This intensive, interdisciplinary one-credit course explores how current thematic factors interact to influence Russia’s position today and into the future. The topics covered include political and economic transformations; changes in public policy involving health, education, and the recent elections; and pressing contemporary issues of global importance such as energy policy, international trade, and Russia’s position on the war on terror.

This professional development workshop for secondary school teachers focused on global social movements and their relationships to art and technology in various regions of the world.

This three-day symposium "Crossing Borders: Ways of Constructing Identities" will take place at the University of Augsburg as a joint graduate student conference between the University of Augsburg and the University of Pittsburgh. Fifteen total graduate students will present: five graduate students from the University of Pittsburgh and ten from the University of Augsburg will be giving individual presentations on topics related to their dissertation research. The Faculty of Philology and History at the University of Augsburg will provide conference rooms.

Recent REES/Pitt Law alumna Aleksandra Williams gave a presentation on Russian arts and culture at a special end-of-year assembly at Hampton Middle School. This assembly was designed to celebrate Hampton eighth graders’ exploration of the cultures of China, Russia, Dubai and India through a new course on “Global Networking and Exploration.”

"Speaking in Tongues" Lecture Series

More details about the lecture will follow.

Come celebrate ethnic heritage and music. Join us for our annual concert at 3pm followed by a separately priced dinner buffet featuring ethnic favorites. Cash bar, dessert table, Chinese auction, instant bingo, 50/50, and live music provided by Radost.

Concert only: Adults: $10; Children/Seniors: $8
Dinner only: Adults: $12; Children/Seniors: $8
Concert/Dinner: Adults: $20; Children/Seniors: $14

For more information: 412-344-5448 or mikeshoplik@gmail.com.

Claudiu Oancea is a PhD candidate at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and a visiting student at CREES. During the spring term of 2011, he was a visiting student at UC Berkeley. His main research interests are history of communist regimes, popular culture, memory studies, oral history, and post 1989 national historiographies in Eastern Europe.

Stephen Brockmann is president of the German Studies Association and Professor of German at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author, most recently, of A Critical History of German Film (2010), as well as of Nuremberg: The Imaginary Capital (2006), German Literary Culture at the Zero Hour (2004), and Literature and German Reunification (1999). In 2007 he won the DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies/Humanities. From 2002-2007 he was the managing editor of the Brecht Yearbook.

A group of this year's LL.M. students will discuss past struggles and future challenges related to the rule of law in their home countries. The second of two lectures, this event will feature discussions by Ivan Milosevic (Serbia), Cristian Minor (Mexico), Kustrim Tolaj (Kosovo), and Abeer Hashayka, Wael Lafee, and Mais Qandeel (Palestine).

Professor Ruth B. Bottigheimer, Stony Brook University, teaches courses on European fairy tales and British children's literature. Her work crosses disciplinary boundaries, contextualizing genres in their socio-historical cultures of origin, assessing them in terms of publishing history parameters, and utilizing linguistics in discourse analysis. Her languages of research are English, German, and French, occasionally Italian and Spanish.