You are invited to a free sneak peek film screening of the documentary film “Under the Umbrella Tree” describing the work of Bright Kids Uganda and its founder Victoria Namusisi.
Q&A with Ms. Namusisi, of Entebbe Uganda, following each screening.
Thurs., Oct. 9 at 2pm in 4130 Wesley Posvar Hall
More info: Ford Institute GSPIA – fihs@pitt.edu --or-- African Studies Program - www.ucis.pitt.edu/africa

Many people know the tragic and destructive story of the Siege of Leningrad as one of the longest military operations in history that left a city ruined. Bombed and shelled continuously by the German Army from 1941-1944, Leningrad — known as St. Petersburg before 1924 and after 1991 — lost more than one million civilian citizens.

With responses by Randall Halle (German) and Ronald Zboray (Cultural Studies).

Visiting Professor John Cerone will present a lecture addressing the work of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and how it relates to the current conflicts in Palestine, Syria, and Ukraine.

Russia was a quintessential Eurasian empire. Like its imperial symbol, the double-headed eagle facing east and west, Russia emerged in response to challenges and influences from both Europe and the steppe. While the European dimensions of the Russian empire are more apparent, the role of the Great Eurasian steppe has long remained unrecognized or misunderstood. The impact of the steppe, it turns out, was a crucial factor in the formation of the Russian state and its imperial political culture.

The colloquium aims to draw out the multiple meanings of "Afropean" at the intersection of aesthetic and political forms of expression of the African diaspora. Responses will be given by John Walsh, Department of French and Italian.

Join us for a special session of Conversations on Europe to commemorate German Unity Day on October 3rd. Co-sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh, the EUCE has organized a virtual roundtable discussion reflecting on Germany since 1989. The expert panel will include Visiting Professor Georg Menz, Department of Political Science; Ruprecht Polenz, a German politician and former Chairman of the German Bundestag’s Committee on Foreign Affairs; Margaret Littler, University of Manchester; and Jack Janes, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies.

Croatia’s official government policy towards enlargement into the Western Balkans is shaped by a number of different, sometimes complimentary, sometimes conflicting factors. When it joined the EU as the Union’s 28th member in July 1, 2013, this country of 4.3 million inhabitants ranked 21st in terms of both population size and GDP making it one of the smallest countries in the organization.

With the current epidemic level of HIV infection in Africa, Emily will be discussing the care needed by HIV positive individuals beyond the medical. Following her first year of law school, Emily spent two months in Eldoret, Kenya, interning for the Legal Aid Centre of Eldoret (LACE). LACE is a non-profit legal aid office that provides comprehensive legal services to all persons living with HIV/AIDS and their families. Additionally, LACE represents victims of sexual and gender-based violence.

Yuriy Gruzinov is a Russian native who left Russia to live in Ukraine as a young adult. Yuriy is a cinematographer by trade and became one of the founding members of the Babylon’13 crew that began making short documentary films from the outset of the Maidan movement.