The French Club is a student run organization at the University of Pittsburgh dedicated to promoting the awareness and appreciation of French and francophone cultures around the world.

Stop by the Polish Committee's Polish Festival between 12-5 pm on November 11, in the Commons Room of the Cathedral of Learning on the 1st Floor. Experience traditional Polish folk dances and singers, ethnic foods, cultural displays, and crafts for a fun and unique cultural experience! There will be performances by the Lajkoniki folk dancers of McKeesport, and musician Radoslaw Fizek will perform traditional folk songs.

The University of Pittsburgh hosts the Eighth Annual Graduate Student Conference on the European Union, featuring Alexandre Stutzmann, Diplomatic Adviser to the President of European Parliament, as the keynote speaker. All panel sessions, including the keynote address, are open to the public and will be held in the Patrician Crown Mural Room of the Pittsburgh Athletic Association. For a full listing of panels and a schedule of public events, please visit the EUCE/ESC web page featuring the schedule of the program.

Join GSPIA’s EU and the World Organization President Marina Duane and Vice-President Andrew Stark as they talk about their experience interviewing policy-makers, EU civil servants , and visiting major institutions in Brussels & Luxembourg as participants in the EU in Brussels Program, co-sponsored by Pitt’s EUCE/ESC & GSPIA. Marina and Andrew’s presentation will emphasize how the experience shaped their individual research projects and goals.
Pizza will be served.

*A practice conference talk

Abstract
This study investigates L2 Spanish rhotic production in learners enrolled in first-semester and fourth-semester courses, specifically addressing the effects that the different ways to produce American English rhotics (retroflex and bunched) have on the production of Spanish taps and trills. It also addresses the influence that the phonological environment producing taps in English has on the acquisition of Spanish taps. The research questions that drove this study are the following:

CHE hosts this monthly meeting to facilitate dialogue about health equity among faculty, students, and staff. We hope to spark an intellectually enriching discussion regarding ways to research a problem or intervene to contribute to the solution.

This month’s meeting is facilitated by Jason Flatt, PhD candidate, and Laura Macia, PhD and features the article Poor People, Poor Places, and Poor Health: the Mediating Role of Social Networks and Social Capital. The "[p]aper is based on qualitative research undertaken in 1996 on two housing estates in East London,UK."

All films will have subtitles accessible to non-German speaking audiences. All film screenings are open to the public. All films will be DVD projection. Many of these films are rare and hard to find. I would encourage you to bring friends so they can take advantage of the experience.

Tuesday September 11
Nerven [Nerves] (Robert Reiner 1919)
Die Austernprinzessin [The Oyster Princess] (Ernst Lubitsch 1919)

Tuesday September 18
Schloß Vogeloed [Castle Vogeloed] (F.W. Murnau 1921)
Nosferatu (F,W. Murnau 1922)

The XIXth Annual E.P. Thompson Memorial Lecture

Robin Blackburn is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. He was educated at Oxford University and the London School of Economics and served as editor of New Left Review. He is author of many important books, including an influential trilogy on origins and history of Atlantic slavery: The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848 (1988), The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 (1997), and The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights (2011).

The background of Peter Paul Rubens’s Miracles of St. Francis Xavier, painted in 1617 for the Jesuit church in Antwerp, contains a surprising detail - a horned Hindu idol that is being destroyed by rays of light emanating from an allegory of the Catholic Faith. Far from being meaningless exotica, the Hindu idol plays an important iconographic role in the larger decorative scheme of the Antwerp Jesuit church.