Leilani Farha, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Housing, will speak about her work bringing demands for housing justice to governments and working with the global housing rights movement through her organization #Maketheshift with featured panelists. Panelists include: Carl Redwood, Pittsburgh's Hill District Consensus Group, Dr. Michael Goodhart, Director of Pitt Global Studies Center, and Rob Robinson of the US Human Rights Cities Alliance, International Alliance of Inhabitants and Partners for Dignity Rights.

La sexta conferencia de Charlemos tendrá lugar el lunes, 19 de octubre a las 17:00 EDT. Esta charla está copatrocinado por el Departamento de Ciencia Política de la Universidad de los Andes. Raul Sánchez-Urribarri (Universidad de La Trobe, Melbourne, Australia) moderará una discusión entre Angelika Rettberg (Universidad de Los Andes), Sandra Botero (Universidad del Rosario), y Laura Gamboa (Universidad de Utah) acerca del tema "Amenazas hacia la democracia en Colombia".

The EU's relations with Iran have strengthened since the signing of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in 2015. These relations have become more important now, as the current US administration is determined to further undermine the agreement by pressing the UN to restore economic sanctions and extend the arms embargo against Iran. The EU’s disagreement with the US position has brought the nuclear non-proliferation regime, the maintenance of international agreements, and the future of European relations with the US and Iran at a crossroads.

Peace Corps Pitt Alumni Panel
Tuesday, October 27th, 6:30-7:30pm
Zoom Discussion

Join us to learn about service overseas from Pitt Alumni that served in the Peace Corps. Gain valuable information from those who served, ask questions about service, and learn how the Peace Corps helped their careers.

Register at:
https://signup.com/go/dVfvhZc

Join us to understand the particular challenges scholars of color encounter when going for research in our region, hear some personal advice, and learn what faculty, departments, and higher education institutions can do to better serve emerging scholars in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

OCTOBER 16

2-3:30 pm (ET) | 1-2:30 pm (CT) | 12-1:30 pm (MT) | 11am-12:30 pm (PT)

Moderator:
Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon, University of Pennsylvania

Please join Pitt Honors on Wednesday, October 14 from 9 A.M.– 10:00 A.M. with Dereck Hogan and Megan Oates!

In celebration of all things global, join two speakers as they share how their Pitt degrees from the Honors College and UCIS led them to successful careers in international affairs and public service.

For Year 3 of our faculty development workshops for community colleges and minority-serving institutions, we are offering a series of monthly webinars focused on technology. The first of the webinars will examine Technology and Privacy: The Right To Be Forgotten with particular focus on the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its global impact. Register here

Confronting the global challenges of climate change and communicable disease cannot be achieved by any single country, but must be met by constructive cooperation among nations. Although the United States and China will compete in many areas, it is imperative they join forces to face these universal problems that affect global stability and endanger the world's most vulnerable people.

Robust bilateral economic and trade ties have been the greatest source of strength and foundation for engagement in the U.S.-China relationship for decades. Yet in recent years those ties have been frayed by an ongoing trade war, the threat of decoupling, and a global economic and public health crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

As mutual distrust diminishes opportunities for U.S.-China engagement, the National Committee believes that it is imperative to reach out to people in China, in their native language, to discuss the range of views on the People’s Republic of China that exist within the United States, and the history, culture, and values that underpin those views.