Expressing her muse through ghazals and Punjabi folk songs, Kiran Ahluwalia explores the language of the heart with beautiful artistry and smoldering intensity. Born in India, raised in Canada, and now living in New York City, her enchanting and seductive music has garnered glowing praise from critics around the world. Kiran Ahluwalia is the winner of Canada’s Juno Award for World Music Album of the Year in 2004 (Beyond Boundaries) and 2012 (Common Ground). She will be accompanied by her band (guitar, bass, accordion, and tabla).

The University of Pittsburgh School of Law faculty workshops are designed to bring leading scholars from around the country to the law school in order to engage and interact with the faculty and other interested participants in their cutting-edge research projects.

Speaking the Culture of the Middle East: Experiential Learning Program for Future Secondary Education Teachers, is a unique learning experience designed for twelve teachers to learn about the Middle East as a nexus of humanity both influencing and reacting to geopolitical paradigms past and present and to learn the language spoken in the region, Levantine colloquial Arabic, at an intermediate-low level.

On April 4-6, 2014, the University of Pittsburgh will host the second of two conferences that constitute the project “Voices of Asian Modernities: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Asian Popular Music of the 20th Century.” The conference will bring together a group of scholars from a range of fields including Music, Literature, History, Anthropology, Film Studies,Cultural Studies, Women's Studies, Performance Studies, and Asian Studies to properly historicize the artistic sounds, lyrical texts, visual images, and social lives of female performers in Asian popular music of the 20th century.

This event is part of the research theme Gender and the Global sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Women's Studies Program.

Workshop for undergraduates with Justin Adkins, Williams College, on "What's the 'T' in LGBT?"

This event is part of the research theme Gender and the Global sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Women's Studies Program.

Workshop for Instructors with Justin Adkins, Williams College on " 'The Trans' Inclusive Classroom"

This event is part of the research theme Gender and the Global sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Women's Studies Program.

Work-in-progress discussion with Amber Pabon, School of Education. Text for discussion will be available through the gender studies portal on my.pitt.edu under My Resources or from wstudies@pitt.edu

This event is part of the research theme Gender and the Global sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Women's Studies Program.

This event is part of the research theme Gender and the Global sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Women's Studies Program.

Do you consider yourself a very basic user of Facebook? Do you know the difference between Twitter and Tumblr? Have you tried to create a wiki for a class project, or does the very idea keep you up at night? Pitt’s international studies outreach program will host an interactive workshop to help teachers improve their use of social media websites and tools for education and personal use, including:

· Collaborative projects (for example, Wikispaces)
· Blogs and microblogs (for example, Twitter)
· Social news networking sites (for example, Reddit)