The Russian war in Ukraine has had innumerable impacts, from personal to political, local, national, and global. One of the many sea changes wrought by the war has been the reckoning within Slavic/Russian & Eurasian Studies over the outsized role Russia has played and continues to play in the field and what could and should be done about it. In its third year, the In Focus series will focus on decolonizing Russian and Eurasian studies.

In connection with the publication of the 25 essays in The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Indian Cinema (2022), the co-editors, Neepa Majumdar (University of Pittsburgh) and Ranjani Mazumdar (Jawaharlal Nehru University) have invited six speakers to engage with the keywords archives, technology, circulation, and bodies as they relate to the book and to the fields of film and media studies and South Asia studies.

This is the third event as part of the series Race, Rebellion, and Global Solidarity. Black Star, Crescent Moon offers a new perspective on the political and cultural history of Black internationalism from the 1950s to the present. Author Sohail Daulatzai maps the rich, shared history between Black Muslims, Black radicals, and the Muslim Third World, placing them within a broader framework of American imperialism, Black identity, and the global nature of white oppression. Join us for a discussion with the author that will be facilitated by Dr.

Join us as we have a discussion with prominent social justice advocates who attended the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (UNPFPAD), as they share their observations and offer ideas on a global Declaration on the Rights of People of African Descent and how this new body can be a tool for building local and national movements to end white supremacy and advance racial justice.

This in-person, one and a half-hour roundtable includes the following Pitt faculty members and concludes the conference.
--John Markoff, Department of Sociology
--Diego Holstein, Department of History
--Michael Goodhart, Department of Political Science
--Mohammed Bamyeh, Department of Sociology
This roundtable will be moderated by Randall Halle, Department of German and the European Studies Center.

In this one and a half hour, in-person roundtable, John Markoff and other Pitt faculty will discuss "Democratic Histories, Democratic Futures."

In this one and a half hour, in-person panel, Jackie Smith, University of Pittsburgh, will discuss "Globalization and the Future of Democracy Today?"
Ben Manski, George Mason University, will discuss "The Other World That Is Necessary: The Imperative of Next System Studies." The discussion will be moderated by Nathan Katz, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh.

This one and half hour virtual panel on Histories of Democracy will be moderated by Mark Philp of the University of Warwick, UK

The speakers and their topics are:
--Eduardo Posada-Carbo, University of Oxford, UK "Simon Bolivar"
--Guy Thomson, University of Warwick, UK, "Benito Juarez"
--Stephen Sawyer, American University in Paris, France, "Napoleon II and the Third Republic"

Joanna Inness, University of Oxford, UK, will be the Commentator.

Lunch will be served for those watching the session in the Colloquium Room.

During this one and a half hour, in-person panel, Hillary Lazar will speak on "Democracy and the Anarchist Turn into 21st Century Activism" and Benjamin Case will speak on" Ballot Initiatives as a Window into Democracy in Crisis." The panel discussion will be moderated by Mark Paterson, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh.

As national teams join to compete in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, join the Global Studies Center to discuss the intersection of politics, global branding, human rights, and activism, and how they converge upon the most popular sport in the world. Panelists will discuss the historical context of sports and capitalism, the reconfiguration of urban spaces, and the -isms and phobias that exist within the sporting community. The panel will be moderated by Dr. Rob Ruck, Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh.