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.

Dr. Dadush delivers the Graduate Student Conference's Keynote Address.

Dr. Thomson’s workshop will focus on practical tips to find primary, stakeholder, academic and news-type information. Attendees will receive access to a comprehensive PowerPoint guide to conducting research on Europe. Pre-Registration is required by emailing euce@pitt.edu.

Ana Escrogima, a Foreign Service Officer currently serving as the Diplomat in Residence at City College of New York, will hold an information session to talk about the State Department’s internship program, her career experiences and employment opportunities in International Affairs through the Department of State. Prior to this assignment, she was the Deputy Director for Syria in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the Department of State, where she advised senior State Department leadership and managed an experienced team of Foreign Service and Civil Service Officers.

Join Nnenna Anozia, Fjolla Krasniqi, and Dinda Saragih, members of the Pitt Law LL.M. Class of 2015, as they address developing legal issues in their home countries.

Anita Starosta is the author of Form and Instability: Eastern Europe, Literature, Post-Imperial Difference (forthcoming from the Northwestern University Press), as well as articles in European and US publications (such as Intermédialités, Angelaki, and boundary 2) on translation, aesthetics, and epistemology all tested in the study of primarily

THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 12:30 p.m.
Colloquium: "What Was Scientific Connoisseurship? Giovanni Morelli, Cultural Patrimony, and Art Attirbution in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuryies." With responses by David Marshall (Communication) and Terry Smith (History of Art and Architecture)

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 6:00 p.m.
Cultural Studies Core Seminar: A discussion on John Brewer's "Microhistory and the Histories of Everyday Life" and "Closeness and Distance in the Age of Enlightenment"

TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 5:00 p.m.
Lecture: "Depicting Vesuvius and Pompeii: Painting, Panorama, and Performance, 1770-1860"
Held in Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

University of Pittsburgh Department of Classics and the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America:
“The Dining Gaul (and His Phrygian Dishes)"

Shannon Stewart
AIA Lecturer