The High School Model European Union is an annual event for area high school students. The goal of the Model EU is to give high school students a chance to learn about the workings of the European Union through a hands-on simulation. Playing the roles of presidents and prime ministers, students spend a day engaged in intense negotiations over conflicting issues about the EU. The objective is to simulate a specific European Council meeting that focuses on recent current events impacting the EU.

Peter Haslinger is Director of the Herder Institute for Research on East Central Europe. He is a distinguished professor in history at the University of Giessen. His main areas of interest are security and conflict studies; minorities, multilingualism and intersectionality; nationalism, regionalism and historical memory; spatial turn and historical cartography. He has published widely on gaps in theory and model building that are related to theories of secularization and their spatial and cultural aspects.

You've worked hard this semester -- now it's time to celebrate! Come take a break from finals to enjoy some refreshments with faculty, advisors from UCIS, and other FLAS Fellows.

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Continental Breakfast and Welcome Remarks
Croghan Schenley Nationality Room, 1st Floor, Cathedral of Learning

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM Aggregators, Centripetors, or Stickers? Party Responsiveness to the Public
Opinion in a Multi-Dimensional Policy Space" (Jonathan Polk)
Discussant: Lawrence Ezrow
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM Government Supporter Responsiveness"(Lawrence Ezrow) Discussant: Jonathan Polk

The Undergraduate Research Symposium is an annual event since 2002 designed to provide undergraduate students, from the University of Pittsburgh and other colleges and universities, 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 Central Eurasia.

This experience offers a unique perspective on the events that led to the founding of the Republic of Turkey as seen through the lens of American newspaper clippings. An exhibition curating and contextualizing American newspaper coverage of the transformative events between 1918 and 1923 that led to the birth of the Republic of Turkey

The Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship program is a prestigious and competitive federal award from the U.S. Department of Education that allows select Pitt undergraduate and graduate students to devote full time attention to their chosen modern foreign language and area studies specialty. There are separate competitions for the Academic Year FLAS Fellowship and the Summer FLAS Fellowship. Advanced doctoral students conducting field or archival research in a supported world language may also be eligible.

Nele is a young call center agent who moonlights as a cloakroom attendant at the State Opera. When she falls in love with the small-time street dancer, Kolja, she must confront the demons of her past and descend into the underworld. Talent scout Hollbach notices Nele's singing talent and offers her a great opportunity for a career as an opera singer. Axel Ranisch's modern adaptation of Orpheus and Eurydice is a cinematic opera pastiche, camp, comedy, tragedy, not to be missed.

This seminar delves into the multifaceted nature of the Africa-China relationship and its impact on the international stage. Exploring the economic, political, socio-cultural, and developmental dimensions of this dynamic partnership, the workshop seeks to analyze how the growing interaction between Africa and China is shaping and influencing the global geopolitical landscape and economic development.

In celebration of I Stand With Immigrants, stop by the Global Hub to write a few words about how immigrants inspire you. Now an annual event in the Global Hub, I Stand With Immigrants is an initiative powered by FWD.us Education Fund, Inc. that engages colleges and universities across the US and encourages the celebration of cultures and heritages.