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Moderated by Maria Cristina Galmarini, with speakers Katharina Wiedlack and Gala Kornienko.

11:00 am - 12:30 pm (EST) | 10:00 am - 11:30 am (CST) | 8:00 -9:30 am (PST)

This six-part virtual event series will examine body matters within Eurasia through a variety of disciplines and themes. The body-as-method has emerged recently to provide novel insights on society, culture, and identity by foregrounding alternatives to Western traditions that marginalized the corporeal dimensions of social and personal existence.

Why is the body good “to think with” on both intellectual and professional matters?
How do classed, diversely abled, gendered, and raced bodies interact in the daily lives we study or inhabit through our avocations?
What is the continuously evolving relationship between the body and the body politic, whether the nation, empire, the EU, or NATO?
Is research and teaching disembodying and can recentering “embodied and uncomfortable knowledge” therefore move liberation in East European and Eurasian Studies forward?
To address these questions, "Bodies in Focus" will have six virtual, recorded panels featuring speakers from various disciplines and institutions. Panelists and the audience will explore how bodies matter for the study and teaching of East European and Eurasian social and material environments, our understanding of power and equity, and for the cultivation of human capacities in our field.

This panel is part of the series Bodies in Focus; Power, Subjectivity, and Practice in East European and Eurasian Studies. For the full schedule, see https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/creees/content/bodies-focus

Come and celebrate our students' research projects who are enrolled in GER 101-202 (beginner to intermediate levels)

Light refreshments will be served!

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

This research explores the concept of the "queer urban underworld" in late socialist Prague, where hidden and marginalised spaces allowed alternative identities and subcultures to flourish despite state control. Framed by queer theory, spatial theory, and intersectionality, the analysis reveals how these underworlds both reflected nd reshaped power dynamics, social identity, and urban space. Through archival research, mapping, and oral histories, this research uncovers how queer individuals navigated state surveillance and transformed the urban environment.

Join the Center for African Studies and the African Graduate Students Union for a forum highlighting the cultural differences African students experience upon moving to America. Topics discussed include race-related issues that impact African students' academic journey and well being and insights on how to navigate these and similar challenges. The panelists will also share their individual experiences. Come learn, network and enjoy some African dinner!

When: November 15, 2024, University of Pittsburgh Dinner will be served at 5:30 p.m. 4217 Posvar Hall , discussion will begin at 6:00pm (Hybrid)

The book for discussion is Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine, by Lisa Bhungalia. Lisa was a visiting professor on Contemporary and International Issues, at the University of Pittsburgh (2016).

"Drawing on extensive research conducted in Palestine, Elastic Empire offers a novel accounting of the US security state. The US war chronicled here is... a quieter one waged through the interlacing of aid and law. It emerges in the infrastructures of daily life... Situated in a landscape where the lines between humanitarianism and the global war on terror are increasingly blurred, Elastic Empire reveals the shape-shifting nature of contemporary imperial formations, their realignments and reformulations, their haunted sites, and their obscured but intimate forms."

The discussion will be facilitated by Lauren Banko, Lecturer, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University.

Participants will receive a free copy of the book.

Register here: https://www.cerisnet.org/resource/ceris-educators-readers-forum

Join Addverse, a transcultural, multilingual, and intergenerational poetry organization, in the Global Hub for a special celebration of Black Consciousness Day.