The Undergraduate Research Symposium is an annual event designed to provide undergraduate students from the University of Pittsburgh and other colleges and universities in the region with advanced research experiences and opportunities to develop presentation skills. The event is open to undergraduates from all majors and institutions who have written a research paper from a social science, humanities, or business perspective focusing on the study of Eastern, Western, or Central Europe, the European Union, Russia, or other countries of the former Soviet Union.
Responses will be offered by Nancy Condee (Global Studies), Alberta Sbragia (Political Science), and Gregor Thum (History)
In music and words, two Germans from different generations reflect on the Holocaust, German history, and what it means to be German in the 21st century.
*A discussion/question and answer period will follow the talk*
ABOUT THE PERFORMERS
UCIS affiliated faculty and staff presented a professional development workshop via videoconferencing for faculty from the Nine University and College International Studies Consortium of Georgia.
Teams of high school students from throughout the Pittsburgh region participated in the annual Pitt Model United Nations simulation.
"Shale Gas: From Poland to Pennsylvania," the Pulitzer Center's joint reporting initiative with Calkins Media, publisher of shalereporter.com, examines the debate surrounding shale gas and the tangled mix of hopes, hype and concern in Eastern Europe and the US.
Russell Berman is Director of German Studies at Stanford, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Editor of TELOS,
and recent President of the Modern Language Association. He is an expert on German literature and culture and
on cultural relations between Europe and the United States, and is a pioneer in German Cultural Studies.
In more than 80 articles and five books, he has written widely on modern German and European literature and politics,
as well as on issues in contemporary cultural theory.
In music and words, two Germans from different generations reflect on the Holocaust, German history, and what it means to be German in the 21st century.
*A discussion/question and answer period will follow the talk
ABOUT THE PERFORMERS
