Faculty of Other Institution

Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence

Subtitle: 
Humanizing the Global, Globalizing the Human Lecture Series
Presenter: 
Dr. Gregory Cajete, University of New Mexico (Native Studies)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 01/16/2020 - 16:30 to 18:00

Gregory Cajete is Professor of Native American Studies and Language, Literacy and Sociocultural Studies at the University of New Mexico. He received his Ph.D. from International College – Los Angeles New Philosophy Program in Social Science Education with an emphasis in Native American Studies. Dr. Cajete is a Native American educator whose work is dedicated to honoring the foundations of Indigenous knowledge in education. Dr. Cajete is a Tewa Indian from Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico.

Location: 
4130 Posvar Hall
Cost: 
Free and Open to the Public
Contact Person: 
Veronica Dristas
Contact Email: 
dristas@pitt.edu

Proficiency-Based Language Teaching

Presenter: 
Evgeny Dengub and Irina Dubinina
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sat, 11/09/2019 - 10:00

This workshop for Pitt STARTALK program staff and other high school and college level Russian language instructors includes sessions on adapting materials for proficiency-based learning activities and assessments; teaching novice level students using a proficiency-based approach; and proficiency-based and content-based teaching in the advanced language classroom.

Location: 
CL 1219
Contact Person: 
Olga Klimova
Contact Email: 
vok1@pitt.edu

The Visibility of Perception. On the Experience of Urban Environments

Subtitle: 
Humanizing The Global, Globalizing the Human: Invisibility Lecture Series
Presenter: 
Andrea Mubi Brighenti, Aggregate Professor of Social Theory and Space
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 11/14/2019 - 16:30 to 18:00

Andrea Mubi Brighenti is Aggregate Professor of Social Theory and Space & Culture at the Department of Sociology, University of Trento, Italy. Research topics focus on space, power and society. He has published The Ambiguous Multiplicities: Materials, episteme and politics of some cluttered social formations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Visibility in Social Theory and Social Research (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and Territori migranti [Migrant Territories. Space and Control of Global Mobility] (ombre corte, 2009). Has edited Urban Interstices.

Location: 
4130 Posvar Hall
Cost: 
Free and Open to the Public
Contact Person: 
Veronica Dristas
Contact Email: 
dristas@pitt.edu

Mapping Ancient Texts: Digital Visualizations in Classics Teaching and Research

Subtitle: 
Global and the Classic Lecture Series
Presenter: 
Micah Myers, Associate Professor of Classics at Kenyon College
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Wed, 11/13/2019 - 16:30 to 18:00

This presentation explores some applications of digital mapping technology for pedagogy and research. It discusses Mapping Ancient Texts: Visualizing Greek and Roman Travel Narratives (MAT) (http://mappingancienttexts.net), a queryable web-based geospatial interface capable of visualizing multiple ancient Mediterranean travel narratives simultaneously. It was created by a team of Kenyon College faculty, staff, and students.

Location: 
4130 Posvar Hall
Cost: 
Free and Open to the Public
Contact Person: 
Veronica Dristas
Contact Email: 
dristas@pitt.edu

Intermarriage in Moesia Inferior: Romans, Bessi, and Lai

Subtitle: 
Global and the Classic Lecture Series
Presenter: 
Dr. Lakshmi Ramgopal, Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Wed, 10/16/2019 - 16:30 to 18:00

Join us as we welcome Dr. Lakshmi Ramgopal, a Roman historian and Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University as part of our Classic and the Global Lecture Series. Dr. Ramgopal will explore how Romans and non-Romans living along the western coast of the Black Sea adapted to the changing mechanics of imperial administration and Roman citizenship in the second and third centuries CE using epigraphic evidence for intermarriage and worship of the emperor from this region.

Location: 
4130 Posvar Hall
Cost: 
Free & Open To The Public
Contact Person: 
Veronica Dristas
Contact Email: 
dristas@pitt.edu

The 1918 Flu Pandemic: Lessons Learned

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 10/18/2019 - 17:30 to Sat, 10/19/2019 - 15:00

Could this happen again? The 1918 influenza pandemic was the most severe pandemic in recent history, so deadly that some countries ran out of coffins. The symptoms were horrible, giving it the name of “black flu.” Although there is no universal consensus regarding where the virus originated, it spread worldwide during 1918-1919. It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide.

Location: 
4130 Wesley Posvar Hall

Socialist Commission Shops and Used Clothing Retail

Presenter: 
Dr. Mateja Habinc, Assistant Professor, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Ljubljana
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Wed, 10/30/2019 - 16:00

Based on Slovene/Yugoslav and Czechoslovak primary sources, Dr. Habinc will discuss socialist commission shops in comparison with other types of historically known second-hand retail channels. The lecture will examine the role such shops had in socialist consumption practices and in economies of shortage.

Location: 
4130 Posvar Hall
Contact Person: 
Sera Passerini
Contact Phone: 
4126487407
Contact Email: 
smp125@pitt.edu

The Rule of Law in the European Union: Reflectoins in the Light of the European Court of Justice Decision in the Celmer Case

Presenter: 
Gavin Barrett, Professor, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 06/27/2019 - 14:00 to 15:30

Barrister, PhD and LLB graduate of Trinity College Dublin, Professor Gavin Barrett is a Professor of Law in University College Dublin and sometime Jean Monnet Professor of European Constitutional and Economic Law.

Location: 
4330 Posvar Hall
Contact Email: 
europeanstudies@pitt.edu

Summer Research Scholar Presentation

Presenter: 
Prof. Ryan Phillips
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 07/11/2019 - 14:00 to 15:00

2019 ESC and ULS Summer Research Scholar, Ryan Phillips (Lycoming College), will present his work on Democratization and the European Union and share his findings in the Barbara Sloane EU Delegation Collection.

Location: 
4217 Posvar Hall
Contact Person: 
Lizz Schellin
Contact Email: 
eds35@pitt.edu

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