Europe

The Desert Room: From Michelangelo Antonioni to New Media

Presenter: 
DOMIETTA TORLASCO (Minnesota)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 02/08/2013 - 12:00

Domietta Torlasco works at the intersection of film theory and practice and is currently an Associate Professor
of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University, where she is also affiliated with the
Screen Cultures Program. She is the author of The Time of the Crime: Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Italian
Film (Stanford University Press, 2008) and the digital film Antigone’s Noir (2008-09). Her second book, The
Heretical Archive: Digital Memory at the End of Film is forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press in
2013.

Location: 
501 Cathedral of Learning
Contact Person: 
David Pettersen
Contact Phone: 
412-624-6564
Contact Email: 
dpetter@pitt.edu

Internships and Career Opportunities at the Department of State

Presenter: 
Patricia Guy, State Department Diplomat in Residence
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 02/07/2013 - 13:00 to 14:00

Patricia Guy, a Diplomat in Residence for the State Department, will visit the University of Pittsburgh to talk about the State Department’s internship program, and will provide information and answer questions about careers and job possibilities with the Department of state.

Location: 
3911 Posvar Hall
Contact Email: 
slund@pitt.edu

International Financial Rescues in Europe and Beyond

Presenter: 
Christina Schneider (UC-San Diego)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 01/25/2013 - 12:00 to 13:30

Abstract:

Why do governments provide bilateral bailouts to countries that experience
financial crises above and beyond what the IMF provides? We argue that
governments face a trade off. On one hand, they have incentives to rescue a crisis
country because they want to prevent the spread of the crisis to their own country.
On the other hand, governments experience pressures from domestic constituents
who are oftentimes opposed to financial rescues. Politicians aim to balance these
countervailing pressures. Whereas they are more likely to provide financial support

Location: 
WWPH 4500

Colloquium: Surrealism in Romania and France Before, During and After World War II

Presenter: 
Irina Livezeanu (History)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Wed, 04/03/2013 - 12:30 to 14:00

With responses by Barbara McCloskey (History of Art and Architecture) and David Pettersen (French).

Faculty and graduate students in Pitt Humanities departments can access readings for colloquia by logging in to , clicking on the tab “My Resources,” clicking on “Humanities Center,” and then clicking on “Colloquium Series” where there is a link to the pdf files. Anyone else wishing to access the readings may request the reading at humctr@pitt.edu.

Location: 
Cathedral of Learning, Room 602

The Reformation of the Book: Vernacular and Vernacularization

Presenter: 
John King (Ohio State University)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Mon, 04/01/2013 - 16:30

Our work on this topic seeks to bridge the divide between medieval and early modern studies by taking a long view of three questions surrounding particular uses of vernacular languages and broader processes of vernacularization in this period: How did changes in technologies of communication, such as the rise of letterpress printing, intersect with the uses of vernacular languages? How were the structures of "vernacular theology" transfigured during the period leading up to and following the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation?

Location: 
Cathedral of Learning, Room 602
Contact Person: 
Jennifer Waldron (English)
Contact Email: 
jwaldron@pitt.edu

Why Wagner?: Some Thoughts on the Occasion of his Bicentennial

Presenter: 
Nicholas Vazsonyi (South Carolina)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 03/21/2013 - 17:00

Nicholas Vazsonyi is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina and the editor of the Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia (forthcoming 2013), an international effort involving some 80 scholars from 11 academic disciplines and residing in 9 countries. He teaches and researches on German literature and culture, including music and film, covering the 18th through the 21st centuries. He has published monographs on Wagner and on Goethe, and edited volumes on Wagner’s Meistersinger and on German national identity from 1750 to 1871.

Location: 
Cathedral of Learning, Room 602
Contact Email: 
vad16@pitt.edu

Patterns of Vernacular Affectivity in Late Medieval and Protestant England

Presenter: 
Barbara Rosenwein (Loyola)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Wed, 03/20/2013 - 15:00

If the purpose of "Speaking in Tongues" is to bridge the divide between medieval and early modern studies, then one issue that must be faced is whether there was a great change in emotions or affectivity from one period to the other. Certainly the prevailing thesis, hanging on the coattails of Norbert Elias's Civilizing Process, is that there was a great change--and it can be summed up as the transition from medieval emotionality to modern restraint.

Location: 
Cathedral of Learning, Room 602
Contact Person: 
Jennifer Waldron (English)
Contact Email: 
jwaldron@pitt.edu

Colloquium: Figuring out Europe: Nation, State and the European Union in the German Public Sphere

Presenter: 
Russell Berman (Stanford)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 03/07/2013 - 12:30 to 14:00

With responses by Nancy Condee (Global Studies), Alberta Sbragia (Political Science) and Gregor Thum (History).

Russell Berman is Director of German Studies at Stanford, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Editor of TELOS,
and recent President of the Modern Language Association. He is an expert on German literature and culture and
on cultural relations between Europe and the United States, and is a pioneer in German Cultural Studies.
In more than 80 articles and five books, he has written widely on modern German and European literature and politics,

Location: 
Cathedral of Learning, Room 602
Contact Person: 
Alana Dunn
Contact Phone: 
412-624-5909
Contact Email: 
alanad@pitt.edu

Colloquium: The Origin of Rhyme

Presenter: 
Roberto Dainotto (Duke)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 02/28/2013 - 12:30 to 14:00

A focus on Europe with responses by Neil Doshi (French), Randall Halle (German) and Ronald Judy (English).

Faculty and graduate students in Pitt Humanities departments can access readings for colloquia by logging in to , clicking on the tab “My Resources,” clicking on “Humanities Center,” and then clicking on “Colloquium Series” where there is a link to the pdf files. Anyone else wishing to access the readings may request the reading at humctr@pitt.edu.

Location: 
Cathedral of Learning, Room 602
Contact Email: 
vad16@pitt.edu

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