Come enjoy "Bridging the Gap: Overcoming Barriers, Seeking Solutions," an event planned by the Union of African Communities in Southwestern PA and supported by the African Studies Program, the Global Studies Center, and the Africana Studies Department at Pitt. The purpose of the event is to foster unity, understanding, and cooperation between multiple communities of African descent living in Southwestern Pennsylvania. The event will include a panel of compelling speakers, discussion, a meet and greet afterwards, and food!

The emergence of international capitalism depended on the creation of a highly mobile working class that built, loaded, and sailed the ships that connected the globe. These ships inaugurated the Atlantic slave trade and other labor migrations, making possible new regimes of accumulation and labor based in port cities, dynamic centers of power that linked the slave labor of colonial plantations to Europe and other parts of the world. The laborers of port cities – sailors, indentured servants, and slaves, workers free and unfree – are the subjects of this workshop.

Carol Perez, a high-level State Department official, will visit Pittsburgh to promote the many ways Americans can conduct foreign policy and serve their country abroad. Students of Less-Commonly-Taught Languages are uniquely qualified for a career with the State Department, as they have already demonstrated their ability to adapt to other cultures and communicate with people from different backgrounds. Also, there is a high demand in the U.S. Government for speakers of Persian, Swahili, Turkish, Urdu, Hindi, Russian, Arabic, Mandarin, and other difficult or less well known languages.

Mangroves provide a variety of ecosystem services to humans. They are important nursery habitats for juvenile fish that migrate to nearby coral reefs, providing humans fish for food and recreation. In her thesis, Aly Yingst quantifies species richness, species diversity, and biomass of reef fish on coral reefs near mangroves impacted by development. This thesis also examines global mangrove management practices, including the role that ecotourism plays in mangrove conservation.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND WILL BE RE-SCHEDULED FOR A LATER DATE, TO BE ANNOUNCED.

Great opportunity for students interested in actuarial sciences!

Join us for lunch with Bob Crnjarich, Vice President, Retirement and Actuarial Services at Cowden Associates, Inc. He will talk about trends and challenges in the field of actuarial science, the international aspects of the profession, his own career path, and tips for students looking to enter the field. Lunch is free, and this is a great opportunity to talk shop with a professional in the field.

ATTENTION GSPIANS!!!!

Want to enhance your resume with global studies? Want to learn or improve a language? Not sure how global studies courses will fit into your schedule? Concerned about funding?

Join Crystal Christophe and other current global studies students, along with Elaine Linn, Assistant Director for Academic Affairs at the Global Studies Center (GSC), to learn more about the exciting opportunities that the center offers over some delicious free food!

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Great opportunity for students interested in intelligence and and transatlantic policy!

Join Frank Hofmann, visiting senior lecturer at GSPIA, for a lecture on the issues facing EU intelligence services and the fight against terrorism.

Afterwards, there will be a luncheon to discuss his career path, CIA and intelligence community hiring trends, and any other questions. Anyone is free to attend the lecture, but if you plan to attend the luncheon that follows, contact Steve Lund at slund@pitt.edu to RSVP.

Pedro Reyes (Mexico City, 1972) studied architecture but considers himself a sculptor, although his works integrate elements of theater, psychology and activism. His work takes on a great variety of forms, from penetrable sculptures (Capulas, 2002-08) to puppet productions (Baby Marx, 2008), (The Permanent Revolution, 2014). In 2008, Reyes initiated the ongoing Palas por Pistolas where 1,527 guns were collected in Mexico through a voluntary donation campaign to produce the same number of shovels to plant 1,527 trees.

Mark Jarzombek, Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture, works on a wide range of historical topics from the 12th century to the modern era with a particular focus on nineteenth and twentieth century aesthetics, and the history and theory of architecture. He is one of the country’s leading advocates for global history and has published several books and articles on that topic, including the ground-breaking textbook entitled A Global History of Architecture (Wiley Press, 2006) with co-author Vikram Prakash and with the noted illustrator Francis D.K. Ching.