In this third installment of the 2022 Global Issues Through Literature Series (GILS), educators will convene to discuss Kate Evans' Threads: From the Refugee Crisis, a full-graphic novel of the refugee drama addressing one of the most pressing issues of modern times to make a compelling case, through intimate evidence, for the compassionate treatment of refugees and the free movement of peoples.

The Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship program is a prestigious and competitive award that allows select Pitt undergraduate and graduate students to devote full-time attention to their chosen modern foreign language and area studies specialty. There are separate competitions for the Academic Year FLAS Fellowship and the Summer FLAS Fellowship.

Hear firsthand from practitioner, Whitney Abbott, who has chosen to follow a less common path in healthcare with the goal of decreasing neonatal and maternal mortality. Whitney is currently working as a Nurse Midwife for the Chickasaw Nation in Ada, Oklahoma with Registered Nurse Status since 2007. More information about Whitney can be found on her website.

Are you passionate about an issue within the realm of Global Studies? The Global Studies Center BPhil degree provides students with the opportunity to develop an interdisciplinary research project under the mentorship of their chosen professor. Meet with current BPhil seniors, academic advisor Elaine Linn, and capstone professor Dr. Horia Dijmarescu to learn about the optimal timelines, opportunities for research, how to get started, the role of the faculty mentor, and more!

Join the Global Studies Center and the Department of Sociology for a panel discussion on the ongoing protests in Iran and their global implications for social movements against state-sanctioned oppression, transnational power structures, and bodily control. To tune in virtually on Zoom, register clicking the link above.

It's never too late or too early to be planning for future years. Join the six UCIS centers and learn tips for applications from program representatives and faculty decision makers from the Dietrich School A&S, Graduate School of Public Health, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and the School of Education.

This semester's 2022 Micro-Course will focus on humanity’s use of technology and the disparate impacts on and benefits to the environment and varying groups of people. This will include discussion around the material, environmental, and health costs of extracting materials necessary to technological development and production as well as the waste created by the consumption habits initiated by global reliance on technology. It will also include a discussion of technology’s role in advancing sustainability.

In this second installment of the 2022 Global Issues Through Literature Series (GILS), educators will convene to discuss Richard Conyngham's All Rise: Resistance and Rebellion in South Africa, a graphic anthology telling six true stories of resistance by marginalized South Africans against the country's colonial government in the years leading up to Apartheid.

In this first installment of the 2022 Global Issues Through Literature Series (GILS), educators will convene to discuss Sabrina Jones & Marc Mauer’s Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling, a complex story of four decades of prison expansion and its corrosive effect on generation of Americans and its implications for American democracy.