Join the European Studies Center at Pitt's virtual book club, exploring recent works by European authors. We will be reading "Gingerbread" by Helen Oyeyemi.
Discussion dates at February 16 and February 20. The deadline to RSVP is Thursday, January 7, 2021. A free copy of the book is available to the first 50 registrants who request one. The event is open to ALL.
REGISTER HERE: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sxGBigIMRTKyLy6-gJLmQg
In this talk we will engage with the question: What does it mean to be a good representative? We will explore the different models of representation and apply these to real life situations. Next, we will explore ways to interact with your constituents and why that is so important in a representative democracy. Finally, we will conclude with a concrete discussion of ways that future leaders can use what we have learned to be better, more responsive representatives of the constituencies.
The eleventh Charlemos event will take place on Monday, February 22, 2021 at 3 pm. The topic of discussion will be Feminist Movements and Reproductive Rights in the Southern Cone. Cora Fernández Anderson (Mount Holyoke College) will talk about her new book, Fighting for Abortion Rights in Latin America: Social Movements, State Allies, and Institutions and Mariela Daby (Reed College) and Mason Moseley (West Virginia University) will discuss their new article, "Feminist Mobilization and the Abortion Debate in Latin America: Lessons from Argentina," published in Politics & Gender. The talk will be in Spanish.
To access the readings, please visit our webpage: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/content/charlemos
Registration is required: https://tinyurl.com/e0ydutgu
Organization: Amnesty International USA
**THIS IS A 4pm EVENT***
Speaker: Adotei Akwei, Deputy Director for Governmental Relations will discuss his work at Amnesty, updates at Amnesty, and his career trajectory, Adotei is a political analyst, an experienced advocate, and campaigner on civil, political, economic, and social rights, US foreign and security policy as well as a rights-based approach to ending poverty with field experience in Africa and Asia.
To Register: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIlc-CtqT0rHtPhaU5SUtAnFRIlQenGCHpD
This info session is open to all students wanting to hear more about the Ambassador and/or Panoramas Internships. Come to meet current Ambassadors and Panoramas Interns and find out about the application process and what the positions involve!
Zoom link: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/99657016259
The EU policy on Digitization (of Art Collections) with Antoinette Maget Dominice (Ludwig Maximillian University), Ewa Manikowska (Institute of Art Polish Academy of Sciences), Arianna Traviglia (Center for Cultural Heritage Technology University ca'Foscari)
Moderator: Francesca Fiorentini, University of Trieste
This panel will illustrate the technologies available for Cultural Heritage and assess both their potential and risks within the European Union policy framework in this sector.
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Speakers: Pitt REEES alumni Dr. Elise Thorsen (Senior Open Source Analyst) and Dr. Beach Gray (Senior Open Source Analyst) of Novetta. who specialized in Slavic languages and literature at Pitt, use their regional expertise to help Novetta provide data-driven, area studies expert-honed insight into the global information environment. This vital industry is projected to grow enormously in the coming years and provides excellent opportunities to students of foreign languages and area studies.
Register in advance for this meeting: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArc-2vqzotE92Tax-fPhytqcWwMRR6XvAB
Organization: Alliance for Peacebuilding https://www.allianceforpeacebuilding.org/
Description: Alliance for Peacebuilding is a nonpartisan network of 130+ organizations (development, academic, humanitarian, faith-based) working in 181 countries to end violent conflict and sustain peace.
AfP Speakers:
Stephanie Budaker, Manager for Memberships and Operations
Shaziya DeYoung, Sr Research Associate - Learning and Development
Megan Schleicher, Sr Associate - Policy and Advocacy
Zander Willoughby, Peace Program Manager
To Register:
https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sdumqqD0rHNCYLVHFLhp5zGsQBgG3ObRt
We are excited to announce a discussion with award-winning film director and screenwriter Wei Te-Sheng. Wei’s films, including Kano, Cape #7, and Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale, are often centered around Taiwan’s indigenous peoples history and explore relationships between Taiwan’s different ethnic communities during colonization and after. This event is organized by the Taiwan Student Association. Register here
Meet with African Studies Program Student Ambassador Emmanuel Ampofo to ask questions about the African Studies Certificate, upcoming events, and more.
Meet via Zoom: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/97841843639
A live interview with Tracy McDonald (McMaster University) and Marianna Szczygielska (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).
Register via Zoom here: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvceCgqT0sGtVWgst7n6RrFJuAqyKj89Ag
The existential threat of climate change has inspired renewed intellectual engagement with the Anthropocene. Eurasian Studies are no exception to this trend. In the last decade, studies that grapple with the past, present, and potential future of the human-nature dialectic are on the uptick. These studies have forced us to reconsider intellectual and ideological paradigms, sources, mission, and role of scholar in society.
Nature’s Revenge: Ecology, Animals, and Waste in Eurasia seeks to bring some of this scholarship and activism to a wider public through a series of live-recorded interviews. The goal is to illuminate recent scholarship and complicate our understanding of the Eurasian Anthropocene and its place in our world.
NOTE WELL: This event was originally scheduled for February 23 but has been shifted to Wednesday, February 24, 2021.
Speaker: Liza Mitgang '13 (Urban Studies, BPHIL/IAS/Global Studies), MS, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Liza serves as the Program Coordinator for the Service Delivery Innovation team in the Health, Nutrition, and Population global practice at the World Bank. She'll discuss her current position, opportunities with the World Bank, her experience at the London School of Hygiene.
To Register: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0vceutrz8sEtVIn1V6Y-GqRpIqstU68xUL
Speakers: Nina Murray (Deputy Division Chief, Cultural Programs), Holly Mayton, and Paul Fariss of the State Department. Nina Murray grew up in Lviv, Ukraine, and holds advanced degrees in linguistics and creative writing. Since becoming a Foreign Service Officer in 2011, she has served in Lithuania, Canada, Russia, and Washington, D.C.
Register in advance for this meeting: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0vc-6srTouEtfT7-dV8ggqSp3g93UPnX4c
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Chat with other French students, French faculty, and PhD students and practice your French language skills. Email PhD student Pat Nikiema at PAN32@pitt.edu for the Zoom link.
Maddie Little '15 (Anthropology) MPH Emory University is Program Associate for the Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES) and is interested in project management, health communications, and process improvement in public health.
Lillie Armstrong '12 (Sociology), MPH University of North Carolina, is Senior Manager of Drug User Health at NASTAD, supporting the development and operation of harm reduction services through federal, tribal, state, local, and community-based agencies.
Cassandra Ott '14 (Microbiology) MHS Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, works as an Epidemiologist with the County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency. She assists with data analysis for the local COVID-19 response and is the surveillance lead for a CDC grant focused on opioid surveillance and prevention.
To Register: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJclcOutqD4rHNSoM9yKXIR2ejP7Svbb3OUP
Organization: Fenton Communications
Speaker: Emma Cummings-Kruger, Account Executive at Fenton, supports media and messaging strategy, content development, for clients National Park Foundation, The Climate Mobilization, Color Of Change, and Wallace Global Fund. She’ll discuss skills sought for media, communications positions to support human rights programs.
To Register https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUldumtrT4oE9RprnY874SLW4sSLCJhCJKQ
Dr. Saeji will explore the contradictions and effects of the use of imagined and real Korean settings and traditional iconography in recent videos from Korean hip-hop artists with a particularly close reading of the rapper Beenzino’s mid-2016 offering “January.” She investigates what symbols and icons are used to visually represent Korea in the videos, as they take a foreign genre and imbue it with Koreanness. These videos circulate and re-circulate a limited number of icons of Korea, because the images are meant not to portray pre-modern Korea in its complexity, but traditional Korea both as a symbol of national pride and as a (domestic and international) tourist destination where the palace is a backdrop and you wear a hanbok to create a visually striking Instagram post. Operating as the king of the music video’s world, the hip-hop artist maintains his artistic independence through challenging tradition with juxtaposed elements of the present day.
Learn more and Register Here: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nKGH19xIRW-oBHRQFq8TYw
Speakers: Pitt alumna Megan Tingley and colleagues at the National Democratic Institute (NDI). NDI is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to support and strengthen democratic institutions worldwide through citizen participation, openness and accountability, and government.
Register in advance for this meeting: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIsc--hrjgvH92il82lqIk5bZfQknGK70Mz
Laber Rhabarber - More than a German conversation hour!
"... the most human thing we have is language, and we have it in order to talk." German author Theodor Fontane wrote in 1892. So, here's chance! Be human with us for an hour every week, albeit in German ;D
Everyone and every level of German welcome!
Zoom Meeting link: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/99661883076
German Dept. website: http://www.german.pitt.edu/
Follow us on Instagram/Facebook/Twitter: @UPittGerman
Speaker: Join a conversation with Joshua Karnes, global health professional and a Foreign Service Officer with the US Agency for International Development. He served in Central Asia, where he led a team to improve early grade reading and fight HIV and multi-drug resistant TB. Before Central Asia, he served at USAID/Ethiopia where he was the Family Health and Infectious Disease Team Leader, overseeing the Maternal Child Health, Family Planning, Tuberculosis, Neglected Tropical Disease, and Global Health Security portfolios. Prior to arriving in Ethiopia, he served as Deputy Health Office Director in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he supervised USAID’s efforts to reduce new HIV/AIDS infections and provide care and service for those living with HIV. Before that, he worked in Senegal to expand family planning in remote and rural areas. Prior to joining USAID, he was the International Affairs Coordinator within the US Food and Drug Administration's Office of Regulatory Affairs. He also served with the American Red Cross in the US, Germany, Kosovo, Iraq, and Indonesia. A fluent speaker of French and German, Mr. Karnes has a Master of Public Health in Global Health Policy from the University of Michigan.
Registration link: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIof-6uqTwjG9fYQ-fDBrfRM9-EUjZMmYxK
While the CLAS @ Pitt Crimes Against Humanity Series has previously focused on well-documented and covered crimes and government policies in the Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile and Brazil in particular), more recent, ongoing issues involving large-scale dynamics are ever more important. One such case is Colombia and the worrying trend of targeted assassination of community activists involved in the transformational potential of the Peace Process that commenced with the 2016 Peace Accords of the Santos administration (2010-2018).
On February 25th, acclaimed editorial cartoonist Pedro X. Molina (in exile in the United States) and UCA’s Mario Sánchez and Social Scientist will reflect on the events that followed the student protests of April 2018 in Nicaragua, as well as the antecedents and the political and social context within which their echo has impacted daily life in the country.
Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/y5t2vv4u
Photo credit for poster: Orlando Valenzuela
A series of NCTA Master Teacher workshops on integrating East Asia into your classroom.
Join us for a teacher to teacher presentations that will cover content, strategies, implementation, and resources for bringing East Asia into your classroom this year.
From the science of dyeing to the mathematical precision of the patterns, shibori is a form of art that is applicable across multiple disciplines and age groups. This presentation will start with a brief history of shibori in Japan and move to the present day. Resources, practical tips, and suggestions for the use of non-traditional materials will be addressed, enabling teachers to share this art form with students in elementary grades to high school.
Speakers: Elizabeth Crivaro JD, '14 (Political Science) JD Georgetown University is Law Fellow at the Catholic Legal Immigration Network. https://cliniclegal.org and Reena Naik '16 (Political Science) currently pursuing a JD degree at Temple, Legal Intern with Tahirih Justice Services, former Judicial Intern with US Department of Justice, and Coro Fellow. https://www.tahirih.org/ http://www.coropittsburgh.org/ will present their work and their respective law school choices.
Participants:
Errol Henderson, Penn State University
Jeanne Morefield, University of Birmingham (UK)
Stuart Schrader, Johns Hopkins University
Nikhil Singh, NYU
Moderator: Michael Goodhart, University of Pittsburgh
Speaker: Roy A. Savoy (Executive Liaison Support Officer, NSEP) will discuss international career and scholarship opportunities at the Department of Defense, such as the Boren Fellowship, the Critical Language Scholarship, and the Presidential Management Fellowship.
Register in advance for this meeting: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUoceuoqzkuH93jDekJQmkdGHUgX14QaCBz
Jewish Studies Work in Progress Colloquium:
Emma Squire is a doctoral candidate in the Theatre Arts Department. She is currently working on her pioneering dissertation on the Yiddish Theatre in Soviet and Post-Soviet Lithuania. Through archival research in Vilnius, and interviews with spectators and theater artists, her project explores the repertoire, challenges, and cultural impact of the Jewish Folk Theatre in communist times.
Russian tutoring available for students by appointment.
Book your appointment here: https://calendly.com/katya-kovaleva/russian-language-tutoring
While the Black Lives Matter Movement has revived global conversations about racism and systemic inequality, its reception in our region manifested not only in anti-racist solidarity protests but also in pro-nationalist activism, most notably in Russia. Join us to discuss whether the Black Lives Matter movement will have a lasting impact on the struggle against racism and for civil rights and social equality in our region.
2:00-3:30 pm (ET) | 1:00-2:30 pm (CT) | 12:00-1:30 (MT) | 11:00 am-12:30 pm (PT)
MODERATOR:
Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College
SPEAKERS:
Angéla Kóczé, Central European University
Diana Kudaibergenova, University of Cambridge
Maxim Matusevich, Seton Hall University
Jakobi Williams, Indiana University, Bloomington
This event will be recorded and streamed live on the ASEEES Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/slavic.e.european.eurasian.studies/)
REGISTER IN ADVANCE: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/creees/race-in-focus
This event is part of the series "Race in Focus: From Critical Pedagogies to Research Practice and Public Engagement in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies." This series is designed to elevate conversations about teaching on race and continued disparities in our field while also bringing scholars from underrepresented minorities and/or research on communities of color to the center stage.
Speaker: Alum Katie Sives, '18 GSPIA/GSPH formerly served as Policy Fellow with Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention. She assumed a new position at CDC working with COVID-19 response.
To register: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctd-iurjstHNUCcNNYepvQz2zsFGvh4ALp
Join the Pitt German Club every Friday at 3PM to practice your German language skills and learn about different aspects of German culture!
Zoom ID: 950 0542 1812
Join us on Friday, February 26th at 4:15 pm for our next Panoramas Roundtable to discuss our featured article: "Analyzing the Roots of Migration in Central America's Northern Triangle," written by Panoramas Intern, Isabel Morales. To read the article, please visit: panoramas.pitt.edu
Every year, around 500,000 refugees and asylum-seekers flee from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. These three countries comprise a region known as the Northern Triangle of Central America, which is plagued with socio-economic instability, poverty, corruption, and chronic violence. Today, there are misconceptions and limited views regarding the causes of the humanitarian crisis in the region. These should be re-assessed by analyzing the root causes that sparked new incentives for migration, which are crucial to understanding the many interrelated factors affecting the Northern Triangle and its people.
Isabel Morales is an international student from Colombia at the University of Pittsburgh. She is currently a sophomore majoring in Economics with a minor in French and a Certificate in Latin American Studies. Through her experiences living in Colombia, the United States, and Israel, along with the opportunities offered by the university, she has become greatly interested in Latin American affairs and its role in the study of development economics. As a Panoramas intern, Isabel hopes to promote the region and continue exploring areas of interest such as politics, development, and human rights.
Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/1vc6cqvj
Grab a drink and connect, with old friends and current students. While each year we typically enjoy hosting an alumni/student networking reception in Washington DC, this year we have a unique opportunity to extend this networking event beyond DC metropolitan area! After some brief introductions, we’ll break out into two sequential small break-out rooms for more personal engagement -- based on interest and location.
We hope you can drop in and say hello.
Registration link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfp6bBpmlQ0xYHwFMHufmDrz5O5f_RS...
