In the Renaissance, studying nature meant (most of the time) encountering nature. But these encounters, as Peter Dear has indicated, tended to generate a discussion (in the period and in the historiography) between unmediated sensory experiences and experiences organized by prior conceptual categories. This paper focuses on anatomical encounters, when anatomists articulated that distinction with clarity, in order to reconsider the significance of ephemeral and permanent anatomy theaters.

The relationship between the two is usually described chronologically:

Dennis Looney is a professor of Italian at the University of Pittsburgh, with secondary appointments in Classics and Philosophy. Publications
include: Compromising the Classics (1996); Phaethon’s Children: The Este Court and Its Culture (2005); ‘My Muse will have a story to paint’:

This talk revisits the concept of orientalism in a long chronological context, including 4th Century BC Athens, Elizabethan and Caroline England, Enlightenment Europe, and colonial and contemporary New Zealand.
It seeks to identify a specifically geographic component of this construct, which historians have neglected.

Jonathan Scott is Professor of History at the University of Auckland.

Cultural night out at Jozsa Hungarian restaurant for GSPIA graduate students.

Internship panel for GSPIA Master's students looking for internships abroad.

European Union simulation on dealing with the Greek sovereign debt crisis. Students will debate the issue from the point of view of their respective nations and attempt to reach an agreement on how the EU should respond to the crisis.

Dr. Maloy (Econ) & Dr. Alexiadou (Political Science) will be giving their take on the economic and social/political implications of the new Greek debt deal and the debt crisis in Europe in general.

Julia Schneider, University of Augsburg, will be visiting Pitt the week of March 26, 2012. She will be here the week as a professional development activity and an opportunity to get to know Pitt since we have such an active exchange with Augsburg.

We are planning to have her meet with:

Jennifer creamer, UCIS
John Lyon, German dept
Jeff Whitehead, Study Abroad Office
Michael Rizzi, GSPIA
Lisa Kubic, A&S Graduate Office
Allyson Delnore, EUCE

French Immersion institutes are designed for middle and high school French teachers, as well as French majors to broaden their cultural understanding of current events and international studies regarding French-speaking countries, to strengthen their French listening and speaking skills, and to share strategies for the teaching of French language and culture. We will be offering the following workshop spring, 2012

Topic: "Les Elections Présidentielles et Législatives Françaises de 2012

On January 17th,2012, the European Union Center of Excellence/European Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh will host an interactive videoconference devoted to the current European financial crisis. To be held from 12-1:30 p.m. in 211 David Lawrence Hall, the session is entitled “Is the Future of the Eurozone the Future of Europe?” This is the first in a series of “Conversations on Europe,” in which participants and audiences will be linked across several sites by video. This first session will feature some of the country’s top experts on the European Union, including Dr.