His excellency, Ambassador Johan Verbeke discusses the challenges that the EU faces in regards to domestic radicalization. Ambassador Verbeke has a long history of diplomatic and foreign service; his appointment as the Ambassador of Belgium to the U.S. began in January, 2015. It is his third ambassadorial post. His excellency's visit to Pittsburgh will include a talk for the World Affairs Council. During his visit to Pitt, he will also meet with the Chancellor and the staff of the European Union Center of Excellence and the Ridgeway Center for International Security Studies.

The EUCE/ESC is looking for high school science and social studies teachers, curriculum coordinators, and administrators along with Pitt's School of Education faculty to participate in a simulation and to provide feedback that will be used in adapting the game for high school curricula. During the Acid Rain workshop, you’ll participate in a hands-on simulation created by Reacting to the Past contributors Dr. David E. Henderson and Dr. Susan K. Henderson; then, you will share your expertise on how this game can be adapted for a high school audience.

The EUCE/ESC will hold a ceremony during graduation weekend to recognize its undergraduate and graduate recipients of the European Union or West European Studies Certificate Program. A reception will follow for family and friends of the Center in the Pittsburgh Athletic Association.

Political culture, understood as a constructed set of core values, attitudes and practices shared by a decisive majority of citizens and pervading the political system, has been recognized as a potent factor in framing issues and informing decisions in both domestic and foreign policy. Greek political culture is analyzed on the basis of quantitative evidence and discourse analysis in order to account for trends and choices that affected the country’s relations with the United States, Western Europe and neighboring states during the first post-war decades.

The movies will be shown in their original filming languages with English subtitles when necessary. Offering a cinematic tour of Italy, the National Italian Film Festival in Pittsburgh is also pleased to host a special appearance from the film director of L’Arbitro, Paolo Zucca, on April 10th. For more information, please see this LINK for the upcoming viewings.

French filmmaker Jean-Marie Villeneuve will present his film Tout est faux on Sat, Apr 18 at 6pm in CL 332 in a free screening and director Q&A

Dreyfus in Exile: A Reappraisal of What It Means to Be

“French”

A BROWN-BAG LUNCH

With

LISA BROMBERG

(Ph.D. candidate in French, University of Pennsylvania)

Monday April 6, 1:00-2:15 pm, 1325 Cathedral of Learning

The Dreyfus Affair gripped the French Republic at the end of the 19th-Century, with consequences that resonate to this day. Lisa Bromberg will discuss how Robert Dreyfus became a martyr of French republican and secular values.

The students of the German Department present: Zöpfe
A play about hate, love, religion, and hair
By Marianna Salzmann

Play to be performed in the original German Free and all welcome!
7:00pm, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

Join the Department of History, the EUCE/ESC and the Center for Latin American Studies for a symposium honoring the scholarship of Professor Seymour Drescher. Invited speakers include David Eltis, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of History Emeritus, Emory University; Stanley Engerman, John Munro Professor of Economics and Professor of History, University of Rochester; Richard Huzzey, co-director Centre for the Study of International Slavery, University of Liverpool; and James Walvin, Professor of History Emeritus, University of York. A reception will follow the talk.

U.S. and European news coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa highlighted the urgency of the public health crisis, focusing often on the need to contain the outbreak to prevent its spread to “our shores.” Implicit (and often explicit) in these stories, however, were long-standing xenophobic and racialized attitudes toward African diseases that can be traced back to European imperial and pseudo-scientific ideas of the nineteenth century.