THIS EVENT IS NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. THIS WORKSHOP IS INTENDED FOR K-12 EDUCATORS

Week-long professional development workshop on global human rights and cultural diversity for faculty from various Midwestern community colleges and small four-year colleges.

A specialist of political and economic issues in Europe and the Middle East, Dr. Woertz manages CIDOB’s partnership with the Moroccan OCP Foundation. Formerly he was a visiting fellow at Princeton University, and Director of Economic Studies of the Gulf Research Center (GRC) in Dubai. He also worked for banks in Germany and the United Arab Emirates, and is a contributor and commentator to international and regional media outlets like the Financial Times, The National, and Al Arabiya.

The first of the EUCE/ESC's Pizza and Politics discussions of the year, GSPIA's EU and the World Organization's executive members talk about their experience interviewing policy-makers, EU civil servants, and visiting major institutions in Brussels and Luxembourg as participants in the EU in Brussels Program, co-sponsored by Pitt's EUCE/ESC and GSPIA. Also learn about getting involved in the EU and the World Organization and about other upcoming EU Studies opportunities at Pitt! PIZZA WILL BE SERVED.

Are you considering a graduate degree related to international studies in the future? Please join us for an information session sponsored by the University Center for International Studies, as part of our International Career Toolkit Series. You’ll hear from current graduate students and professors, and discuss scholarship opportunities, how to make your application stand out, as well as the kind of research, skills, and experiences the most competitive schools are looking for in applicants.

Join the Center as we enjoy pizza and politics during the lunch hour for a discussion offered by Center Library Research Advisor, Evgeny Postnikov. His talk will focus on the bilateral preferential trade agreements (PTAs) of the European Union (EU) and the United States, which are increasingly being used as vehicles for exporting social regulation, such as labor and environmental standards. Despite the similarity in terms of the inclusion of such provisions, design varies greatly between U.S. and EU agreements.

This colloquium will highlight the research of John Lyon (Chair, Department of German), published in his second monograph "Out of Place. German Realism, Displacement and Modernity" (Bloomsbury, 2013) in conjunction with the scholarship of Eric Downing (Professor of German; Frank Borden and Barbara Lasater Hanes Distinguished Term Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Adjunct Professor of Classics, University of North Carolina). William Scott (Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh) will offer a response.