Celebrate Eid with your colleagues and neighbors at the Global Hub! Eid is the holiday held at the end of Ramadan and celebrated by 1.2 billion people world wide. Our celebration will include snacks, small group discussions, and gift bags.
Sponsored by the Muslim Affinity Group, the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and the Office of Interfaith Dialogue and Engagement.
Join us for a conversation with González about her book, Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America, which was a co-winner of the 2021 Donna Lee Van Cott Book Award. Katherine Bersch, a former recipient of the Donna Lee Van Cott Book Award, will be the moderator. NOTE: This episode of Charlemos is only accessible through the LASA Congress.
Discussion of Torto Arado in Portuguese.
We are excited to continue our collaboration with the Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures "Ten Evenings" series. The Global Studies Center will be once again hosting "Four Evenings: Global Literary Encounters" pre-lecture discussions that put prominent world authors and their work in global perspective. The series is co-sponsored by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
Open to all, these evening discussions, conducted by Pitt experts prior to author events with Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures, provide additional insight on prominent writers and engaging issues. You can register for the book discussions here - https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/caste
Poetically written and brilliantly researched, Caste invites us to discover the inner workings of an American hierarchy that goes far beyond the confines of race, class, or gender. A book steeped in empathy and insight, Caste explores, through layered analysis and stories of real people, the structure of an unspoken system of human ranking and reveals how our lives are still restricted by what divided us centuries ago. Wilkerson rigorously defines eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, heredity, and dehumanization. She documents the parallels with two other hierarchies in history, those of India and of Nazi Germany, and no reader will be left without a greater understanding of the price we all pay in a society torn by artificial divisions.
For questions and more information, contact Maja Konitzer at majab@pitt.edu.
Presentations and activities shared by UCIS engagement to Lincoln Elementary School students grades K-5 throughout the day.
Join the European Studies Center at Pitt for a Virtual Book Club to explore recent works by European authors. We will be reading "Hamnet" by Maggie O'Farrell and discussion the book Thursday, May 12. This event is open to all.
The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages workshop on Russian and other less commonly taught European languages.
Join the Center for West European Studies and the Jean Monnet EU Center to continue the Talking Gender in the EU Lecture Series, with Christina Fiig on "EU Gender Policies in a Context of (Quasi) Permanent Crisis," on May 17, 2022 at 12:00pm PDT/3:00pm ET.
This is presented by the University of Washington Center for West European Studies and the Jean Monnet EU Center.
This is a part of JMintheUS.
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This professional development opportunity for K-12 educators will focus on the book "America's Energy Gamble: People, Economy, and Planet" by Shanti Gamper-Rabindran, associate professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. The workshop will be led by Tracy Wazenegger, Science and Global Issues educator and is designed for educators across ages and disciplines to incorporate global themes of sustainability, climate change, and the energy crisis into their classroom.
Books are available on a first come first serve basis. Act 48 credits will also be available.
The book details how any administration intent on pursuing a pro-fossil policy, when Congress fails to act as a check, can change governance rules to permanently entrench oil and gas extraction and reliance in the United States and to cripple regulatory agencies. The Trump administration’s actions which violated traditional bipartisan values of economic prudence, environmental stewardship and respect for democratic norms, damaged Americans’ health, economy and governing institutions.
Japanese-English language social hour with students studying foreign language (English or Japanese)
Global Issues Through Literature (GILS)
Fall and Spring 2021-22: Imagining Other Worlds: Globalizing Science Fiction and Fantasy
This reading group for K-12 educators explores literary texts from a global perspective. Content specialists present the work and its context, and participants brainstorm innovative pedagogical practices for incorporating the text and its themes into the curriculum. Sessions this year will take place virtually on Thursday evenings from 5-8 PM (EST). Books and three Act 48 credit hours are provided.
Register for the reading groups here - https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/gils
Contact Maja Konitzer with questions at majab@pitt.edu
Co-sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Center for African Studies, Africa Access, and the Title VI Outreach Council of the African Studies Association
