Matilda of Canossa - familiar to scholars of medieval papal history as a champion of Pope Gregory VII during the Investiture Controversy - is best known to seventeenth-century scholars through the controversy which erupted from the “holy robbery” of her body in 1633.

The book project, “Shakespeare and the Senses,” charts Shakespeare’s diverse experiments with cross-modal sensory and linguistic effects in relation to recent developments in historical phenomenology and current research in cognitive neuroscience.

*With responses by Bruce McConachie (Theater), Marianne Novy (English).

Lunch with faculty, staff, and an undergraduate student studying Polish and International Affairs. The guest of honor was Filip Jasinski, First Counselor of the Permanent Representation of Poland to the EU and he was accompanied by Mr. Tomasz Maciejko, a simultaneous interpreter.

Moderator: Mohammed Bamyeh, Professor of Sociology

Panelists:

International Law & the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Jules Lobel, Professor of Law

Implications of the Arab Spring for the Arab-Israeli Conflict, and US Foreign Policy
Sami Hermez, Visiting Professor of Contemporary and International Issues, Global Studies Center, UCIS

Reflections from Israel and the Occupied Territories
Ken Boas, Faculty of English

“We Are All Palestinians”—The World Social Forum Free Palestine
Jackie Smith, Professor of Sociology

Join our student advisor and a panel of undergraduate students in Asian Studies who have studied abroad in Japan, China, Hong Kong, and South Korea to answer questions about your own future study abroad experience!

The talk will explore the tension between the architects seeking to redefine the urban texture of Romania’s major cities according to the modernist principles, and the archaeologists searching for new data on these cities’ early history. I analyze the urban modernization of socialist Romania during the 1950s and 1960s with an eye to understanding the reconfiguration of political alliances and the formation of transnational networks of technological expertise in post-1945 Europe.

Lynn Festa will be leading a workshop seminar on her paper, "Things in Kid Gloves." Please contact Chloe Hogg at hoggca@pitt.edu for a copy of the paper, to be circulated in advance to workshop participants. This workshop seminar is open to interested faculty and graduate students.

Join GSC for a light lunch and view the posters of our Fall Term 2012 graduates. We will also have information available on upcoming FLAS fellowships, spring ’13 mini courses and more. Stop by to wish our graduates well and to learn about new opportunities through our Global Guide.