Events in UCIS

Friday, September 6 until Friday, September 13

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 undergraduate Pitt students for a conversation hour to practice speaking in Hindi and Urdu and connect over shared cultural experiences.

Kya Baat Hai will meet weekly, on Fridays, during the 2024-2025 academic year, EXCEPT on the following dates:
September 20
September 27
December 20
December 27
January 3

Thursday, September 12 until Friday, September 13

9:00 am Conference
The Future of Myanmar
Location:
Alumni Hall 5th Floor
Sponsored by:
Asian Studies Center along with Center for Governance and Markets; Ridgway Center for International Security Studies
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Join us for a critical workshop titled "Local Governance and the Path to Peace in Myanmar," organized by the Center for Governance and Markets at the University of Pittsburgh. This event is a timely response to the rapidly evolving situation in Myanmar, aiming to foster discussions and strategies for resolving long-standing conflicts and building trust among diverse ethnic and regional groups in the country. This workshop will bring together scholars, practitioners, and civil society leaders, along with US-based academics and political scientists, to exchange experiences and strategies for tackling local challenges and fostering trust across ethnic and regional divides. Register here

Friday, September 13

2:30 pm Lecture
Authorial Metadata and the Global History Archive: traps, trips and tricks
Location:
3703 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Sponsored by:
Asian Studies Center along with Department of History and World History Center
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Join the World History Center on Friday, September 13 for "Authorial Metadata and the Global History Archive: traps, trips and tricks" a talk by Martin Dusinberre (University of Zurich) in 3703 Posvar Hall from 2:30-4:00 PM. RSVPs appreciated but not required. Register Here

In his new book, Mooring the Global Archive: A Japanese Ship and its Migrant Histories (Cambridge, 2023), Martin Dusinberre addresses key questions of method and authorial positionality in the writing of global history. He does so by reconstructing the lives of some of the thousands of male and female migrants who left Japan for work in Hawai'i, Southeast Asia and Australia in the late-nineteenth century. Drawing on an unconventional and deeply material archive, from gravestones to government files, paintings to song, and from digitized records to the very earth itself, Dusinberre asks, where are the global archive’s sites—and who are “we” as we cite it?

This event is part of the series Silence in the Narrative: The Politics of Absence in Accounts of the Global Past.

3:00 pm Panel Discussion
Charlemos!
Sponsored by:
Center for Latin American 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 undergraduate Pitt students for a conversation hour to practice speaking in Hindi and Urdu and connect over shared cultural experiences.

Kya Baat Hai will meet weekly, on Fridays, during the 2024-2025 academic year, EXCEPT on the following dates:
September 27
December 20
December 27
January 3

6:00 pm Student Club Activity
Addverse
Location:
Global Hub
Sponsored by:
Global Hub along with Addverse Poesia
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Join Addverse, a transcultural, multilingual, and intergenerational poetry organization, for weekly meetings in the Global Hub.

Addverse will meet weekly, on Fridays, during Fall 2024, EXCEPT on the following dates:
September 27
October 4