Women's Day, Dzien Kobiet, Directed by Maria Sadowska

Event Includes: A discussion moderated by Piotr Adamowicz, a famed Polish writer and journalist.

"We will only concentrate on the character of a lost woman, with a newly awakened fighting spirit. And it is through her eyes that we will perceive this brutal and, at times, beautiful world." —Director Maria Sadowska

Sofia's Last Ambulance, Poslednata Lineika Na Sofia, Directed by Ilian Metev

Event Includes: Screening of Dr. Paul Goodman's short "Nurse"

"Faces convey all that auds need to know." —Variety

Eat Sleep Die (ÄTA SOVA DÖ), Directed by Gabriela Pichler
Sweden's 2014 Oscar Entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Award

Event Includes: Screening of Dr. Paul Goodman's short "Plant Closing"
Presented in Conjunction with: Humanities Scholars Program at Carnegie Mellon University.

"Gripping Swedish film captures the challenges for young workers in a troubled economy." —The Hollywood Reporter

Wałęsa: Man of Hope, Directed by Andrzej Wajda

Prof. John Palka's lecture will be based on his book that, while historical in essence, is refreshingly contemporary in its account of the past that his ancestors helped to shape. It contains vivid portraits of courage and love of freedom and country that will resonate with modern Slovak-Americans, it will connect them with the boarder story of their ancestors.

The paper investigates the potential effects of euro adoption on the Polish economy. It analyses how a replacement of the national currency -zloty, and therefore an elimination of a real exchange rate, affects output fluctuations. In the paper, we develop a utility-based theoretical framework to provide a metric for judgment of alternative monetary policies; identify and estimate the sources of aggregate fluctuations; and calibrate the model's structural parameters to Polish economy.

The Undergraduate Research Symposium is an annual event since 2002 designed to provide undergraduate students, from the University of Pittsburgh and other colleges and universities, with advanced research experiences and opportunities to develop presentation skills. The event is open to undergraduates from all majors and institutions who have written a research paper from a social science, humanities, or business perspective focusing on the study of Eastern, Western, or Central Europe, the European Union, Russia, or other countries of the former Soviet Union.

The European Union Center of Excellence/European Studies Center, in cooperation with the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, would like to invite you to a special brownbag lunch with visiting scholar Dr. Maxim Romanov.

In the past few months, Ukraine has received more international attention than in
all of its 22 years of independence combined. Protests have swept the country over
the past two months with the situation rapidly changing up until this moment. In the
face of government sponsored intimidation and violence, everyday people including
students, businessmen and journalists have taken to the streets to defend their
civil liberties and democratic values.

Join former GSPIA student and Ukrainian citizen, Marina Duane, in a discussion of

Professor O’Callaghan explores the role of collective memory in the Eurozone crisis from a lawyer's perspective. The idea of collective memory features prominently in several disciplines but rarely in legal scholarship. He argues that the idea of collective memory can help us to better understand fundamental aspects of the EU Treaty framework and secondary legislation, and may also provide instructive insights about the policy responses to the Eurozone crisis.