Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
Spring 2026 Tavola Italiana
Time: 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Presenter: Chiara Montera
Mangia con noi! Bring your lunch to the Global Hub every Thursday to chat with the Department of French and Italian and practice Italian!
Tavola Italiana will meet every Thursday during Spring semester, from January 15 to April 23, EXCEPT on January 29, February 5, February 12, and March 12.
Hosted by the Department of French and Italian
Wednesday, April 1st, 2026
Spring 2026 French Club Conversation Hours
Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6-7 pm during Spring semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
Hosted by the French Club
Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
Spring 2026 French Club Conversation Hours
Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6-7 pm during Spring semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
Hosted by the French Club
Spring 2026 Global Distinction Drop-In Hours
Presenter: Molly McSweeney
Join us for our weekly Global Distinction Drop-In Hours on Tuesdays from 3-4 pm in the Global Hub! Come learn how to gain experience that will help prepare you for a globally-connected job market, get the Global Distinction added to your academic transcript, receive special recognition at graduation, and stand out to prospective employers.
Monday, March 30th, 2026
2026 Spring German Speaking Hours
Join the German Club for weekly meetings on Mondays in the Global Hub to practice German and share about German culture!
Hosted by the German Club
Saturday, March 28th, 2026
Sustainable Cities & Communities: A Transatlantic Dialogue
Small Actions, Big Impact. A Sustainable Tomorrow!
Time: 11:00 am to 4:00 pm
Location: Wesley Posvar, Room 5601
11:00 AM- Urban Farmers and Green Spaces: Berlin’s Lessons for Pittsburgh
Dr. Jesko Hirschfeld, Humboldt University of Berlin
Urban farming in Pittsburgh took off around 2005 but has roots reaching back to the community gardens established in the 1940s. Berlin, by contrast, has incorporated various forms of urban gardening into its cityscape for nearly 200 years.
What insights can Pittsburgh draw from Berlin’s long history of urban farming? And what perspectives might Pittsburgh’s more recent initiatives offer to urban growers in Berlin?
In this engaging talk, Dr. Jesko Hirschfeld highlights innovative gardening initiatives, from classic allotments to new community-driven models. Explore how urban green spaces strengthen neighborhoods, improve climate resilience, and expand access to fresh food—while also confronting challenges like gentrification and shrinking public funding.
Join us for a lively look at how urban farmers shape healthier, greener cities.
1:00 PM- Part I: Panel Discussion
Moderator: Randall Halle, European Studies Center
Panelists:
Dr. Patrick Shirey — University of Pittsburgh
Lisa Freeman — Freeman and Family Farm
State Representative Emily Kinkead, PA House District 20, Chair of the Legislative Hunger Caucus
Dr. Jesko Hirschfeld — Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2:30 PM- Part II: Discussion Groups:
Group A: Urban Farming Challenges & Opportunities
Group B: Climate resilience strategies in cities
Group C: Ensuring nutrition security for vulnerable populations
3:30 PM-Part III: Call for Action with Closing Remarks
Thursday, March 26th, 2026
Spring 2026 Tavola Italiana
Time: 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Presenter: Chiara Montera
Mangia con noi! Bring your lunch to the Global Hub every Thursday to chat with the Department of French and Italian and practice Italian!
Tavola Italiana will meet every Thursday during Spring semester, from January 15 to April 23, EXCEPT on January 29, February 5, February 12, and March 12.
Hosted by the Department of French and Italian
Wednesday, March 25th, 2026
Spring 2026 French Club Conversation Hours
Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6-7 pm during Spring semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
Hosted by the French Club
Tuesday, March 24th, 2026
Spring 2026 French Club Conversation Hours
Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6-7 pm during Spring semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
Hosted by the French Club
Spring 2026 Global Distinction Drop-In Hours
Presenter: Molly McSweeney
Join us for our weekly Global Distinction Drop-In Hours on Tuesdays from 3-4 pm in the Global Hub! Come learn how to gain experience that will help prepare you for a globally-connected job market, get the Global Distinction added to your academic transcript, receive special recognition at graduation, and stand out to prospective employers.
Monday, March 23rd, 2026
2026 Spring German Speaking Hours
Join the German Club for weekly meetings on Mondays in the Global Hub to practice German and share about German culture!
Hosted by the German Club
Saturday, March 21st, 2026
Tea and Talk
Celebrating Inspiring Women of the Balkan Community
Celebrate Women's History Month by joining us for a conversation with inspiring women of the Balkan Community!
Featuring Dr. Deborah Studen-Pavlovich, DMD and Alema Galijatovic Idrizbegovic, PhD.
Sponsored by the Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs, Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, and European Studies Center.
Yugoslav Room, CL 142
Tea and Talk
Celebrating Inspiring Women of the Balkan Community
Time: 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Presenter: Deborah Studen-Pavlovich and Alema Galijatovic Idrizbegovic
Location: Yugoslav Nationality Room (142), Cathedral of Learning
Celebrate Women's History Month by joining the Yugoslav Nationality Room for a conversation with inspiring women of the Balkan community!
Dr. Deborah Studen-Pavlovich, DMD, served as professor, chair, and residency program director of the Department of Pediatric Denistry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine. In this role, she oversaw all of the Department's curricula and activities, including the annual Give Kids A Smile Days. She graduated cum laude from Butler University in 1976 and received her DMD and certificate in pediatric denistry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine.
Dr. Alema Galijatovic Idrizbegovic, PhD, was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1991, she came to the United States as a high school exchange student in Gallatin, TN. After obtaining a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, she started her career at Merck & Co. in 2003, where she held several positions and reached her most recent post as the Vice President of the Nonclinical Drug Safety Department.
Friday, March 20th, 2026 to Sunday, March 22nd, 2026
REEESNe 2026 Student Conference
The University of Pittsburgh's Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, the European Studies Center, and the Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia join Yale University's Macmillan Center to host the 2026 REEESNe Student Conference. This FREE student conference will bring together undergraduate and Master's-level students from the northeast and beyond. The event will feature panels of student research papers, roundtables for presenting student experiences (study abroad, internships, volunteering, etc.), and a professionalization panel with alumni, who apply REEES expertise in a diversity of careers.
Application Deadline: December 12, 2025
Thursday, March 19th, 2026
Spring 2026 Tavola Italiana
Time: 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Presenter: Chiara Montera
Mangia con noi! Bring your lunch to the Global Hub every Thursday to chat with the Department of French and Italian and practice Italian!
Tavola Italiana will meet every Thursday during Spring semester, from January 15 to April 23, EXCEPT on January 29, February 5, February 12, and March 12.
Hosted by the Department of French and Italian
Wednesday, March 18th, 2026
Spring 2026 French Club Conversation Hours
Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6-7 pm during Spring semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
Hosted by the French Club
Tuesday, March 17th, 2026
Spring 2026 French Club Conversation Hours
Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6-7 pm during Spring semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
Hosted by the French Club
Merenda Italiana
Announced by:
on behalf of
The Department of French and Italian are hosting a special Tavola Italiana event to advertise for Fall 2026 ITAL courses
Spring 2026 Global Distinction Drop-In Hours
Presenter: Molly McSweeney
Join us for our weekly Global Distinction Drop-In Hours on Tuesdays from 3-4 pm in the Global Hub! Come learn how to gain experience that will help prepare you for a globally-connected job market, get the Global Distinction added to your academic transcript, receive special recognition at graduation, and stand out to prospective employers.
Monday, March 16th, 2026
2026 Spring German Speaking Hours
Join the German Club for weekly meetings on Mondays in the Global Hub to practice German and share about German culture!
Hosted by the German Club
Tuesday, March 10th, 2026
Spring 2026 Global Distinction Drop-In Hours
Presenter: Molly McSweeney
Join us for our weekly Global Distinction Drop-In Hours on Tuesdays from 3-4 pm in the Global Hub! Come learn how to gain experience that will help prepare you for a globally-connected job market, get the Global Distinction added to your academic transcript, receive special recognition at graduation, and stand out to prospective employers.
High School Euro Challenge 2026
Location: 4130 & 4217 Posvar Hall
Euro Challenge is a competition about the currency and policies that shape the EU for 9th and 10th-grade students across the US. Student teams work on a presentation about the economics of the euro currency area and tackle a specific challenge faced by a member country. Students become policymakers, crafting solutions to a topical issue, and give a 15-minute presentation.
Thursday, March 5th, 2026
ICE, Ukraine, Wars, Refugees: What is the Future of International Legal Order
“Displacement, the Right of Asylum, the Need to Migrate.”
Location: 125 Frick Arts Building
This month, inspired by the 75th anniversary of the Geneva Refugee Convention, the series turns its attention to questions of migrant and refugee rights.
With more than 122 million people displaced worldwide in 2025, we face conditions we have not experienced since the end of World War II. Along with this record of people fleeing war and conflict, there are further millions who have set out to find a better life for themselves and their families.
Often classified as economic migrants, they are also subject to aggression in their new countries of residence: the ICE actions in the US represent currently the most visible backlash migrants confront worldwide.
Join in a discussion with experts in our community to consider where we are, who we are, and what we can do.
Moderator:
Randall Halle, Director of the European Studies Center
Panelists:
Anouar Rahmani, City of Asylum, is an Algerian novelist, journalist, and human rights defender whose literary work boldly challenges societal norms and advocates for freedom of expression, LGBTQ+ rights, and social justice.
Ankur Sakaria, Policy Manager, Mayor Corey O’Connor
Joseph Murphy, Esq., Allegheny Immigration Group
Rosamaria Criotello, Founder and Executive Director of the Latino Community Center
Spring 2026 Tavola Italiana
Time: 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Presenter: Chiara Montera
Mangia con noi! Bring your lunch to the Global Hub every Thursday to chat with the Department of French and Italian and practice Italian!
Tavola Italiana will meet every Thursday during Spring semester, from January 15 to April 23, EXCEPT on January 29, February 5, February 12, and March 12.
Hosted by the Department of French and Italian
Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
Spring 2026 French Club Conversation Hours
Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6-7 pm during Spring semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
Hosted by the French Club
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026
Spring 2026 French Club Conversation Hours
Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6-7 pm during Spring semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
Hosted by the French Club
Spring 2026 Global Distinction Drop-In Hours
Presenter: Molly McSweeney
Join us for our weekly Global Distinction Drop-In Hours on Tuesdays from 3-4 pm in the Global Hub! Come learn how to gain experience that will help prepare you for a globally-connected job market, get the Global Distinction added to your academic transcript, receive special recognition at graduation, and stand out to prospective employers.
Monday, March 2nd, 2026
2026 Spring German Speaking Hours
Join the German Club for weekly meetings on Mondays in the Global Hub to practice German and share about German culture!
Hosted by the German Club
Thursday, February 26th, 2026
Spring 2026 Tavola Italiana
Time: 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Presenter: Chiara Montera
Mangia con noi! Bring your lunch to the Global Hub every Thursday to chat with the Department of French and Italian and practice Italian!
Tavola Italiana will meet every Thursday during Spring semester, from January 15 to April 23, EXCEPT on January 29, February 5, February 12, and March 12.
Hosted by the Department of French and Italian
Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
Spring 2026 French Club Conversation Hours
Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6-7 pm during Spring semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
Hosted by the French Club
Tuesday, February 24th, 2026
Spring 2026 French Club Conversation Hours
Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6-7 pm during Spring semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
Hosted by the French Club
Monday, February 23rd, 2026
2026 Spring German Speaking Hours
Join the German Club for weekly meetings on Mondays in the Global Hub to practice German and share about German culture!
Hosted by the German Club
Tourism Goes Digital
Presenter: Stefania M. Maci, Distinguished Italian Fulbright Lecture
Location: 4130 Posvar Hall
Join Dr. Maci as she examines live virtual guided tours as an emerging communicative practice in tourism, showing how language and digital technologies intersect to foster interaction, craft compelling storytelling, and engage audiences in new and dynamic ways.
About the speaker:
Dr. Stefania Maci is a full professor of English Language, Linguistics and Translation at the University of Bergamo, where she is also chair of the Master's Degree Course in Text Science and Culture Enhancement in the Digital Age.
Her research focuses on the analysis of English used in academic settings, with particular emphasis on English for tourism, medical English and the construction of (professional) identity in national, international and professional contexts. She also works on AI and LLMs, with an approach based on Corpus Linguistics and Critical Discourse Studies.
Her most recent publications are The Routledge Handbook of Scientific Communication (2022), The Routledge Handbook of Discourse and Disinformation (2023), and Translating Tourism (2025)
This event is part of the SPRING 2026: Transformation of Place
Thursday, February 19th, 2026
Intercultural Understanding and Global Connections: Education, Research, and Internships
Presenter: Molly McSweeney
**This event was originally scheduled for January 29, but it has been postponed to February 19 due to weather.**
Join us for a conversation with Pitt students who have participated in diverse experiential learning opportunities. Hear what inspired them, how these experiences helped internationalize their degrees, and the impact on their personal, academic, and professional growth. Facilitated by Dr. Abdesalam Soudi, this session will include audience engagement to share experiences and explore ways to get involved. Students, faculty, and administrators alike are invited to contribute to this dialogue on enriching experiential global learning.
Pitt undergraduate students can earn Global Distinction credit for attending.
A light lunch will be served. Attendees are encouraged to bring a refillable water bottle.
Moderator:
- Dr. Abdesalam Soudi - Teaching Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics; Dean's Fellow for Experiential Learning (ExL @ Pitt), Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences
Panelists:
- Leyla Ahmadova - Undergraduate student double majoring in Economics and Statistics, Global Studies Certificate in Politics and Economy
- Isabella Cicco - Ph.D. student, Civil Engineering
- Alison Gibbons - B.S., Public Health, Class of 2025
- Avni Prabhu - Undergraduate student double majoring in Microbiology and Economics, Chemistry minor
Co-Sponsors:
- University Center for International Studies
- Pitt Global Hub
- Pitt Global Studies Center
- Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation
- Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences
Spring 2026 Tavola Italiana
Time: 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Presenter: Chiara Montera
Mangia con noi! Bring your lunch to the Global Hub every Thursday to chat with the Department of French and Italian and practice Italian!
Tavola Italiana will meet every Thursday during Spring semester, from January 15 to April 23, EXCEPT on January 29, February 5, February 12, and March 12.
Hosted by the Department of French and Italian
Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
Spring 2026 French Club Conversation Hours
Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6-7 pm during Spring semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
Hosted by the French Club
Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
Spring 2026 French Club Conversation Hours
Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6-7 pm during Spring semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
Hosted by the French Club
Spring 2026 Global Distinction Drop-In Hours
Presenter: Molly McSweeney
Join us for our weekly Global Distinction Drop-In Hours on Tuesdays from 3-4 pm in the Global Hub! Come learn how to gain experience that will help prepare you for a globally-connected job market, get the Global Distinction added to your academic transcript, receive special recognition at graduation, and stand out to prospective employers.
Monday, February 16th, 2026
2026 Spring German Speaking Hours
Join the German Club for weekly meetings on Mondays in the Global Hub to practice German and share about German culture!
Hosted by the German Club
Wednesday, February 11th, 2026
Spring 2026 French Club Conversation Hours
Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6-7 pm during Spring semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
Hosted by the French Club
Tuesday, February 10th, 2026
Spring 2026 French Club Conversation Hours
Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6-7 pm during Spring semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
Hosted by the French Club
Spring 2026 Global Distinction Drop-In Hours
Presenter: Molly McSweeney
Join us for our weekly Global Distinction Drop-In Hours on Tuesdays from 3-4 pm in the Global Hub! Come learn how to gain experience that will help prepare you for a globally-connected job market, get the Global Distinction added to your academic transcript, receive special recognition at graduation, and stand out to prospective employers.
Monday, February 9th, 2026
2026 Spring German Speaking Hours
Join the German Club for weekly meetings on Mondays in the Global Hub to practice German and share about German culture!
Hosted by the German Club
Saturday, February 7th, 2026
EU Film Festival: Kyiv Theater, Island of Hope (Ukraine/France)
Double Feature: Voices of Hope from Ukraine
Location: University of Pittsburgh, 121 David Lawrence Hall
Final Day of the 2026 EU Film Festival: Democracy, Community and [Space] Aliens!
First Film:
Teen Angst
Ukraine
2025
Director: Inga Pylypchuk
Documentary, 37 MIN
Nine young Ukrainian women document life in a war zone with honesty, humor, fear, and resilience. Their collaborative desktop film captures what coming-of-age looks like when the world is on fire.
2nd Film: Kyiv Theater, Island of Hope
France/Ukraine
2024
Director: Duccio Bellugi-Vannuccini & Thomas Briat
Documentary, 110 MIN
A legendary French theater director brings a workshop to wartime Kyiv, igniting a creative refuge amid destruction. The film celebrates the power of performance and the unshakeable spirit of Ukrainian artists.
EU Film Festival: Teen Angst (and Kyiv Theater, Island of Hope) (Ukraine/Germany)
Double Feature: Voices of Hope from Ukraine
Location: University of Pittsburgh, 121 David Lawrence Hall
Final Day of the 2026 EU Film Festival: Democracy, Community and [Space] Aliens!
Teen Angst
Ukraine/Germany
2025
Director: Inga Pylypchuk
Documentary, 37 MIN
Nine young Ukrainian women document life in a war zone with honesty, humor, fear, and resilience. Their collaborative desktop film captures what coming-of-age looks like when the world is on fire.
2nd Film: Kyiv Theater, Island of Hope
France/Ukraine
2024
Director: Duccio Bellugi-Vannuccini & Thomas Briat
Documentary, 110 MIN
A legendary French theater director brings a workshop to wartime Kyiv, igniting a creative refuge amid destruction. The film celebrates the power of performance and the unshakeable spirit of Ukrainian artists.
Keynote Address — Socialisms' Audible Glitches
Worlding Broken Records, Erased Tapes, and Archival Quiet
Presenter: Andrea Bohlman
Location: 208 Cathedral of Learning
Keynote Address for Auditory Cultures of World Socialism Symposium
Festivals of international friendship with their eroticized and racialized soundscapes, bootleg recordings of music from abroad, oral histories and testimonies—these are canonic sites for socialist worldmaking through sound, familiar vehicles for articulating or contesting visions of global collectivity. Yet they all cast listening and sound as vectors of thinking big. In this talk, I turn to the sound archives of world socialism with an ear for the intimate, small-scale, and particular. How can we attune ourselves to the global inequalities, insurgencies of class politics, and moments of transnational (im)mobility that complicate the media narratives inherited from the Cold War? Drawing on anthropologist Marina Peterson’s “glitch methodology” for the study of audio recording, I suggest modes for thinking of literal broken records, erased tapes, and quiet in the archive as constitutive elements of world socialisms’ sonic commons.
An associate professor of music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Andrea Bohlman studies the political stakes of music making and sound in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Much of Bohlman’s work builds on her expertise in music in East Central Europe, cultures of protest, and everyday histories of sound recording. Her 2020 monograph, Musical Solidarities: Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century Poland, grows out of a decade of research on the work of sound and music for the opposition to state socialism in Poland. Bohlman is currently writing a book, provisionally titled Rewind: Tape Recording, Sound Knowledge, and the Threads of History, 2020–1936, that is in many senses a backwards history of tape recording. The book unspools a constellation of tape archives to query histories of unstable listening.
Friday, February 6th, 2026
EU Film Festival: Dahomey (France, Benin, and Senegal)
Location: University of Pittsburgh, Public Health, G23
2026 EU Film Festival: Democracy, Community and (Space) Aliens!
France, Benin, and Senegal
2024
Director: Mati Diop
Documentary, 68 MIN
As 26 stolen royal treasures finally return home from France to Benin, the objects themselves narrate a story of colonialism and reclamation. Mati Diop’s Golden Bear–winning documentary sparks a vibrant debate about history, democracy, and the future of cultural memory.
Group Discussion to follow the screening of the film.
Friday, February 6th, 2026 to Saturday, February 7th, 2026
Auditory Cultures of World Socialism
Location: Cathedral of Learning 208
This two-day symposium will forge new lines of inquiry and dialogue in the study of sound and society under state socialism. Scholars from history, music, literature, film, and media studies will share recent work on regions of the globe from the Caribbean to East Asia where the revolutionary reshaping of political and social relations has had far-reaching effects on the way people hear the world around them. In the course of the conference, we will ask: how are political ideologies made audible? What are the material conditions, media networks, and sensory attunements that underpin state control of the means of sound production? And what might a “socialist sound studies” look or sound like?
Recent decades have witnessed a “sonic turn” across the humanities and social sciences, as sound is increasingly recognized as a generative resource for historical, aesthetic, and ethnographic research. In keeping with sound’s unruly capacity for bleeding through walls and bridging distances between people and places, this gathering will encourage conversations across regional and disciplinary boundaries. While the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China continue to play outsize roles in our understanding of state-socialist political formations, there is much to be heard in the transnational, peripheral, and intermedial spaces in which socialist ideas have flourished.
The symposium will include panels featuring eight invited speakers, commentary from University of Pittsburgh faculty, and a keynote address by Andrea Bohlman, Associate Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Co-sponsored by:
Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies | Department of Music | Department of History | Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures | World History Center | European Studies Center | Global Studies Center | Asian Studies Center | Center for African Studies | Department of History of Art & Architecture | Department of English
Thursday, February 5th, 2026
EU Film Festival: Desktop Documentary Films by: Lého Galibert-Laîné (France)
Curated and Introduced by Charlotte Scurlock
Location: University of Pittsburgh, Public Health G23
2026 EU Film Festival: Democracy, Community and (Space) Aliens!
A bold selection of experimental works exploring how cinema, the internet, and memory collide. These shorts push the boundaries of the video essay form, inviting viewers into an inventive new mode of storytelling.
About the Director: https://lehogalibertlaine.com/
Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
Spring 2026 French Club Conversation Hours
Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6-7 pm during Spring semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
Hosted by the French Club
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026
Spring 2026 French Club Conversation Hours
Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6-7 pm during Spring semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
Hosted by the French Club
Spring 2026 Global Distinction Drop-In Hours
Presenter: Molly McSweeney
Join us for our weekly Global Distinction Drop-In Hours on Tuesdays from 3-4 pm in the Global Hub! Come learn how to gain experience that will help prepare you for a globally-connected job market, get the Global Distinction added to your academic transcript, receive special recognition at graduation, and stand out to prospective employers.
Monday, February 2nd, 2026
2026 Spring German Speaking Hours
Join the German Club for weekly meetings on Mondays in the Global Hub to practice German and share about German culture!
Hosted by the German Club
Sunday, February 1st, 2026
EU Film Festival: Elfogy a llevegõ/Without Air (Hungary)
Location: Harris Theater, 809 Liberty Avenue
2026 European Film Festival (EUFF): Democracy, Community and (Space) Aliens!
Hungary
2023
Director: Katalin Moldovia
Drama, 105 MIN
A Hungarian literature teacher faces a moral and political firestorm after recommending a film about queer poets. This timely drama captures the pressure of censorship, fear, and courage in a community on edge.
*Free Admission with University and College ID
*Free to Pitt ID for Faculty and Staff
EU Film Festival: Petra Kelly, Act Now! (Germany)
Location: Harris Theater, 809 Liberty Avenue
2026 EU Film Festival: Democracy, Community and (Space) Aliens!
Germany
2024
Director: Doris Metz
Documentary, 104 MIN
Looking for a politician of stature in a moment of dramatic political change? As a founding member of the Green Party, Petra Kelly played a decisive part in shaping political discourse in West Germany in the 1980s.
*Free Admission with University and College ID
*Free to Pitt ID for Faculty and Staff
Saturday, January 31st, 2026
EU Film Festival: Terytorium/Territory (Poland)
Location: Harris Theater, 809 Liberty Avenue
2026 European Film Festival (EUFF): Democracy, Community and (Space) Aliens!
Poland
2025
Director: Bartek Paduch
Drama, 97 MIN
A Polish cop uncovers a disturbing case that pulls him into a web of secrets uncomfortably close to home. Tense and tightly wound, it’s a European thriller with emotional stakes that hit universally.
Free Admission with University and College ID
Free to Pitt ID for Faculty and Staff
EU Film Festival: Marijas klusums/Maria's Silence (Latvia)
Location: Harris Theater, 809 Liberty Avenue
2026 EU Film Festival: Democracy, Community and (Space) Aliens!
Latvia
2024
Director: Dāvis Sīmanis
Historical Drama, 104 MIN
A Latvian actress enters Stalin’s USSR seeking her grandchild and finds herself trapped inside a machinery of terror. This gripping historical drama exposes the everyday innocence shattered by ideology and violence.
Friday, January 30th, 2026
EU Film Festival: Les Barbares/Meet the Barbarians (France)
Location: Harris Theater, 809 Liberty Avenue
2026 EU Film Festival: Democracy, Community and [Space] Aliens!
France
2024
Director: Julie Delpy
Comedy/Drama, 101 MIN
When a French village accidentally welcomes the “wrong” refugee family, their assumptions get turned upside down. Julie Delpy’s warm, funny dramedy asks who the real barbarians are when fear meets humanity.
*Free Admission with University and College ID
*Free to Pitt ID for Faculty and Staff
Thursday, January 29th, 2026
EU Film Festival: FRANTA MIMOZEMSTAN/Space Frank (Czech Republic)
Location: University of Pittsburgh, Location: Public Health, G23
2026 EU Film Festival: Democracy, Community and (Space) Aliens!
Czech Republic
2024
Director: Rudolf Havlik
Sci-Fi, 109 MIN
Strange happenings in a quiet Moravian village spark an offbeat alien mystery no one is prepared for. Campy, charming, and deeply European, this sci-fi romp asks what happens when your weirdest neighbor might actually be from space. Come to our feature screening for your space alien swag!
"The US, the EU, the Past and Future of the International Legal Order"
Location: University Club-Conference Room A, 3rd Floor
Ukraine. Gaza. Venezuela. Greenland. NATO.
Discussions of the state of the international legal order fill our headlines and newsfeeds. They compel us to ask: what is happening to our world? The transatlantic relationship has provided the foundation of the International Legal Order for decades, but at this moment, that foundation seems to be crumbling.
Pause your podcasts and join in for a live discussion of where we are and where we are headed!
Ruth Bajada, Deputy Ambassador of the EU Delegation to the United States
Joined by:
Prof. Ronald Brand, Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg University Professor and Director of the Center for International Legal Education
Prof. Randall Halle, Klaus W. Jonas Professor and Director of the Jean Monnet EU Center of Excellence
Prof. Carissa Slotterback, Dean of the School of Public and International Affairs, Moderator
This event is part of the European Studies Center's lecture series The International Legal Order.
"The US, the EU, the Past and Future of the International Legal Order"
Location: University Club-Conference Room A, 3rd Floor
Ukraine. Gaza. Venezuela. Greenland. NATO.
Discussions of the state of the international legal order fill our headlines and newsfeeds. They compel us to ask: what is happening to our world? The transatlantic relationship has provided the foundation of the International Legal Order for decades, but at this moment, that foundation seems to be crumbling.
Pause your podcasts and join in for a live discussion of where we are and where we are headed!
Ruth Bajada, Deputy Ambassador, Head of the EU Delegation in Washington
Joined by:
Prof. Ronald Brand, Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg University Professor and Director of the Center for International Legal Education
Prof. Randall Halle, Klaus W. Jonas Professor and Director of the Jean Monnet EU Center of Excellence
Prof. Carissa Slotterback, Dean of the School of Public and International Affairs, Moderator
This event is part of the European Studies Center's lecture series The International Legal Order.
Wednesday, January 28th, 2026
EU Film Festival: External Action: At the Heart of European Diplomacy (Spain)
Location: University of Pittsburgh, Location: TBD
This marks the beginning of our 2026 EU Film Festival. This year's theme: "Democracy, Community and (Space) Aliens!"
Spain
2024
Director: Dir. Albert Solé
Documentary, 54 MIN
A rare, behind-the-scenes look at how the EU navigates an increasingly chaotic geopolitical landscape. This documentary follows Josep Borrell through real-time diplomatic crises, revealing how global policy actually gets made.
A discussion after the documentary.
Spring 2026 French Club Conversation Hours
Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6-7 pm during Spring semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
Hosted by the French Club
Tuesday, January 27th, 2026
Spring 2026 French Club Conversation Hours
Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6-7 pm during Spring semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
Hosted by the French Club
Spring 2026 Global Distinction Drop-In Hours
Presenter: Molly McSweeney
Join us for our weekly Global Distinction Drop-In Hours on Tuesdays from 3-4 pm in the Global Hub! Come learn how to gain experience that will help prepare you for a globally-connected job market, get the Global Distinction added to your academic transcript, receive special recognition at graduation, and stand out to prospective employers.
Monday, January 26th, 2026
2026 Spring German Speaking Hours
Join the German Club for weekly meetings on Mondays in the Global Hub to practice German and share about German culture!
Hosted by the German Club
Thursday, January 22nd, 2026
Spring 2026 Tavola Italiana
Time: 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Presenter: Chiara Montera
Mangia con noi! Bring your lunch to the Global Hub every Thursday to chat with the Department of French and Italian and practice Italian!
Tavola Italiana will meet every Thursday during Spring semester, from January 15 to April 23, EXCEPT on January 29, February 5, February 12, and March 12.
Hosted by the Department of French and Italian
Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
Spring 2026 French Club Conversation Hours
Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6-7 pm during Spring semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
Hosted by the French Club
Tuesday, January 20th, 2026
Spring 2026 French Club Conversation Hours
Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6-7 pm during Spring semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
Hosted by the French Club
Spring 2026 Global Distinction Drop-In Hours
Presenter: Molly McSweeney
Join us for our weekly Global Distinction Drop-In Hours on Tuesdays from 3-4 pm in the Global Hub! Come learn how to gain experience that will help prepare you for a globally-connected job market, get the Global Distinction added to your academic transcript, receive special recognition at graduation, and stand out to prospective employers.
Thursday, January 15th, 2026
Spring 2026 Tavola Italiana
Time: 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Presenter: Chiara Montera
Mangia con noi! Bring your lunch to the Global Hub every Thursday to chat with the Department of French and Italian and practice Italian!
Tavola Italiana will meet every Thursday during Spring semester, from January 15 to April 23, EXCEPT on January 29, February 5, February 12, and March 12.
Hosted by the Department of French and Italian
Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
Spring 2026 French Club Conversation Hours
Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6-7 pm during Spring semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
Hosted by the French Club
Tuesday, January 13th, 2026
Spring 2026 French Club Conversation Hours
Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6-7 pm during Spring semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
Hosted by the French Club
Wednesday, December 10th, 2025
French Club Conversation Hour
Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6-7 pm during Fall semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
UPDATE: On September 10 and November 5, the French Club and the French Department will have a joint event in the Global Hub, from 5:30 to 7 pm.
The French Club will meet twice weekly, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, during Fall 2025, EXCEPT on November 25 and November 26.
Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
French Club Conversation Hour
Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6-7 pm during Fall semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
UPDATE: On September 10 and November 5, the French Club and the French Department will have a joint event in the Global Hub, from 5:30 to 7 pm.
The French Club will meet twice weekly, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, during Fall 2025, EXCEPT on November 25 and November 26.