As a relatively new phenomenon in the phonology of Scottish English, TH-fronting has surprised sociolinguists by its rapid spread in the urban heartlands of Scotland. While attempts have been made to understand and model the influence of lexical effects, media effects and frequency effects, far less understood is the role of social identity.

Jon McCourt has been a community Peace Activist and a member of the Peace and Reconciliation Group in the City of Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland for over 30 years. As a young man he went on the first Civil Rights March in Derry in October 1968. He has been actively engaged in almost every aspect of the conflict that arose as the result of that march. He was involved in the events that have come to be known as Bloody Sunday when British soldiers clashed with civil rights protestors January 30, 1972.

Domietta Torlasco works at the intersection of film theory and practice and is currently an Associate Professor
of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University, where she is also affiliated with the
Screen Cultures Program. She is the author of The Time of the Crime: Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Italian
Film (Stanford University Press, 2008) and the digital film Antigone’s Noir (2008-09). Her second book, The
Heretical Archive: Digital Memory at the End of Film is forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press in
2013.

Patricia Guy, a Diplomat in Residence for the State Department, will visit the University of Pittsburgh to talk about the State Department’s internship program, and will provide information and answer questions about careers and job possibilities with the Department of state.

A campaign emerged in early 20th-century Bangkok which sought to control the acquisition of political power by the city’s growing migrant population and cultivate support for the absolute monarchy. Bangkok eventually developed into two cities that shared the same space: the capital of a sovereign nation-state under the authority of a ‘Thai’ absolute monarchy and a thriving port populated mostly by ‘Chinese’ migrants who were governed by extra-territorial laws.

Despite a half century of rapid, state-sponsored industrialization in the region, only with its more recent, abrupt exposure to global capitalism has Siberia become a hotly contested site of debates over both indigenous rights and natural resource extraction. The Sakha Republic (Yakutia), a Northeastern Siberian region twice the size of Alaska, is now a particularly crucial site of contestation, boasting diamond reserves that produce about 25% of the world‘s diamonds.

On January 27, 1942, Pravda carried the latest in a series of articles about female partisans who had been captured, tortured, and executed by German forces during the offensive on Moscow in 1941. Accompanying that day’s article, “Tanya” by Petr Lidov, was a harrowing photograph of the partisan’s exhumed body, with the noose still around her neck and clear signs of mutilation on her exposed breasts. The striking beauty of the executed woman, along with the uncomfortable eroticism of the image, made the photograph one of the most memorable of the war.

This presentation analyzes the terrific results of politically engineering cataclysm organized by one the most cruel dictators in the world – Joseph Stalin, in his war against Ukrainians – the biggest national minority in Soviet Union. With this lecture Dr. Davydenko wants to pay tribute to the millions of victims of Great Famine (also known as Holodomor). Soviet authorities succeeded in carefully hiding the fact of the famine and destroyed the 1932-1933 archives but could not erase it from the memories of Ukrainians who survived.

In the mid-1920s, the Bolshevik Party and the Young Communist League were increasingly concerned about expressions of depression and pessimism among Soviet youth. Young people fretted about the perils of the “humdrum life” as they sought to find place and solace in the post-revolutionary order. Many critics then and historians since have pointed to this wave of depression as indicative of youth’s dissatisfaction with the New Economic Policy and a yearning for revolution renewed.