The Global Educators' Forum meets twice a year to discuss developing and implementing Global Studies-related programming and curriculum in schools, classrooms, and departments. This open meeting is intended for all educators--including, for example, teachers, administrators, pre-service teachers, post-secondary instructors, and School of Education faculty. Please join us to share your experiences with Global Education programs, learn about available resources, and continue to brainstorm ways of incorporating international and global education components into the curriculum.

Pitt Serves is hosting their tenth annual student sustainability symposium featuring Keynote Speaker Naomi Klein. Ms. Klein is an award-winning journalist, social activist, filmmaker, syndicated columnist and author. She will give a lecture during the symposium at 7:00pm.

Tourism, much like globalization, has become a bloated term. What makes up parts of a
“tourism economy?” What do we mean when we refer to someone as a tourist? In this
talk, McCormick will unpack the multiple dimensions of the word "tourism" to demonstrate its layered social/political issues. Overall, McCormick illustrates how these contexts of tourism in the Middle East allow us to better understand larger issues of mobility across the globe as well as the layering of meanings that fill the category “tourism.”

At a time of mass displacement across the Middle East, Palestinian refugees of the 1948 war-and their descendants-remain at the center of the world’s longest-running, unresolved refugee situation. The longevity of the issue is widely linked to the failure of the official “peace process” that began in the 1990s. While this diplomatic process has shaped political, media, and even academic discourses, it has also marginalized many realities and perspectives on the ground, particularly those related to everyday life and to intimate spaces like the home and village.

What role does embodiment play in the making of religious selves, communities, and others, for those in Africa and its diasporas? How are embodied religious practices immersed in broader concerns of inter-relational ethics and socially transformative struggles for power?

What role can teachers play in helping students understand the issues addressed by Jackie Smith's Housing Summit, and work toward positive change? In anticipation of the housing summit, Professor Roger Rouse of the University of Pittsburgh, together with Carl Redwood, Chair of the Hill District Consensus Group and long-time housing activist, will be offering a workshop specifically tailored to the curricular and pedagogical needs of the 6-12 educator. Participants are asked to complete short preparatory readings prior to the workshop.

Solving climate change requires developing and deploying clean technologies -- especially in developing countries. Clean technologies such as renewable energy are appealing on paper, but in practice face many challenges. What are these obstacles? This workshop presents projects of researchers and practitioners from the US and abroad who deal with these questions.

Patrick McCabe is an award winning novelist and scriptwriter. McCabe's novels and their adaptations often push the envelope in representations of sexuality, gender, and violence. McCabe currently serves as Distinguished Visiting Faculty at the University of Pittsburgh teaching courses on Irish film and fiction writing. See below for a brief schedule, each screening will be followed by a Q&A lead by Colin MacCabe and Jennifer Keating-Miller and each ticket includes an autographed book.

Michael Collins (1996)
Friday, April 14, 7:00pm

Come learn from someone who has worked in Pakistan, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya and the District of Colombia, with experience in the Office of Food for Peace (FFP), the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), and the Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI). Come learn from someone who oversees annual budgets in excess of $4.5 billion and a staff of over 700 people. Come learn about major changes in humanitarian aid over the past 35 years.

Mare Nostrum (14 minutes)
On the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, a Syrian Father makes a decision that puts his daughter's life at risk.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybh4czwN6YE