Interested in careers in International Law? Security? International Development? Arts and Entertainment? International Business? Health?
Saturday, February 24, 2017, 9am-3:30pm
Join us at the University of Pittsburgh for the Teach Africa Workshop – Indigenous Wisdom and Culture on February 24, 2017. Learn how to use free multi-media curriculum units to Strengthen the teaching of African Studies in your classroom.
China-Africa Railway Crossings: Building the TAZARA Railway
Jamie Monson, PhD, Department of History, Michigan State University
Ebola Does Not Fall from the Sky: Global Structural Violence and International Responses- presents challenges the conventional understanding that international crises are limited to instances of direct physical violence. Instead, it argues that the disproportionate distribution of infectious diseases like Ebola are a form of structural violence that warrants international intervention. In the field of global public health, structural violence is a concept used to describe health inequities and to draw attention to the differential risks for infection in the Global
Come join the Global Affairs Club in hosting Prof. Jared McCormick, Visiting Assistant Professor of Contemporary International Issues, for a discussion of the Saudi Arabia-Qatar Diplomatic Crisis of 2017. Following a brief presentation by Prof. McCormick, we will open our discussion to the broader context of the Saudi Arabia - Iran regional power dynamic. This will be the Global Affairs Club's first meeting of the semester. Anyone interested in joining the club can speak with an officer at this meeting.
For more information, please see: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/rivers-symposium.
For more information, please see: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/rivers-symposium.
For more information, please see: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/rivers-symposium.
For many countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, cultural production was historically co-opted by the state in anti-colonial struggles and post-colonial nation building, paving the way for decades of tension between private initiatives and government mechanisms. The situation has changed but hardly for the better, with many states neglecting the financial and infrastructural needs of their country’s cultural landscapes. Yet within this void, the last twenty years have born witness to the flourishing of independent, non-commercial art centers across these zones.
Visiting scholar Koyo Kouoh will offer a brief presentation and lead a discussion on RAW Acádemie, an experimental program for artistic thought and curatorial inquiry that she recently launched as part of the activities of RAW Material Company, a center for art, knowledge, and society in Dakar, Senegal.
