In our hypermediatized era, the power of the image increasingly rivals the power of the sword and of the pen. Inspired by the drama of Middle Eastern politics in general and Turkey in particular, Nora Fisher Onar will examine how established and emerging actors like women’s activists use public spectacle to pursue political goals.

Learn how to strengthen your application. Bring your resume to receive personalized recommendations on how you can increase your competitiveness for your Peace Corps service.

Happy Valentines Day! Join us to hear stories of local returned Peace Corps volunteers who served with their partners or who met their partners in service.
All are welcome to attend.
Lunch will be served.

Learn about different cultures from a variety of countries around the globe.

Come to the Service Panel and listen to different experiences from various organizations of work done overseas.

What drives certain groups, especially Islamists, in different degrees to regulate and event prohibit fun?

This talk will explore what fun is, who its main participants are, and who are its adversaries, in particular Islamists. The history of Islamism has been one of a battle against fun, playfulness, and diversion. The talk will look at questions such as: Is there such a thing as a politics of fun? Is there a politics to anti-fun-damentalism? Is there a subversive potential to fun?

CERIS Undergraduate Symposium

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.