Join community leaders in human rights city organizing and Professor Emeritus Peter Evans of UC Berkeley, for a discussion on local-global links. Dr. Evans is a world-renowned expert on labor, states, social movements, globalization, and development.
Deepa Kumar is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at Rutgers University and President, Rutgers AAUP-AFT faculty union. She is a leading scholar in communication, prominent public intellectual, and champion of the humanities on the national stage. The title of her lecture, “Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, the Media, and the War on Terror,” stems from her 2017 Media Education Foundation video, designed to support pedagogical efforts to teach critically about media discourse on Muslims.
Book discussion for educators on book A Sultan in Palermo by Tariq Ali, Dr. Joseph Heim, Professor of History, CALU
Fox Chapel Area High School is proud to announce this year's Pittsburgh World Language Connection Day, with Keynote speaker Professor Richard Donato. This is a great opportunity for world language teachers to learn about new pedagogies. Bring along your principals, curriculum directors, and administrators to learn about how to enhance your school's international programs through meaningful and fun community connections.
Khet Mar is a Burmese writer and political activist who was persecuted, tortured, and imprisoned in her home country. She is currently living at City of Asylum in Ithaca, NY as an exiled writer-in-residence. Her short novel about two oppressed teenagers speaking to each other through their apartment windows was, in her words, “a fictional way to express what happened to me in jail.” Yet, the Burmese censors read the plot as metaphor and banned the novel. Khet Mar will lead the discussion herself, in person. We will conclude with ideas for using the texts in the classroom.
European climate and energy policies have been leading the world for several years, and climate activism has long been visible in many European cities and campuses. So what’s new in EU climate policy and activism? What’s next for EU climate politics in the age of the Trump Administration’s global gaslighting?
Funded through the ESC's Jean Monnet Center of Excellence Grant, this lecture is part of the Center's Participation and Democracy 2017-18 Series.
The conceptualization and measurement of political participation has been a contentious issue vibrantly debated for more than 50 years. The arrival of digital, and in particular social, media came to add important parameters to the debate about the continuous expansion of forms of participation, complicating matters further. While interest on the use of social media for political purposes is growing, the lack of a clear conceptualization of forms and modes of participation emerging from their use is inhibiting the measurement of this type of participation.
In partnership with the Study Abroad Office and our partners at IES Abroad, this colloquium will discuss and compare the trend towards populism in contemporary politics in Europe and the U.S.
Prisie Badu, director of Playing to Live, will present about the systematic challenges that fragile states like Liberia face when working with child and family programming. Mrs. Badu has 25 years experience in social welfare, psycho-social and child programming. She works ministries of government, universities, and nonprofit sectors to help support marginalized and vulnerable children. She will also present opportunities for internships and advice for entering the nonprofit sector in Africa.
What are the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and why do they matter for the University of Pittsburgh? The world's best-known development economist and advocate, Jeffrey Sachs, will lead a wide-ranging discussion about the purpose and process of crafting a unified vision for the future at home and abroad. A central tenet of the SDGs is that development is a shared responsibility and that all states are responsible for achieving measurable progress toward them.
