Washington & Jefferson College
University of Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
Sylvia Kofler, from the Washington Delegation of the European Union will attend and give a presentation, as will EUCE Director Ron Linden.
Work-in-Progress Series, "Soccer, its Fans and its Nation in German Literature and Film," Gavin Hicks (ABD)
Dennis Looney is a professor of Italian at the University of Pittsburgh, with secondary appointments in Classics and Philosophy. Publications
include: Compromising the Classics (1996); Phaethon’s Children: The Este Court and Its Culture (2005); ‘My Muse will have a story to paint’:
Selected Prose of Ludovico Ariosto (2010); Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy (2011). In his current project he considers the recovery and reception of ancient history and its representation in early modern thinking in Europe, examining the relation between history and literature, fact and fiction, storia and fabula.
Please join us for a reception after the talk!
This annual event informs Pittsburgh-area high school students from underrepresented minority groups of international studies, study abroad, and internationally oriented career opportunities through panel presentations and small group discussions with African-American Pitt alumni and other international studies professionals.
This talk revisits the concept of orientalism in a long chronological context, including 4th Century BC Athens, Elizabethan and Caroline England, Enlightenment Europe, and colonial and contemporary New Zealand.
It seeks to identify a specifically geographic component of this construct, which historians have neglected.
Jonathan Scott is Professor of History at the University of Auckland.
Among many other books and articles, he is the author of When The Waves Ruled Britannia: Geography and Political Identities, 1500-1800 (Cambridge, 2011), Commonwealth Principles: Republican Writing of the English Revolution (Cambridge, 2004), and England's Troubles: Seventeenth-Century English Political Instability in European Context (Cambridge, 2000).
Barbara Tsakirgis, Associate Professor of Classics and Art History; Chair, Department of Classical Studies, Vanderbilt University
Greek houses of the Classical and Hellenistic periods incorporated a number of features that were designed for the safe-keeping of the entire oikos, the homeowner, his family and slaves, and their possessions. While many of these security measures do not survive intact in the archaeological record, they can be reconstructed from both scant remains and from literary and epigraphical accounts.
The physical provisions for security in Greek houses were many, including stoutly built doors and window shutters. Such means served both to enhance the actual security and the impression of it.
Additionally, human and divine protection alike were features of domestic security. Slaves were stationed at the street door and images of Hermes were placed there to add to that protection. Still other divinities, including Herakles Alexikakos, were also called upon to protect the home. On the other hand, while Classical Athens possessed a police force of Scythian archers, there is no evidence that this police force was charged with protecting private property.
Outside of urban areas, householders in the countryside gained added protection from the towers which were a common feature of farmhouses. Square or round in section, these towers were used both to protect the family and as storage places for grain.
TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, STARTING FEBRUARY 2, 2012
“EUROPE AT 8:00” Eurochannel Short Films Tour
8:00 – 9:30 p.m., 4130 WWPH
Discover the newest perspectives of the European film scene through a series of short films from fifty-four film directors. The Eurochannel Short Films Tour has a strong regional footprint, revealing the creative genius of how cinema can be very diverse and surprising. Shaped by geographical and cultural features, those shorts films are as much charming as a work of the director’s passion. Stories of love or friendship in an adult’s brutal world, paintings of childhood feelings, stories of war or poverty, and comedies with unpredictable humor, Europe at 8:00 brings you the complexity of humanity as the European artists of the new generation see it. This series reflects unknown and unfamiliar dimensions of European reality.
Sponsored by: the European Union Center of Excellence/European Studies Center, the Russian & East European Studies Center
Europe at 8:00 – Film Schedule
Thursday, February 2
From Luxembourg: X on a Map, by Jeff Desom 13 minutes
From Portugal: Alfama, by João Viana 15 minutes
From France: Port of Call, by Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec 6 minutes
From Belgium: The End of the World, by Michael Havenith 10 minutes
From Azerbaijan: Theatrical Life, by Ilqar Najaf 22 minutes
From Latvia: Signs of Light, by Ilze Kunga 18 minutes
Tuesday, February 7
From Switzerland: Scribbling & Tingling, by Amaury Berger 13 minutes
From England: I’ll Tell You, by Rachel Tillotson 10 minutes
From Spain: Worstward Ho, by Alex Brendemühl 12 minutes
From Scotland: A Cheeky 20, by Chris Fallen 3 minutes
From Austria: Little World, by Marco F. Zimprich 18 minutes
From Poland: Endless Beginners, by Justyna Nowak 30 minutes
Thursday, February 9
From Bosnia & Herzegovina: I Don’t Dream in German, by Ivana Lalovic 13 minutes
From Italy: The Other Half, by Pipo Mazzepesa 9 minutes
From France: Last Markdown, by Nicolas Slomka 14 minutes
From Georgia: The Highway, by Sandro Japaridze 10 minutes
From Slovakia: Viliam, by Veronika Obertová 8 minutes
From Russia: Nail, by Michael Lockshin 13 minutes
From Albania: Snowdrops, by Robert Budina 26 minutes
Tuesday, February 14
From Belgium: Marie, by Jozefien Scheepers 17 minutes
From Switzerland: Parents, by Fernando Tiberini 11 minutes
From Spain: Lala, by Esteban Crespo Garcia 19 minutes
From Kosovo: The Dinner, by Blerta Zeqiri 17 minutes
From the Netherlands: Cat & Mice, by Nova van Dijk 9 minutes
Thursday, February 16
From the Czech Republic: Saharan Sands, by Josef Tuka 18 minutes
From Croatia: That Little Hand of Yours, Sara Hribar 23 minutes
From Ireland: The Ballad of Kid Kanturk, by John Butler 12 minutes
From Italy: From the 41st Minute, by Matteo Pellegrini 9 minutes
From Hungary: With a Little Patience, Laszlo Nemes 14 minutes
From Denmark: Peaceforce, by Peter Gornstein 19 minutes
Tuesday, February 21
From Serbia: Old Mountain, by Goran Stankovic 18 minutes
From Malta: .303, by David Serge 11 minutes
From Spain: Let’s Go to Plan B, by Paz Piñar 14 minutes
From Turkey: Snow, by Erol Mintas 22 minutes
From Wales: Skimming Pebbles, by Tariq Ali 9 minutes
From Romania: The Cage, by Adrian Sitaru 17 minutes
Thursday, February 23
From Montenegro: Masks, by Andro Martinovic 13 minutes
From Germany: Lumen, by Philip Koch 29 minutes
From Sweden: The Last Things, by Levan Akin 20 minutes
From Lithuania: Grandpa, by Andrius Paskevicius 11 minutes
From Moldova: Sasa, Grisa & Ion, by Igor Cobileanski 11 minutes
From Macedonia: Glow, by Tamislav Aleksov 15 minutes
Tuesday, February 28
From Switzerland: Laterarius, by Marina Rosset 3 minutes
From Cyprus: Trachoni, by Nick Kapros 10 minutes
From Ukraine: Her Seat is Vacant, by Bohdana Smymova 17 minutes
From Northern Ireland: Paint, by Ryan Tohill 9 minutes
From Iceland: Safe Journey, David Óskar Ólafsson 22 minutes
From Norway: A Tale of Balloons, by Torfinn Iversen 14 minutes
From Spain: Duck Crossing, by Koldo Almandoz 12 minutes
Thursday, March 1
From Belarus: Life is Infinite Return, by Vladimir Piskunovic 17 minutes
From Armenia: Ararat, by Renaud Armanet 13 minutes
From Bulgaria: Someone Else’s Steps, by Neda Morfova 4 minutes
From Greece: Samurai, by Theo Papadoulakis 26 minutes
From Finland: Kirkonkyla Kyrkby, Elise Pietarila 14 minutes
From Estonia: Champion, by Kaupo Kruusiauk 13 minutes
James Knapp (English) and Peggy Knapp (Carnegie Mellon) will present:
"Aesthetics of Time: the Case of the Middle English Sir Orfeo,"
with responses from Ryan McDermott (English) and Daniel Selcer (Duquesne).
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. Participants may also request the reading at humctr@pitt.edu.
Funding is tight and it can be hard to arrange trips abroad to do field or archival research. Once you have a budget and a set schedule, it is imperative that every moment of your trip counts to its fullest. Moreover, careful preparation can also be useful in convincing grant-giving institutions that your project is worth funding. In this meeting moderated by EUCE/ESC Director Ron Linden, a panel of graduate students will share their experiences researching abroad (what worked and what didn’t), answer questions, and offer practical advice.
During the French Revolution, all possessions of the church and former monarchy were declared to be the national property of the new French Republic. In order to deal with the influx of material, the government established storage dépôts in former monasteries and convents where the “objects of art and science” could be collected, sorted, and disseminated for public education. Under the direction of Alexandre Lenoir, the funerary monuments, sculpture, and architectural decoration stored at the Petits-Augustins dépôt evolved into the Musée des Monuments français. The artifacts were organized into a chronological sequence of “century rooms” representing the rise and fall of French arts and civilization. The symbolic memory of the monarchial and ecclesiastical past was embedded in the artifacts, and this material legacy needed to be reframed for the Revolutionary present. By prioritizing historical and temporal specificity rather than former purposes and contexts, Lenoir transformed the artifacts into “historic monuments” and organized them into a new symbolic history of France. For Lenoir, the chronological sequence was a layered political tool about the educational enlightenment of the individual, which he described as the “regeneration” of man. According to Lenoir, the overall “physiognomy” of each historical period was dominated by the ruling monarch, while the rise and decline of artistic development was indicated by the prevalence or lack of individual artistic achievements. The century room sequence was followed by the Élysée, a picturesque garden filled with tombs and monuments dedicated to great figures from French history. Within the chronological sequence of the century rooms, Lenoir created a container for the politically charged educational dissemination of the monarchial history of France. Enlightened by the rise and fall of individual accomplishment through the century rooms, the visitor left the monarchial past in the last century room and entered the atemporal Élysée, which represented the eternal Revolutionary present and which was dedicated to the timeless heroic deeds and intellectual accomplishments of exceptional historical figures. The Musée des Monuments français was an evocation of the progress of human agency.
*Part of the Jean Monnet Lecture Series on European Union Law*
Dr. Davor Babic was a visiting professor at the School of Law for the spring term 2012 (December 28, 2011-January 28, 2012). He taught European Private International Law (2 credits).
EU simulation on Turkish accession to the European Union.
In the Renaissance, studying nature meant (most of the time) encountering nature. But these encounters, as Peter Dear has indicated, tended to generate a discussion (in the period and in the historiography) between unmediated sensory experiences and experiences organized by prior conceptual categories. This paper focuses on anatomical encounters, when anatomists articulated that distinction with clarity, in order to reconsider the significance of ephemeral and permanent anatomy theaters.
The relationship between the two is usually described chronologically:
theaters were temporary before they were permanent. This has encouraged a second view, namely that temporary theaters initiated the study of anatomy through human and animal dissection (the encounter with nature), and permanent theaters further developed that study. This paper will argue against such a seamless transition. Even when the permanent anatomy theater was built and in use in Padua, temporary theaters continued to provide more immediate, sensory experiences for professors as well as students.
This talk is sponsored by the working group on Medicine, Philosophy, and the Scientific Revolution (http://www.pitt.edu/~pmd17/MPSR.html) and supported by the Center for Philosophy of Science. The event is free and open to the public.
On January 17th,2012, the European Union Center of Excellence/European Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh will host an interactive videoconference devoted to the current European financial crisis. To be held from 12-1:30 p.m. in 211 David Lawrence Hall, the session is entitled “Is the Future of the Eurozone the Future of Europe?” This is the first in a series of “Conversations on Europe,” in which participants and audiences will be linked across several sites by video. This first session will feature some of the country’s top experts on the European Union, including Dr. Alberta Sbragia, Vice-Provost of Graduate Studies at the University of Pittsburgh; Dr. Christiane Lemke, Max Weber Chair in German and European Politics at New York University and Professor of Political Science at the Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany; and Larry Neal, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Audiences at all three sites will be able to ask questions of the experts. This event is open to the public.
Sarah Beckwith works on late medieval religious writing, medieval and early modern drama, and ordinary language philosophy. In this seminar, we will discuss chapter three of her most recent book, Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness (Cornell, 2011). Professor Beckwith is also the author of Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in York's Play of Corpus Christi (Chicago, 2001), and Christ's Body: Identity, Religion and Society in Medieval English Writing (Routledge, 1993). She is currently working on a book about Shakespearean tragedy and about philosophy's love affair with the genre of tragedy.
Marianne Novy and Ryan McDermott will offer responses to the pre-circulated reading. Reply to this email in order to receive the reading attachment.
The text for discussion is “Repairs in the Dark: Measure for Measure and the End of Comedy.” If you have questions, please email Professor Jennifer Waldron (jwaldron@pitt.edu).
*Professor Beckwith will also give a lecture at Duquesne University on Thursday, January 12th at 4:00 in 324 Fisher Hall.*
Mr. Lionnet’s thesis explores sovereignty, hegemony, and human rights in EU-ACP (African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States) relations. His project seeks to get beyond the ideology of Eurafrica to better understand development policies in the 1950s and 1960s. For his research, Mr. Lionnet has come to the University of Pittsburgh to make use of the European Union Delegation Collection housed at the University Library. The Collection is a virtually complete assemblage of official European Community documents published since the early 1950s. In his work on development, Mr. Lionnet has had occasion to work in European archives in addition to this one. He has generously agreed to speak with Pitt grad students about his experiences in the University’s Depository Collection, how it compares to others, what he has found, and how it all informs his larger research project. Please join us then for Pizza & Politics…& Archives.
Randall Halle is the Klaus W. Jonas Professor of German Film and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He studied at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, the University of Freiburg, the University of Utrecht, and the Free University in Berlin. He received his PhD from Madison in 1995. Halle works primarily on film, visual culture, and social philosophy. He is currently pursuing two different projects tentatively entitled Interzone Europe: Social Philosophy and the Transnational Imagination as well as Visual Alterity: Seeing Difference. Halle has received numerous grants. Academic year 2004-2005 he was a Senior Fellow in the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Free University. In 2006 he was offered the honor of being the first occupant of the Jonas Chair at the University of Pittsburgh. Academic year 2009-2010 he was a Senior Fulbright Researcher in Berlin.
As the European Union confronts one of the deepest crises of its history, the frustration of a number of member states at the apparent hegemony of the “Franco-German couple" has become vocal and public. With elections approaching in 2012 in France and 2013 in Germany, it is worth considering what a transfer of power from the current governing parties to the major opposition parties, the Parti Socialiste (PS) and the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD), might harbor for the future of the European integration project. In this presentation, I examine how these parties handled past crises, both when in government and in opposition. I explore policy continuities and evolution over time through an examination of these parties’ roles in the Empty Chair Crisis, President Mitterand’s program for socialist transformation, German reunification, the proposal for a European constitution, and the current financial and debt crisis.
Please join us for a talk: Lyle Scruggs is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut. He is a candidate for the senior position in comparative politics in the Department of Political Science.
Cultural night out at Jozsa Hungarian restaurant for GSPIA graduate students.
Dr. Maloy (Econ) & Dr. Alexiadou (Political Science) will be giving their take on the economic and social/political implications of the new Greek debt deal and the debt crisis in Europe in general.
Internship panel for GSPIA Master's students looking for internships abroad.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21
Pizza & Politics: What’s Next For Italy? A Conversation with Alberta Sbragia
Dr. Alberta Sbragia, Vice Provost, University of Pittsburgh
12:00 PM, 4217 WWPH
Alberta Sbragia, former EUCE/ESC Director and current Vice-Provost for Graduate Studies, will host a round table discussion about the current economic and political crisis in Italy. Please join us for pizza and a lively discussion about the implications for the Euro and the future of the European Union. As a Mark A. Nordenberg University Chair and the Jean Monnet Professor ad personam in the Department of Political Science, Dr. Sbragia served as the Director of the European Union Center of Excellence/European Studies Center from 1984-2010, as chair of the European Union Studies Association, now headquartered at the University of Pittsburgh, and as President of the Conference Group on Italian Politics.
Sponsored by: European Union Center of Excellence/European Studies Center
A talk by influential senior scholar Valerie Traub of the University of Michigan entitled "Shakespeare's Sex" on Wednesday, November 16 at 3:00 in CL 332. Traub is Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of *The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England*. Other books include *Desire & Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama* (1992) and two co-edited collections: *Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects* (1996) and *Gay Shame* (2009).
Late medieval audiences read the Bible in different languages, including the language of pictorial narrative.... This paper focuses on two intimately related manuscripts - a late twelfth-century Spanish narrative picture Bible produced for Sancho el Fuerte of Navarre (Amiens, B.m. ms. 108) and a fourteenth-century, stylistically-updated version of the same visual narrative (New York Public Library, Spencer 22). With a focus on the relationship between Sancho's Bible and Spencer 22, I examine the genre of narrative picture Bibles and the role of the pictorial translator in the image-to-image translation of visual narrative from Romanesque Spain to Gothic France.
A workshop with Dr. Eszter Zsofia Toth (Hungarian State Archive) and Professor Ulf Brunnbauer (University of Regensburg, Germany). Dr. Toth is one of the leading historians of the history of everyday life of Communist countries. Her work includes her much acclaimed oral history study of a women's brigade in a socialist factory in Budapest, her PhD project which investigated the profound problems of gender, class, and life-styles in the Kadar era. Professor Ulf Brummbauer has worked extensively on the problems of social history, nationalism, identity constructions and historiography in South Eastern Europe, especially Bosnia, Macedonia, Albania, and the Western Balkan countries.
The Annual Commemoration of Kristallnacht (The “Night of Broken Glass” on November 9-10, 1938)
Survivor’s Account by Ruth Drescher
Music by Susanne Ortner-Roberts (clarinetist)
Readings by Pitt Students
This program is made possible with the support of the Jack Sittsamer Holocaust Studies
Enrichment Fund in the Jewish Studies Program.
The University of Pittsburgh presents David Bell of Princeton University. Introduction by Seymour Drescher, University of Pittsburgh, Department of History.
Professor Picciotto pre-circulated her essay to facilitate discussion on the relationship between Protestantism, experimental science, the public sphere, and intellectual labor itself.
Professor Vivian Curran will moderate this panel discussion featuring Olivier Dutheillet de Lamothe, a judge on France's Council of State, the Supreme Court of Public Law and William A. Fletcher, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
Maciej Pisarski is the Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington, DC, a post he has held since August 2010. Previously he worked as the acting director of the Department of Strategy and Policy Planning in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw, Poland. Mr. Pisarski has spent a considerable portion of his professional career working on Polish-American relations, including his work as a Deputy Director at the Department of the Americas, Political Officer at the Embassy of Poland in Washington, DC, and US Desk Officer at the Polish Foreign Ministry in Warsaw.
Over 75 papers will be delivered on topics from all fields (literature, history, political science, sociology, anthropology, law, religion, art, music, cultural studies, film studies, gender studies, etc.) that treat the question of the idea of France or Frenchness in any time period from the middle ages to the twenty-first century.
For a full version of the conference schedule, please visit the Web site.
Dr. Alberta Sbragia appearence on Bloomberg TV.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/pomboy-says-surge-in-italy-bond-y...
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- In response to recent developments in the European Debt Crisis, Stephanie Pomboy, president of MacroMavens LLC, Irene Finel-Honigman, adjunct professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, Alberta Sbragia, a professor at University of Pittsburgh, and Stephen Wood, chief market strategist at Russell Investments, talked about Europe's sovereign debt crisis and its implications for the U.S. Treasuries. They spoke with Pimm Fox on Bloomberg Television's "Taking Stock."
Matteo Galli, who teaches at the University of Ferrara, is one of the foremost German Studies scholars in Italy and is also an expert on German cinema. He has published books on Elias Canetti, Thomas Mann, and E. T. A Hoffmann, and he has translated works by Jens Sparschuh and Uwe Timm, among others. He is also the editor of a major volume on the history of German cinema, Da Caligari a Good Bye, Lenin! (2004).
Erik Bleich is a Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College and will give a talk based on his book on this subject published this year by Oxford University Press.
Historian Elina Gertsman will present a lecture entitled "Holy Anatomy, Animate Substance: the Shrine Madonna as a Performing Object" on October 27, 2011. Elina's work combines more traditional methods of art historical scholarship with an interest in performance studies and cognitive science (or "embodied cognition"). She is the author of *The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance* (2010) and has also published several articles and edited the collection, *Visualizing Medieval Performance: Perspectives, Histories, Contexts* (2008).
History Department Book Symposia Series: On Wednesday, October 26, 2011, between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m. the Department of History will hold a symposium celebrating Bruce Venarde's Two Women of the Great Schism and The Rule of St. Benedict.
If the past is a foreign country, medieval Europe is for most of us another planet altogether. Two Women of the Great Schism and The Rule of St. Benedict are attempts to open up a world that is very different from ours but explicable on its own terms. They reflect Bruce Venarde’s commitment to making medieval European history and culture available to non-specialists, to deep and close reading of medieval Latin and other texts, and to collaborative work.
Rachel Epstein is associate professor of international political economy and European politics at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. She has PhD from the Department of Government at Cornell and an AB in International Relations from Stanford University.
Sponsored by: European Union Center of Excellence/European Studies Center, Russian and East European Studies Center (REES), Department of Political Science
This presentation examined a transformative moment for the traditional procession known as the Inchinata between the mid thirteenth and fourteenth century, a period characterized by the advent of the mendicant friars with their new models of personal devotion and do-it-yourself religion, the emergence of confraternities, the growing prominence of trade guilds, the solidifying of municipal government, the rise of the middle classes, and a new emphasis on penitential pilgrimage, especially to the city of Rome. Perry argues that within this context, Tivoli's ceremonial cult image took on a new allegorical identity of "Christ-as-pilgrim" and that the Inchinata procession functioned as a type of moving morality play that "performed" new models of bourgeois Christian conduct.
As a former Legal Counsellor at the Council of the European Union in Brussels, Dr BErnaard Schloh brings relevant perspective and insight to the current state of the European Union. Until his retirement in 1994, Dr. Schloh was also a faculty member of the School of Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels. He has also been a visiting faculty member at the University of Georgia, Saint Louis University, Washington and Lee University, Santa Clara University, and Tulane University.
SÚM was a loosely affiliated artist's collective that was founded following a 1965 self-organized exhibition of works by Jón Gunnar Árnason, Hreinn Friofinnsson, Sigurjón Jóhannsson, and Haukur Sturluson. In this talk, Pollentier discusses the emergence of SÚM, provides a brief overview of the group's major projects, and examines how the collective practices of its members provided a critique of the political and cultural environment of the 1960s and 70s. She considers the lack of scholarly attention that SÚM has received and the unique challenges that assembling a history of the group presents, despite its significant position in the history of Icelandic art.
Foreign Visiting Professor Dr. Bernhard Schloh will present the first of this year’s two annual Jean Monnet lectures on European Union Law. The lecture is titled “The Present Situation of the European Union: Legal and Political Reflections.” Professor Dr. Bernhard Schloh is a former member of the Legal Service of the Council of Ministers of the European Union and is Professor Emeritus at Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium.
The French Immersion Institute, Directed by Bonnie Adair-Hauk, Ph.D., organized this workshop for middle and high school teachers to broaden their cultural understanding of current events and international studies regarding French-speaking countries, to strengthen their French listening and speaking skills, and to share strategies for teaching of French language and culture.
Cohen argues that Hirschhorn's installations in banlieues of Amsterdam do not attempt to mobilize the precariat for legislative changes and civil rights, but instead, to redefine preexisting terms of attention/circulation concerning their widely stereotyped and marginalized publicity. In other words, the artist challenges the monocular, homogenizing vision of a dominant public and mediascape.
A professional ACTFL trainer will present this four-day workshop on administering and rating Oral Proficiency Interviews to assess students' foreign language proficiency. Following the workshop, participants will be prepared to complete the ACTFL certification process for OPI testers. Please note that this event is open to invited language instructors only.
In this talk, Toker lays out the problem of understanding seven especially perplexing tombs out of the 130 graves he excavated when directing the archaeological campaign below the Cathedral of Florence.
Student International Relations Society Presents: Dr. Strangelove. A film by Stanley Kubrick set in 1960s amid the Cold War after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Dr. Michael Shackleton will present a lecture discussing The UK and its relationship to the European Union. Dr. Shackleton is the Head of the European Parliament Office in London, having worked for more than 25 years in the Secretariat of the European Parliament in Brussels. He has published widely on EU issues, with the seventh edition of the co-authored book "The European Parliament" published in June 2007. http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/pils/strminfo/shackleton_2011l.mov (Quicktime required)
Want to prepare yourself for the global marketplace? Learn first hand from students on how to internationalize your studies at Pitt by earning an international studies certificate or the Bachelor of Philosophy (BPHIL) in International and Area Studies. Students can develop a more concentrated and in-depth understanding of a world region or a global theme. For any major on campus!
Institute for International Studies in Education present the 2011 Symposium Series
Shannon Wanless, Assistant Professor in Pitt Department of Psychology in Education, will present a lecture titled "Comparing Methods of Assessment of Early Self-regulation in Asia, Europe, and the US"
Anne-Marie Lodermann, IISE Visiting Research Scholar from the University of Augsburg, will present a lecture titled "A Systemic View on Peer Mentoring Programs for Female Faculty"
In his remarkable career as a journalist, Werner Sonne has reported on some of the most significant changes in our world. As radio and TV correspondent for the German channel ARD, he covered German chancellors Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Kohl, Gerhard Schroder and Angela Merkel. He followed, from close up, Germany’s emergence from a divided country in the Cold War, traumatized by a terrible, self-inflicted past, unsure of its future, through the process of re-unification to the current position as strongest partner in the European Union, still struggling to find its place in the world. He saw the world from the perspective of a foreign correspondent for 11 years, on both sides of the then still-existing Iron Curtain. In recent years he has covered the Middle East conflict and German involvement in the Afghanistan war.
Over a period of more than twenty years, while residing mostly in England, the Italian writer, literary critic, and lexicographer Giuseppe Baretti (1719-1789) kept a personal reading and writing log. Surveying this 270-page zibaldone has helped to map out the cultural itinerary followed by this eighteenth-century intellectual immigrant, and has led into the exploration of such topics as the psychology of authorship, the role of memory in literature and in second language learning, the practice of translation and its uses and purposes.
Dr Anthony R. Zito, Reader in Politics and Joint Editor of Environmental Politics, Co-Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at Newcastle University will present a lecture entitled “Can Environmental Agencies Manage their Environment”.
Helmut Berghoff, CEO of the German Historical Institute, will present a lecture entitled "Persistence or Demise of the Classic 'Mittlestand'? Small and Medium-sized Family Firms in the Federal Republic of Germany" on September 21, 2011 at 12pm in 101 Mervis Hall.
The EUCE/ESC would like to welcome students, faculty, and friends of the Center to the start of a new year. Please join us for refreshments and conversation on Wednesday September 14 at 4:00pm in 4130 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Harvard Economist Dani Rodrik described how "Unconditional convergence is alive and well, but that we need to look for it within manufacturing industries rather than the economy as a whole. Industries that start at lower levels of labor productivity grow faster, regardless of the quality of policies or institutions in their home economies." For more, see Professor Rodrik's blog: http://rodrik.typepad.com/dani_rodriks_weblog/2011/09/unconditional-conv....
European Union simulation on dealing with the Greek sovereign debt crisis. Students will debate the issue from the point of view of their respective nations and attempt to reach an agreement on how the EU should respond to the crisis.