For more information, please contact: Dr. Adriana Helbig, Associate Professor of Music, anh59@pitt.edu, 412-624-4193.
Featuring presentations by students who participated in Pitt’s Romani (Gypsy) summer study abroad program in Central and Eastern Europe, May 24-June 15, 2014.
This presentation looks at the short history of corporate sponsorship in post-Soviet Russian cinema, and especially the way that practices of Western-style product placement have shifted in an attempt to appeal to a younger demographic. Earlier works—such as _Night Watch_ (2004) and the _The Best Film_ trilogy (2008, 2009, 2011)—inserted advertisements with a touch of irony predicated on the assumption of a skeptical audience grounded in Soviet cinema.
The lecture will cover the recent developments in Ukraine and will discuss possible strategies of resolving the political and security crisis from the game theoretic perspective. We will discuss four editorials from VoxUkraine.org, a portal devoted to analysis of the events in Ukraine: (1) Imploding DNR/LNR: Is it good for Ukraine? (2) Can Ukraine play MAD with Russia? (3) Kyiv People's Republic: A threat to Ukraine, and (4) Ending the Russian-Ukrainian War.
The Turkish Nationality Room Committee is hosting a concert featuring the group NEOTOLIA, which will begin with a meet and greet reception with refreshments at 6 pm, followed by the concert at 6:30 pm. The proceeds of the concert will help fund the Turkish Room Summer Study Abroad Scholarship. Tickets are $25 per person, $10 for students, and additional donations to the scholarship fund will be accepted.
For many decades Albania remained a little known country not only for ordinary people in Europe or in the United States but also for different political analysts. One of the reason was that after World War II, it became a Stalinist state under Enver Hoxha, a communist dictator, and remained staunchly isolationist until its transition to democracy after 1990.
Immediately following the upsurge in anti-immigrant hate and violence in Moscow’s Biryulevo Zapadnoe district in October 2013, the federal government of the Russian Federation enacted a new ethnic relations law, the first of its kind in over half a century. Xenophobia is commonly defined as the intense or irrational dislike or fear of strangers or foreigners or of that which is strange or foreign. Naturally, the conception of what constitutes “strange” or “foreign” is subject to the individual or group which fears another.
