Two REES undergraduate students gave presentations on the fall of the Soviet Union and its aftermath to classes at three middle schools in Greensburg, PA.
College-bound minority students from Brashear High School learned about international studies and career opportunities through a panel session with Pitt study abroad returnees and breakout sessions with UCIS international studies advisors.
This four-month research project explores transnational cultural policy transfer, focusing specifically on arts funding in the U.S. and in the Czech Republic. It evolved as a reaction on the tendency of Czech arts managers and cultural policy makers to learn from the American way of arts funding and wide-spread efforts to bring more private and corporate funds into the Czech arts and cultural sector to replace dependency on the Government funding. However, these efforts have not achieved significant success so far.
Professor Jonathan Harris has taught courses in international relations, comparative politics, and on Soviet and Russian foreign and domestic policies at the University of Pittsburgh since the mid-1960s. He has also served as the editor of the Russian and East European Series for the University of Pittsburgh Press since the mid-1980s. His most recent books are Subverting the System: Gorbachev’s Reform of the Party’s Apparat, 1986-1991 and The Split in Stalin’s Secretariat, 1939-1948. He has recently begun research on decision making during the reign of N.S. Khrushchev.
ACTR representative Graham Hetlinger will meet with undergraduate and graduate students to discuss potential funding opportunities for research and language fellowships. This is a great opportunity to ask questions and to get a sense of what kinds of ACTR support is best matched to your interests and stage of study. For background information (to prepare questions in advance, so as to use the time better), see http://www.americancouncils.org/researchFellowships.php. Please attend!
This lecture will comment on the first European elections held in Croatia on April 14th, 2013. It will introduce the main issues debated in the public with respect to the elections and highlight the nature of political competition over Europe in Croatia. It will examine both the debate over the timing and purpose of the elections as well as the decisions made within the center-right and center-left Croatian political parties with respect to candidate selection.
Available for both undergraduates and graduate students, Boren Awards support the study of less-commonly-taught languages through study abroad. Applicants must demonstrate how their proposal and future goals are connected to a broad understanding of national security, and award winners must agree to a one-year government service requirement. The deadline for undergraduate applications in December 2nd.
In recent months, Chaikovsky has moved to the center of Russia's politics:
while he continues to exemplify the country's rich cultural heritage, the staunch presence of this avowedly gay composer in the repertory has drawn much attention to the dubiousness of the government's latest anti-gay policies. In this lecture, as I reflect on the renewed Chaikovsky controversy in Russia, I will also trace the roots of the uneasy association between aesthetics and the composer's sexuality to the high Stalinist era. Two antagonistic trajectories took off in the mid-1930s
