Faculty of Other Institution

Symposium: African-American Perspectives on Russian and Slavic Studies

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 02/11/2011 - 09:00 to 17:00

This event will explore the experiences of African-Americans who have studied, taught and conducted research in Russia or focusing on Slavic languages, literatures and cultures, an academic field in which they are seriously underrepresented. It will include interactive discussion among the speakers and audience on the unique challenges of studying and traveling, as part of an underrepresented minority, in a region of the world which has historically and recently had an uneasy relationship with racial diversity, despite official Soviet-era pronouncements on the “friendship of peoples.”

Location: 
4130 Posvar Hall
Contact Person: 
Gina Peirce
Contact Phone: 
(412) 648-2290
Contact Email: 
gbpeirce@pitt.edu

How to do Things in the Medieval Mediterranean

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Wed, 01/12/2011 - 17:00

Sharon Kinoshita,works in Mediterranean Studies with Brian Catlos (History, UCSC), she co-directs the UCSC Center for Mediterranean Studies as well as the University of California Multicampus Research Project Initiative in Mediterranean Studies (http://mediterraneanseminar.org).

Location: 
602 Cathedral Of Learning
Cost: 
Free
Contact Person: 
Todd Reeser
Contact Phone: 
412-624-8519
Contact Email: 
humctr@pitt.edu

Research in International Politics Speaker Series: Trust and International Organizations

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 11/19/2010 - 12:00

Songying Fang, Department of Political Science, Rice University and Randall W. Stone, Department of Political Science, University of Rochester

Location: 
4500 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Cost: 
Free
Contact Person: 
Veronica Dristas
Contact Phone: 
412-624-2918
Contact Email: 
dristas@pitt.edu

Do Terrorists Win? Rebels' Use of Terrorism & Civil War Outcomes

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 10/15/2010 - 12:00 to 13:30

Dr. V. Page Fortna

-Contrary to the conventional wisdom, terrorism is not a weapon of the weak, nor is it effective.

-Civil wars involving terrorism are harder to end.

-Terrorists do not win.

Location: 
4500 Posvar Hall
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7434

Overseas Korean Adoptees' Communities and Activism

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 10/15/2010 - 12:00

Panel presenters include:

Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Asst. Prof. of English, St Olaf College--'Toward Truth and Reconciliation: Overseas Korean Adoptee and Unwed Mother Advocacy'

Eleana Kim, Asst. Prof. Anthropology, University of Rochester--'The Dry Eye of Adoption Politics: Testimony, Social Justice, and Representation Among Transnational Korean Adoptees'

Location: 
2431 Posvar Hall

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