This reading group gathers globally-minded educators together to discuss texts that showcase various global issues and can be used in the 6-16 classroom. This session will center on The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan, about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The Global Studies Center is excited to sponsor a full-day Teaching Institute for pre-service and in-service teachers of grades 6-12. Led by Emily Chiariello, the chief architect of the Perspectives for a Diverse America curriculum, participants will discuss what is an anti-bias education, and how can it help us to teach about human rights and global issues. We will explore such concepts as multicultural education, culturally responsive instruction, and the need to integrate issues of social justice and diversity into teaching and learning.

This reading group gathers globally-minded educators to discuss works of fiction that can be used in the classroom to teach global competency skills. Registration for the last two sessions of the year is open; previous attendance is not necessary. This program is supported by Pitt’s Year of Diversity. Contact Lisa Bromberg with questions.
April 5, 5-8pm, 4130 Posvar: Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings, A Memoir by Margarita Engle, discussion led by Dr. Kenya Dworkin of CMU. Register at the website.

This reading group gathers globally-minded educators to discuss works of fiction that can be used in the classroom to teach global competency skills. Registration for the last two sessions of the year is open; previous attendance is not necessary. This program is supported by Pitt’s Year of Diversity. Contact Lisa Bromberg with questions.
The Day of the Pelican by Katherine Paterson, discussion led by Mrs. Karen Gaul of Winchester-Thurston School. Register at the website.

Monday, March 27 - World Theatre Day

12PM - Presentation and Talk with Photo-journalist Maranie Rae and Human Refuge(e): a platform providing first-hand stories from refugees around the world.
602 Cathedral of Learning, lunch provided

6PM - Reading of the play Oh My Sweet Land by Amir Nizar Zuabi, performed by Lameece Issaq, Founding Director of Noor Theatre, dedicated to the work of theatre artists of Middle Eastern decent. 602 Cathedral of Learning, evening reception

Tuesday, March 28

12PM - Syria in Context: a conversation with Joseph Bahout, visiting lecturer with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Luke Peterson (Global Studies), with introduction by Michael Goodhart (Global Studies).
Lunch provided

Join us for a good old-fashioned Teach-In to explore the various issues surrounding America First Immigration and Trade Policy this Saturday from 1-5 p.m. in the Cathedral of Learning.

Professor Sarkar, on the seventieth anniversary of the independence/partition of 1947, will return to the ever-contested borders of South Asia to speculate on the region’s fissured futures, and to think about the constitutive relation between borders and futurities. His lecture will draw on two instances of life and creativity in the borderlands of India: the resolute aspirations and precarious agencies wrought by frontier communities in the face of insurmountable adversities.

From about the 1990s onwards, in tandem with economic liberalization, the monumental iconic statue has become an increasingly prominent feature of the religious and now the political landscape. Focusing on the Statue of Unity– a figure of Sardar Patel intended to be the tallest statue in the world – and its multiple genealogies, this talk attends to what the novelty of this genre makes possible: the neoliberal scale-making project. The talk links locality at varying scales with the national and global, and the speculative sensibility at its heart.

This performance is an original work of Bharatanatyam, an Indian classical dance form, and
tells the story of a prominent Indian feminist and anti-colonial activist, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya, as she confronts racism in Louisiana in 1940. A powerfully moving work of dance that blends forgotten history with original music, poetry, and motion, Out of the Shadows will be performed by renowned dancer and choreographer, Anjal Chande. Free and open to the public.