The guest lecture provides an insightful exploration of Joseph Mbele's "Chicken in the Bus book," delving into its themes of cultural adaptation, resilience, and community.

Mangia con noi! Bring your lunch and chat with us! Pitt students only, all levels welcome!

Come meet international students, make friends, practice conversational English, and have fun together, during these weekly discussion groups coordinated by the English Language Institute. Feel free to bring your lunch :)

Art Gives Hope in Times of Political Upheaval and Darkness.

Join the Department of German and the Jewish Studies Program for this timely commemorative event organized by Professor Dr. Amy Colin. Students from her German studies seminars will read Paul Celan’s “Die Todesfuge” (Death Fugue) in Michael Hamburger’s English translation and present the work of Jewish artists who survived the Holocaust, Sculptress Irene Fröhlich-Wiener (Switzerland) will show ways in which her work and art in general can create a spiritual and emotional bond between people in times of violence and war, and anthropologist C. Raman Schlemmer will discuss the persecution of the famous avant-garde artist Oskar Schlemmer in Nazi Germany and his reception today. German Honorary Consul Paul Overby will participate in the opening of the event.

Dr. Taras Filenko is newly returned from Ukraine and the surrounding region, where Ukrainian refugees have sought shelter from the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, 2022. Come hear an in-person eyewitness account from someone with a lifelong network of family, friends, and colleagues, many who are displaced from their homes to locations inside Ukraine and abroad.

What hope is there for victory? Is US support waning? What kinds of help are most valuable at this moment? What is the life of students during war?

Taras Filenko is an ethnomusicologist, lecturer, and concert pianist with doctoral degrees from Kyiv’s Academy of Music and the University of Pittsburgh’s Music Department. He has presented his work internationally in Austria, Canada, Belgium, France, Russia, the Baltic states, and Ukraine. Based on recently discovered materials, much of his research concerns forgotten and prohibited composers from the 19th and 20th centuries. Since last year’s full scale invasion, Dr Filenko has volunteered his talent and expertise for numerous events to educate about Ukrainian culture and raise funds for humanitarian support.

Sodikoff is a cultural anthropologist interested in the political economy of biodiversity loss, conservation, and restoration with extensive research on labor and rain forest conservation in Madagascar. Her book , Forest and Labor in Madagascar: From Colonial Concession to Global Biosphere (Indiana University Press, 2012), is an anthropological-historical account of the role of subaltern labor in forest conservation and ecotourism efforts. She is currently examining the problem of land degradation and zoonosis, disease that spills over from animal species to humans. The current project is a multispecies epidemiology of the plague in villages of the Moramanga district in eastern Madagascar, where an outbreak of pneumonic plague occurred in 2015 and risks recurring.

Nele is a young call center agent who moonlights as a cloakroom attendant at the State Opera. When she falls in love with the small-time street dancer, Kolja, she must confront the demons of her past and descend into the underworld. Talent scout Hollbach notices Nele's singing talent and offers her a great opportunity for a career as an opera singer. Axel Ranisch's modern adaptation of Orpheus and Eurydice is a cinematic opera pastiche, camp, comedy, tragedy, not to be missed.

Have you ever wanted to learn 12 different languages in one night? This is your chance! The Less-Commonly-Taught Languages Center is hosting an event on Thursday November 9th that will allow you to sample up to 12 of the languages offered at Pitt over the span of 2 hours! After 15 minutes of learning, you will rotate to the next station and start over with a new language. This event is perfect for anyone looking to find a language for their Second Language GER.

The award-winning Green & Blue explores the painful and humorous realities faced by the individuals who patrolled the border during the height of the conflict.

An officer from the Royal Ulster Constabulary in his green uniform and Eddie from An Garda Síochána, resplendent in blue, communicate via crackly radios until an explosive incident forces them to meet across a field only farmers know the location of. Focusing on what it’s like to be hunted when you’re protecting a man-made line on the ground, the play looks at the societal and human cost of borders.

‘Green & Blue’ is based on real-life interviews with former serving officers. Winner of The Lustrum Award for Best Theatrical Moment at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe

Hear from a former student of the program. Join either session:

Tuesday, November 7, 8pm

      Cathedral of Learning Room CL253 OR Zoom: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtf-uoqjwjGdYc0P85niBsW5UKm_8njTcd