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A story of Celia, an 11-year-old girl who studies at a nuns' school in 1992. Celia is a good girl; she is a responsible student and a considerate daughter. The arrival of a new classmate will open a little window through which Celia will discover a whole new world. Together with her new friend and some older girls, Celia will enter a new stage of her life: adolescence, the stage of first-times. Her body needs to experiment, try new things, and stop being a little girl, even if that entails confronting her mother and everything that meant comfort and security.

COUNTRY: Spain (2020)
DIRECTOR: Pilar Palomero

Harris Theater (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust)
809 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Get Tickets Here: https://trustarts.org/production/84780

PROMO CODE for discounted tickets: EUPITT (* Pitt Students, Staff and Faculty Only)

Milan (40) has three children and does construction work in Germany in order to provide for his family in Slovakia. While visiting his home over Christmas, he discovers that his eldest son Adam is a member of a para-military youth group. The boy is involved in bullying and the death of a classmate. The father has to decide what to do. In this process, along with his wife, he comes to discover the real truth about their son, their family, themselves and the community around them.

COUNTRY: Slovakia (2019)
DIRECTOR: Marko Skop

Harris Theater (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust)
809 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Get Tickets Here: https://trustarts.org/production/84768

PROMO CODE for discounted tickets: EUPITT (* Pitt Students, Staff and Faculty Only)

Richi (Moisé Curia) is on the road with a little girl (Anna Malfatti) in a camper van through southern Germany. They have a good time with each other, dress up, dance and laugh a lot. He is a seed salesman, she his little doll. An unusual couple, but happy? When the two stop off at a restaurant, the landlord (Heio von Stetten) becomes skeptical. Something is not right here! What's more, the girl speaks a very rare language: Ladin. Meanwhile, in Rome, police inspector Milia Demetz (Cosmina Stratan) is investigating cyberspace and is hot on the heels of a pedophile network. When she discovers a girl in one of the anonymous videos, she is soon certain: the lasciviously photographed child is Magdalena Senoner, who disappeared in Tyrol at the age of five. But who is behind the camera? When the landlord forwards the footage from his surveillance camera to the police, all the threads come together. Can Milia save little Magdalena?

COUNTRY: Italy (2019)
DIRECTOR: Isabella Sandri

Harris Theater (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust)
809 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Get Tickets Here: https://trustarts.org/production/84748

PROMO CODE for discounted tickets: EUPITT (* Pitt Students, Staff and Faculty Only)

The purpose of the Student Club Coalition is to give clubs related to Latin America, the Caribbean, and the diasporas, an opportunity to be officially related to and involved with CLAS, providing mutual support for student engagement. The Student Club Coalition is designed to help students develop a voice for what's important to them, to assist them in that endeavor, and to help them acquire funding for those projects and goals. The member clubs work together to support each other and their goals, and to build friendships and community along the way.

Following fictionized lives of the inhabitants of Greenland, THE RAVEN AND THE SEAGULL tenderly recreates and overimagines the myths and misconceptions which exist between the people and landscapes of Greenland and Denmark. Examining a colonial history embedded not only in the heartbreakingly beautiful Greenlandic terrain but also in the infinite landscapes of a country’s mind, this docu-legend by Danish filmmaker and artist Lasse Lau prompts the turning of a new lens on a national past and future promise.

COUNTRY: Denmark (2018)
DIRECTOR: Lasse Lau- will be present for Q&A

followed by Night Ride (Noćna vožnja)
Country: Croatia
DIRECTOR: Vida Skerk

Night Ride (Noćna vožnja) explores quarter-life identity crisis through the perspective of a twentysomething student in Croatia. Dunja, the main character, questions her decision to move to a bigger city and regrets leaving behind the safety of her hometown where she could always count on the support of her close friend, Sara. Exploring the “borders” and boundaries of the film medium itself, the film is constructed as a series of dreams and nightmares which evade a linear narrative structure, and retain the qualities of a more stream-of-consciousness type of approach, presenting to the viewer Dunja’s inner world in its most authentic, raw and honest form.

Harris Theater (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust)
809 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Get Tickets Here: https://trustarts.org/production/84739
PROMO CODE for discounted tickets: EUPITT (* Pitt Students, Staff and Faculty Only)

***Total Attendance in showing from 1/21***

Ola, a seventeen-year-old from a small city, sets off to a foreign country on her own. It will turn out to be the trip of her lifetime, a trip into the unknown, on which she will try to reconnect with her estranged father. In Ireland, she will come to know a different world and meet people who will change her approach to life.

COUNTRY: Poland (2020)
DIRECTOR: Piotr Domalewski

Harris Theater (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust)
809 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Get Tickets Here: https://trustarts.org/production/84764
PROMO CODE for discounted tickets: EUPITT

***Total Attendance in showing from 1/20***

Come and practice your Hungarian and meet others interested in the language! All levels welcome.

Lola, 18 years old, bleach blonde hair, lives in a foster home with Samir, her only friend. Impulsive and lonely, she is trying to get her diploma as a veterinary assistant. When her mother passes away, her father Phillip makes sure that Lola will miss the ceremony. Two years before that, Philip was throwing her out of the family home: at the time, Lola was still Lionel - Philippe is determined to fulfill Catherine's last wish: to be dispersed to the North Sea, in the dunes of her childhood home. Lola on the other hand is furious against her father, but she will not leave her mother alone in this last journey. So they take off together, both unwilling to share a car but determined to take Catherine home.

COUNTRY: France (2019)
DIRECTOR: Laurent Micheli

Harris Theater (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust)
809 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Get Tickets Here: https://trustarts.org/production/84772
PROMO CODE for discounted tickets: EUPITT

***Total Attendance in showing from 1/21***

Want to learn about fan cultures of East Asia? Interested in the online culture of k-pop fans? What is Otaku and how does it help define Japanese fandom? This semester's lecture series will explore the fan cultures of East Asia and their influence on contemporary fan cultures across the world. In this lecture, Dr. Keisuke Yamada will discuss virtual vocaloid culture.

Skyrocketing rents, unliveable cities, growing displacement— in Push (2019), director Fredrick Gertten and (now former) UN Special Rapporteur Lelani Farha take a critical look at the global housing crisis and the role of financial actors in burgeoning inequity. Gertten and Farha lead us through these challenges across geographies — and create solutions that push back against the commodification of housing. Join us for the screening and post-film critical discussion. Snacks provided!

Join the German Club for Spring 2023's weekly conversation hours, on Tuesdays from 6:30-7:30 pm!

Christmas 1944. Soviet soldiers invade Hungary and drag every young ethnic German woman away from a small village and transport them to a Soviet labour camp where they are forced to work in the coal mines under inhuman conditions. This is where Irén meets fellow prisoner Rajmund who decides to teach her how to survive. While she is determined to return home to her little daughter and family, history and fate have a different plan: Irén and Rajmund fall in love. Based on a true story. “Eternal Winter” is the very first feature film about the 700,000 Hungarian victims of the Soviet labour camps whose stories remained untold for over 70 years.

COUNTRY: Hungary (2018)
DIRECTOR: Attila Szász

Harris Theater (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust)
809 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Get Tickets Here: https://trustarts.org/production/84756

PROMO CODE for discounted tickets: EUPITT (* Pitt Students, Staff and Faculty Only)

***Total Attendance in showing from 1/20***

This conference is a mix of Zoom and in-person lectures and panels. All lectures and panels can be attended virtually. Some can also be attended in person. The Zoom link is the same for all sessions. In-person sessions are all in the Sociology Colloquium Room 2432 Posvar Hall. See individual lecture or panel information for more details.

Wednesday, Jan 25:
Total 48
Non-Pitt Faculty: 14
Pitt Faculty/PhD: 30
Community: 4

Thursday, Jan 26: 10:30 AM
Total: 26
Non-Pitt Faculty: 10
Pitt Faculty/PhD: 14
Community: 2

Afternoon Session: 1:00
Total: 15
Non-Pitt Faculty: 8
Pitt Faculty/Ph.D.: 6
Community: 1

3-4:00 PM Session:
Total: 12 Virtual
Hybrid
Virtual:
Non-Pitt FAculty: 6
Pitt Faculty/PhD: 6
Community 1

4:30-5:30 PM
Total: 11
Non-Pitt Faculty: 5
Pitt Faculty/PhD: 5
Community: 1

Friday, Jan 27, 2023
Total: 20
Non-Pitt Faculty: 9
Pitt Faculty/PhD: 10
Community: 1

Panel I
Total: 23
Non-Pitt Faculty: 12
Pitt Faculty/PhD: 10
Community: 1

Panel II: Hybrid
Total: 14
Non-Pitt Faculty: 6
Pitt Faculty/PhD: 8
Community: 0

Roundtable: 18
Non-Pitt Faculty: 12
Pitt Faculty/PhD: 6
Community:

This talk discusses the foreign support for the symbol of an Ottoman-era bridge in the tiny Bosnian village of Žepa, which the US Embassy in Sarajevo paid $62,000 to reinforce in 2016. The bridge is not of much importance to the local population. There is a memorial in the village of Žepa, which was widely considered one of the "safe spaces" for Bosniaks that the Bosnian Serb Army took in July of 1995, as no massacre occurred there. Ignoring the memorial that is important to them, as emblematic of foreign involvement in Bosnia during and since the 1992-1995 war.

Robert Hayden (J.D., Ph.D.) is former director of REEES (then REES) and an anthropologist of law and politics. His primary research for more than three decades has focused on the Balkans, but has also done fieldwork in India (1970s, 1992, 2013) and among the Seneca Iroquois of New York State (1970s). Following ethnographic research on Yugoslav socialism from 1981-89, he did extensive work on issues of violence, nationalism, constitutionalism and state reconstruction in the formerly Yugoslav space, as well as on transitional justice issues stemming from the Yugoslav wars. From 2007-2013 Professor Hayden headed Antagonistic Tolerance: An International & Interdisciplinary Project on Competitive Sharing of Religious Sites, which developed and analyzed, variously, ethnographic, historical and archaeological data from Bosnia, Bulgaria, India, Mexico, Peru, Portugal and Turkey. His new research stemming from this project include studies of sufi/ dervish orders in post-imperial settings, and the (re)construction of religious sites to mark competing national territorial claims in Bosnia since the end of the war there.

This is the first lecture in the conference on Democracy in Europe, Democracy Beyond Europe. The speaker is Siney Tarrow, Cornell University. This lecture will be a one and a half hour Zoom lecture. The talk will be moderated by Suzanne Staggenborg, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh. Lisa Brush, Chair of Sociology will introduce the session with words of welcome.

Join the Asian Studies Center in the Global Hub as we celebrate the Year of the Rabbit with snacks, music, and activities!

In Senegal, women deploy significant resources to perform jongé, a set of embodied and discursive practices revolving around womanhood, femininity, and sexuality. Through feminist ethnographic methodologies Prof. Gueye examines the relationship between consumption and sexuality in the context of jongé, analyzing the linguistic, symbolic, and material resources used to perform jongé. In doing so, she demonstrates how Senegalese women construct and enact their sexual and social identities through producing and consuming sexual commodities.

Join us for an exciting journey in the field of global health! Our Career Journeys program is designed to provide you with the knowledge, skills, and connections you need to launch a successful career in this dynamic and rewarding field. You'll learn from experts in the field, gain hands-on experience, and network with professionals working on the frontlines of global health. Whether you're a student, a recent graduate, or a professional looking to make a change, this program is for you. Don't miss this opportunity to explore the many career opportunities in global health and take the first steps towards a fulfilling and meaningful career. This session is solely virtual.

Speaker: Giovanni Picker
Assistant Professor of Sociology at Glasgow University

Moderator: Pawel Lewicki, University of Pittsburgh

This talk builds on Giovanni Picker's three books, one monograph (2017) and two co-edited
volumes (2018 and 2022), which investigate the ways in which various racial structures
shape 21st-Century European cities. In the first part of the talk, Dr. Picker will discuss the
historical canon of Social Science research on European cities, and the canon's silence
regarding colonialism and race.
In the second part of the talk, Dr. Picker will discuss the residential segregation of Romani
people (the Roma) in Europe, as an illustration of the importance of looking at race and
colonial history when researching contemporary European cities. He will focus
on the city of Florence (Italy), where since the mid-1980s hundreds of Yugoslav Romani
families have been forced to live in two peripheral urban camps. In conclusion, Dr. Pickler
will connect the first and the second part by showing heuristic correspondences between
20th-century urban governance in colonized cities, and the 21st-century urban
governance of marginalized and segregated urban Romani communities.

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.

Milan (40) has three children and does construction work in Germany in order to provide for his family in Slovakia. While visiting his home over Christmas he discovers that his eldest son Adam is a member of a para-military youth group. The boy is involved in bullying and the death of a classmate. The father has to decide what to do. In this process, along with his wife, he comes to discover the real truth about their son, their family, themselves and the community around them.

COUNTRY: Slovakia (2019)
DIRECTOR: Marko Skop

Harris Theater (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust)
809 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Get Tickets Here: https://trustarts.org/production/84768

PROMO CODE for discounted tickets: EUPITT (* Pitt Students, Staff and Faculty Only)

***Total Attendance in showing from 1/22***

Desperate to help her son, Rabiye Kurnaz, a housewife and loving mother from Bremen, goes to the police, notifies authorities and almost despairs at their impotence and in the end, against all the odds, something truly remarkable happens.

COUNTRY: Germany (2022)
DIRECTOR: Andreas Dresden

Harris Theater (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust)
809 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Get Tickets Here: https://trustarts.org/production/84776

PROMO CODE for discounted tickets: EUPITT (* Pitt Students, Staff and Faculty Only)

***Total Attendance in showing from 1/21***

This is a virtual lecture of one and a half hours that is part of the conference on Democracy in Europe, Democracy Beyond Europe. The speaker is Donatella della Porta, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Italy. Her talk will be moderated by Fernando Tormos-Aponte, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh.

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.

Join Mosopefoluwa A. Lanlokun, MD, for the next installment of the Race &... Lecture Series. Dr. Lanlokun, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, will present Health Disparities in Asthma Care.

The Race &... Lecture Series is a part of the Race and Social Determinants of Equity, Health, and Well-being Cluster Hire Initiative. The lunchtime speaker series provides a spotlight for each new faculty member to present their work and interests. 

Join the Italian Club for weekly Tavola Italiana on Thursdays from 12-1 pm during Spring 2023!

Presenters:

Dr. Simone Athayde - Florida International University (Anthropology)
Dr. Stefanie Lopes - Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Manaus (Public Health)
Dr. Patricia Melo - Universidade Federal do Amazonas (History)
Dr. Gilberto Hochman - Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Rio (Public Policy and Political Science)
Dr Roberta De Carvalho, University of Pittsburgh - Moderator

Registration required. Lunch provided!

Meet the Frederick Honors College's team of academic advisors who can answer your questions about the Honors College's application, requirements, programming, and more. Find out how you can enhance your University of Pittsburgh degree in any major by choosing one of our distinctive programs.

This is an in-person one and a half hour lecture that is part of the conference on Democracy in Europe, Democracy Beyond Europe. The speaker is Asef Bayat, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His talk will be moderated by Sahar Hosseini, Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh.

Join the Balkan Cultures class and Bosnian Croatian Montenegrin Serbian Club for a workshop on how to make Turkish coffee.

During this one and a half hour, in-person panel, Hillary Lazar will speak on "Democracy and the Anarchist Turn into 21st Century Activism" and Benjamin Case will speak on" Ballot Initiatives as a Window into Democracy in Crisis." The panel discussion will be moderated by Mark Paterson, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh.

This one-hour, in-person lecture is part of the conference on Democracy in Europe, Democracy Beyond Europe. The speaker is Jessica Greenberg, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her talk will be moderated by Nancy Condee, Director of Russian East European & Eurasian Studies, University of Pittsburgh.

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.

A story of Celia, an 11-year-old girl who studies at a nuns' school in 1992. Celia is a good girl; she is a responsible student and a considerate daughter. The arrival of a new classmate will open a little window through which Celia will discover a whole new world. Together with her new friend and some older girls, Celia will enter a new stage of her life: adolescence, the stage of first-times. Her body needs to experiment, try new things, and stop being a little girl, even if that entails confronting her mother and everything that meant comfort and security.

COUNTRY: Spain (2020)
DIRECTOR: Pilar Palomero

Harris Theater (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust)
809 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Get Tickets Here: https://trustarts.org/production/84780

PROMO CODE for discounted tickets: EUPITT (* Pitt Students, Staff and Faculty Only)

***Total Attendance in showing from 1/22***

Mala Mala is a 2014 Puerto Rican documentary film directed by Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles, starring Jason "April" Carrión, Samantha Close and Ivana Fred. The film shows several stories of the transgender community in Puerto Rico, including April Carrion, a well-known drag queen who participated in the reality show RuPaul's Drag Race. Mala Mala also includes the historic victory of the LGBT community with the approval and signature of Law 238-2014 (in Puerto Rico), which prevents discrimination in employment based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity.

Richi (Moisé Curia) is on the road with a little girl (Anna Malfatti) in a camper van through southern Germany. They have a good time with each other, dress up, dance and laugh a lot. He is a seed salesman, she his little doll. An unusual couple, but happy? When the two stop off at a restaurant, the landlord (Heio von Stetten) becomes skeptical. Something is not right here! What's more, the girl speaks a very rare language: Ladin. Meanwhile, in Rome, police inspector Milia Demetz (Cosmina Stratan) is investigating cyberspace and is hot on the heels of a pedophile network. When she discovers a girl in one of the anonymous videos, she is soon certain: the lasciviously photographed child is Magdalena Senoner, who disappeared in Tyrol at the age of five. But who is behind the camera? When the landlord forwards the footage from his surveillance camera to the police, all the threads come together. Can Milia save little Magdalena?

Harris Theater (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust)
809 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Get Tickets Here: https://trustarts.org/production/84748

PROMO CODE for discounted tickets: EUPITT (* Pitt Students, Staff and Faculty Only)

***Total Attendance in showing from 1/22***

Join the Persian Club for weekly converstions on Thursdays at 8-9 pm during Spring 2023!

This one and a half hour, in-person lecture is part of the conference on Democracy in Europe, Democracy Beyond Europe. The speaker is Amber Reed, Spelman College. This session will be moderated by Joshua Bloom, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh

This one and half hour virtual panel on Histories of Democracy will be moderated by Mark Philp of the University of Warwick, UK

The speakers and their topics are:
--Eduardo Posada-Carbo, University of Oxford, UK "Simon Bolivar"
--Guy Thomson, University of Warwick, UK, "Benito Juarez"
--Stephen Sawyer, American University in Paris, France, "Napoleon II and the Third Republic"

Joanna Inness, University of Oxford, UK, will be the Commentator.

Lunch will be served for those watching the session in the Colloquium Room.

In this talk, historian Victor Seow will be introducing his recently published book, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia. This book uses the story of what was once the largest coal mine in East Asia—the Fushun colliery in southern Manchuria—to examine how the different Chinese and Japanese states that had owned and operated this enterprise in the first half of the twentieth century came to embrace fossil-fueled visions of development and mobilized various extractive technologies toward that end. In so doing, it presents a panorama of a site that well serves as a microcosm of the wider world that carbon made, the legacies of which we still grapple with today.

Victor Seow is a historian of technology, science, and industry, specializing in China and Japan in global contexts and in histories of energy and work. He is the author of Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (University of Chicago Press, 2022), and is currently writing a new book on the history of industrial psychology in China.

If you plan to attend this lecture via Zoom, please register here.

In this one and a half hour, in-person panel, Jackie Smith, University of Pittsburgh, will discuss "Globalization and the Future of Democracy Today?"
Ben Manski, George Mason University, will discuss "The Other World That Is Necessary: The Imperative of Next System Studies." The discussion will be moderated by Nathan Katz, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh.

This in-person, one and a half-hour roundtable includes the following Pitt faculty members and concludes the conference.
--John Markoff, Department of Sociology
--Diego Holstein, Department of History
--Michael Goodhart, Department of Political Science
--Mohammed Bamyeh, Department of Sociology
This roundtable will be moderated by Randall Halle, Department of German and the European Studies Center.

Information session for Pitt undergraduate students. We will provide information on the CAS certificate, African culture and languages, and scholarship and travel opportunities.

In connection with the publication of the 25 essays in The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Indian Cinema (2022), the co-editors, Neepa Majumdar (University of Pittsburgh) and Ranjani Mazumdar (Jawaharlal Nehru University) have invited six speakers to engage with the keywords archives, technology, circulation, and bodies as they relate to the book and to the fields of film and media studies and South Asia studies. The speakers at this Zoom event are: Mark Betz (King’s College, London), Manishita Dass (Royal Holloway, University of London), Vinzenz Hediger (Goethe University Frankfurt), Priya Jaikumar (University of Southern California), Juan Llamas-Rodriguez (University of Pennsylvania), and Rosie Thomas (University of Westminster). Everyone is invited to attend this book discussion event on Saturday, January 28 at 8am PST, 11am EST, 4pm GMT, 5pm CET, and 9:30pm IST.

To register for this event, please click here.