This special event led by Provost Cudd is a discussion about the many ways cities are being shaped by the forces of globalization.

This unique program will use Vice Provost Ariel Armony's new University of California Press book, The Global Edge: Miami in the Twenty-First Century, co-authored with Alejandro Portes, as a launching point to explore the social, economic, and cultural transformation of Miami and Pittsburgh – past and present.

Ms. Patel will discuss US global health interventions through USAID and contributions through the Global Fund, WHO, and other aid organizations. She will also talk about her own career path, and how students interested in global health can prepare now to enter the field.

There will be a discussion group after the lecture for students interested in having a more in-depth career conversation with Ms. Patel. Lunch will be provided at this smaller session and seating is limited, so please rsvp to Thayjas Patil at tap97@pitt.edu.

Since the beginning of the recent migration crisis, we have witnessed an increase in the number of unaccompanied children who are trying to reach the safety of affluent Western societies. Countless young people are forced into displacement due to increasing poverty, violence, development projects, social instability, and/or increasing environmental degradation. Dr. Mlado Ivanovic approaches this phenomenon by taking violence, oppression and various forms of exclusion faced by children refugees to demonstrate the structural limits of the present institutionalized refugee and asylum system.

As we commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we face the realization that the human rights system is facing an existential crisis. Human rights are more important than ever and under great threat. But the human rights framework has historically avoided engaging with core economic and political systemic questions.

The National Economic and Social Rights Initiative is advancing a nation-wide call for a “New Social Contract” in this country to defend our economy, democracy and climate from threats posed by extreme concentrations of wealth in a few hands and economic development that prioritizes economic growth over maintaining the infrastructure, goods and services that families and neighborhoods need to thrive.

Join us for a happy hour in the Global Studies main office. We'll provide drinks and light refreshments; you provide the great company and conversation. Not only are these events fun, they also help us to build up the Global Studies program and community at Pitt by giving us a chance to learn more about your work and how we might support it. It's a great way to meet people with shared or complementary interests, and for us to hear your suggestions about what we might do to enrich and encourage exciting research, teaching, and programs on campus and beyond.

The Ferguson Voices: Disrupting the Frame exhibit in Hillman Library brought individual testimony and portraits from Ferguson in 2016 to deepen conversations and understandings of criminal justice and activism. A guiding principle of the exhibit is to highlight stories of extraordinary actions by ordinary citizens in moments of crisis.

The Global Studies Center hopes to continue this community-based emphasis with an event for participants to discuss their individual perspectives, thoughts, emotions and reactions to criminal justice and policing in America.

How are the forms of displacement and dispossession experienced by less mobile people similar to, or different from, those of people displaced across national borders?

With increasing forms of precarity across the globe, there is a need to call attention to sites of struggle that bridge assumed divisions between ”migrants,” “refugees,” and “citizens.” These include access to housing, safety, thriving neighborhoods, healthcare, food, education, childcare, the labor market, and other shared needs. What would it mean to de-exceptionalize displacement, rethinking mobility and citizenship alike?

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