Q&A with Goran Radovanovic, the director, after the screening.

This lecture will be given by Martin Pudlik, Scientific Assistant at the Department of Geography RWTH Aachen University.

Enjoy Slovak dancing, food, and crafts!

Part of the Global Lens 2010 Series. In this deeply affecting portrait of ordinary courage in present-day South Africa, a single mother-Shirley Adams -struggles to care for her paraplegic teenage son, Donovan, in a depressed district on the outskirts of Cape Town. Wearied but resolute, she desperately clings to him as he withdraws from the world following a suicide attempt, and is hopeful when his spirits are momentarily lifted by the appearance of Tamsin, a pretty but overeager social worker.

Part of the Global Lens 2010 Series. In this riveting, insider's perspective on life in Iran's capital city, Marzieh--a terminally ill actress--wearily relates her desperate quest for political asylum through a series of interviews with an unsympathetic government official.

This colloquium will feature Dennis Looney, Nancy Glazener and John Beverley.

Andrea Aldrich is a PhD student in the Political Science Department. Her lecture will explore whether the institutionalization of the European Parliament has led to an increase in supranational party power that reflects representation on a higher level than the national party. It seeks to determine when and to what extent supranational parties are able to influence individual Members of Parliament on issues of European integration and concludes that the strength of party influence varies across groups in accordance to party size, ideological preference and access to power.

Lina Insana, Pitt Faculty Fellow, will lead this colloquium.

The 2010 Nicholas C. Tucci Lecture will be presented by Theodore J. Cachey, the Albert J. Ravarino Family Director of Dante and Italian Studies, Professor and Chair, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, at the University of Notre Dame.

Lecture given by Cyryl Garus, Scientific Assistant at the Department of Geography RWTH Aachen University