The second in a series of annual UCIS professional development workshops organized for faculty and staff of community colleges in the Western Pennsylvania region with the aim of internationalizing these community college campuses. Presenters from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University will discuss admissions, orientation, academics and student life in relation to international students attending US colleges.

This lecture discusses the various forms of isolation and stigmatization experienced by Jewish communities in Germany in the postwar period and seeks to explore the process of redefining Jewish existence in “the land of the perpetrators.” Competing and conflicting German, Jewish, and international conceptions of Jewish life in Germany that were voiced during the early postwar years play an important role in understanding the process of development within individual Jewish communities in the Federal Republic and the position that German-Jewish organizations occupy within the German as well a

Political Process and Effect of Performance-Based Funding Examples in the United States - Shuo Wang, IISE Visiting Scholar
The Employability of Ph.D. Graduates in the United States: A Case Study of the University of Pittsburgh - Xueshuang Wang, IISE Visiting Scholar
A Comparative Study of the Market Economy Impact on Higher Education in Turkey and the United States - Abdullah Bagci, IISE Visiting Scholar

When PEGIDA began its weekly protest marches in October 2014, many were blindsided by its steady outpouring of support. From a mere 350 followers on October 25, 2014, the numbers grew to between 17,000 and 25,000 on January 12, 2015. This talk analyzes the rhetoric and ideological affinities of PEGIDA with other right populist groups, both past and present. Their biases rely on chauvinistic nationalism and anti-government and anti-journalist stances.

This lecture aims to offer a broader and more nuanced perspective on what has been widely referred to as Europe’s “refugee crisis.” With a focus on Germany, the lecture will reflect on the national and international events and changes that occurred between 2011 and the present as a means of rethinking this crisis as both a humanitarian crisis and an example of humanitarianism in crisis.

Attorney Nery Ramati is a partner in Gaby Lasky and Partners Law Office, a leading human rights firm in Israel specializing in freedom of expression and protest. he has represented Palestinian, Israeli, and international human rights and anti-occupation activists in the military and civil courts since 2008. He has also provided legal counsel various organizations engaged in documenting and protesting human rights abuses and violations of international law by the Israeli authorities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Please join us as five Pitt Law LLM students discuss the legal systems and related issues and developments in their home countries:
Bashir Alghussein (Palestine)
Rafal Jasim (Iraq)
Nevena Jevremovic (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
James Ochieng (Kenya)
Yevhenii Shatskyi (Ukraine)

Cody Corliss is a war crimes prosecutor at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) where he is part of trial team prosecuting Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity, and violations of the laws and customs of war. Mr. Corliss is an expert on international truth commissions and his work has appeared in magazines, newspapers, and legal journals throughout the United States.

Dr. Paul B. Stares will discuss the following questions: Why does the United States need to make preventive action the centerpiece of a new securitystrategy?How would such a strategy be implemented? What kinds of reforms would be needed for the United States to carry out a preventive strategy?