Is there such a thing as Jewish horror? Looking at examples of what has frightened Jews over three millennia of literary history, we'll venture some conclusions.
From the earliest stages of language processing, people use prosodic information in word recognition and to predict and construct the syntactic structure of an utterance in their native language (L1) (e.g., Eckstein & Friederici, 2006; Friederich et al., 2004; Isel et al., 2005; Pauker et al., 2011; Steinhauer, 2003; see also Cutler et al., 1997; Wagner & Watson, 2010, for two reviews).
Viachaslau Yarashevich, Fulbright Scholar, Belarus State University
Grigory Ioffe, Professor of Geography, Radford University
David Marples, Professor, Department of History & Classics, University of Alberta
Olga Klimova, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Olga Kuchinskaya, Professor, Department of Communication
Joan McGuire Mohr, a former awardee of the Kukucka Slovak Scholarship, received her PhD in history from the University of Pittsburgh. She will talk about the oral histories, public documents, personal letters, and photographs from a variety of individuals and collections which she assembled and pieced together to revive the story of the Slovak and Czech soldiers who abandoned the Hapsburg Army, organized military units in Russia and fought against the Bolsheviks during the 1917 revolutions.
ASC and the Japanese language program at Pitt are offering a series of Japanese language tables on campus for students of Japanese language. This session on “practicing speaking with Show & Tell in Japanese” is designed for all level of Japanese language students-- 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year (and beyond). You will be sharing an item you will discuss with the group. In this session:
Please bring an item you would like to discuss. You can bring anything— a photo (digital or print), a memorable item from your childhood, or magazine article you would like to discuss, etc.
Graduate and undergraduate students graduating this spring will showcase their capstone research and highlight how their classroom, co-curricular and/or study abroad, helped shape their understanding of critical global issues. We invite you to join us for lunch, view their displays, and congratulate them on their success. We will also present certificates to our students who have successfully completed the program.
Dr. Christian Burgsmüller is a career EU diplomat currently with the European External Action Service (EEAS), serving as Counselor at the EU Delegation to the U.S. in Washington, D.C. Dr. Burgsmüller studied law in Freiburg i.Br., Geneva and Cologne and worked as a trainee solicitor in Düsseldorf, Brussels, Cologne and Buenos Aires before passing the German Bar Exam in 2000 and subsequently joining the European Commission in Brussels as a career official.
An International Conference at the University of Pittsburgh
Thursday, March 29
Welcoming Reception: 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Session I: Revolutionary Dynamics (6:00pm - 8:00pm)
Asef Bayat (University of Illinois): "Revolution without Movement, Movement without Revolution -- Again"
Samer Shehata (Georgetown University): "Too Little, Too Late: The Mubarak Regime's Response to Dynamic Protest"
Mohammed Bamyeh (University of Pittsburgh): "On Spontaneity and Organization"
Friday, March 30
Breakfast: 9:00am - 10:00am
Depictions of peasants and their folk dress were a ubiquitous part of the visual culture of Central and Eastern Europe throughout the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century linked with burgeoning nationalisms. The boldly illustrated covers of Svijet (World), a weekly magazine produced in Zagreb in the late 1920s and early 1930s, exemplify this increased prominence of peasant imagery.
