Events in UCIS

Wednesday, April 3 until Thursday, April 3

12:00 pm Lecture
Yellow Peril in Vladivostok: The Chinese Diaspora in Russia and the Soviet Union
Location:
4217 Posvar Hall
Sponsored by:
Asian Studies Center, Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, European Union Center of Excellence and European Union Studies Association along with Department of German
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Dr. Urbansky discusses the challenges faced by Chinese immigrants during the late Tsarist Empire and early Soviet Union, highlighting the racial and cultural prejudices that fueled hostilities in urban settings. His analysis explores how these early interactions shaped the experiences and perceptions of Chinese communities in a rapidly changing socio-political landscape.

Friday, April 19

9:00 am Presentation
GSPIA Policy and Social Impact Fellows Closing Retreat
Location:
Global Hub
Sponsored by:
Global Hub along with Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA)
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This event is the closing retreat for GSPIA's Policy and Social Impact Fellows Program's 2023-2024 cohort. As part of the program, undergraduate students from across many disciplines worked in groups to collaborate with local Pittsburgh organizations on a community-engaged project throughout the course of the academic school year. During this event, the student groups will have a poster session to present the work that that they did with each organization on their community-engaged project. Anyone and everyone is welcome to come by to hear about the wonderful work the Fellows did with their partnering organizations!

2:00 pm Exhibit
Pitt-CMU Russian Program's Kapustnik Even
Location:
Global Hub
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies and Global Hub
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To celebrate the end-of-the-year, join the Pitt and CMU Russian programs for a talent show!

5:30 pm Student Club Activity
Addverse Poesia Meetings
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!