Events in UCIS

Thursday, April 8 until Friday, April 8

8:00 am Conference
Georgia Consortium: Exploring the Complexities of Vietnam
Location:
Online via Zoom
Sponsored by:
Asian Studies Center
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Monday, April 4 until Thursday, April 7

(All day) Symposium
The Human Rights to Housing: A Week with Leilani Farha
Location:
Multiple Locations
Sponsored by:
Global Studies Center along with Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Center for International Legal Education, Department of Sociology, Urban Studies Program, University Honors College and City of Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations
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The Global Studies Center is honored to welcome Leilani Farha, the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Adequate Housing, to the University of Pittsburgh as a H.J. Heinz Foundation Visiting Fellow.

Leilani Farha is the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing and Global Director of The Shift. Her work is animated by the principle that housing is a social good, not a commodity. Leilani has helped develop global human rights standards on the right to housing, including through her topical reports on homelessness, the financialization of housing, informal settlements, rights-based housing strategies, and the first UN Guidelines for the implementation of the right to housing. She is the central character in the documentary PUSH regarding the financialization of housing, screening around the world. Leilani Launched The Shift in 2017 with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and United Cities and Local Government.

During the week of April 4th to 7th, join us as Leilani takes part in a number of public lectures, student and faculty visits, and meetings with City officials and community organizers to highlight housing as a human rights issue. See a full schedule of events below.

Monday, April 4

12:00 pm Lecture
Global & Local Strategies for Advancing Housing as a Human Right
Location:
UCIS 4130
Sponsored by:
Global Studies Center along with Center for Civil Rights and Racial Justice, Department of Sociology, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), University of Pittsburgh Law School, Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, University of Pittsburgh's Urban Studies Program, Office of Health Sciences Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, City of Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations and Pittsburgh Human Rights City Alliance
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As UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Adequate Housing, Ms. Farha worked to push governments to do more to protect residents’ access to safe and affordable housing. She continues to work with governments at local, national and global levels while also helping housing justice advocates make better use of international tools to defend and advance the right to housing.

4:30 pm Student Club Activity
French Club Conversation Hour
Location:
Global Hub - 1st Floor Posvar
Sponsored by:
Global Hub along with Department of French & Italian
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Join the French Club for French language conversation practice

5:30 pm Student Club Activity
Brazil Nuts Bate-Papo
Location:
Global Hub - 1st Floor Posvar
Sponsored by:
Center for Latin American Studies and Global Hub
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Portuguese conversation at all levels

6:30 pm Student Club Activity
German Club
Location:
Global Hub - 1st Floor Posvar
Sponsored by:
Global Hub along with Department of German
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Come join the German Club to practice your language skills and learn about German culture!

8:00 pm Student Club Activity
ASC x AQUARIUS x VSA Song Lang Movie Screening
Location:
Global Hub - 1st Floor Posvar
Sponsored by:
Asian Studies Center and Global Hub along with CCLD
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Join AQUARIUS and the Vietnamese Student Association (VSA) for a movie screening of the Vietnamese film, Song Lang. Song Lang (2018) is a film that narrates the unlikely bond between a debt collector and a Vietnamese opera performer in 1980s Saigon.

This event is co-sponsored by the Asian Studies Center.