Dr. David E. Bloom is an economist whose work focuses on health, demography, education, and labor. In recent years, he has written extensively on the links among health status,population dynamics, and economic growth. Dr. Bloom has published over 300 articles, book chapters, and books. Dr. Bloom currently serves as a Faculty Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of amfAR, and the Foundation for AIDS Research. Dr. Bloom also serves as Director of Harvard’s Program on the Global Demography of Aging. In April 2005 Dr.

The United Nations’ International Day for Tolerance is annually observed on November 16 to educate people about the need for tolerance in society and to help them understand the negative effects of intolerance. In 1996 the UN General Assembly invited UN Member States to observe the International Day for Tolerance, with activities directed toward both education establishments and the wider international development community.

1:00 - 1:30 p.m. “Achieving Gender Equity in Education in South Sudan: Post-conflict Challenges and Opportunities”

China Town Hall is a national day of programming on China, involving fifty cities throughout the United States. The event will consist of a reception with light refreshments beginning at 6:30 p.m., followed by a live webcast at 6:50 p.m. from Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinksi, former national security advisor and current counselor and trustee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C. After the webcast, the local guest speaker Dr. A.

Part of the conference The Idea of France

Colloquium on French Global : A New Approach to Literary History (2010) (esp. introduction and articles by Profs. Suleiman and McDonald) The suggested reading for the colloquium discussion for Suleiman/McDonald’s French Global the introduction and the articles by the editors and by Lawrence Kritzman.
Introduced by Giuseppina Mecchia (University of Pittsburgh).

Part of the conference The Idea of France

Colloquium on his book, Can Islam be French?: Pluralism and Pragmatism in a Secularist State (2010).
The suggested reading for the colloquium discussion on Bowen’s Can Islam be French? is chaps. 1-3, and 9.

Introduced by Neil Doshi (University of Pittsburgh)

Over 75 papers will be delivered on topics from all fields (literature, history, political science, sociology, anthropology, law, religion, art, music, cultural studies, film studies, gender studies, etc.) that treat the question of the idea of France or Frenchness in any time period from the middle ages to the twenty-first century.

For a full version of the conference schedule, please visit the Web site.

Pittsburgh Premier THE FOURTH WAVE by Victoria Melnykova followed by Closing Night Reception co-sponsored by the New Ukrainian Wave, Pittsburgh Branch

Friday, November 4, 2011 at 6 PM: Pittsburgh Premier BEREZA KARTUZKA by a multi award-winning filmmaker Yurij Luhovy followed by a reception sponsored by the Pierogies Plus.

Award-winning documentary tells the story of the infamous Polish concentration camp in which thousands of Ukrainian patriots were imprisoned between 1934 and 1939.

Dr. Bahi will discuss how women were key players in the uprising that launched the Arab spring. She argues that women may have sustained the Arab spring, but it remains to be seen if the Arab spring will sustain women.