Tuesday, September 1
11:00 am Panel Discussion
The Plight of the Uyghur Muslims in China: A Cultural Genocide
12:00 pm Information Session
Center for Latin American Studies - Virtual Office Hours
7:00 pm Student Club Activity
Pitt German Club: Tuesday Stammtisch
Wednesday, September 2
12:30 pm Information Session
Pitt Global Hub Virtual Drop-In Hours
4:00 pm Information Session
Global Studies Center - Virtual Office Hours
Drinking Tea in Japan
Location: online via Zoom
An Evening with FEMA Employee Wendy Walsh
Location: Zoom Discussion
Online: Hirokazu Koreeda: After Life
Location: via Zoom online
Thursday, September 3
11:30 am Information Session
Center for Latin American Studies - Virtual Office Hours
4:00 pm Information Session
Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies - Virtual Office Hours
4:00 pm Information Session
European Studies Center - Virtual Office Hours
Laber Rhabarber - The German Conversation Hour
CLAS Welcome Back Reception
7:00 pm Information Session
Global Health & Health and Well-Being Student Meet 'n Greet
Location: Virtual, see website to join!
Friday, September 4
3:00 pm Student Club Activity
Pitt German Club: Friday Stammtisch
ESC Virtual Welcome Reception
Sunday, September 6
4:00 pm Student Club Activity
Pitt Daehwa - Korean Conversation Hour
Monday, September 7
11:00 am Information Session
Center for Latin American Studies - Virtual Office Hours
4:00 pm Information Session
Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies - Virtual Office Hours
Tuesday, September 8
12:00 pm Information Session
Center for Latin American Studies - Virtual Office Hours
7:00 pm Student Club Activity
Pitt German Club: Tuesday Stammtisch
8:00 pm Student Club Activity
Chinese Language & Culture Club Meeting
Wednesday, September 9
10:00 am Lecture Series / Brown Bag
Legislating Sustainability: Public Policy and the Environment in the EU #JMintheUS
Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian Conversation Hour
Manifest Destinies: Russian and American Empire
Location: Zoom (Register Online)
12:00 pm Panel Discussion
Deterrence or Death Sentence: Commemorating Migrant Lives Lost due to U.S. Migration Policies
12:30 pm Information Session
Pitt Global Hub Virtual Drop-In Hours
4:00 pm Information Session
Global Studies Center - Virtual Office Hours
Virtual Showcase: Interdisciplinary Global Educators Working Group
Location: Virtual, see website to join!
6:30 pm Information Session
UCIS International Career Toolkit Series Presents: An Evening with Wendy Walsh
Location: Zoom Discussion
Thursday, September 10
11:30 am Information Session
Center for Latin American Studies - Virtual Office Hours
African Studies Welcome Back Reception
4:00 pm Information Session
Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies - Virtual Office Hours
4:00 pm Information Session
European Studies Center - Virtual Office Hours
Laber Rhabarber - The German Conversation Hour
Friday, September 11
1:00 pm Lecture Series / Brown Bag
Talk with Cecilia Malmström, former EU Trade Commissioner #JMintheUS
3:00 pm Student Club Activity
Pitt German Club: Friday Stammtisch
Virtual Fall Faculty Salon
Location: Virtual, see website to join!
Sunday, September 13
4:00 pm Student Club Activity
Pitt Daehwa - Korean Conversation Hour
Monday, September 14
11:00 am Information Session
Center for Latin American Studies - Virtual Office Hours
1:00 pm Information Session
Asian Studies Center - Virtual Office Hours
4:00 pm Information Session
Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies - Virtual Office Hours
7:00 pm Information Session
Global Studies Center Peace, Conflict and Security Student Meet 'n Greet
Location: Virtual, see website to join!
Tuesday, September 15
(All day) Lecture Series / Brown Bag
Pandemics in Europe: Political and Social Responses Series #JMintheUS
12:00 pm Information Session
Center for Latin American Studies - Virtual Office Hours
Imagining the Next Global Economy
Announced by:
on behalf of
AFRCNA 0300 Racialized Policing Pop-Up Course
Location: Virtual, see website to enroll!
7:00 pm Student Club Activity
Pitt German Club: Tuesday Stammtisch
Wednesday, September 16
Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian Conversation Hour
12:30 pm Information Session
Pitt Global Hub Virtual Drop-In Hours
3:00 pm Lecture Series / Brown Bag
Europe at a Crossroads: Dialogue with the EU, French, and German Ambassadors #JMintheUS
4:00 pm Information Session
Global Studies Center - Virtual Office Hours
Thursday, September 17
11:30 am Information Session
Center for Latin American Studies - Virtual Office Hours
12:00 pm Lecture Series / Brown Bag
Conversations on Europe: 70 Years of Creating Europe: United in Diversity?
4:00 pm Information Session
Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies - Virtual Office Hours
4:00 pm Information Session
European Studies Center - Virtual Office Hours
Laber Rhabarber - The German Conversation Hour
CLAS Film Series Presents: Perro Bomba
Friday, September 18
3:00 pm Student Club Activity
Pitt German Club: Friday Stammtisch
Sunday, September 20
4:00 pm Student Club Activity
Pitt Daehwa - Korean Conversation Hour
Monday, September 21
11:00 am Information Session
Center for Latin American Studies - Virtual Office Hours
1:00 pm Information Session
Asian Studies Center - Virtual Office Hours
Charlemos Series: Votes, Drugs, and Violence: Mexico and Beyond
4:00 pm Information Session
Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies - Virtual Office Hours
7:00 pm Teacher Training--Area Studies
From Our Classroom To Yours: East Asian Case Studies in Human Geography: Population, Migration, and Innovation
Tuesday, September 22
Study Abroad Engagement Session: Students
11:00 am Information Session
Pitt Commons Demonstration
12:00 pm Information Session
Center for Latin American Studies - Virtual Office Hours
1:00 pm Information Session
Study Abroad Engagement Session: Faculty
The Caucasus: From Geopolitics to Geopoetics
Announced by:
on behalf of
AFRCNA 0300 Racialized Policing Pop-Up Course
Location: Virtual, see website to enroll!
7:00 pm Information Session
Global Studies Center Politics and Economy Student Meet 'n Greet
Location: Virtual, see website to join!
7:00 pm Student Club Activity
Pitt German Club: Tuesday Stammtisch
8:00 pm Student Club Activity
Chinese Language & Culture Club Meeting
Wednesday, September 23
Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian Conversation Hour
Race and Racism in the Mediterranean at the Beginning of the Modern Age
12:30 pm Information Session
Pitt Global Hub Virtual Drop-In Hours
4:00 pm Information Session
Global Studies Center - Virtual Office Hours
Thursday, September 24
10:00 am Information Session
Study Abroad Engagement Session: Faculty
11:30 am Information Session
Center for Latin American Studies - Virtual Office Hours
From Aliaska to Alaska: Russian and American Colonialism
Location: Zoom (Register Online)
1:00 pm Information Session
Study Abroad Engagement Session: Students
Roundtable: Mediterranean Studies at Pitt
4:00 pm Information Session
Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies - Virtual Office Hours
4:00 pm Information Session
European Studies Center - Virtual Office Hours
Laber Rhabarber - The German Conversation Hour
"Warsaw's Most Beloved Jew": The Prewar and Postwar Celebrity of Lopek-Krukowski (1901-1984)
Screenshot: Japan Documentary Film Award
Location: Screened live on video
Thursday, September 24 until Friday, September 25
4:00 pm Film/Panel Discussion
Global Studies Center Screening of Border South with Q&A & Debrief
Location: Online (Register for viewing and Zoom info)
Friday, September 25
2:00 pm Information Session
Global Health Case Competition Information Session
Location: Virtual, see website to join!
3:00 pm Student Club Activity
Pitt German Club: Friday Stammtisch
Panoramas Round Table: The Impact of COVID-19 on Brazil's Indigenous Population
Screenshot: Japan Documentary Film Award
Saturday, September 26
Screenshot: Japan Documentary Film Award
Sunday, September 27
4:00 pm Student Club Activity
Pitt Daehwa - Korean Conversation Hour
Monday, September 28
11:00 am Information Session
Center for Latin American Studies - Virtual Office Hours
1:00 pm Information Session
Asian Studies Center - Virtual Office Hours
4:00 pm Information Session
Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies - Virtual Office Hours
Protests in Belarus: An Interdisciplinary Forum
Reality Made Invisible: The Plight of Undocumented Immigrants in the U.S.
Tuesday, September 29 until Friday, October 2
Water Infrastructure and Regional Governance
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Water Infrastructure and Regional Governance, September 29 - October 2, 2020
The Regional Studies Association’s Research Network on Infrastructural Regionalism (NOIR) is convening three online (Zoom) workshops to showcase empirical and conceptual research at the intersection of water governance, infrastructure, and regionalism. Water infrastructure performs a vital role in making and remaking regions. Watersheds and reservoirs, pipelines and ports, and storm water management and climate change mitigation represent complex political, economic, and environmental challenges. They are essential, if often black-boxed infrastructures that define how regional space is constructed, territorialized, and experienced. As critical urban infrastructures and contested political objects, water systems are fundamental to conversations about sustainability and economic development trajectories for communities across the global South and global North.
We are now accepting registrations for the NOIR Workshops on Water Infrastructure and Regional Governance. This event will assess how water infrastructure shapes formal and informal regional spaces, communities, and governance dynamics and explores how these shape how water infrastructure is developed. We are hosting four public panels that present research on what water infrastructure reveals about the politics and governance of metropolitan regions.
REGISTER: https://pitt.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7amhh1MQpKV09Eh
TUESDAY, September 29 | 11am - 1pm ET
Water Infrastructure and Regional Governance in and beyond Western Pennsylvania
11 - 11:10am | University of Pittsburgh/CONNECT Welcome
CONNECT Executive Director Lydia Morin
11:10 - 11:20am | Regional Studies Association Welcome, Keynote Introductions
Michael Glass, University of Pittsburgh
11:20 - 11:50am | Keynote 1: Infrastructures of Inequality
Leila Harris, University of British Columbia
11:50am - 12:20pm | Keynote 2: Thinking Regionally, Acting Strategically: New Approaches to Governing Regional Water Infrastructures
Andy Karvonen, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
12:20 - 12:35pm | Discussant Response
Dan Bain, Pittsburgh Water Collaboratory
12:35pm - 1pm | Moderated Audience Q&A
WEDNESDAY, September 30 | 11am - 12pm ET
RESEARCH PANEL 1: Decision-Making and Engagement in Water Governance
MODERATOR: Jen Nelles; Q&A: JP Addie
Regional infrastructures are often taken for granted by the public, with the consequence that infrastructural management and planning is surrendered to experts and institutions that may not be representative of the region overall. By tracing the lines of authority and influence that shape city-region infrastructures, we hope to reveal opportunities for greater engagement of more diverse publics in the deliberations over infrastructural futures.
Anne Taufen, Lisa Hoffman, Ken Yocom (University of Washington-Tacoma): Unveiling Infrastructures
Ramazan Sayan & Nidhi Nagabhatla (UN University Institute for Water, Environment, and Health): An Infrastructure Turn in Water Sharing
Fenna Hoefsloot, Javier Martinez, & Karin Pfeffer (University of Twente): Speculative futures of Lima’s water infrastructure
Cat Button (University of Newcastle): Governing Water Infrastructure from our Homes
THURSDAY, October 1 | 1am - 12pm ET
RESEARCH PANEL 2: Regional Partnerships Under Threat
MODERATOR: Michael Glass; Q&A: Jen Nelles
Whereas regional infrastructures such as sewer lines, water treatment plants, and water transportation technologies (namely locks and dams) were constructed as part of earlier periods of urban and regional development, shifting patterns of demand threaten to diminish the utility of these assets. We need to ascertain how such changing dynamics are influencing (and being influenced by) the existing governance of those infrastructural networks.
Andrew Dick & Sara Hughes (University of Michigan): The Multi-City Growth Machine in Regional Governance Networks—the case of the Karegnondi Water Authority
Dayne Walling (University of Minnesota): Urban Geographies of Fragmentation and Distress: Government Planning, Development, Infrastructure, and Inequality around Deindustrialized US Cities
Sachin Tiwale (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai): Grabbing Water Resources in Urban Agglomeration—The Case of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR)
Grete Gansauer & Julia Haggerty (Montana State University): Regionalizing the Rural through Large-Scale water Infrastructure
Karsten Zimmerman (TU Dortmund): Infrastructure Regionalism as Driver for Metropolitan Governance? The Case of the Ruhr Region in Germany
FRIDAY, October 2 | 11am - 12pm ET
RESEARCH PANEL 3: Emerging Complexities in Regional Water Governance
MODERATOR: JP Addie; Q&A Michael Glass
Health crises, Federal mandates, technological innovation, and exogenous shocks can all disrupt formal and informal governance structures. We seek empirical examples and theoretical advances that can help to conceptualize how city-regions across the Global North and Global South are affected by these complexities, and to seek out best practices whereby specific regions are confronting these complexities.
Mark Usher (University of Manchester): Hydraulic Territory: Internal colonization through urban catchment management in Singapore
Filippo Menga & Michael K. Goodman (University of Reading): The Good Samaritan: Capitalism, Religion and the Political Economy of Care in International Water Charity
Mike Finewood (Pace University), Marissa Matsler, Olivia Pierce, Zenya Lederman, & Ruthann Richards: What does it mean to empower communities? Green infrastructure incentive programs as a form of neoliberal governance
Scott Raulerson, Richard Milligan, & Ellis Adams (Georgia State University): Urban Water and Hydrosocial Inequalities
Tuesday, September 29
12:00 pm Information Session
Center for Latin American Studies - Virtual Office Hours
Anatomy of a Successful Forgery: The Czech Manuscripts
Announced by:
on behalf of
AFRCNA 0300 Racialized Policing Pop-Up Course
Location: Virtual, see website to enroll!
La Parlotte: French Conversation Time
UCIS International Career Toolkit Series presents: Preparing Competitive Applications for Graduate School
Location: Zoom Discussion
7:00 pm Student Club Activity
Pitt German Club: Tuesday Stammtisch
Wednesday, September 30
Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian Conversation Hour
12:30 pm Information Session
Pitt Global Hub Virtual Drop-In Hours
RICE & ... Series: Rice and Beans--a Continental Classic
4:00 pm Information Session
Global Studies Center - Virtual Office Hours