This month, inspired by the 75th anniversary of the Geneva Refugee Convention, the series turns its attention to questions of migrant and refugee rights.

With more than 122 million people displaced worldwide in 2025, we face conditions we have not experienced since the end of World War II. Along with this record of people fleeing war and conflict, there are further millions who have set out to find a better life for themselves and their families.

This presentation for Mount Lebanon School District's inservice day provided information about what Global Studies is, why it is important, how it can be implemented at the K-12 level, and what programs we offer for both K-12 teachers and students through Pitt's Global Studies Center. We all shared UCIS-wide events, programs, and resources for K-12 teachers and students.

The underwater world, the forest with the Tree of Violence growing in its centre, revived monuments, bouquets of generations—these and other symbols of the post-Soviet space appear in Victoria Lomasko’smonumental works. Lomasko became internationally recognised as a graphic journalist telling stories about socially vulnerable groups and protests. Gradually, images from reality began to transform into poetic symbols and to change scale: from sketchbook pages to multi-meter murals and panels.

Join Dr. Maci as she examines live virtual guided tours as an emerging communicative practice in tourism, showing how language and digital technologies intersect to foster interaction, craft compelling storytelling, and engage audiences in new and dynamic ways.

Join Hindi instructor Vibha Shetiya from the Less-Commonly-Taught-Languages Center to discuss Hindi language books.

Hosted by the Less-Commonly-Taught-Languages Center

Ukraine. Gaza. Venezuela. Greenland. NATO.

Discussions of the state of the international legal order fill our headlines and newsfeeds. They compel us to ask: what is happening to our world? The transatlantic relationship has provided the foundation of the International Legal Order for decades, but at this moment, that foundation seems to be crumbling.
Pause your podcasts and join in for a live discussion of where we are and where we are headed!

Ruth Bajada, Deputy Ambassador, Head of the EU Delegation in Washington

Ukraine. Gaza. Venezuela. Greenland. NATO.

Discussions of the state of the international legal order fill our headlines and newsfeeds. They compel us to ask: what is happening to our world? The transatlantic relationship has provided the foundation of the International Legal Order for decades, but at this moment, that foundation seems to be crumbling.
Pause your podcasts and join in for a live discussion of where we are and where we are headed!

Ruth Bajada, Deputy Ambassador of the EU Delegation to the United States

Pitt students: Join Kya Baat Hai, a Hindi-Urdu conversational club that practices language and celebrates South Asian culture, for weekly conversation hours!

Join the Persian Table for its first meeting of the semester in the Global Hub, when students will have the chance to introduce themselves and get to know one another.

Hosted by the Persian Table

**This event was originally scheduled for January 29, but it has been postponed to February 19 due to weather.**