So, you're going abroad this summer? Join us to learn about how to come home more than a phone full of photos to share your experience!
So, you're going abroad this summer? Join us to learn about how to come home more than a phone full of photos to share your experience!
Hear first-hand accounts from journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous as he discusses his work in elevating the realities of those fighting for justice. His discussion will be followed by a screening of his documentary on the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, an Al Jazeera journalist based in the occupied West Bank, and a Q&A session with attendees. Sharif Abdel Kouddous is an independent journalist who has reported from across the Arab world, the United States, and internationally.
In the sixth installment of the Global Issues Through Literature Series (GILS), educators will convene to discuss Run for It: Stories Of Slaves Who Fought For Their Freedom by author Marcelo d'Salete. This graphic novel tells unforgettable stories about Afro-Brazilian slaves who rebelled against oppression.
Global climate change is looming as a long-lasting, all-dimensional issue of the century with far reaching impacts. Despite the increasing interests and rhetoric, higher education is poorly prepared to keep pace with the rapidly changing climate. Global studies can and should play a leading role to prepare students whose lives will be increasingly impacted by the climate crisis. As an Earth scientist, international education administrator, and a current Harvard Radcliffe Fellow, Dr.
The University of Pittsburgh and the International Studies Consortium of Georgia (ISCOG) invite you to join the introductory session in an ongoing series focused on development, conservation, and sustainability contrasting dynamics and processes in different world regions. The sessions have been designed to help educators develop and enhance global content complementing their curricula.
Compensation, the first feature by award-winning filmmaker Zeinabu irene Davis (Cycles and A Powerful Thang), presents two unique African-American love stories between a deaf woman and a hearing man. Inspired by a poem written by Paul Laurence Dunbar, this moving narrative shares their struggle to overcome racism, disability and discrimination.
What is urban violence? Challenging the implicit answer that normally accompanies this question (i.e. the violence that takes place in the city), this talk embarks on a genealogical endeavour to unpack the where and the when of urban violence. The underlying presupposition is that the notion of urban violence surfaces at a specific historical and geographical juncture, namely at the dawn of urban modernity.
Come and see BPhil Candidate Tobin Richter present and defend his thesis. Tobin interprets the novels One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez 1967) and The Old Drift (Namwali Serpell 2019) as decolonial texts which call for the dismantling of the cultural, political, and economic inequalities created by colonialism, which continue to relegate the Global South to a subordinate position in the modern world.
Come and see BPhil candidate Jasmine Al Rasheed as she presents and defends her thesis. Jasmine explored the impact of intersectional identity in employment experiences of global, female Muslim migrant communities. She conducted a case study in Pittsburgh, interviewing members of the community and compared her findings with research done in the EU. Her research examines gender and religious identity in migrant communities.
