The University of Pittsburgh hosts the Eighth Annual Graduate Student Conference on the European Union, featuring Alexandre Stutzmann, Diplomatic Adviser to the President of European Parliament, as the keynote speaker. All panel sessions, including the keynote address, are open to the public and will be held in the Patrician Crown Mural Room of the Pittsburgh Athletic Association. For a full listing of panels and a schedule of public events, please visit the EUCE/ESC web page featuring the schedule of the program.

The struggle between Russia and Great Britain over Central Asia in the nineteenth century was the original "great game." But in the past quarter century, a new "great game" has emerged, pitting America against a newly aggressive Russia and a resource-hungry China, all struggling for influence over one of the volatile areas in the world. In Great Games, Local Rules, Alexander Cooley, one of America's most respected Central Asia experts, explores the dynamics of the new competition over the region since 9/11.

Everyone is welcome to stop by and snack on foods from Eastern Europe and cupcakes. Potential and returning members, come introduce yourself!

GOSECA is a great way to meet other graduate students interested in Russia, East Europe, and Eurasia and help organize cultural and academic events to spread awareness about these regions.

The first official GOSECA meeting will take place Thursday, September 27, 1-2 p.m.
Posvar, 4209, conference room in the back of UCIS

*Part of the 2012 Second Language Research Forum "Building Bridges Between Disciplines: SLA in Many Contexts"

This small colloquium will explore late medieval projects of crusades that advocated an expansion of Europe and European values into the Near East. Utopian visions as well as hard-headed economic and military considerations are the hallmark of the treatises proposing these proto-colonial plans.

The aim of the conference is to bring to the fore the medical context of the ‘Scientific Revolution’ and to explore the complex connections between medicine and natural philosophy in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe. Medicine and natural philosophy interacted on many levels, from the practical imperative to restore and maintain the health of human bodies to theoretical issues on the nature of living matter and the powers of the soul to methodological concerns about the appropriate way to gain knowledge of natural things.

*Part of the yearlong series, “Speaking in Tongues”

*Part of the yearlong series, “Speaking in Tongues”