The University of Pittsburgh presents David Bell of Princeton University. Introduction by Seymour Drescher, University of Pittsburgh, Department of History.

Erik Bleich is a Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College and will give a talk based on his book on this subject published this year by Oxford University Press.

Dr. Bahi will discuss how women were key players in the uprising that launched the Arab spring. She argues that women may have sustained the Arab spring, but it remains to be seen if the Arab spring will sustain women.

The African Studies Program of the University Center for International Studies (UCIS), in collaboration with the FORD Institute for Human Security at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) , the Institute for International Studies in Education (IISE) in the School of Education, The Ridgeway Center (GSPIA), and the Graduate School of Public Health will be hosting an international conference on “Achieving Sustainable Development in Africa.” This conference has been organized with collaboration from partners from African institutions namely: the Forum for African Women

Rachel Epstein is associate professor of international political economy and European politics at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. She has PhD from the Department of Government at Cornell and an AB in International Relations from Stanford University.
Sponsored by: European Union Center of Excellence/European Studies Center, Russian and East European Studies Center (REES), Department of Political Science

This lecture, hosted by the Music Department, examines aspects of musical form in the opening sections of Japanese Noh drama from the vantage point of tone color morphology. The first portion of the paper, through analysis and live demonstration, presents the individual sonic components of Noh's sound spectrum and their combination into a stratified complex.