Annual festival of Polish food, crafts, performances and culture.
A presentation on current issues affecting human rights in Russia was delivered to 10th grade World Cultures students at Mt. Lebanon High School.
Evgeny Feldman (Евгений Фельдман) is a Russian photojournalist based in Moscow. He's currently freelancing, working for different independent outlets in Russia as well as many major media from abroad, such as Svenska Dagbladet, CNN, Associated Press, Mashable and other.
The Hungarian National Dance Ensemble is presenting the “Spirit of Hungary” tour with stops all around the US to help commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1956 Revolution of the Hungarians against Soviet rule. They will be performing in Pittsburgh for one night only on Friday, October 21 at 7:00 p.m. at the West Mifflin Middle School in West Mifflin, PA. Tickets will cost $25 for adults and $10 for children under the age of 12 (plus service fees).
David Crawford, who earned international acclaim for playing Dr. Foster in George Romero's Dawn of the Dead, recently returned from earning rave reviews at the Fringe Festival with this one-man show. David wrote and performs this extraordinary bit of theatre. He is teaming up with his friend and former cast-mate Jon Hayden, a CMU alumnus performing as Poprishchin in Diary of a Madman (Gogol’s intense short story about the first recorded case of schizophrenia) at the New Hazlett Theater.
Join us as we talk about Russia's annexation of Crimea; the strategic goals of Putin's Russia for the rest of Ukraine; Russia's "alliance" with Hungary and their common interest in Transcarpathia; and the response of Ukraine's leaders to its so-called Rusyn question.
Russia's biggest box office hit in 1997, Aleksei Balabanov's (Dead Man's Bluff) Brother is an American-style gangster flick mixed with a pointed social consciousness. World cinema has shown us views of raw, impoverished post-Soviet Russia; Brother shows it with stark gunplay and one captivating lead performance.
The transition of power from President Karimov to his successor, Shavkat Mirzoyoyev, represents the first such transition in Uzbekistan in the post-Soviet period. This process may create opportunities for external actors to support reforms that produce economic and social benefits for Uzbekistan’s people, reduce tensions with neighboring countries, and result in the better management of scarce natural resources that are critical to the region’s future.
Through grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the US Department of Education, the University Center for International Studies (UCIS) at the University of Pittsburgh has partnered with community colleges to help faculty internationalize curricula.
This one-day conference aims to critically explore and theoretically engage with constructions of racial identity in the countries of the former Soviet Union. Race demands attention in the field of Slavic Studies (and related disciplines), both as an analytical tool and as a subject of study unto itself. Scholarly constructions of the Russian and Soviet empires present them as apparently “racially homogenous spaces,” or as territories characterized by other categories of identification, such as nationality or ethnicity.
