Friday, February 24, Keynote speech by Dr. Eugene Huskey, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Science and Director of Russian Studies at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida.
This film is a 2008 biopic about Alexander Kolchak, a Vice-Admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy and leader of the anti-communist White Movement during the Russian Civil War. The film also depicts the love triangle between the Admiral, his wife, and the poetess Anna Timireva.
Maria Saakyan’s elegiac, semi-autobiographical, humanist drama The Lighthouse unfolds against the backdrop of the Caucasus wars that plagued Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan in the early 1990s. As the scope of this mass-scaled conflict extends itself to one woman’s small village, she is forced to drop everything, move to Moscow, and start over from scratch – thus bidding farewell to her home town and way of life, perhaps indefinitely.
Goran Radovanovic’s film “The Ambulance,” which portrays dramatic changes that Serbian society underwent before and after 2000, with its specific visual and narrative languages, opens new ways in understanding how film should treat history and reality.
The Seventh Annual Graduate Student Conference on the European Union will welcome graduate students from around the world to present the research on "Crisis, Cooperation, and Change in the EU."
A concert of Russian and East European music by the University of Pittsburgh's Carpathian Music Ensemble, held at the Frick Art and Historical Center in connection with the ongoing "Faberge at the Frick" exhibition.
Student teams from schools throughout the Pittsburgh region participated in the University of Pittsburgh's annual Pitt Model United Nations high school conference.
Piniel Berhane is a senior at Pitt majoring in Finance with concentrations in African studies, French and Global Studies. She is a recipient of the 2011-2012 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Program and is currently an intern at Merrill Lynch, Wealth Management sector. During the summer 2011, Berhane travelled to Ghana to conduct a research on "How microfinance mini-loans help women with small business as well as Ghana's economy" and was as intern with the Volunteer Partnership of West Africa (VPWA) NGO.
The United Nations’ International Day for Tolerance is annually observed on November 16 to educate people about the need for tolerance in society and to help them understand the negative effects of intolerance. In 1996 the UN General Assembly invited UN Member States to observe the International Day for Tolerance, with activities directed toward both education establishments and the wider international development community.
1:00 - 1:30 p.m. “Achieving Gender Equity in Education in South Sudan: Post-conflict Challenges and Opportunities”
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.
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