Pitt Global Hub Grand Opening
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Date:
Tue, 08/27/2019 - 15:00 to 17:00
Dedication of the Pitt Global Hub, hosted by Provost Ann E. Cudd and Vice Provost for Global Affairs, Ariel C. Armony.
Location:
Pitt Global Hub
Asian Studies Center
Synonyms:
ASC
Asian Studies
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
High School Model European Union
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Date:
Wed, 12/04/2019 (All day)
Location:
TBD
Eyewitnesses to History Panel: Remembering 1989 Roundtable
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Date:
Thu, 12/05/2019 - 15:00 to 17:00
Location:
540 William Pitt Union (WPU)
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
JMEUCE Lecture: Imagining Utopia, 1870s-1920s The Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins
Presenter:
Maria Todorova, University of Illinois
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Date:
Tue, 10/15/2019 - 12:30 to 14:00
As part of our Year of Memory and Politics and 1989 Series, the ESC, in cooperation with REEES, is pleased to welcome Maria Todorova as a Jean Monnet Center of Excellence speaker. Based on her forthcoming book on the perceived “golden age” of the socialist idea, Dr. Todorova will present the results of her research into a rich prosopographical database of circa 3500 biographies of people born in the 19th century.
Location:
4130 Posvar Hall
1989 Series: Goodbye Lenin Film Screening & Roundtable Discussion
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Date:
Wed, 10/02/2019 - 18:00 to 21:00
Join us for a screening (with English subtitles)and discussion led by film expert Stephen Brockmann (Carnegie Mellon University). Goodbye, Lenin! (2003) was directed by Wolfgang Becker. In this comedy/drama, a dedicated young man, Alex (Daniel Brühl), recreates East Germany in their 77m2 apartment to protect his socialist mother Christiane (Katrin Sass) from the shock of the fall of the Berlin Wall! Can he pull off this elaborate scheme knowing that the slightest shock could prove fatal? Alex strives to keep the fall of the GDR a secret for as long as possible.
Location:
Alumni Hall, Room 323
Everyday Radioactive Life in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan
Presenter:
Magdalena Edyta Stawkowski, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, North Carolina State University
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Date:
Thu, 10/10/2019 - 16:00
From 1949 to 1989, the Soviet Union conducted 456 nuclear tests at Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in Kazakhstan. Despite decades of nuclear fallout, Kazakh rural communities inhabit the area around the site. How has living around a nuclear test site shaped those communities and their post-Soviet experience? This live interview with Magdalena Stawkowski will discuss her ethnographic work and the ways the Semipalatinsk test site still shapes economy, environment and subjectivities.
Location:
4130 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Contact Person:
Sera Passerini
Contact Phone:
4126487407
Contact Email:
smp125@pitt.edu
Gettysburg: An American Story Distilled Through Japanese Noh
Presenter:
Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Date:
Sat, 09/14/2019 - 19:30 to 22:00
Please join the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures for a poetic exploration of the ill-fated friendship between Confederate General Lewis Armistead and Union General Winfield Hancock. In this unique noh drama, Playwright Elizabeth Dowd and composer David Crandall re-imagine the conflict at the center of American history as a Japanese noh drama. Noh, originating in Japan more than 650 years ago, is one of the oldest continuously evolving stage arts in the world.
Location:
Charity Randall Theater
Pittsburgh Youth Global Town Hall: Climate, Gender, and Sustainability
Subtitle:
From Local Activism to Global Reform
Presenter:
various
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Date:
Thu, 09/19/2019 - 10:00 to 14:45
On the eve of the Pittsburgh Global Town Hall hosted by the University of Pittsburgh, Global Voice, World Workable Trust, and the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the University Center for International Studies will host a workshop and town hall discussion specifically for area middle and high school students. The goal is to focus on the concerns of the next generation of globally-minded citizens, while exploring avenues for climate activism. How do you turn local activism into global reform? What role do the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) play in these discussions?
Location:
Posvar Hall, 2nd Floor (Provost Suites), University of Pittsburgh
Cost:
Free; pre-registration required
Event Web Site:
Contact Person:
Cathy Fratto
Contact Email:
caf166@pitt.edu
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