Events in UCIS

Thursday, February 9

12:00 pm Student Club Activity
Speciale Tavola Italiana: Sanremo 2023
Location:
Global Hub
Sponsored by:
Global Hub along with Pitt Italian Club
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Join the weekly Italian get-together as they watch highlights from the Festival di Sanremo - one of the highlights of the year for Italians!

2:00 pm Panel Discussion
Virtual Visiting Diplomat Program: Let's Talk Japan
Sponsored by:
Asian Studies Center along with International Studies Consortium of Georgia
4:00 pm Lecture
Russia's War on Ukraine: Implications for Security in the Black Sea Region and Europe
Location:
4130 Posvar
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies along with Center for Governance and Markets; Ridgway Center for International Security Studies
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The start of Russia's war in Ukraine in 2014 has impacted regional security in the Black Sea through the occupation of Crimea. The massive invasion of 2022 has led to even more profound implications. Yet, Russia has failed to convert the control of Ukrainian territories into lasting strategic advantages. The recent liberation of Kherson and fear in Moscow that Ukraine might go into Crimea indicate a shift in the situation. The talk will shed light on the humanitarian impact of war, the disruption of global trade, and the larger security implication for the Black Sea region and Europe, more broadly.

Volodymyr Dubovyk is Associate Professor at the Department of International Studies, Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University in Ukraine. He has conducted research at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1997, 2006-2007) and the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland (2002), taught at the University of Washington in Seattle in 2013 as well as at St. Edwards University and the University of Texas in 2016-17. He is the co-author of Ukraine and European Security (Macmillan, 1999) and has published numerous articles on US-Ukraine relations, regional and international security, and Ukraine's foreign policy.

4:00 pm Lecture Series / Brown Bag
Charlemos: "Autocracy Rising: Reflections on 10 Years of Madurismo (I)"
Location:
Zoom
Sponsored by:
Center for Latin American Studies along with Latin American Political Institutions Section LASA
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Javier Corrales - Amherst College, Raul Sánchez-Urribarri - La Trobe University, Jennifer Cyr - Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

5:00 pm Student Club Activity
French Conversation Hour
Location:
Global Hub
Sponsored by:
Global Hub along with French Club
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Description: Join the French Club for Spring 2023's weekly conversation hours, on both Wednesdays and Thursdays from 5-6:30 pm!

Note: French Conversation Hour will not meet in the Global Hub on Thursday, April 13.

5:30 pm Presentation
Jews in Rio De Janeiro
Location:
Cathedral of Learning, Room 602
Sponsored by:
Center for Latin American Studies along with Jewish Studies Program
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Flavio Limoncic, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio De Janeiro

7:30 pm Film
Free Chol Soo Lee
Location:
Harris Theater
Sponsored by:
Asian Studies Center along with Screenshot: Asia
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Free Chol Soo Lee tells the story of a Korean American death row inmate convicted of a 1973 Chinatown gangland murder in San Francisco. and the activists who led a pan-Asian American movement to free him.