Explore the Warhol with Donald Warhola, Andy’s nephew, and attend a screening of the film "Jan Palach" with an introduction by Jaroslav Kubera, President of the Czech Senate.

Admission is $25.00 for adults/$15.00 for children under 18. Payment by check only by May 21, 2019. Checks should be made payable to Friends of Via and mailed to:

Friends of Via
PO Box 82556
Pittsburgh, PA 15218

Entrance only with prepaid payment. No ticket sales at the door.

The University Center for International Studies cordially invites students graduating in Spring and Summer 2019 to celebrate their academic achievements and receive their credentials at the University Center for International Studies’ Graduation Ceremony on Friday, April 26, 3-4 p.m., followed by a reception 4-5 p.m., in the O'Hara Student Center.

Graduating students please look for your personal email invitation from the University Center for International Studies. Contact your UCIS academic advisor with any questions.

Prof. Inghilleri’s talk will consider the interaction between migrants and the physical environment as a space of translation. Landscapes offer evidence of the enduring signs of an earlier presence of migrants whose origins have been forgotten in the public consciousness. They, and the people who come to inhabit them, are forever shaped by this presence as well. In this sense, landscapes can be powerful spectral spaces and particularly vulnerable to multiple mappings of meaning.

Almodovar is in prison, Daniel is living in a van, and Xavier hasn't left the house is years.

David Machado's award-winning novel, The Shelf Life of Happiness, follows the story of three adult friends as they navigate and deteriorate under the stresses of Portugal's financial crisis of 2008. The novel won the EU Prize for Literature in 2019.

The ESC, in partnership with UNC Center for European Studies and Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is delighted to present a reading from The Shelf Life of Happiness with David Machado.

Our conference on the Iberian empires and their aftermath will bring a much-needed interdisciplinary focus on the realia and the imaginary of the Spanish and Portuguese colonial world. We will think about the construction and naturalization of an imperial regime that produced hierarchized and racialized ways of being, thinking, knowing, and belonging in society, and interrogate and excavate it, with a view to defamiliarizing and "delegitimizing" the regime and its aftereffects, particularly in light of the present-day iterations and manifestations of the latter.

A part of passages: translation & the mediation of time & space. Passages is a semester-long series of lectures, workshops, and conversations on translation and its impact.