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.
Join us for a lunch and learn event with Nina Sajić.
Dr. Sajić served as the ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to France, UNESCO, Algeria, Monaco, Andorra, and Romania. She was also a foreign policy advisor in the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. She will be at Pitt to discuss her diplomatic experiences with students and the wider community.
Light lunch will be provided.
Tina S. Clemente is Professor at the Asian Center, University of the Philippines (UP), Diliman. She earned her Ph.D. at the School of Economics at the same university. Her research interests include China Studies, Philippines–China economic relations, economic history, and development. Dr. Clemente is a former president of the Philippine Association for Chinese Studies and the first editor-in-chief of the Chinese Studies Journal. In 2022, Dr. Clemente received the Gawad Tsanselor Sa Natatanging Guro, the most prestigious award for UP Diliman faculty that recognizes excellence in teaching, research, and service.
Notwithstanding different calibrations in dealing with China—scoring a legal victory through the arbitral ruling, cooperating while shelving maritime claims, or posing resistance while engaging more vigorously in building alliances—the main critique on the Philippine security perspective is that it has wide room for improving strategic calculation. The perennial but unresolved question is how the Philippines can navigate its responses to China’s coercive levers. We examine strategies and implications of resilience vis-à-vis vulnerability in considering the options of an economically and militarily weaker country in dispute. We first contextualize the bilateral relations in recent years and the turn of the academic discourse then frame the notion of resilience in a game-theoretic context. We then demonstrate how pay-offs and actions in a multistage bilateral interaction are contingent on sanction-sender types, sanction-receiver’s resilience, and the players’ strategic reckoning of each other. Finally, we analyze the interaction space and particularize the scenario of a resilient Philippines.
Join your classmates for Slovak conversation practice in a fun, relaxed environment!
Join us for an upcoming lecture with special guest Dr. Jaimie Bleck!
Dr. Jaimie Bleck is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. She specializes in African politics with a focus on democratization, civil society, participation, and citizenship. Her research has been funded by grants from the Spencer Foundation, National Science Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, and USAID-DRG.
Noriko Unno, PhD, is an assistant professor at Osaka University. This talk traces the history of cultural interactions between Japan and the Hui people (Sinophone Muslims), an ethnic minority group in the People's Republic of China said to be descended from foreign Muslims who migrated to China from today’s Middle East, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia from the seventh to fourteenth century. It reviews the influence of Islam in China on Japanese intellectuals during the Edo period, political and cultural activities of Hui youths studying in Meiji Japan, the Hui people’s responses to Japanese imperialism in the first half of the twentieth century, one contemporary Hui writer’s perception of Japan, and the rising popularity of halal Chinese cuisine in Japan. This overview offers a new perspective on the history of relations between East Asia and Islam by considering the mutual influences on Japan and Muslims in China, as well as Japanese understandings of Chinese and Islamic culture.
“Fugitive Decisions, Free Soil, and Antillean Geopolitics in the 1820s and 1830s”
A symposium based on a pre-circulated chapter draft by Prof. Gunvor Simonsen (Copenhagen University).
Initial comments, Professor Sue Peabody (Washington State University)
To receive the draft chapter, please reach out to Pernille Røge (per20@pitt.edu).
Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
History Department Lounge (3702 Posvar Hall).
Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies and the Early Modern Worlds Initiative
Join us on Wednesdays in the Global Hub for casual Portuguese conversation!
Bate-Papo meet on Wednesdays, during Spring 2025, starting February 12 and ending April 16, EXCEPT on March 5.
Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays during Spring semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
The French Club will meet twice weekly, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, during Spring 2025, EXCEPT on January 22, February 5, March 4, and March 5.
Join the German Club on Wednesdays during Spring semester for conversational meetings and to practice German speaking and listening skills.
The German Club will meet on Wednesdays during Spring 2025, EXCEPT on January 22, February 5, and March 5.
