Events in UCIS

Thursday, April 9

11:00 am Exhibit
Public Services in Fragmented Government: a Data Visualization Showcase
Location:
Global Hub
Sponsored by:
Global Studies Center and Global Hub along with Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA)
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Stop by the Global Hub to see Master's students in Professor Sera Linardi's PIA 2096 capstone course demo what they are learning this semester as they explore challenges and possibilities of waste management in our county.

Hosted by the School of Public and International Affairs

12:30 pm Language Table
Spring 2026 Tavola Italiana
Location:
Global Hub
Sponsored by:
European Studies Center and Global Hub along with Department of French and Italian
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Mangia con noi! Bring your lunch to the Global Hub every Thursday to chat with the Department of French and Italian and practice Italian!

Tavola Italiana will meet every Thursday during Spring semester, from January 15 to April 23, EXCEPT on January 29, February 5, February 12, and March 12.

Hosted by the Department of French and Italian

1:00 pm Language Table
Swahili Conversational Hours
Location:
Global Hub
Sponsored by:
Center for African Studies and Global Hub along with Less-Commonly-Taught-Languages Center
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Join the Center for African Studies on Thursdays to practice conversational Swahili in a social environment.

1:00 pm Lecture Series / Brown Bag
CLAS Speaker Series with Dr. Mariana Dantas: “Black women, property ownership, and generational wealth in the Early Modern Portuguese Empire”
Location:
4130 Posvar Hall and Zoom
Sponsored by:
Center for Latin American Studies
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Please register to attend. Lunch will be provided. 

Mariana L. R. Dantas is associate professor of history at Ohio University. She is the author of Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas (Palgrave, 2008) and co-author with Emma Hart of Early Modern Atlantic Cities (CUP, 2024). Her work has been published in The Americas, the Journal of Family History, African Economic History, Almanack, International Review of Social History, Revue Brésil(s), among other outlets. She is a founding member and executive board member of the Global Urban History Project [www.globalurbanhistory.org] and is currently co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Global Urban History.

6:00 pm Language Table
Spring 2026 Kya Baat Hai General Board Meetings
Location:
Global Hub
Sponsored by:
Global Studies Center and Global Hub along with Kya Baat Hai!
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Pitt students: Join Kya Baat Hai, a Hindi-Urdu conversational club that practices language and celebrates South Asian culture, for weekly conversation hours!