Events in UCIS

Friday, October 20

(All day) Conference
Central Eurasian Studies Society Annual Conference
Announced by:
Asian Studies Center and Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies on behalf of Center for Governance and Markets, Center for International Legal Education, Pittsburgh University Press and Pitt World History Center
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The Center for Governance and Markets will host the Annual Conference for CESS 2023, which will be held at the University of Pittsburgh from October 19-22, 2023. The CESS 2023 annual conference keynote speaker is Dr. Ayşe Zarakol, author of After Defeat: How the East Learned to Live with the West and Before the West: the Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders.

1:00 pm Student Club Activity
Polish Conversation Table
Location:
Cathedral of Learning 126
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
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Come practice your conversational Polish at these weekly meetings!

3:00 pm Lecture
New Research in Paleoanthropology in China: Human Fossil Discoveries in the 21st Century
Location:
4130 Posvar
Sponsored by:
Asian Studies Center along with Department of Anthropology
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This year, 2023, represents the 101st anniversary of Emile Licent and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s discovery of a child’s fossilized incisor at Erdos, Inner Mongolia: The first human fossil from China. Since the turn of the 21st century, paleoanthropology in China has made tremendous advances, both in the discovery of new human fossils and in the use of sophisticated analytical tools in geological, paleontological, and systematic studies.

4:00 pm Student Club Activity
Kya Baat Hai!
Location:
Global Hub
Sponsored by:
Global Hub along with Kya Baat Hai!
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Join Kya Baat Hai weekly conversation hours for students to practice speaking in Hindi and Urdu and connect over shared cultural experiences!

5:30 pm Student Club Activity
Addverse Poesia Meeting
Location:
Global Hub
Sponsored by:
Global Hub along with Addverse Poesia
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Join Addverse Poesia, an international and multilingual poetry group that discusses, reads and translates poems in at least 4 languages, for their weekly meetings!