Ten Pitt Model African Union members will represent Algeria at the 2026 International Model African Union conference and visit the Embassies of Algeria and Mozambique in Washington, DC.
Black history? A bake off? What could be better!? Join us for Douglass Day at the University of Pittsburgh on Friday, February 13th from 12-4 PM in the Digital Scholarship Lab (Hillman Library G30). Douglass Day celebrates Frederick Douglass’s chosen birthday (Valentine’s Day) and represents an opportunity to discover and contribute to Black history by transcribing historical documents. This year, we will virtually join the national Douglass Day broadcast from and collaborate to transcribe material from the Colored Conventions Project!
Join the Center for African Studies on Thursdays to practice conversational Swahili in a social environment.
**This event was originally scheduled for January 29, but it has been postponed to February 19 due to weather.**
Join us for our weekly Global Distinction Drop-In Hours on Tuesdays from 3-4 pm in the Global Hub! Come learn how to gain experience that will help prepare you for a globally-connected job market, get the Global Distinction added to your academic transcript, receive special recognition at graduation, and stand out to prospective employers.
Keynote Address for Auditory Cultures of World Socialism Symposium
2026 EU Film Festival: Democracy, Community and (Space) Aliens!
France, Benin, and Senegal
2024
Director: Mati Diop
Documentary, 68 MIN
As 26 stolen royal treasures finally return home from France to Benin, the objects themselves narrate a story of colonialism and reclamation. Mati Diop’s Golden Bear–winning documentary sparks a vibrant debate about history, democracy, and the future of cultural memory.
Group Discussion to follow the screening of the film.
This two-day symposium will forge new lines of inquiry and dialogue in the study of sound and society under state socialism. Scholars from history, music, literature, film, and media studies will share recent work on regions of the globe from the Caribbean to East Asia where the revolutionary reshaping of political and social relations has had far-reaching effects on the way people hear the world around them. In the course of the conference, we will ask: how are political ideologies made audible?
A presentation by Higgin Joseph, a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant, about her country Kenya: the languages, the people, its culture and traditions in front of the Highlands School District students, as part of the Africa in the Classroom program by the Center for African Studies.
Join our information session to learn how you can earn 6 academic credits while discovering the historical and contemporary connections between Arab and European cultures across two dynamic regions.
Meet the program’s faculty and staff, ask questions, and get all the details you need!
