Events in UCIS

Thursday, March 30 until Saturday, April 1

(All day) Conference
SUNY MEU 2023
Location:
New York, NY
Sponsored by:
European Studies Center and European Union Center of Excellence along with SUNY Institute for European Union Studies
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SUNYMEU is a simulation of the end of the six-month presidency of the Council. SUNYMEU simulates the agreement of Council Conclusions, which in the EU serves to guide the EU institutions (the Commission, the Council, and the European Parliament) over the next several months. SUNYMEU 2023 simulates the Swedish Presidency (January-June 2023). SUNYMEU is open to all undergraduate and graduate students from anywhere in the world.

The University of Pittsburgh will send a team of students to this simulation.

Thursday, March 30

12:00 pm Reading Group
Eurasian Borderlands Reading Group
Location:
4130 Posvar Hall
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
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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.

12:00 pm Student Club Activity
Tavola Italiana
Location:
Global Hub
Announced by:
Global Hub on behalf of Department of French & Italian
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Mangia con noi! Bring your lunch and chat with us! Pitt students only, al levels welcome!

12:00 pm Lecture
Secret Police Archives as Depositories of Faith
Location:
Zoom
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
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Soviet ideology treated religion as an enemy, a tool of oppression and an expression of backwardness. Militant atheism, the prohibition of religious rituals, and the repression of religious communities aimed to create a secular, rational, and scientific society. Yet, religion mattered in Soviet people’s lives. And with institutional religion restricted, many people expressed their spirituality through “lived religion” - the practice of religion and spirituality in everyday lives. What were the practices of lived religion in the context of state socialism? And how did it converge and diverge with the return of institutionalised religion and spiritual lift after the collapse of communism? REEES Spring 2023 Series, Religion in (Post-Socialism) Societies, will explore the role of religion in socialist and post-socialist societies in eight online discussions on religion and its relations to repression, nation-building, indigenous cultures, and memory.

This is a part of REEES’s Spring 2023 lecture series.

4:00 pm Lecture
APEC 101 with Matt Murray
Location:
4130 Posvar Hall
Sponsored by:
Asian Studies Center along with Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA)
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APEC is an integral piece of the Biden Administration's Indo-Pacific Strategy. In this presentation, U.S. Senior Official for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APCE) Matt Murray will unpack why APEC emerged, how it works, what it has achieved, and what the U.S. as host economy aims to prioritize this year.

5:00 pm Student Club Activity
French Conversation Hour
Location:
Global Hub
Announced by:
Global Hub on behalf of 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.