Global Studies Center

Synonyms: 
GSC
Global Studies

"Thirst" Screening

Subtitle: 
Post-Socialist Women Filmmakers Festival
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 09/29/2017 - 17:00 to 19:30

Post-screening discussion with Ingeborg Bratoeva-Daraktchieva, Film Critic, Bulgaria

Location: 
Frick Fine Arts Room 125

Post-Socialist Women Filmmakers Festival Opening

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 09/29/2017 - 16:00

This keynote address will introduce the weekend's film festival, celebrating the amazing film work being done women in the Balkans and Central Asia. The keynote speaker for this event is Yana Hashamova, the chair of the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at Ohio State University.

Location: 
Frick Fine Arts Room 125

Peace Corps Application Workshop

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Tue, 09/12/2017 - 18:00 to 19:00

Make your application stand out from the rest!

Peace Corps recruiters will:
• Show you how to browse Volunteer openings
• Assist you in finding the right program
• Explain steps you can take to improve your chances
• Help you strengthen your application
• Provide valuable tips to guide you through the application process.

Location: 
4130 Posvar
Cost: 
0
Contact Person: 
Kaitlin Powers
Contact Email: 
pcorps@pitt.edu

Peace Corps Information Session

Presenter: 
Kaitlin Powers
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Wed, 09/06/2017 - 14:00 to 15:00

Ready to make the most of your world? Do the unexpected.

Come meet the Peace Corps campus recruiter and learn about Peace Corps service.

Location: 
4130 Posvar
Contact Person: 
Kaitlin Powers
Contact Email: 
pcorps@pitt.edu

Humanizing the Global, Globalizing the Human: Migration

Subtitle: 
The Labors in Landscape, or the False Protagonism of Globalization
Presenter: 
Sergio Delgado Moya
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 11/16/2017 - 16:30 to 18:00

This talk, prresented by Dr. Sergio Delgado Moya of Harvard University, Romance Language & Literature Department, grapples with borders as both landscapes and stages, as backgrounds against which our symbolic knowledge of migrants and migration take shape. It focuses on a long tradition in Latin American and Latinx artists and writers who subvert picturesque notions of landscape in favor of more nuanced, historically informed, politically incisive renditions of the environment.

Location: 
601 Cathedral of Learning
Cost: 
Free
Contact Person: 
Global Studies Center
Contact Phone: 
4126485085
Contact Email: 
global@pitt.edu

Daniel Beaty Live!!

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 11/16/2017 - 13:00

Actor, singer, writer, activist, and advocate of arts-based social justice education, Daniel Beaty is best known for his performance of “Knock Knock,” which has received over 17 million views on YouTube. His other work includes the one-man play Emergency (in which he performs over 40 characters), a film about Beaty’s relationship with his incarcerated father, and a collaborative project involving people affected by gangs.

Location: 
O'Hara Student Center Ballroom
Cost: 
Free
Contact Person: 
Global Studies Center
Contact Phone: 
4126485085
Contact Email: 
global@pitt.edu

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