With each global health crisis, the interconnectedness of populations around the globe becomes more pronounced. Diseases not only affect the health of communities, but they have a profound impact on political, economic, and social stability within countries and regions. This course engages the interdisciplinary nature of global health by approaching the issue through the lens of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) developed by the United Nations. The SDGs range in focus from good health and well-being to gender equality to clean water and sanitation to affordable, clean energy. By engaging the ways that health has a stake in these goals, the course will bring the expertise of faculty from the University of Pittsburgh and CMU as well as practitioners to understand and address the issue surrounding global health from a myriad of perspectives and avenues. With an applied focus, the course will assist students in engaging and advocating for a community on a global health issue through a policy memo. This iteration of the course will examine gender equality and SDG #5.

A Byzantine musical oratorio-celebration of the complete Kontakion of the Nativity by Romanos the Melodist. A program by the Byzantine Choir of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Pittsburgh and Invited Musical Guests. Open to the public.

Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
6 PM

As part of the Pitt Global Hub's Stress Free Zone activities, come by any day from 9AM-12PM and try different teas from around the world, many with calming properties to help you calm any final exams anxiety.

Hosted by the Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures, students will practice their Mandarin Chinese skills in various structured group activities.

Improve your Russian, meet other Russian students, prepare for oral exams and learn more about Russian culture!

As part of the Pitt Global Hub's Stress Free Zone activities, come by any day from 9AM-12PM and try different teas from around the world, many with calming properties to help you calm any final exams anxiety.

This event showcases student research from the upper division undergraduate course, “Afro-Latinos in the U.S.” with Michele Reid-Vazquez, Africana Studies Department. The twenty-one participants will provide visual and textual iterations of the experiences of Afro-Latinxs in regional and transnational contexts.

Based on a range of primary sources, including memoirs, historic newspapers, interviews, and social media, this exhibition will present a powerful narrative of the struggles and achievements of Afro-Latinxs. Examples include the racial acculturation of Cubans and Puerto Ricans who migrated in the early twentieth century; racism encountered by sports figures, such as Roberto Clemente (baseball) and Herbert Lewis Hardwick (boxing); Afro-Latinas’ resistance to colorism and sexism; the invisibility of Afro-Latinxs in media and film; and broader efforts to counter injustice and prejudice.

https://www.planforpitt.pitt.edu/projects/afro-latin-american-and-afro-l...

As part of the Pitt Global Hub's Stress Free Zone activities, come by any day from 9AM-12PM and try different teas from around the world, many with calming properties to help you calm any final exams anxiety.

Information Session for graduates and undergraduates about Nationality Rooms Summer Study Abroad Opportunities.

Register here: http://www.nationalityrooms.pitt.edu/content/register-scholarship-inform...

Need a break from studying? Feeling stressed or anxious about exams? Come by the Pitt Global Hub for a 15-minute guided meditation session. Students will learn mind/body stress reduction skills through mindfulness meditation, a form of attention training which involves intentional, non-judgmental observation of the present moment.

Sessions will be led by Stress Free Zone Coordinator, Hallie Stotsky.

In this lecture, Donna Zuckerberg explores what antiquity means to far-right online communities and what others interested in Classics can do to respond.

Your international experience does not have to end with the completion of your study abroad program. Pittsburgh is home to a plethora of cultural groups, internationally minded non-profits and global businesses. Apply your international experience to a world of opportunities here in Pittsburgh! Learn about internship, volunteering and part-time job opportunities, where you can advance the skills learned abroad and make a difference locally.

Stop by the Hub to learn about these six-week internships in a variety of state and non-governmental organizations in areas of public health, health education, environmental healthy, community mental healthy, and other global health fields in Moldova.

Stop by the Hub to learn about these six-week internships in a variety of state and non-governmental organizations in areas of public health, health education, environmental health, community mental health, and other global health fields in Moldova.

Improve your Polish, meet other Polish students, prepare for oral exams and learn more about Polish culture!

Come reconnect with friends from your program and learn about the popular German tradition of Weihnachtsmärkte and Christkindlmärkte. Whether or not you have been to a Christmas market or studied abroad during the Holiday season, come reminisce on your experience with other program alumni!

As part of the Pitt Global Hub's Stress Free Zone activities, come by any day from 9AM-12PM and try different teas from around the world, many with calming properties to help you calm any final exams anxiety.

Center for Latin American Studies-Panoramas Roundtable Series.

In conjunction with the Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures program's "Ten Evenings" series, Global Studies Center is hosting "Four Evenings" pre-lecture discussions that put prominent world authors and their work in global perspective. Open to series subscribers and the Pitt Community, these evening discussions, conducted by Pitt experts, provide additional insight on prominent writers and engaging issues. A limited number of tickets to the author's lectures will be available to those who attend the discussions.

Lecture by actor Karl Malden sponsored by the Serb National Federation & Yugoslav Room Committee.

As part of the Pitt Global Hub's Stress Free Zone activities, come by any day from 9AM-12PM and try different teas from around the world, many with calming properties to help you calm any final exams anxiety.

Join the Global Studies Ambassadors and the Student Office of Sustainability on the last day of classes for a game of Cornhole and comfort food - soup and cornbread!

This talk analyzes how the practices of care for pregnant and birthing indigenous women in public health clinics exemplify the structural limits to intercultural healthcare in Peru. The intercultural birthing policy was heralded as a major shift in the history of health care in Peru. It changed existing birth protocols, that followed technocratic models of birthing, to incorporate traditional Andean practices of care. The Peruvian deployment of an intercultural health framework echoed political projects in Ecuador and Bolivia which recognized indigenous health practices and preferences as on par with biomedical perspectives. This signaled a willingness to recognize and respect cultural differences and address historically engendered marginalization of indigenous communities. However, the construction of intercultural health through the day-to-day practices of pregnancy, labor and postpartum care of indigenous women demonstrates a clear disconnection between discourse and praxis. Further, they speak to a broader project of forceful “modernization” of indigenous bodies to fit into the desired mestizo nation.
 
Dr. Lucia Guerra-Reyes is a medical anthropologist and interdisciplinary researcher.  She holds a PhD in Anthropology and a Master’s in Public Health (MPH) in Behavioral and Community Health, both from the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to that, she studied a Master’s degree in Gender, Sexuality and Reproductive Health at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru.  She is currently an associate professor in the Department of Applied Health Science, at Indiana University Bloomington- School of Public Health.  Her research focuses on the complexities of access to sexual and reproductive health care for marginalized communities. She is the author of “Changing birth in the Andes: Culture, Policy and Safe Motherhood in Peru” (Vanderbilt 2019).

For any questions, email LCA17@pitt.edu

Reception | 5:30pm
145 Washington Street, Edgewood, PA
Please RSVP to kmdewalt@pitt.edu

A film screening of 1989: A Statesman Opens Up

Presented by the Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia (GOSECA).