Events in UCIS

Tuesday, March 21

11:00 am Information Session
Center for Latin American Studies Ambassador Tabling
Location:
Global Hub
Sponsored by:
Center for Latin American Studies and Global Hub
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Join CLAS ambassadors to learn more about CLAS academic offerings and related programs.

11:00 am Presentation
The Limits of Hegemonic Power: The United States’ Failure to Change International Human Rights Norms During the War on Terror
Location:
3430 Posvar Hall
Sponsored by:
Global Studies Center
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Come see undergraduate student Juliana Geyer present and defend her thesis, which examines the limits of hegemony through the context the United States’ failure to change international physical integrity norms during the War on Terror. It provides possible explanations for US failure and comments on the resistance of the international human rights regime as well as the limits of hegemonic power that this case study uncovers!

12:00 pm Lecture Series / Brown Bag
Conversations on Europe: Climate Change and Migration--What can the U.S. learn from Europe?
Location:
Zoom Webinar
Sponsored by:
European Studies Center along with Miami-Florida Jean Monnet European Center of Excellence at Florida International University, EU Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, Center for European Studies at the University of Florida, Center for European STudies at the University of Texas-Austin and Center for European and Transatlantic Studies at Georgia Institute of Technology
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As North and Central America increasingly experience climate change and disasters (fires, hurricanes, drought, rising waters from the Great Lakes and Atlantic Ocean), the US has come to realize what our European colleagues have been experiencing as they have been at the forefront of the accelerating trend of global displacement related to climate change. The pre-covid years of 2015-2016 saw the highest peak of immigration into Europe. Last year President Biden signed an executive order 14013 “Rebuilding and Enhancing programs to resettle refugees and planning for the impact of climate change on migration”. With the release of the report, it was the first time the U.S. Government officially reported on the link between climate change and migration. While no nation offers asylum to climate migrants, the UN High Commission on Human Rights has published legal guidelines for offering protection to people displaced by the effects of global warming. Additionally, several of the 169 targets established by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) lay out general goals that could be used to protect climate migrants. The panel will be an informal discuss of how Europe’s experience with climate change and migrants can inform the United States.

The organizer and moderator of the Panel is Mary Rauktis, School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh

The Panel members are:

Carla Malafaia, University of Porto, Portugal,

Cosmin Nada, University of Porto, Portugal,

Sheila Velez Martinez, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh

12:00 pm Lecture
Shattered Sacred Broken Lives:Destruction and Reconstruction of Religious Sites in Ramu, Bangladesh
Location:
3106 WW Posvar Hall
Sponsored by:
Asian Studies Center along with Department of Anthropology
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What is disrupted through the process of destruction? What space is reconstructed when the rubble of destruction is destroyed? And how do the communities conceptualize and experience the rubble of destruction and reconstruction of religious sites and sacred objects in their everyday life? This talk will establish a dialogue with these questions by exploring how destruction and government-led tourist-centric reconstruction of Buddhists' religious spaces (bihars) have affected the religious practices and social relationships of Buddhist communities in Ramu, a town of a Muslim-majority country, Bangladesh. It will reveal what relation violence against sacred sites bears to violence against the people who built, inhabited, or identified with that sacred space.

5:00 pm Student Club Activity
Hungarian Conversation Table
Location:
Cathedral of Learning 329
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
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Come and practice your Hungarian and meet others interested in the language! All levels welcome.

6:30 pm Student Club Activity
German Conversation Hour
Location:
Global Hub
Announced by:
Global Hub on behalf of Pitt German Club
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Join the German Club for Spring 2023's weekly conversation hours, on Tuesdays from 6:30-7:30 pm!