Professor Tsakonas provided a presentation on the European migration crisis to a group of high school students (one school in person and two other schools joined in remotely via BlueJeans). Following his presentation students had the opportunity to participate in a brief Q&A. This event was organized in partnership with the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh.

The Global Studies Center invites you to join the discussion of the ongoing refugee crisis around the Mediterranean. Our guest experts will speak on the causes of displacement, the European response, and the refugee experience and will take your questions!

Qu’est ce qui a fait rire Jean Louis Dassier et Myriam Gau depuis qu’ils sont petits? Venez découvrir le rire en France vue par ces deux animateurs dynamiques.

You are invited to join us for the European Studies Center’s first Conversations on Teaching Europe webinar on Tuesday, October 13th from 3:30 – 5:00 PM EDT.

Dr. Linden is interviewed on World Affairs Council's "Global Press Confrence" on KQV 1410 AM Radio. The interview will be rebroadcast Sunday, August 9th at 10:30 PM. The topic of the interview is The Bailout of Greece: Repercussions for Europe and the World.

Dr. Panayotis Tsakonas, an Onassis Foundation Fellow and Professor Ozgehan Senyuva, visiting from Middle Eastern Technical University as part of Pitt's EU-GLOBAL partnership, will present a roundtable discussion of the current state of Turkish-Greek-EU relations. Given recent elections in Turkey, recent economic turmoil in Greece, and on-going negotiations between both parties over Cyprus, there will be no shortage of interesting topics to discuss.

Dans le monde francophone, quelles sont les relations entre l’identité linguistique, l’identité nationale, le sexe, et la sexualité?

Prenez part à notre vidéoconférence pour répondre à cette question avec un panel d’experts:

Abdellah Taïa, écrivain marocain d’expression française
Denis Provencher, professeur de français et de la communication interculturelle à l’Université de Maryland Baltimore County
Nadia Fadil, professeur au Centre de recherches sociologiques, KU Leuven

Mark your calendars! The EUCE/ESC invites students, faculty, and friends of the Center to join us at our opening reception in 4130 Posvar Hall. Learn about this year’s full schedule of events, new courses, faculty and students, and meet this year’s visitors while enjoying some light refreshments.

This is the second in a series of three workshops designed specifically for instructors of less-commonly-taught languages. This workshop offers the opportunity to examine the differences between exercises and tasks, explore the benefits of using tasks in teaching, and adapt textbook exercises to tasks. Participants will walk away with the knowledge needed to design effective tasks that motivate students to learn.

A faculty and curriculum enrichment workshop sponsored by the international and area studies programs of the University Center for International Studies (UCIS) at the University of Pittsburgh. This is the first in a planned series of annual workshops aimed at internationalizing college campuses in the Western Pennsylvania region, with support from the Title VI National Resource Center program of the U.S. Department of Education. Participation by faculty from minority-serving institutions and community colleges is particularly encouraged.