Kurt Riechenberg, Visiting Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, is a German lawyer and Senior Legal Secretary (Clerk) to Judge Silva de Lapuerta at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. He joined the Court in 1983 and was Clerk to three Judges until 1998, when he became Chief of Staff to the President of the Court, a position he held until taking his current post in 2003.

Lunch will be provided.

The gap between the art and the science involved in producing Early Modern bird’s-eye views has long puzzled historians. On a visual level, city views were posited as being oriented toward a single perspective while simultaneously opening up vast, impossibly elevated cityscapes. Frequently they included the artist–cartographer’s self-portrait within the image, often shown sketching the city from a high hilltop—as if to verify the view as something witnessed and drawn directly from life.

"The Clock and The Tree of Life: Contemporary Cinema Art," Pittsburgh Film Studies Colloquium

Terry Smith, FAHA, CIHA, is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory in the Department of the History of Art and
Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh, and Distinguished Visiting Professor, National Institute for Experimental Arts, College of Fine Arts,

Work-in-Progress Series, "Commemorating Communist East Germany in the Berlin Republic," Katrin Mascha (ABD)

Work-in-Progress Series, "Soccer, its Fans and its Nation in German Literature and Film," Gavin Hicks (ABD)

The Annual Commemoration of Kristallnacht (The “Night of Broken Glass” on November 9-10, 1938)

Survivor’s Account by Ruth Drescher
Music by Susanne Ortner-Roberts (clarinetist)
Readings by Pitt Students

This program is made possible with the support of the Jack Sittsamer Holocaust Studies
Enrichment Fund in the Jewish Studies Program.

Matteo Galli, who teaches at the University of Ferrara, is one of the foremost German Studies scholars in Italy and is also an expert on German cinema. He has published books on Elias Canetti, Thomas Mann, and E. T. A Hoffmann, and he has translated works by Jens Sparschuh and Uwe Timm, among others. He is also the editor of a major volume on the history of German cinema, Da Caligari a Good Bye, Lenin! (2004).

The events collectively described as the “Arab Spring” are marked, at the local level, by the invention of novel modes of social and political action. On a transnational scale, these events are reshaping global alliances and raising pressing questions about the relationships between international political institutions and social movements driving change in North Africa and the Middle East. In the context of this rapidly evolving political landscape, this conference considers the implications of the Arab Spring for European politics and cultures.

Unveiled (Fremde haut)

Director Angelina Maccarone (2005)

Part of the: QUEER & FEMINIST FILM, Public Film Series at the University of Pittsburgh
When: January 9 – April 9, 2012
Cost: Free!

All screenings are open to the public. Bring your friends!

For more information about the series: http://pittqueerfemfilm.wordpress.com/public-film-series/
To learn about the film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428672/