How have immigrants inspired you? Come support immigrants with an activity and have your photo shared on our social media.

Through experiential learning, high school students engage directly with global issues by assuming the role of world leaders and negotiating responses to timely topics.

Join University of Pittsburgh, Newcastle University in the United Kingdom, and colleagues from across the globe for a virtual collaborative conference on 19 - 20 October.

Building on last year’s conference we will explore and share best practices on how Universities advance place-based approaches through community and student engagement and importantly how we measure our impact and demonstrate accountability to our communities and stakeholders.

The conference will include a program of concurrent sessions focused on the themes of sustainability, health, culture and cities and places. Plenary sessions will draw upon the role universities play in their place, looking at a range of international contexts and approaches to impact and evaluation.

Register for the event at https://newcastle-pittsburgh.online-event.co/registration/universities-h...

First-year students enrolled in the Academic Foundations Community: Europe traveled to Washington, D.C., to learn more about Europe and the EU. They visited a Vermeer exhibit at the National Gallery of Art, enjoyed Norwegian cuisine, and met with the EU Delegation to the US and the Embassy of Portugal.

It's never too late or too early to be planning for future years. Join the six UCIS centers and learn tips for applications from program representatives and faculty decision makers from the Dietrich School A&S, Graduate School of Public Health, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and the School of Education.

When thinking of German businesses, we usually mean West German ones. To add nuance to this perspective, this event will focus on two successful East German companies that had to restart after 1989 when Communism fell and the German government privatized thousands of companies. While some did not succeed, the numerous stories of those that thrived are often overlooked.
Moderator: Jan Musenkamp, University of Pittsburgh

Panelist:
Wendy Carlin, University College of London.
Florian Mezger from Carl Zeiss

Students will have to opportunity to question the companies about internship opportunities.

What is Donald Trump's personality like? What was his family like? What is his ideology? What have been the highlights of his performance as a businessman, candidate, and head of the government of the most powerful country in the world? These questions require multi-causal answers that go beyond the clichés that have been spread by his defenders, his detractors, and Trump himself. The 45th president of the United States has been both praised and reviled. His personality, his professional career, and his emergence in American and world politics have been the subject of biased and didactic analyses. This book attempts to offer a more nuanced explanation, underpinned by hundreds of articles, books, and interviews on the character and his historical context.

To understand the “Trump phenomenon” it is necessary to analyze its origins, as well as the political, social and economic dynamics of the United States. For better or worse, Trump is not a historical anomaly, but rather a product of his time. However, some of the most controversial actions of his mandate, which put democratic coexistence on the ropes, were largely his responsibility. His style of doing politics is still alive, as are the circumstances that made for his rise to power in 2016. Will he return to the White House in 2024?

Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger is a German journalist who previously served as the Foreign Editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. His writing has focused on the United States, European, transatlantic, and international politics. Mr. Frankenberger holds a master’s degree in Political Science, Economics, and American Studies from Frankfurt University. In 1980, he participated in an exchange program with the University of Mississippi. From 1982 to 1985 he was a research associate at the Center for North-American Studies at Frankfurt University. Mr. Frankenberger was a Congressional Fellow in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1985 to 1986 and a Marshall Fellow at Harvard University in 1990. He has lectured at several American universities. In 2011, he was a Bosch Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington, D.C. Since he joined the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany’s leading national daily, in 1986, he served in various capacities, as European, International, and Editorial Page Editor. Mr. Frankenberger was a Member of the Trilateral Commission and of the Scientific Council of the Institute for European Politics in Berlin. He also served on the Advisory Board of the Federal Academy for Security Policy in Berlin and is associated with several organizations that deal with the transatlantic relationship.

Learn more about all that is planned for the 2022-23 academic year by the Asian Studies Center, the Center for African Studies, the Center for Ethnic Studies Research, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, the European Studies Center, and the Global Studies Center. Celebrate with us the recent award of 12 new federal grants and learn how that money will support faculty and students interested in the world. Find new opportunities to study, research, or teach about the world. This event is open to all faculty and students and is an opportunity to meet others who share similar interests. Representatives from Pitt's Global Experiences Office and Office of International Studies, as well as the Nationality Rooms, will also be on hand.

Panelist: Tim Bale, Queen Mary University of London, Jane Green, University of Oxford, Robert Ford, University of Manchester and Robert Johns, University of Essex
Moderator: Jae-Jae Spoon, University of Pittsburgh

Henry Koerner's transformative years as a poster artist in WWII. Join Dr. Florian Traussnig for an illuminating lecture on the Vienna-born, Jewish refugee Heinrich Sieghart Korner, later Henry Koerner, who created some of the most iconic posters for the US Office of War Information and later became known as a Pittsburgh-based "master of magical realism." Learn how the artist fused the kulturellen Rucksackhe brought from Austria to American art and culture.

REGISTER:

https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctduqoqj0rGtbDhe99CTdiCnu0I65-jkRm

Sponsors:

Austrian Nationality Room Committee

European Studies Center

The OrJames Lab

University of Graz, Austria

The Center for African Studies (CAS) is hosting its inaugural Celebrate Africa Festival from Friday, September 16 to Saturday, September 17, 2022 and you are invited to attend!

On Friday, join scholars and leaders from the African continent and Pitt faculty for a seminar, round table, alumni webinar, documentary screening, reception, and keynote address by renowned pan-African historian Dr. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza.

On Saturday join us for the festival that will bring students, faculty, and staff together with the vibrant diaspora community of Pittsburgh. We’ll gather outside the Posvar Patio to celebrate the many cultures of Africa through music & dance, food, and artisans and children's activities. It will also be a day for networking with African organizations and businesses.

Join us as we celebrate diverse cultures with Pitt's cultural departments and student organizations along with local Pittsburgh partners.

In this final videoconference, the Week 3 cohort shares the final drafts of their lesson plans and unit modules with each, offering and accepting feedback from their peers.

In this final videoconference, the Week 2 cohort shares the final drafts of their lesson plans and unit modules with each, offering and accepting feedback from their peers.

In this final videoconference, the Week 1 cohort shares the final drafts of their lesson plans and unit modules with each, offering and accepting feedback from their peers.

The free online Summer Institute for Global Educators, with the support of the Longview Foundation and the National Resource Center Program of the U.S. Department of Education, will allow in-service and pre-service secondary educators in all subject areas to develop courses and lesson plans with enhanced global and regional studies content. Educators from Title I schools are especially encouraged to apply. Online synchronous and asynchronous sessions will include the use of film and media, simulations, games, and technology to enhance global learning and teaching. Pitt College in High School (CHS) teachers will have the opportunity to meet with CHS staff on foregrounding global issues while meeting University and district requirements. Participating Pennsylvania teachers can apply for Act 48 credits.

The annual Brussels-Lux Study Tour is a week-long opportunity for educators across the U.S. to learn more about the European Union. With funding from the EU Delegation and the U.S. Department of Education, K-12 educators and faculty teaching at community colleges and minority-serving institutions (Title III- or Title V-eligible) are able to gain first-hand knowledge and experiences to further their understanding of Europe and the European Union.

The annual Brussels-Lux Study Tour is a week-long opportunity for educators across the U.S. to learn more about the European Union. With funding from the EU Delegation and the U.S. Department of Education, K-12 educators and faculty teaching at community colleges and minority-serving institutions (Title III- or Title V-eligible) are able to gain first-hand knowledge and experiences to further their understanding of Europe and the European Union.

The annual Brussels-Lux Study Tour is a week-long opportunity for educators across the U.S. to learn more about the European Union. With funding from the EU Delegation and the U.S. Department of Education, K-12 educators and faculty teaching at community colleges and minority-serving institutions (Title III- or Title V-eligible) are able to gain first-hand knowledge and experiences to further their understanding of Europe and the European Union.

This pre-departure videoconference (for the Week 3 cohort) serves to introduce tour facilitators and educators, provide important details and context before arrival in Brussels, and answer any questions educators have before travelling.

This pre-departure videoconference (for the Week 2 cohort) serves to introduce tour facilitators and educators, provide important details and context before arrival in Brussels, and answer any questions educators have before travelling.

This pre-departure videoconference (for the Week 1 cohort) serves to introduce tour facilitators and educators, provide important details and context before arrival in Brussels, and answer any questions educators have before travelling.

Join the Center for West European Studies and the Jean Monnet EU Center to continue the Talking Gender in the EU Lecture Series, with Christina Fiig on "EU Gender Policies in a Context of (Quasi) Permanent Crisis," on May 17, 2022 at 12:00pm PDT/3:00pm ET.

This is presented by the University of Washington Center for West European Studies and the Jean Monnet EU Center.

This is a part of JMintheUS.

#JMintheUS

The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages workshop on Russian and other less commonly taught European languages.

Global Issues Through Literature (GILS) Fall and Spring 2021-22: Imagining Other Worlds: Globalizing Science Fiction and Fantasy

April 28th, 2022 - "Dark is Rising" by Susan Cooper. Co-sponsored by the European Studies Center

Facilitated by Emilee Ruhland, who graduated this spring with her Master’s in Critical and Cultural Studies from the University of Pittsburgh, and she holds an MA in English from North Dakota State University. Emilee is a medievalist and has written about Beowulf, Joan of Arc, Notre Dame de Paris, and Gothic architecture in Pittsburgh. She works in higher ed communications, most recently as the Communications Coordinator for the European Studies Center.

This reading group for K-12 educators explores literary texts from a global perspective. Content specialists present the work and its context, and participants brainstorm innovative pedagogical practices for incorporating the text and its themes into the curriculum. Sessions this year will take place virtually on Thursday evenings from 5-8 PM (EST). Books and three Act 48 credit hours are provided.

Register for the reading groups here- https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/gils

Contact Maja Konitzer with questions at majab@pitt.edu

The 2022 Otto and Fran Walter Foundation Memorial Lecture features Ivan Krastev, Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna, discussing what the Russian invasion of Ukraine means for the future of Europe, Russia and transatlantic relations.

This is presented by the CUNY Graduate Center's EU's Studies Center.

This is a part of the JMintheUS.

#JMintheUS

How have the electric vehicle markets evolved in Europe and Asia in the past decade? How do these changes impact energy choices and consumption in the 21st century? Join us as we explore these questions and more in our BETH series on Energy.

Speakers: Dr. John Helveston, George Washington University; Dr. Marianne Ryghaug, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Dr. Maciej Mazur, AVERE--The European Association for Electromobility.

Register at https://tinyurl.com/PittElectric

On April 10th, France will hold a presidential election putting ideologies, personalities, and the future of France on the ballot. A run-off will be held on April 24th if no one secures a majority. The last Conversations on Europe for the 2021-22 academic year will focus on the ramifications of this election's outcome, how Russia's invasion of Ukraine will impact the election, and how this can shape the next decade not only of France but of Europe as a whole.

Panelists:
Jean Beaman, University of California Santa Barbara
Arthur Goldhammer, Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Philippe Marliere, University College London

Moderated by Jae-Jae Spoon, University of Pittsburgh

In this brief presentation, Willem Noe, European Commission Official and former EU Fellow at GSPIA, will give a brief overview of working at the European Commission as an international organization, and his own career path as an economist at the Commission dealing with globalization, European Union Enlargement (entry of new Member States into the EU), and the economies of several Member States. He is currently stationed at the EC Representation in Ireland, where he closely follows the Irish economy and the impact of Brexit on Ireland, and acts as a liaison between government, civil society, and the EC Country Team Ireland in Brussels.

View the poster: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/creees/sites/default/files/images/documents/RE...

Register Here: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsdu6urzkpHNWK_cVUxGX2Ow1F-JSLOv...

The Euro Challenge is a competition for high school students on European economic and monetary policy. It gives participants the opportunity to learn about the Euro, the single market, and other important concepts central to the European Union and macro/microeconomics.

The Undergraduate Research Symposium is an annual event since 2002 designed to provide undergraduate students, from the University of Pittsburgh and other colleges and universities, with advanced research experiences and opportunities to develop presentation skills. The event is open to undergraduates from all majors and institutions who have written a research paper from a social science, humanities, or business perspective focusing on the study of Eastern, Western, or Central Europe, the European Union, Russia, or Central Eurasia.

After the initial submission of papers, selected participants are grouped into panels according to their research topics. The participants then give 10- to 15- minute presentations based on their research to a panel of faculty and graduate students. The presentations are open to the public.

Visit the website at ucis.pitt.edu/crees/urs

Apply here by January 7, 2022: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd-jrnDiSkgRpr81fKHzQQMXm3E2UN3...

Join us for a presentation live on April 8 from the Scottish Nationality Room celebrating the Tartan Week 2022!

This free event will celebrate Scottish heritage in the Pittsburgh region, promote the new Glasgow Sister City initiative and showcase Scottish innovation!

Speakers:
- Neil Owen (Host, Scottish Business Network)
- Kathy Risko (Sister Cities International)
- Fergus Bruce (Edify.ac)
- Bill McShane, Associate Director for Integrated Learning at the University of Pittsburgh Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business & Scottish Nationality Room Secretary

Co-Sponsors:
- University Center for International Studies
- Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs
- European Studies Center
- Scottish Nationality Room
- Scottish Business Network
- Sister Cities International (SCI)
- Edify

In-Person: Scottish Nationality Room, Cathedral of Learning, Room #139, First Floor, 4200 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260

Please note, in-person capacity is limited and will be offered to the first registrants to select that they plan to attend in-person.

Effective March 28, the University has announced that masks are optional indoors. Further information can be found at the Power of Pitt: Building a Healthy and Resilient Community: https://www.coronavirus.pitt.edu/healthy-community/pitts-health-rules

If you are attending this event in-person, parking is available on-street or in Soldiers and Sailors parking garage.

A small reception will take place in the Schenley Croghan Room following the event.

Virtual: Please indicate that you plan to attend virtually when registering via Eventbrite. The virtual meeting link will be sent prior to the date of the event.

Meet the 2022 MEET EU Emerging EU Filmmaker in Residence, Simon Elvas. Students are invited to watch (along with the filmmaker) his satirical short film (20 minutes), that explores the intersection of politics, protest and culture. After the film, join Simon in a free-flowing discussion about American perceptions of Sweden, Swedish national identity, the filmmaking process, and more. Learn how Sweden is a world leader in weapon manufacturing, design, and export and how that fact has inspired Simon's current projects.
Simon Elvås is the ESC's 2022 MEET EU Emerging EU Filmmaker in Residence. Elvås is a filmmaker from Sweden, working with themes about masculinity and shame within the subjects of climate crisis and Swedish weapon export. Simon studied the bachelor program in directing fiction at Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Art.
In this satirical drama, a Turkish military delegation is visiting Sweden and the weapon engineer Josef has been entrusted with selling the new Swedish weapon system. Unfortunately, Joseph's 16-year-old daughter Nadia is a peace activist and together with her friends she is determined to stop the arms deal. When Josef can’t find his keycard, chaos and family quarrels breaks out in the middle of world politics.
This event will be in the Global Hub, Posvar Hall 1st Floor.
Please note that the University of Pittsburgh is closed to the public. This event is only for Pitt students, faculty, and staff with a valid Pitt Oakland ID. Masks are required in all University buildings.

Gianluca Passarelli
(Sapienza Università di Roma)

Presidents of the Republic are crucial actors in both presidential and semi-presidential regimes. Despite the fact that these two systems represent the majority of all the world’s political systems, the focus on the head of state has only relatively recently been covered comparatively and systematically. Although big gaps still persist in relation to many aspects of ‘presidential power’, advances have been made, and the ‘presidential’ world has been analysed with more sophisticated tools and concepts. However, the ‘presidential party’ remains relatively understudied at both the theoretical and the empirical levels. The ‘party of the president’ is the key political actor that affects presidential activity during his or her mandate. The article aims to present a theoretical framework and a potential guideline for comparative studies. I propose a conceptualisation of the presidential party and the theoretical possible effects of it on the legislature, which might be useful for further empirical analysis.

Juan Luis Manfredi Sánchez - Prince of Asturias Distinguished Visiting Professor, Georgetown University

Disinformation in the diplomatic field can be defined as politically motivated false or forged information intended to influence its audience. It is one of the most relevant topics in diplomacy and international relations because diplomats, journalists, military, and policymakers are interested in the way the messages are created, distributed, shared, and understood.

Russia's war against Ukraine raises new questions for the discipline: how can the EU deal with Russian disinformation? What are the effects of shutting down RT or Sputnik? What responsibility do technology companies have in spreading hate and lies? What does Zelensky's social media activity teach us about political communication and leadership? These and other questions serve to reflect on the future of Europe in the era of de-globalization, where facts -not mere opinions- are contested.

This event will follow a hybrid format.