The first psychiatric hospitals in the world were established as early as the 8th century during the Islamic Renaissance. Despite the emergence of a highly sophisticated and interdisciplinary system of understanding the human psyche in early Islamic history, most students of modern psychology are unfamiliar with this rich history. This lecture will provide a historical and contemporary review of the Islamic intellectual heritage as it pertains to modern behavioral science and how mental illness was historically perceived and treated in the Muslim world. (Continuing medical education credit will be available.) Register on the Zoom link!

Come and practice your Hungarian and meet others interested in the language! All levels welcome.

Are you passionate about an issue within the realm of Global Studies? The Global Studies Center BPhil degree provides students with the opportunity to develop an interdisciplinary research project under the mentorship of their chosen professor. Meet with current BPhil seniors, academic advisor Elaine Linn, and capstone professor Dr. Horia Dijmarescu to learn about the optimal timelines, opportunities for research, how to get started, the role of the faculty mentor, and more!

How have immigrants inspired you? Come support immigrants with an activity and have your photo shared on our social media.

Interested in interning in Africa? We're creating custom internships for students to get real-world experience in Senegal and Kenya. Join us to learn more!

This information session is for students who are interested in studying abroad and how to receive funding from the Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs. Learn about how you can make your application stand out and speak to the Nationality Room scholarship coordinators about the application process!

This lecture is part of a larger biography of a WWII-era Japanese destroyer named Yukikaze, or Snowy Wind. Yukikaze fought at most of the major battles of the Pacific Theater, including Java Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, and through the Solomon Islands, the Philippine Sea, Leyte, and Okinawa. In 1944, as Japan faced imminent defeat, the Imperial Navy made a series of tactical decisions that have puzzled military historians and strategists. By concentrating on the years 1944 and 1945, this lecture argues that the obligations to history, more than larger strategies, covered Imperial Navy conduct in the final years of WWII.

Brett L. Walker is Regents Professor of History at Montana State University, Bozeman. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow and author of six books, including a forthcoming book from Cambridge University Press. He also possesses U.S. Coast Guard Merchant Mariner captain credentials. He spends his time between Bozeman, Tucson, and the San Juan Islands. To register for this lecture, please click here.

During this information session, the Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs (NRIEP) and the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) will share details about funding opportunities available to UG students to study and conduct research in Latin America.

Registration Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfK4

Dr. Fiona Hill, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Former Senior Director for European and Russian Affairs on the National Security Council, will discuss her experience in the Trump administration, including her testimony during President Trump's first impeachment inquiry. Dr. Hill will also discuss Vladimir Putin's authoritarian vision for Russia, the subject of her new co-authored article in the centennial issue of Foreign Affairs. Finally, Dr. Hill will address her remarkable journey from a coal mining community in northeastern England to serving three American presidents and what she has learned along the way about the best way to safeguard American democracy, the subject of her recent memoir, There Is Nothing For You Here.

Books available for purchase

A LIVE INTERVIEW WITH Togzhan Kassenova, SUNY-Albany AND Cynthia Werner, Texas A&M University

REEES Fall 2022 series, The Specter in the Present: Trauma and its Legacies in Eurasia, will explore the place of trauma in Eurasia society in four interviews that pair scholars to discuss social and clinical trauma, victimhood, historical memory, and the politics of history in the region.

This event is part of a larger series.

This working group will meet in person every three weeks for the 2022-2023 academic year to discuss new scholarship about Eurasian borderlands. Faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates are welcome to join. No prior expertise in Eurasia is necessary.

Content warnings have become an important feature of pedagogical practice. In this talk and discussion, I reflect on my experiences as a junior scholar trying to promote ethnographic research on topics that are triggering. I focus on “shopping” a book manuscript on sexual violence as a process beset by competing imperatives to engage ethically, to support the mental health of others, to adhere to disciplinary conventions around “thick description,” and to market the book as attracting a wide readership. Register on the Zoom link!

Szczecin is well-suited to analyze urban representation in public discourses and heritage debates. Its transnational history between Germany and Poland, its border shifts after WWII, and the access to the Baltic Sea inform and shape these debates to this day. In her research, Tabitha Redepenning explores urban authenticity. She takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on urban studies, cultures of remembrance, public history, and tourism theory.
Focusing on post-war discussions about specific buildings’ de- or reconstruction, Tabitha highlights the connections between urban structures through overarching narratives in tourist trails. Diverse local actors structure the city space along the linear narrative of the trails while simultaneously creating a particular city image.

Tabitha Redepenning studied book science, German studies, and European studies in Mainz, Frankfurt (Oder), and Wrocław. Her Master’s degree was in "Entangled cultures of remembrance in the German-Polish context on the example of the remembrance of Auschwitz liberation." She worked as an Educational Project Specialist at the Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe. Since June 2020, she has been a research associate and Ph.D. student at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe and a contributor to the project “Urban Authenticity: Creating, Contesting, and Visualizing the built Heritage in European Cities since the 1970s.”

Whether identified as ethnonationalist, pan-European, anti-colonial, or or pan-Islamic, "civilizationist" identification is in the foreground of many nationalist, racist, often white supremist narratives. Such approaches to identification extract concepts and mechanisms from earlier nationalist projects and feed them into the larger narratives of civilizationism taking hold today. While doing so, they tend to reproduce a radicalized approach to history, art, literature, material culture, and demography. This talk will address the broader implications of "civilizationism" with a historicist approach.

Barbara Weinstein is the Silver Professor of History at New York University and Past President of the American Historical Association. Her publications include The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920 (1983), For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo (1996), and The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil (2015). Her research has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Ask questions about the Seminar & Field Trip Program, learn more about the interview process, and discuss your research interests!

In the first installment of the Global Studies Center's Two Evenings, Professor Edda L. Fields-Black from Carnegie Mellon University will facilitate a discussion on author Clint Smith's How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America. A deeply researched and transporting exploration of the legacy of slavery and its imprint on centuries of American history, How the Word Is Passed illustrates how some of our country's most essential stories are hidden in plain view—whether in places we might drive by on our way to work, holidays such as Juneteenth, or entire neighborhoods like downtown Manhattan, where the brutal history of the trade in enslaved men, women, and children has been deeply imprinted.

Global Literary Encounters book discussions are pre-lecture discussions that align with the Pittsburgh Arts & Lecture's Ten Evenings series. Global Literary Encounters put prominent world authors and their work in a global perspective in order to provide additional insight on writers and engaging issues.

This discussion will be held on Zoom. Please register to receive the Zoom link before the event.

This semester's 2022 Micro-Course will focus on humanity’s use of technology and the disparate impacts on and benefits to the environment and varying groups of people. This will include discussion around the material, environmental, and health costs of extracting materials necessary to technological development and production as well as the waste created by the consumption habits initiated by global reliance on technology. It will also include a discussion of technology’s role in advancing sustainability.

In this four-part weekend micro-course (spanning four semesters), we will examine the power of technology on humanity and its implications on social justice in four areas: governance, environment, education, and health. Information about the speakers is on our website!

Barbara Weinstein is the Silver Professor of History at New York University and Past President of the American Historical Association. Her publications include The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920 (1983), For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo (1996), and The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil (2015). Her research has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

During the Silent Film Era in Korea, movie screenings were accompanied by live music and narrators called "byeonsa." Korean Film Archive and director Tae-yong Kim have restored this theatrical experience with live musical accompaniment. This special screening of Crossroads of Youth invites you to experience the film just as Korean audiences did when it was premiered in 1934. For more information about this event, click here. To register for this event, click here.

We're back in person!

On Sunday, November 6, 2022, from 12:00PM to 4:00PM, the Slovak Studies Program, with the help of our generous sponsors, will host the 32nd Annual Slovak Heritage Festival in the Commons Room of the Cathedral of Learning on the University of Pittsburgh campus in Oakland. We are excited to be back in person again for a joyous day of Slovak culture, history, food, crafts, and education.

Admission is free, and masks are optional. We hope to see you at the 32nd Annual Slovak Heritage Festival at Pitt!

Stay connected with Slovak Fest:

The Slovak Heritage Festival has an active community Facebook page, and you can watch the 2020 and 2021 virtual festival videos on our YouTube channel.

If you would like to be added to the Slovak Heritage Festival email list so that you never miss a festival, please write to

The purpose of the Student Club Coalition is to give clubs related to Latin America, the Caribbean, and the diasporas, an opportunity to be officially related to and involved with CLAS, providing mutual support for student engagement. The Student Club Coalition is designed to help students develop a voice for what's important to them, to assist them in that endeavor, and to help them acquire funding for those projects and goals. The member clubs work together to support each other and their goals, and to build friendships and community along the way. Lunch provided!

In this talk, Dr. Sarrett will discuss her research on parental and professional experiences of autism in Kerala, India and Atlanta, Georgia. This work demonstrates how Westernization influences the ways non-Western cultures integrate concepts of autism into their cultural concepts of illness, family, and normality. She will discuss this work in the context of global bioethics, global disability studies, and the unidirectional nature of psychiatric influence. Register on the Zoom link!

Decarbonizing the economy requires a dramatic transformation of the global economy. Phasing out fossil fuels implies the reallocation of millions of workers who will need to find new jobs. Unions and other policymakers have therefore called for a “just transition”: a clean energy transition that takes into account the challenges faced by those whose jobs are at risk. The European Union has recognized the problem and is implementing a Just Transition Mechanism which is expected to raise 55 billion euros (about $58 billion). In the United States, states such as Colorado have designed bureaus to manage a just transition.

In this rapidly changing landscape, several questions become critical: How can such a large labor market shock be absorbed? What can we learn from the managed decline in coal in countries like Germany? How should we design just transition institutions? Are they even needed?

Moderator: Michael Aklin, University of Pittsburgh

Panelist: TBD

Come and practice your Hungarian and meet others interested in the language! All levels welcome.

Queer Filmmaking Panel:
Featuring: Vida Skerk, the 2022-23 MEET EU Emerging Filmmaker, SCENE, and Rainbow Alliance.
The panel will discuss being queer in the film industry and creating queer content.

Calvin Hui's research focuses on fashion, media, and consumer culture in contemporary China. In this talk, Dr. Hui presents an aspiring Chinese fashion designer Ma Ke and her fashion exhibit Useless (2007). Calvin Hui is a Class of 1952 Distinguished Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at the College of William & Mary in the United States. His book, titled The Art of Useless: Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China, was published by Columbia University Press in fall 2021. The research of this book was supported by an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship.

To attend this remote lecture, please register here.

The European Studies Center in cooperation with Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies and History Department is launching a new study certificate focused on history, culture, economy, and their entanglements of and in central Europe - historically, politically and culturally the most diverse and dynamic region of Europe since 1800s that can be placed between Russian, Ottoman, German, and Habsburg empires, between Rhine and Dnepr and Baltic and Adriatic Seas. It is a place where two world wars started and genocides took place, where Cold War started and ended and where European integration emerged with its new dynamic. What insights can we gain on Europe and the world by looking at this region? The Central European Studies Certificate is for those students who are interested in exploring specific experience of Central European societies. This includes formation of identities, migration, nationalism, and collective memory, racism, religious and ethnic diversity, economy development in variety of political, artistic, and social forms.

Join us for this talk with director, designer, and puppet artist Tom Lee. Mr. Lee is the creator of the multimedia puppet piece "Akutagawa," which he will be directing in Pittsburgh this February. During this talk, he will discuss this piece and his process to puppetry as an art form. For questions about the event, please contact Elizabeth Oyler (eaoyler@pitt.edu). This talk is sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature and with support from the Japan Iron and Steel Federation Endowments of the University of Pittsburgh and the Asian Studies Center of the University Center for International Studies.

The IISE Symposium Series offers an opportunity for comparative, international, and development education (CIDE) researchers and professionals with a unique venue in which to share innovative research, programs, and policy analyses. Symposium speakers include IISE Visiting Scholars, Senior Research Fellows and Affiliated Faculty Members, advanced doctoral students, and professionals from around the world.

The University of Pittsburgh's Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies is proud to sponsor the 9th edition of the RFF titled Homelands. This year's festival reflects on current events, while celebrating the power of film to map out new meanings into a world where people have been displaced by wars, economic crises, political instability, and natural disasters. Internationally acclaimed movies featured in a carefully curated selection, covering all forms and genres, as well as film-related events with special guests, will redefine the sense of homeland and belonging, in relation to our families, neighbors, countries of origin, and, by extension, to our planet itself.

Films will be screened online with free tickets provided to Pitt faculty and students. More information to be announced.

Join the Global Studies Center for final group presentations from the Global Health Case Competition.

2022-2023 MEET EU EMERGING FILMMAKER
In partnership with the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence at Florida International University, Center for European Studies of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and University of Pittsburgh’s European Studies Center, this year's MEET EU Emerging Filmmaker Residency goes to Vida Skerk from Zagreb Croatia.

The European Studies Center will be featuring her 2022 short film Night Ride (Noćna vožnja), a discussion with the director and reception to follow in the Frick Arts Cloister.

About: Night Ride explores quarter-life identity crisis through the perspective of a twentysomething student in Croatia. Dunja, the main character, questions her decision to move to a bigger city and regrets leaving behind the safety of her hometown where she could always count on the support of her close friend, Sara.
Exploring the “borders” and boundaries, the film is constructed as a series of dreams and nightmares which evade a linear narrative structure and retain the qualities of a more stream-of-consciousness approach, presenting to the viewer Dunja’s inner world in its most authentic, raw and honest form.

Mira Nakashima is the daughter of the acclaimed architect, furniture designer, and craftsman George Nakashima. She will speak about her father's legacy and how his cultural ties to Japan affected his method of design in both furniture and architecture.

Mira Nakashima is President and Creative Director of George Nakashima Woodworkers, who produce one-of-a-kind, hand-crafted, made-to-order furniture at their workshop in New Hope, Pennsylvania.

Registration must occur in advance https://pitt.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d4GeVKVaVHRzbF4

The Polishfest Festival is designed to give the festival guests, families, and students an opportunity to experience the living cultures of the Polish, Lithuanian and Carpatho-Rusyn Peoples that throughout history were joined, separated and independently are connected. A living legacy presented to teach, to experience, to taste, to try and to have fun. This family-oriented event is FREE to everyone and will include many activities such as Polish name writing; Lithuanian angel papercutting demonstration; pierogi / pirohy cooking demonstrations and samples; and Carpatho-Rusyn spinning and lace making; and a pierogi toss. Every display, demonstration, and activity will offer an explanation of the cultural history of the tradition. Entertainment will include Polish folk songs with a violinist; a Lithuanian choir with Bocjai folk songs; Polish Karazula folk songs and folk dancing by the “Lajkoniki” Ensemble; Polka dancing; and contemporary Polish music.

Hosted by: Andres Mejia Acosta, Universidad San Francisco de Quito

Learn what the Model African Union Club is all about! Information will be provided about the African Union and club participation in the Model African Union simulation conference. No previous experience necessary!

A LIVE INTERVIEW WITH Alex Dombrovski, University of Pittsburgh AND Carmen Andreescu, University of Pittsburgh

REEES Fall 2022 series, The Specter in the Present: Trauma and its Legacies in Eurasia, will explore the place of trauma in Eurasia society in four interviews that pair scholars to discuss social and clinical trauma, victimhood, historical memory, and the politics of history in the region.

This event is part of a larger series

Thinking about law school? Have questions about the LSAT? Join us and the School of Law for an information session on how to make your law school application stand out!

Join Hostile Terrain 94 Pittsburgh for the opening exhibition of the Undocumented Migration Project installation. The installation is a participatory art exhibition to raise awareness about the humanitarian crisis occurring at the US/Mexico border. The event will feature opening remarks from Dr. Darlène Dubuisson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, and food and beverages will be provided.

Come and practice your Hungarian and meet others interested in the language! All levels welcome.

Monthly book club hosted by the Center for Latin American Studies. Discussions are in Portuguese. All are welcome! This month we will be discussing "A Gorda" by Isabela Figueiredo.

Join scholars and affiliates of the Center for Governance and Markets for the fall 2022 series "Voices from Afghanistan," featuring panels, seminars, and lectures discussing important topics surrounding the state of economics, civil society, and governance in Afghanistan more than a year after the collapse of Kabul in 2021.

The European Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh, along with the Institute for European Studies at Indiana University – Bloomington, is happy to invite you to a virtual roundtable titled: Insights into European Elections: Sweden, Italy, and Denmark.

In this discussion, four experts and political scientists from Denmark, Italy, Sweden, and the United States will shed light on the results of the recent elections in Europe. This will include discussions on the transformations of European social democratic parties, the rise of right-wing populism, and how these impact European Union politics. This discussion will provide insights into the current European political developments in EU member-states and the possible directions of their futures.

Moderator:

Jae-Jae Spoon, University of Pittsburgh

Prof. Jae-Jae Spoon, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh (Moderator) (spoonj@pitt.edu)
Jae-Jae Spoon is Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Political Science Department and a former director of the European Studies Center. She is co-editor Research & Politics (R&P). Her research focuses on comparative electoral behavior primarily in Europe. She is interested in understanding political party strategies and their outcomes for the party, its elected officials, and voters, and how party type and size, institutions, and context influence parties’ decision‐making at both the domestic and European levels. She has a particular interest in the behavior of new and small political parties. Professor Spoon received her PhD from the University of Michigan. Before coming to Pittsburgh, she taught at the University of Iowa and the University of North Texas and was a visiting researcher at the University of Mannheim.

Speakers:

Prof. Rune Stubager, School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University (stubager@ps.au.dk)
Rune Stubager is professor of Political Science at Aarhus University, Denmark. His research interest is political behaviour with a particular emphasis on electoral behaviour. He is one of the principal investigators in the Danish National Election Study. He is the author (with Kasper Møller Hansen, Michael Lewis-Beck and Richard Nadeau) of The Danish Voter. Democratic Ideals and Challenges (2021 University of Michigan Press). His work investigates also the continuinuos social and political importance of social class to citizens of advanced democracies. For more information, please visit http://person.au.dk/en/stubager@ps.au.dk.

Prof. Andrea Ceron, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan (andrea.ceron@unimi.it)
Andrea Ceron is associate professor at the University of Milan, where he teaches Italian Political System, Polimetrics and Multivariate Analysis.
He has been visiting scholar at Harvard University, co-founder and board member of Voices from the Blogs Srl, an academic spinoff in the field of sentiment analysis.
He is currently principal investigator of the PRIN project "DEMOPE: Democracy under Pressure" and editor of the Encyclopedia of Technology and Politics.
He has published 8 books and 50 articles in international peer-reviewed journals.

Prof. Timothy Hellwig, Department of Political Science, Indiana University – Bloomington (thellwig@indiana.edu)
Professor of Political Science and Academic Director of the Europe Gateway at Indiana University. My interests include comparative and international political economy, mass political behavior, and research methods. I am a team member on the Executive Approval Project. I am author of Democracy Under Siege? Parties, Voters, and Elections after the Great Recession (with Yesola Kweon and Jack Vowles, 2020 Oxford) and Globalization and Mass Politics: Retaining the Room to Maneuver (2014 Cambridge). I teach courses on comparative elections, political economy, European politics, the EU, world politics, and quantitative methods.
Professor of Political Science and Academic Director of the Europe Gateway at Indiana University. My interests include comparative and international political economy, mass political behavior, and research methods. I am a team member on the Executive Approval Project. I am author of Democracy Under Siege? Parties, Voters, and Elections after the Great Recession (with Yesola Kweon and Jack Vowles, 2020 Oxford) and Globalization and Mass Politics: Retaining the Room to Maneuver (2014 Cambridge). I teach courses on comparative elections, political economy, European politics, the EU, world politics, and quantitative methods.
Timothy Hellwig is a professor of Political Science and Academic Director of the Europe Gateway at Indiana University. His interests include comparative and international political economy, mass political behavior, and reaserch methods. He is a team member on the Executive Approval Project and an author of Democracy Under Siege? Parties, Voters, and Elections after the Great Recession (with Yesola Kweon and Jack Vowles, 2020 Oxford) and Globalization and Mass Politics: Retaining the Room to Maneuver (2014 Cambridge). He teaches courses on comparative elections, political economy, European politics, the EU, world politics, and quantitative methods.

Prof. Maria Solevid, Department of Political Science, Gothenburg University (maria.solevid@pol.gu.se)
Maria Solevid, Ph.D. and Associate Professor in Political Science, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg. Solevid conducts research within the Swedish National Election Studies Program (SNES), and the Gothenburg Research Group on Elections, Public Opinion and Political Behavior (GEPOP).

Join us for a discussion about current issues and the recent successes and challenges of China's Belt and Road initiative with AltaSilva VP and Director of Research, Matthew D. Johnson, along with a national webcast to follow at 7 pm ET with former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, China, and Singapore, Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. To register for this event, please click here.

Casa Brasil & Addverse present a free screening of Mars One, a film by Gabriel Martins.

Synopsis: "The Martins family are optimistic dreamers, quietly leading their lives in the margins of a major Brazilian city following the disappointing inauguration of a far-right extremist president. A lower-middle-class Black family, they feel the strain of their new reality as the political dust settles" (letterboxd.com).

Adriano Mafra holds a PhD in Translation Studies from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2015) and translation science from Universiteit Antwerpen (2015), a Master's degree in Translation Studies from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2010), Specialization in Language Teaching Methodology (FACISA-2008) and graduated in letras from the University of Vale do Itajaí (2005). He is a member of the Creative Process Study Center (NUPROC) and the Educational Processes Research Group (IFC). He is currently visiting professor at the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh and Professor of Basic, Technical and Technological Education at the Federal Institute of Santa Catarina (IFC).

In this second installment of the 2022 Global Issues Through Literature Series (GILS), educators will convene to discuss Richard Conyngham's All Rise: Resistance and Rebellion in South Africa, a graphic anthology telling six true stories of resistance by marginalized South Africans against the country's colonial government in the years leading up to Apartheid.

GILS is a reading group for K-16 educators to 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. This year’s theme is Graphic Novels in Global Context: Social Justice Through Illustration and Text. See registration for more information!

Using Jamaica as its focus this award-winning documentary examines the impact of the International Monetary Fund's global economic policies on a developing nation's economy. It takes an unapologetic look at the new world order from the point of view of Jamaican workers, farmers and government officials.

On Thursday, November 17th, from 6:00pm-7:00pm, the National Security Students Organization will be hosting a Q&A event with Dr. Dalibor Rohac from the American Enterprise Institute! This event is in-person, in room 538 of the William Pitt Union. Our conversation will be centered on the Future of Europe, spanning from politics, sovereignty, energy, and more, in light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Dalibor Rohac is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he studies European political and economic trends, specifically Central and Eastern Europe, the European Union (EU) and the eurozone, US-EU relations, and the post-Communist transitions and backsliding of countries in the former Soviet bloc.

Dr. Rohac is the author of “In Defense of Globalism” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019). His previous book, “Towards an Imperfect Union: A Conservative Case for the EU” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016), was included on Foreign Affairs magazine’s list of best books of 2016. His commentary has been published widely in the popular media, including in the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.

The Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship program is a prestigious and competitive award that allows select Pitt undergraduate and graduate students to devote full-time attention to their chosen modern foreign language and area studies specialty. There are separate competitions for the Academic Year FLAS Fellowship and the Summer FLAS Fellowship.

Attend this info session with representatives from the Asian Studies Center, Center for African Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, Global Studies Center, European Studies Center, and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Center to learn more about the requirements and how to submit a strong application.

Join the Center for Civil Rights and Racial Justice, 1Hood Media for a conversation that brings together Black community leaders, advocates, and educators to discuss and understand how Professor Hansford views social movements and the law means of social transformation after Michael Brown's murder in Ferguson, Missouri.

Justin Hansford helped Brown family members bring their appeal for justice to the United Nations (Ferguson to Geneva: Using the Human Rights Framework to Push Forward a Vision for Racial Justice in the United States). He is a Professor of Law at Howard University, Executive Director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center, and representative to the new United Nations Permanent Forum of People of African Descent (UNPFPAD). Hansford is a co-author of the forthcoming Seventh Edition of Race, Racism and American Law, and his legal scholarship informs his work to win a posthumous pardon for Marcus Garvey ("Black History Matters: Why President Obama Should Pardon Marcus Garvey," The Root). Professor Hansford’s visit to Pittsburgh is part of a “listening tour” he is making in preparation for the inaugural meeting of the UNPFPAD in early December.

Professor Hansford will meet with Pitt faculty to discuss how we can lift up the work of the Permanent Forum and integrate it into the academy (curriculum, programming development). and the community (outreach and engagement). We hope to activate the network of scholars engaged last month by VP John Wallace as well as any interested faculty.

In addition, we will discuss with Hansford a Pittsburgh-focused report using the SDG framework as a lens to analyze racial disparities and injustices in Pittsburgh and southwestern PA. We’ll be seeking data and partners for this project, in support of Hansford’s visit to Geneva in December.

Join Addverse Poesia and Casa Brasil in celebrating Blackness in tandem with Brazil's Black Consciousness Day, a national holiday celebrated on November 20. It is a day to honor Zumbi dos Palmares, one of the great leaders of the Quilombo dos Palmares, and the legacy of all quilombo communities.

Members of the Black communities from across Southwestern Pennsylvania are invited to join this networking lunch with Justin Hansford (Howard University Law Professor, Director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center, and the Representative on the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent). The purpose of the discussion will be to develop solutions advancing human rights for People of African Descent in Pittsburgh. We’ll build a plan of action for this region and a future that prioritizes the concerns of Black people.

Schedule of Events

11:15a | Registration & Networking Lunch
12:00p | Introductions & Charge
12:15p | Working Group Sessions
01:45p | Reconvening

Come and practice your Hungarian and meet others interested in the language! All levels welcome.

This working group will meet in person every three weeks for the 2022-2023 academic year to discuss new scholarship about Eurasian borderlands. Faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates are welcome to join. No prior expertise in Eurasia is necessary.

n this presentation, Dr. Shiori Shakuto, Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sydney, explores the household gendered practices of consumption and recycling of plastics in Japan to explore the global distribution of waste and wealth.

To register to attend this remote lecture, please click here.

Come and practice your Hungarian and meet others interested in the language! All levels welcome.

To register to attend this lecture remotely via Zoom, please click here.