This reading group for K-12 educators explores literary texts from a global perspective. Content specialists present the work and its context, and participants brainstorm innovative pedagogical practices for incorporating the text and its themes into the curriculum. Sessions this year will take place virtually on Thursday evenings from 5-8 PM (EST). Books and three Act 48 credit hours are provided. April 28th, 2022 - "Dark is Rising" by Susan Cooper. Co-sponsored by the European Studies Center

This past June, the Global Studies Center and the University Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh hosted the Interdisciplinary Global Educators Working Group, where teachers came together virtually to design an interdisciplinary global unit or lesson. They were provided time, space, and materials to gather with like-minded colleagues and collaborate on unique and inspired lesson plans across subject areas.

Presentation about 20/20 Visions: Letters Without Words Zine project to Krista Stewart and JoAnn Calhoun's K-5 students at PPS Banksville Elementary School.

The Creating Europe Speaker Series is a two-year project funded by a Jean Monnet Project grant from the European Commission and part of a larger initiative to reimagine European Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. The series will explore ideas of Europe from Late Antiquity to the contemporary period and consider ways in which processes of “integration” and “disintegration” have been at work in Europe for much of its history.

Fall semester 2021 UCIS CAB meeting.

Fall semester 2021 meeting

Spring semester meeting 2021

A discussion-based introductory gathering for those interested in joining the new IR Club.