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Join the International Student Peer Network for a professional Chinese Kun Opera group performance, storytelling, open discussion, and the opportunity to try on traditional costumes and makeup.
Events in UCIS
Thursday, September 19
10:30 am Cultural Event
Chinese Kun Opera
Location:
Global Hub
Sponsored by:
Asian Studies Center, Center for Ethnic Studies Research, Center for African Studies, Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, European Studies Center, Global Studies Center, Global Hub, Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs, Office of International Services and Global Experiences Office along with School of Education; International Student Peer Network, Office of the Provost of the University of Pittsburgh and Chinese Students and Scholars Association
12:00 pm Lecture
Asia Now Tristan Brown
Location:
David Lawrence Hall 211
Sponsored by:
Asian Studies Center along with Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA)
12:30 pm Student Club Activity
Tavola Italiana
Location:
Global Hub
Sponsored by:
Global Hub along with Department of French & Italian
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Mangia con noi! Bring your lunch and chat with us! Pitt students only, all levels welcome!
1:00 pm Performance
Vagonar USA Tour
Location:
In front of the Cathedral of Learning
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies along with Slovak Studies Program
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A wonderful group of 33 talented young dancers, singers, and musicians will deliver a dance workshop for our students.
2:30 pm Lecture
Fall Speaker Series: Professor Mireya Loza
Location:
4130 Posvar Hall
Sponsored by:
Center for Ethnic Studies Research and Center for Latin American Studies
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Short Bio: Mireya Loza is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and the American Studies Program at Georgetown University and a curator in the Division of Work and Industry at the
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Loza is a public historian who contributed oral histories, trained communities, and helped amass over 800 oral histories with bracero communities featured in the Bracero History Archive. These oral histories became a cornerstone of her book, Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual and Political Freedom (UNC Press). Her first book won the Theodore Saloutos Book Prize awarded by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society and the Smithsonian Secretary’s Research Prize.
Title: Beyond Braceros: How Temporary Labor Shaped Industrialized Agriculture in California,1942-1965
Abstract: As the largest employer of Mexican guest workers during the era of the Bracero Program, California growers stand center stage in this talk about race and food production in America.
Beyond braceros, growers relied increasingly, but not exclusively, on Mexican undocumented workers and actively recruited laborers from Japan and Puerto Rico. California growers’
global search for cheap labor challenges long-held assumptions that Mexican workers were the logical, if not inevitable, ideal farmworker. This talk will explain the lobbying efforts, political reach, and racial meaning-making of California growers as they handpicked their most coveted farmworker and explain how the contemporary reality in American agriculture was not inevitable but created by design through policy and grower influence.
This event is co-sponsored by CESR and CLAS, and is part of Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month!
4:00 pm Reception
ESC 40th Anniversary Celebration
Location:
Alumni Hall, 5th Floor
Conection Link:
Sponsored by:
European Studies Center and European Union Center of Excellence
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Please come celebrate with us! Make sure you RSVP by 9/13/2024
5:00 pm Panel Discussion
Cultura Negra no Atlantico (CULTNA)
Location:
Zoom
Sponsored by:
Center for Latin American Studies
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Jeremias Brasileiro: Sincretismo NÃO! Coexistência cultural religiosa e ancestral, SIM!
This event will be in Portuguese.
Free and open to the public
5:00 pm Student Club Activity
GOSECA World Nomad Games 2024
Location:
Global Hub
Sponsored by:
Global Hub along with Graduate Organisation for the Study of Europe and Central Asia
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Join the Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia for a screening of the World Nomad Games 2024. Included in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List, World Nomad Games is an international sport competition dedicated to ethnic sports practiced in Central Asia. It is like the Olympics with 84 nations, including the US. Learn more about the World Nomad Games at https://worldnomadgames.kz/en.