PSU/Pitt Global Studies Undergraduate Research Symposium
Jurcek Zmauc is the President of the Slovenian American Business Association and is a Secretary of the Office for Slovenes Abroad of the Republic of Slovenia. A native of Maribor, Slovenia, he received degrees in law from the University of Maribor and from the University of Ljubljana. His career has included service as the Republic of Slovenia's Counsel General in Austria and as its Counsel General in Cleveland, Ohio, and as the Deputy Minister and Director of the Division of Southeast Europe of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia. In addition to his government service, Mr.
In the first of two sessions in which Pitt Law LLM students will talk to the Pitt
Law community about the legal systems and rule of law challenges of their home countries, four Pitt Law students from Kosovo will provide their individ-ual perspectives and participate in a roundtable discussion of the develop-ment of that young state's legal and governmental institutions.
This seminar is designed to teach practitioners working in the K-12 environment to strategically plan for educational opportunities that will enable students to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to become not only competitive and successful workers in the global marketplace, but also informed and responsible citizens able to address complex global issues. Specifically course participants will: *Learn about international and global education as a field of study and its current status in U.S.
The session schedule is as followed:
session one (Elias and Moraru) on "The Planetary Turn;"
session two (Elias) on “The Temporality of Dialogue”;
and session three (Moraru) on "Coevalness and Critical Chronography."
This symposium is part of the Coevality: Ethical Being in a Time of Total Change series.
TJ Demos & Terry Smith Global Climate Justice and World Art, A Symposium
Thursday, March 24, 4:15-6:00 PM, Frick Fine Arts Lecture Theatre
“World Picturing by Contemporary Artists” (Smith);
“Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today” (Demos)
A panel with both speakers will follow.
6:00 PM Reception in Frick Fine Arts Cloister
Terry Smith: World Picturing by Contemporary Artists
(Global Studies Faculty Fellow Lecture II)
Research focus: Does the Framework Convention on Climate Change, affirmed by 195 nations in Paris on December 12, 2015, signal a turning point in our ability to work in the common interests of all sentient beings and of the worlds in which we live? The negotiators acknowledged the inequalities evident between and within nations, the differences between cultures, individual and group diversity, and the uneven development of institutions, while at the same time presumed the equal value of all parties, places, and polities.
- Meet and network with GSC students, staff and faculty
- Exchange views & ideas
- Also, learn about how to get involved in 2016 election on campus and in Pittsburgh
- Turkish coffee and snacks served!
Poverty, Inc. is an award-winning documentary that critically examines the multibillion dollar aid industry. The West has positioned itself as the protagonist of development, giving rise to a vast multi-billion dollar poverty industry — the business of doing good has never been better. Yet the results have been mixed, in some cases even catastrophic, and leaders in the developing world are growing increasingly vocal in calling for change. Drawing from over 200 interviews filmed in 20 countries, Poverty, Inc. unearths an uncomfortable side of charity we can no longer ignore.
A dialogue between Deborah Cowen, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Toronto, and Brian Holmes, internationally known art critic and cultural theorist.
Deborah Cowen has written extensively on militarism, violence, and security, cities and social justice, and geographies of citizenship and labor. Her most recent book is The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade.
