On March 23, Suspiciously in Love will be screened in the Melwood Screening Room at 5:00 PM. The film follows a shy man named Albert who seeks love online. There, he stumbles upon Basia. She poses as a mysterious woman named Simone and he as a handsome French beau. They maintain the façade until their first date in “real life.” Purchase tickets at http://www.cmu.edu/faces/#. This film is a part of the Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival.

"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind." - Jim Morrison

All REES faculty, students, and friends are welcome!

The REES Undergraduate Coffee Hour is a new, informal monthly event that will allow undergraduates enrolled in or interested in the REES certificate to interact with one another and share their personal experiences with Russian and East European Studies. This month's topic will be "Favorite Courses within the REES Certificate." We will also be discussing officer positions and the constitution for the REES Undergraduate Student Association.

For more information or to sign up for the REES Coffee Hour mailing list, please contact Alyssa Cypher at alc154@pitt.edu.

Hear about opportunities to teach English or conduct research abroad through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Fulbright alumni and current Fulbright participants will join representatives from the university’s National Scholarships advising office to provide information on the Fulbright experience and how to best prepare for it.

For tickets call 412-624-7529 or visit music.pitt.edu/tickets.

Learn how to make Russian blini and practice your Russian! Join in making blini in the morning of March 22 (9:00am–12:00pm) on the 12th floor of the Cathedral of Learning.

Nergis Ertürk is the author of Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey (Oxford University Press, 2011), the recipient of the 2012 MLA Prize for a First Book. In 2008, she won the William Riley Parker Prize for her essay, "Modernity and Its Fallen Languages: Tanpınar's Hasret, Benjamin's Melancholy," which appeared in PMLA. Her article, “Phonocentrism and Literary Modernity in Turkey,” appeared in boundary 2, and her research has also appeared in a wide-ranging collection of prominent literary works.

Katharina Matro’s dissertation and talk focuses on the transformation of the vast estates of Prussia’s nobility into Polish state farms and smaller family farmsteads post-1945 and the defeat of Nazi Germany. Her research forms the argument that the continual assault on both land and property rights during the time determined the fragile postwar economy and society in the region.

The Hagia Sophias of Istanbul, Iznik, and Trabzon shared similar conversion histories. All three were built as Byzantine churches, converted into mosques under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, and functioned as museums in the 20th century.