The presenters spoke to three 7th grade social studies classes about the ongoing Russia-Ukraine crisis.
10 Chinese Education students attend the Montessori school in Sewickley. The students learned about the Montessori method. They then did a series of presentations for the K-8 students about China. These included cultural demonstrations, information about China, and language class.
Are you interested in teaching 7-8 grade students about Africa? Please join us for our annual visit to Harrold Middle School as part of Cultures Day! This is an excellent volunteer opportunity and a great way to use your knowledge of Africa in a uniquely enriching way! Interested participants should email AfricanStudies@pitt.edu.
Date: Thursday, May 14, 2015
In this first 2014 installment of our Pizza and Politics Graduate Lecture Series, GSPIA's EU and the World Organization executive members talk about their experience interviewing policy-makers, EU civil servants, and visiting major institutions in Brussels and Luxembourg as participants in the EU in Brussels Program, co-sponsored by Pitt's EUCE/ESC & Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. Also learn about getting involved in the EU and the World Organization and about other opportunities for EU Studies at Pitt! PIZZA WILL BE SERVED!
6:00 pm: Doors open and food is served
6:15 pm: Welcome and presentation by CREES
6:30 pm: The Pitt Carpathian Ensemble
7:15 pm: The Junior Tamburitzans of South Hills
8:00 pm: Film introduction by GOSECA: Border Café (Café Transit)
Note: OCC Credit available at REES table.
Immediately following the upsurge in anti-immigrant hate and violence in Moscow’s Biryulevo Zapadnoe district in October 2013, the federal government of the Russian Federation enacted a new ethnic relations law, the first of its kind in over half a century. Xenophobia is commonly defined as the intense or irrational dislike or fear of strangers or foreigners or of that which is strange or foreign. Naturally, the conception of what constitutes “strange” or “foreign” is subject to the individual or group which fears another.
