A faculty discussion exploring how international student programs are developed. Panelists will share their experiences, challenges, and successes in creating global learning opportunities. Panelists will share their experiences, challenges, and successes in building global learning opportunities. The session will include a brainstorming segment to identify strategies for strengthening institutional support and expanding the reach of Pitt’s sustainability-focused international education initiatives

Behind the pop art icon Andy Warhol stood Julia Warhola (born Závacka), a resilient immigrant whose creativity found voice in art and songs. Far from being merely “the artist’s mother,” she embodied the hopes, memories, and identities of thousands of Slavic women who built new lives in challenging industrial conditions of Pittsburgh in the beginning of twentieth century.

24-minute documentary screening and discussion with youth climate advocate, Karla Braga

Dr. Álvaro A. Bernal is a professor in the Foreign Language Department at UPJ, where he has served as a faculty member since 2006. He holds a PhD in Spanish from the University of Iowa, a Master’s degree in English Literature from Governors State University, a Master’s degree in Latin American Literature from the University of Northern Iowa, and a Master’s degree in Creative Writing in Spanish from Universidad Internacional de la Rioja, Spain.

Dr. Bernal is the author of two theoretical books on Bogotá:

As of September 2025, relations between China and Taiwan remain in a state of ‘managed tension’. China has reiterated the ‘One China’ principle, defining Taiwan as an ‘inseparable territory’, and has intensified military and diplomatic pressure on Taiwan independence forces. Since September, the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) has continuously violated Taiwan's Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), employing ‘gray zone’ tactics. The pace of air incursions, exceeding 300 per month as of August, has been sustained into September.

This event is part of a two-day series focusing on sustainability in Europe and Pittsburgh.

In this seminar, Honghong Tinn will introduce her new, open access book Island Tinkerers: Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan’s Computing Industry (MIT Press, 2025). Tinn's book tells the critical history of how hobbyists and enthusiasts in Taiwan, including engineers, technologists, technocrats, computer users, and engineers-turned-entrepreneurs, helped transform the country with their hands-on engagement with computers.

Freshman Program class visit.

The collapse of the USSR and the cultural revolution called "Perestroika" were reflected in numerous contemporaneous films, books and surprisingly even in video games. Games were just entering the mainstream, invisible to censorship and inaccessible to most of the public, and nevertheless multiple games trying to represent the historical moment appeared in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This talk looks at three video games made in different parts of the Soviet Union during the Perestroika as relics testifying to the confusion, anxiety and optimism of the Post-Soviet 1990s.

Former director of CLAS; Books include 1) Are Politics Local? The Two Dimensions of Party Nationalization around the World & 2) Patterns of Legislative Politics: Roll Call Voting in the United States and Latin America’s Southern Cone, both with Cambridge University Press. Currently working on a book about US-Latin American Relations, in addition to various projects about political parties and democracy in the region.