Please join the Center for Russian and East European Studies and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures in celebrating the beginning of the 2016-17 academic year!
Refreshments will be served! Faculty, staff, and graduate students are welcomed!
Students, faculty, and the public are welcome to attend the keynote address and the panels. View the Conference program (http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/esc/system/files/resources/documents/2017-jm-ma...) for information about the panel topics, times and locations.
As part of Pitt's International Week, the European Studies Center and Global Studies Center have partnered to offer students a chance to participate in a simulation of an important period in the history of international climate policy negotiations. The effects of un-checked industrial pollution in Europe were seen in the increase in acid rain and a stark die off of forested regions in northern and eastern Europe. In response, representatives from Europe's nations came together in a series of negotiations to determine what - if anything - could or even should be done.
Weekly screenings of films from countries represented in the 2016 Russian, East European and Near Eastern Summer Language Institute (SLI).
A series of weekly lectures on cultural topics for students of the 2016 Russian, East European, and Near Eastern Summer Language Institute (SLI) and the general public.
The eighteenth annual Russian Film Symposium, “Recycle, Restage, Rewind,” was held on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh from Monday 2 May through Saturday 7 May 2016, with evening screenings at the Pittsburgh Filmmakers’ Melwood Screening Room.
Visiting researcher Olena Sivachenko presents an online textbook for a blended-learning course in beginning Ukrainian language that she developed with colleagues at the University of Alberta.
The European Studies Center and the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh organized a classroom talk for the ESC's Transatlantic Media Fellow visitor, Joanna Skrzypiec. Joanna spoke with two groups of students about her career, her country of Poland, and discussed the similarities and differences between the current political atmospheres in the U.S. and Europe (in particular her home country of Poland). Ms. Kate Daher of CAPA Pittsburgh hosted Amiena Mahsoob (WAC Pittsburgh), Joanna and I. Another CAPA educator, Ms. Erin Breault, partnered with Ms.
As a consequence of the political confusion following the annexation of the Crimea, German media critically commented about the lack of visibility of academic experts on questions concerning recent development in the Ukraine. Plans to re-establish a new institution for the study of Eastern Europe under the aegis of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs are just about to materialize – despite the fact that an institute with quite a similar portfolio has been closed down soon after German reunification.
In the first of two sessions in which Pitt Law LLM students will talk to the Pitt
Law community about the legal systems and rule of law challenges of their home countries, four Pitt Law students from Kosovo will provide their individ-ual perspectives and participate in a roundtable discussion of the develop-ment of that young state's legal and governmental institutions.
