Join us for a series of dynamic discussions surrounding Pittsburgh's changing cultural landscape, featuring local women leaders.

Our Asian community panel discussion will include representatives from Pittsburgh's Bhutanese, Chinese, Indian, and Iraqi communities. More details to be released soon.

Register here: https://www.worldpittsburgh.org/event/diversity-through-the-eyes-of-women/

Join the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh and Duquesne University's Department of Political Science as they host Dr. Stephen Walt, the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, for a discussion on foreign policy and new strategies for America.

This free event is sponsored by Duquesne University's Raymond J. Kelley Endowed Chair as a Distinguished Speaker in International Relations.

This event is free and open to the public.

Panel Discussions will be held on the following topics:
Networks and Power
9:30-11:30 am
Moderator: James Cook
Panelists:
Andrew MacDonald (University of Louisville)
The Impact of Internet Use on Political Attitudes: New Survey Data from China
Bo Mai (University of Pennsylvania)
Talking about Censorship: Mapping Topic Clusters on the Chinese Twitter Sphere
John Wagner Givens (Carnegie Mellon University)
Justice Online: Is the Internet Empowering Lawyers, Legal Mobilization, and Rule of Law Reform in China?

These experts will share their entrepreneurial field experiences working with populations in East Africa to provide education, shelter, healthcare and other basic social services. Students will have the opportunity to meet with them, hear their stories, ask questions, and learn about opportunities to get involved.

Panel discussing Dr. Fullilove's book, Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It. Panelists TBA and lunch provided.
Hosted by Pitt's School of Social Work

Organized by Giuseppina Mecchia and Francesca Savoia (French and Italian)
With the support of: The European Studies Center, The Humanities Center, The World History Center, The Graduate Program for Cultural Studies, The Department of English, The Department of French and Italian.
Discussant Presentations
Jenna Berardino (Italian)
Brendan Ezvan
(French)
Jonathan Arac
(English)
John Lyons
(German)
Jonathan Platt
(Russian)

General Discussion

Reception

Dr. Salah Hadi Saleh is the Director General of the Scholarship Department of the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education. He will lead a roundtable discussion of the challenges and opportunities facing legal education in Iraq and lessons that can be drawn from the development and export of legal education elsewhere in the world. Commentators on Dr. Saleh's presentation will be Mais Abbas Abousy, Tamara Capeta, and Professor Haider Hamoudi, moderated by Professor Ronald A. Brand.

Max Rameu, organizer and author of Take Back the Land and Rob Robinson, International Alliance of Inhabitants & National Economic and Social Rights Initiative.

Keynote Speakers: Desiree Fields, urban geographer at the University of Sheffield (UK) and Ernesto López-Morales is Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Chile in Santiago. Housing Summit Welcome Message, Ms. Leilani Farha, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing as a Human Right.

What has been described in the media as a migration crisis in Europe is being characterized by many aid workers as a reception crisis. The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has taken the lead among European heads of state in advocating for a safe and effective process of resettling migrants. Taking Germany as an example, our panel of experts will discuss the migrant experience in that country. What are the legal processes for applying for asylum or settling as an economic migrant? What is the pathway to citizenship? What has been the public response?