Radisav Vidic, Ph.D., P.E.

William Kepler Whiteford Professor and Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh

Jennifer Dobbs's debut collection, Paper Pavilion (White Pine Press 2007), received the White Pine Press Poetry Prize and the Sheila Motten Book Award, and her chapbook, Song of a Mirror, was a finalist for the Tupelo Press Snowbound Series Chapbook Award. She was also awarded a 2010 literature translation grant with Young Shil Cho from The Daesan Foundation of Korea.

Panel presenters include:

Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Asst. Prof. of English, St Olaf College--'Toward Truth and Reconciliation: Overseas Korean Adoptee and Unwed Mother Advocacy'

Eleana Kim, Asst. Prof. Anthropology, University of Rochester--'The Dry Eye of Adoption Politics: Testimony, Social Justice, and Representation Among Transnational Korean Adoptees'

Political scientists have long been interested in the ambitions and career goals of politicians. Why do they run for the offices they do and how does their current posting fit into a fuller picture of their careers? The European Parliament makes for an interesting case for consideration, as the European level does not necessarily fit into the neat hierarchies that one usually associates with climbing the political ladder.

Hermann Herlinghaus, Pitt Faculty Fellow, will lead this colloquium discussion.

Ernst-Peter Brezovszky, Austrian Consul General, will conduct a roundtable discussion with faculty and students.

This videoconference, in coordination with the Center for Transatlantic Relations at SAIS at Johns Hopkins, will be moderated by Daniel Hamilton and will feature Philip H. Gordon, Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs in the United States Department of State.

Ana Kladnik and Adelina Stefan present their PhD research on consumerism and tourism in three different socialist states.

Marzia Cozzolino, PhD student in Administrative and Policy Studies

In this session the presenter will share the results of a survey administered to a purposeful sampling of Pennsylvania educators in the

Are Muslims friends or foes to America? How can we tell? Does Islam that unites Muslims divide them as well? How so? What does this mean to the U.S. foreign policy? These questions and others will be addressed by Professor Moataz Herzawi's talk in which he will dissect the phenomenon of Political Islamism from a Middle Eastern perspective. He will respond as well to several of the thorny questions that are haunting the American mind.