Discussant: Meiyi Song, Center for Instructional Development & Distance Education, University of Pittsburgh

Description: In this workshop, you will be introduced to a variety of Web
2.0 tools, such as VoiceThread, EduCanon, Twitter, Diigo, for creating interpretative, presentational, and communicative assignments for language classes.

Monday 5 May:
10:00 (WWPH): 84
2:00 (WWPH): 78

Tuesday 6 May:
10:00 (WWPH): 76
2:00 (WWPH): 80

Wednesday 7 May:
10:00 (WWPH): 72
2:30 (Roundtable—Hemingway’s): 44
7:30 (Melwood): 128

Thursday 8 May:
10:00 (WWPH): 65
7:30 (Melwood): 112

Friday 9 May:
10:00 (WWPH): 71
2:00 (WWPH): 62
7:30 (Melwood): 88

In the past year, Ukraine has experienced tectonic changes in its internal and external orientation, with the fall of the fall of the authoritarian regime of Viktor Yanukovych, a de facto war with Russia leading to the loss of the most heavily ethnic Russian areas (Crimea and the heart of Donbas) and a new anti-Russian and pro-Europe constitutional majority in parliament. The lecture will address the political, economic, and regional constraints that the Ukrainian government is facing in seeking to reestablish legitimacy, recover territory, and implement cardinal changes.

During the era of “normalization” that followed the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, “hooliganism” (Article 202) became the state’s preferred criminal charge to wield against dissident activities and performances. To the Anglophone ear, ‘hooligan’ is a slightly comic term, one that suggests a sense of playfulness that risks confrontation with authority. And in this lecture, I will argue that this carnivalesque mode perfectly captures Václav Havel’s theatrical and political collaborations with actor and fellow Chartist Pavel Landovský (1936 – 2014).

Hungarian tourism promoters in the 1930s gnashed their teeth in frustration at a sluggish domestic travel market. In their minds, Hungarians were disloyal and ungrateful tourists, ignorant of their country and therefore unwilling to spend their vacations "at home" rather than abroad. The solution, these promoters decided, was to appeal to Hungarians' sense of patriotism and guilt them into traveling. But in neighboring Austria, another post-imperial country with its own struggles to stimulate tourism, such arguments were nowhere to be found.

Two films will be screened:
* Who Is Vaclav Havel? (1977) Czech with English subtitles, 11 min.
* The Power of the Powerless (2009) English, 78 min.

A panel discussion will follow the films. Panelists include:
* John Allison, Sunday Editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
* Dr. Jay Ball, Assistant Professor of Theatre at Central Washington University
* Dr. Steven E. Sokol, President of the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh