European Studies Center
Conversations on Europe: 100 Years of Women's Suffrage: Women In Europe Today
ESC Opening Reception
The staff of the European Studies Center invite you to attend a reception to usher in the 2018-19 academic year. All interested faculty, staff, students, alumni, and members of the ESC community are welcome to attend. Refreshments will be served.
Euro Fest at the University of Pittsburgh
Join us for our 3rd Annual EuroFest!
EuroFest is a family friendly festival featuring all things Europe in the ‘Burgh. Local artisans and vendors will create a dynamic marketplace and performances of song and dance will be presented on the main stage. Food booths featuring various European cuisines will be participating and artistic demonstrations and children’s activities will take place throughout the day.
Free and open to the public!
Job Vacancies and Immigration: Evidence from Pre- and Post-Mariel Miami
George Borjas will present his recent work on the effects of immigration on labor market opportunities revisiting the Mariel Boatlift episodes with a unique data set on monthly job vacancies.
Pitt Model UN
Annual United Nations simulation event for student teams from area high schools.
Patching the Liberal World Order: How Can International Cooperation Pwn Emerging Cyber Challenges
The computing and digital revolutions have created new tools and capabilities that are challenging the liberal world order. If the Cold War was an era of static state superpowers, modern computing gives not only developed states but even a moderately trained rebel group their own superpowers: to teleport their presence around the globe, move vast sums of money instantly, and make evidence vanish. From Wikileaks to the hacking of elections, headlines across the democratic world have highlighted transnational cyber-enabled crime, violence and polarization.
Outreach Symposium: Taking Europe Beyond the Ivory Tower
A two-day Symposium on how Universities can best promote EU visibility, knowledge, and outreach. Co-sponsored by the ESC at the University of Pittsburgh and the CES at the University of North Carolina, Chapel-Hill.
UCIS International Career Toolkit Series: Careers in Peace and Negotiating Your First Salary
David J. Smith, JD, MS - Career Coach, Consultant for Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding. David J. Smith’s work spans the fields of peacebuilding, conflict resolution, and civic and global education. He is the president of the Forage Center for Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Education, Inc. which offers experiential learning opportunities for students and professionals. He was formerly a senior program officer and manager of national outreach at the U.S. Institute of Peace.
19th Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society
CESS 2018 : October 24-28, 2018 at the University of Pittsburgh
The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and the Graduate School for Public and International Affairs are pleased to host the 19th Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society. Join over 300 scholars and professionals from around the globe for a conference, spanning five days of workshops, panels, forums, exhibits, and special events.
For more information about the program, see https://www.cess.pitt.edu/program.
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