Center for African Studies

Synonyms: 
African Studies
AfSP
African Studies Program

A Stroke of Good Luck: 1989 and the Beginning of the End of Apartheid in South Africa

Presenter: 
John Stoner, Department of History and University Center for International Studies
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Wed, 10/23/2019 - 14:00 to 15:30

1989 doesn’t usually resonate in the chronology of significant anti-apartheid activism. Yet, that year saw the rise to power of FW de Klerk in South Africa and progress (albeit halting) towards the release of Nelson Mandela and other activists of the liberation struggle from prison, the unbanning of political organizations, and the negotiated dismantling of the apartheid state.

Location: 
4130 Posvar Hall

1989 and All That: Transnational Political Upheaval and the Origins of Global Studies

Presenter: 
Dr. William Brustein, West Virginia University
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Mon, 11/04/2019 - 16:00

The year 1989 witnessed momentous changes in global politics: the end of the Cold War, the acceleration of global neoliberal capitalism, and the start of a long decade of internationalism and interventionism -- G.H.W Bush's famous "New World Order."

Location: 
4130 Posvar Hall
Contact Person: 
Veronica Dristas
Contact Email: 
dristas@pitt.edu

Pre-Law Internship Information Session

Subtitle: 
Part of the UCIS Career Toolkit Series
Presenter: 
Verna Krishnamurthy, (University of Pittsburgh '12 and University of Pennsylvania Law School '15)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Security Notice: Event Changed: 
Date: 
Fri, 09/06/2019 - 09:00

Pre-Law School Internship with Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.

Chat with Global Studies Center Alum, Verna Krishnamurthy, (University of Pittsburgh '12 and University of Pennsylvania Law School '15) about program for students interested in law:

Location: 
Global Hub Nook, 1st Floor Posvar Hall
Cost: 
Event Web Site: 
Contact Person: 
Elaine Linn
Contact Phone: 
Contact Email: 
eel58@pitt.edu

Atoms and Aliens in Eurasian Science Fiction

Presenter: 
Anindita Banerjee, Department of Comparative Literature, Cornell University
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 10/17/2019 - 16:00

Since the mid-20th century, science fiction has shaped our view of the nuclear. The possibilities and horrors of the nuclear has had a comparable impact on utopian and dystopian science fiction. American science fiction fans are well versed in the tropes. What was the relationship between the atom and Soviet/Post-Soviet science fiction? In this live interview, Anindita Banerjee will discuss the imagination of the nuclear in Soviet and post-Soviet science fiction.

Location: 
5405 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Contact Person: 
Sera Passerini
Contact Phone: 
4126487407
Contact Email: 
smp125@pitt.edu

Reconstructions, Utopia, Nation. Architecture as a Tool of Identity Constructions in Germany Since 1989

Subtitle: 
German Campus Week Lecture
Presenter: 
Philipp Oswalt
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Wed, 10/30/2019 - 16:00

How have German cities changed since the fall of the Berlin Wall? Why is Germany rebuilding its palaces? Join us for a discussion of these questions and more!

Location: 
Humanities Center, 602 Cathedral of Learning

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