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.

International Career Toolkit Series- Washington D.C. Trip Information

Students selected for the International Career Toolkit Series trip to Washington D.C. are required to attend a one-hour session on creating a 30-second elevator speech. This is an important skill to develop and will be utilized during the trip. Any student is welcome to participate, regardless if they are going on the Washington DC networking trip.

Anastasia Rose-Diamantis Lopez, M.A. Career Consultant for A&S, Pre-Business, and Careers Abroad at Pitt's Career Development and Placement Assistance office will present.

Students selected for the International Career Toolkit Series trip to Washington D.C. are required to attend a one-hour session on creating a 30-second elevator speech. This is an important skill to develop and will be utilized during the trip. There are two available sessions for the event:

Friday, 2/5/2016- 4217 Posvar Hall, 3:00 PM

Wednesday, 2/17/2016- 4130 Posvar Hall, 4:00 PM