This lecture is being presented by Dr. Anastasia Grammaticaki-Alexiou, Professor of Law at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

The Language Fair will promote use and awareness of languages offered on campus. Students, professors and clubs will be offering information about their languages and cultures. OCC Credit will be available. More information: yinzlingpitt@gmail.com.

Professor Fabrizio Tonello, the 2011 University of Pittsburgh History Department Italian Fulbright Visiting Professor, will offer a personal view of Italian politics and government.

Lecture given by Max Bergholz, will be joining the History Department at Concordia University in Montreal in July 2011

This conference is for the purpose of reviewing a manuscript of a book that shares the title of the conference. Expert reviewers will provide critiques of major sections of the draft book.

Fabrizio Tonello, Fulbright Visiting Professor from the University of Padua will lecture.

2011 will mark the 20th anniversary of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. On 25 December 1991, in the midst of intrigues and political struggles Mikhail Gorbachev stepped down as General Secretary of the Communist Party. Two years earlier, former Eastern European socialist states had already begun the transition to 'democracy' and 'market economy.' The year 2009 witnessed splendid and highly orchestrated twentieth anniversary celebrations of the end of state socialism in Eastern Europe.

A working conference sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh's Office of the Provost, Office of the Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, Center for Russian and East European Studies, and European Studies Center

Michael Kaeding, Christine Mahoney, Nils Ringe, and Jennifer Victor will engage in a panel discussion that provides illumination on the role of information and expertise in policy making within the EU Parliament. A reception will follow.

This event will explore the experiences of African-Americans who have studied, taught and conducted research in Russia or focusing on Slavic languages, literatures and cultures, an academic field in which they are seriously underrepresented. It will include interactive discussion among the speakers and audience on the unique challenges of studying and traveling, as part of an underrepresented minority, in a region of the world which has historically and recently had an uneasy relationship with racial diversity, despite official Soviet-era pronouncements on the “friendship of peoples.”