Join your classmates for Slovak conversation practice in a fun, relaxed environment!

The presentation discusses the role of local public libraries in shaping memory about the Great Patriotic War in Russia today. With a particular focus on the Northwest of Russia, it will demonstrate how local libraries practice an emotional approach to commemoration, building close connections with their audiences through the feelings and personal histories they convey by means of material objects. Rendering local public libraries as powerful memory influencers in the region, the presentation will show their contribution to promoting local patriotism and remembering the militarized past.

Elena Kochetkova is currently an Associate Professor of Modern European Economic History at the Department of Archeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion at the University of Bergen. She is the author of the monograph "The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology" (MIT Press, 2024). She is currently working on a monograph on food modernity under state socialism. She is also working within the project "'Memory Politics of the North, 1993-2023", funded by the Norwegian Research Council.

Zoom link: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GaWLKmgcR0CfmfpNGcQzMA

Dr. Zhong's work explores how, subject to the forces of the state and the market, Chinese cultural production continues to be influenced by different and sometimes conflicting cultural and ideological legacies related to the complexity of one and a half centuries of modern Chinese history. Television drama as a quintessential mainstream cultural phenomenon and offers a diverse collectionof televisual textual materials with which to study the implications of these influences. 

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.