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External Advisory Board Meeting

Subtitle: 
Panel Discussion: "The Eurozone Crisis: Implications and Prospects"
Presenter: 
Alberta Sbragia (Vice-Provost, Political Science); Despina Alexiadou (Political Science); Rachel Epstein (University of Denver)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Wed, 10/26/2011 - 08:30 to 10:30

Members of the newly-constituted External Advisory Board for the EUCE/ESC met for breakfast and a panel discussion about banking and the sovereign debt crisis in Europe.

Location: 
University Club Gold Room
Contact Person: 
Karen Lautanen

Anthropology, Fieldwork, and Loveless in the Boondocks

Presenter: 
Sidney W. Mintz
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 12/09/2011 - 17:00 to 18:00

Sidney Mintz is a distinguished anthropologist whose scholarship has shaped how we think about the social, cultural, and political impact of colonialism, the interface of anthropology and history, and the correlation between food, material, culture, and power. He is the author of many significant publications, including books such as Worker in the Cane: A Puerto Rican Life History; Sweetness and Power: the Place of Sugar in Modern History; Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture and the Past; and Three Ancient Colonies. Caribbean Themes and Variations.

Location: 
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
Contact Person: 
Linda Howard
Contact Email: 
hlinda@pitt.edu

Population Dynamics and Economic Primaacy in an Aging World

Presenter: 
David E. Bloom PhD, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography in the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 12/02/2011 - 12:00 to 13:00

Dr. David E. Bloom is an economist whose work focuses on health, demography, education, and labor. In recent years, he has written extensively on the links among health status,population dynamics, and economic growth. Dr. Bloom has published over 300 articles, book chapters, and books. Dr. Bloom currently serves as a Faculty Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of amfAR, and the Foundation for AIDS Research. Dr. Bloom also serves as Director of Harvard’s Program on the Global Demography of Aging. In April 2005 Dr.

Location: 
A115 Auditorium, Graduate School of Public Health
Cost: 
Free
Contact Person: 
Center for Global Health
Contact Phone: 
412-624-6985

French Global : A New Approach to Literary History

Presenter: 
Susan Suleiman (Harvard) and Christie McDonald (Harvard)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sat, 11/12/2011 - 09:00 to 10:30

Part of the conference The Idea of France

Colloquium on French Global : A New Approach to Literary History (2010) (esp. introduction and articles by Profs. Suleiman and McDonald) The suggested reading for the colloquium discussion for Suleiman/McDonald’s French Global the introduction and the articles by the editors and by Lawrence Kritzman.
Introduced by Giuseppina Mecchia (University of Pittsburgh).

Location: 
Cathedral of Learning
Cost: 
Free for Pitt students, faculty, and staff; $25 ($20 for non-Pitt students)
Contact Person: 
Todd Reeser
Contact Email: 
reeser@pitt.edu

The Idea of France

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 11/10/2011 - 14:30 to Sat, 11/12/2011 - 17:00

Over 75 papers will be delivered on topics from all fields (literature, history, political science, sociology, anthropology, law, religion, art, music, cultural studies, film studies, gender studies, etc.) that treat the question of the idea of France or Frenchness in any time period from the middle ages to the twenty-first century.

For a full version of the conference schedule, please visit the Web site.

Location: 
Various locations on Pitt's campus
Cost: 
Free for Pitt students, faculty, and staff; $25 ($20 for non-Pitt students)
Contact Person: 
Todd Reeser
Contact Email: 
reeser@pitt.edu

Working Class History and the Benefits of Oral History: The Case of Eastern Central Europe

Presenter: 
Eszter Zsofia Toth and Ulf Brunnbauer
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Tue, 11/15/2011 - 17:00 to 19:00

A workshop with Dr. Eszter Zsofia Toth (Hungarian State Archive) and Professor Ulf Brunnbauer (University of Regensburg, Germany). Dr. Toth is one of the leading historians of the history of everyday life of Communist countries. Her work includes her much acclaimed oral history study of a women's brigade in a socialist factory in Budapest, her PhD project which investigated the profound problems of gender, class, and life-styles in the Kadar era.

Location: 
3703 WWPH

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