This talk explores the relationship between national securitization, liberal warfare, and transnational linkages and encounters between the U.S. and the North Africa/Middle East region. Drawing on over a year of research in Israel/Palestine, this talk examines how the tethering of U.S. terrorism law and policy to foreign aid transactions is giving rise to expansive networks of surveillance and enforcement far beyond U.S. borders.

Come to this session and hear from returned Peace Corps Volunteers about their service in countries all over Africa. Get your application questions answered by a recruiter!

Learn about the Peace Corps application and get tips to make yourself stand out.

Make a difference! Join the Peace Corps! Application deadline is January 1st.

Save the date for the EU Development Symposium, to be held on the afternoon of Monday, December 5th!

Primary Guest:
Renate Hahlen, the Minister Counselor of Development at the Delegation of the European Union to the US

To be accompanied on the following panels by:

EU Development Policy & Latin America and the Caribbean
Scott Morgenstern, Director Center for Latin American Studies, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

Blending performance footage, personal interviews, and archival film, director Morgan Neville, and producer, Caitrin Rogers, focus on the journeys of a small group of Silk Road Ensemble mainstays from across the globe to create an intensely personal chronicle of passion, talent, and sacrifice. Through these moving individual stories, the filmmakers paint a vivid portrait of a bold musical experiment and a global search for the ties that bind.

In 2011, Tunisia experienced a successful revolution that overthrew the government, and ended a system of state-supported feminism that had existed since its independence in 1956. My project explores how women are using the internet today to create new forms of grassroots feminism, independent of the state system, by analyzing three online sources: a blog, Facebook group, and online image.

“Designing MOOCs in a Chinese Social Network Environment” by IISE Visiting Scholar, Dr. Xiufang Ma

Interested in teaching English abroad after graduation? Looking for work and volunteer positions either at home or abroad? Want to make a difference in the lives of others with your skills gained at Pitt? Please join us to discuss your options with alums from the Peace Corps, English Program in Korea (EPIK), Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme, Americorps, Teach for America, and the Fulbright Scholarship Program.

Presenters include:

Michael Batty, Chair, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis and Bartlett Professor of Planning, University College London on Models and Complexity, John de Boer, Senior Policy Advisor, United Nations University Center for Policy Research on Fragile Cities, Enrique Desmond Arias, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University on Organized Violence and Hybrid Governance in Latin America