Dr. Maxine Wright-Walters and Dr. Abimbola Fapohunda warmly invite you to attend a presentation and panel discussion on “Black Immigrants: Exploring Disparities and Inequities that contribute to overall Health.” Results from a recent survey will be presented and the discussion will be focused on systemic and long-term determinants of health outcomes among Black immigrants in Southwestern PA. The discussion will focus on jobs, health, education and housing.

Grab a coffee and join GSC for the first of our monthly series where we host an informal discussion about a pressing issue of the day. Get global insight and bring your thoughts to share or questions to have addressed. Cookies served!

For more information and to register for this FREE virtual briefing: http://virtualbriefing.eventbrite.com/?s=83955634

Open World Leadership Center, a legislative branch agency, will send a delegation of Crimean Tatars from Ukraine to Pittsburgh from April 13 - 21 2018. While in Pittsburgh, Open World delegates will be hosted by GlobalPittsburgh.

In 2011, Pittsburgh’s City Council named our city a “Human Rights City.” This designation signals the city’s commitment to human rights and its intention to “[work] to provide leadership and advocacy to secure, protect, and promote human rights for all people.” This panel offers perspectives about how this commitment to human rights could be realized in the area of housing.

China has undergone dramatic change in its economic institutions in recent years, but surprisingly little change politically. Somehow, the political institutions seem capable of governing a vastly more complex market economy and a rapidly changing labor force. One possible explanation, examined in Zouping Revisited, is that within the old organizational molds there have been subtle but profound changes to the ways these governing bodies actually work.

Book launch and panel discussion. To register, visit https://shale_book_launch.eventbrite.com.

Panelists:
Shanti Gamper-Rabindran, University of Pittsburgh, GSPIA

Reid Frazier
Allegheny Front, StateImpact Pennsylvania, Trump on Earth podcast

Amy Sisk
StateImpact Pennsylvania, 90.5 FM WESA

Join the Japan America Society of Pennsylvania, the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh, and the Western Pennsylvania Global Business Forum for a breakfast briefing and moderated panel discussion on the growing energy economy in Western Pennsylvania.

This session explores ways in which the Baltic region enabled the rise and consolidation of the French
colonial empire in the Americas. As a supplier of naval stores, the Baltic has long been viewed as central to
early modern European expansion overseas. Nevertheless, its particular association with French empire
building remains little studied. Drawing on data from the Danish Sound Toll Registers and French consular
records form Copenhagen, Elsinore, Stockholm, and St. Petersburg, the paper delineates how French