MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21
Pizza & Politics: What’s Next For Italy? A Conversation with Alberta Sbragia
Dr. Alberta Sbragia, Vice Provost, University of Pittsburgh
12:00 PM, 4217 WWPH

Dr. Alberta Sbragia appearence on Bloomberg TV.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/pomboy-says-surge-in-italy-bond-y...

Over 75 papers will be delivered on topics from all fields (literature, history, political science, sociology, anthropology, law, religion, art, music, cultural studies, film studies, gender studies, etc.) that treat the question of the idea of France or Frenchness in any time period from the middle ages to the twenty-first century.

For a full version of the conference schedule, please visit the Web site.

A workshop with Dr. Eszter Zsofia Toth (Hungarian State Archive) and Professor Ulf Brunnbauer (University of Regensburg, Germany). Dr. Toth is one of the leading historians of the history of everyday life of Communist countries. Her work includes her much acclaimed oral history study of a women's brigade in a socialist factory in Budapest, her PhD project which investigated the profound problems of gender, class, and life-styles in the Kadar era.

The University of Pittsburgh presents David Bell of Princeton University. Introduction by Seymour Drescher, University of Pittsburgh, Department of History.

Maciej Pisarski is the Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington, DC, a post he has held since August 2010. Previously he worked as the acting director of the Department of Strategy and Policy Planning in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw, Poland. Mr.

Erik Bleich is a Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College and will give a talk based on his book on this subject published this year by Oxford University Press.

Purposeful Penny, a GSPIA student organization raising funds for educational development in developing countries, will host its third fundraising dinner. All food will be prepared by our "volunteer chefs." You will get to taste dishes from Korea, Russia, Mexico, Japan, Finland, Nepal, Puerto Rico, Peru, Chile, China, Sudan and the US all at one place! We will also have a raffle basket prize event themed as inter-cultural candy & cookie basket for your use on the Halloween Day.

A talk by influential senior scholar Valerie Traub of the University of Michigan entitled "Shakespeare's Sex" on Wednesday, November 16 at 3:00 in CL 332. Traub is Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of *The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England*. Other books include *Desire & Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama* (1992) and two co-edited collections: *Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects* (1996) and *Gay Shame* (2009).

Historian Elina Gertsman will present a lecture entitled "Holy Anatomy, Animate Substance: the Shrine Madonna as a Performing Object" on October 27, 2011. Elina's work combines more traditional methods of art historical scholarship with an interest in performance studies and cognitive science (or "embodied cognition"). She is the author of *The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance* (2010) and has also published several articles and edited the collection, *Visualizing Medieval Performance: Perspectives, Histories, Contexts* (2008).