Through experiential learning, high school students engage directly with global issues by assuming the role of world leaders and negotiating responses to timely topics.

Graduate students are invited to an exclusive opportunity to meet with Kirsten Wesselhoeft before her lecture. This is a chance for a more intimate discussion with Professor Wesselhoeft about her research and insights into contemporary Islam. Lunch will be provided.

About the Speaker:

By examining how French and Italian cultures have imagined and depicted the future across various time periods and media forms, this conference seeks to contribute to our understanding of how societies conceptualize change, progress, and new possibilities.

Following the keynote address, the German students will present their original research that they conducted as part of completing their capstone seminar.

There will be food and light refreshments

Employing the concept of radical diversity as a starting point and his own positionality as literary translator, Dr. Jon Cho-Polizzi's keynote address investigates projects of colidarity in the contemporary German literary scene through a combination of personal interviews and comparative analyses.

Join us for a workshop with Noémie Ndiaye, Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Chicago, focusing on early modern English, French, and Spanish theater with an emphasis on race. Her monograph, Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race (2022), explores how performance culture shaped the racialization of Blackness across Western Europe. Ndiaye's work has won numerous awards, including the 2023 Bevington Award and the 2023 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize.

Join us for an event featuring Noémie Ndiaye, Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Chicago, whose research focuses on early modern English, French, and Spanish theater with an emphasis on race. Ndiaye will discuss her award-winning book, Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race (2022), which explores how performance culture influenced the construction of race in early modern Europe. Her book has received multiple prestigious awards, including the 2023 Bevington Award and the 2023 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize.

Have a sit down discussion with Senior Researcher Natalie Mamonova

Film: ELBOW Ellbogen

Film is about a girl named Hazal, who is 17 and lives in Berlin. Her biggest wish is to be given a chance. For her 18th birthday she wants to escape the everyday grind and party with her friends. But a fatal incident changes everything. Hazal is forced to flee.

Asli Ozarslan-Kroenlein
Profession: Writer, Director
Country: Germany

Dr. Sajić served as the ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to France, UNESCO, Algeria, Monaco, Andorra and Romania. She was also a foreign policy advisor in the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. She will be at Pitt to discuss her diplomatic experiences with students and the wider community.

Light lunch will be provided.