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Learn the history of mărțișor and watch the Romanian Room committee make them and talk about this old tradition.

Falling on March 1 of every year, Mărțișor is an old Romanian tradition of gifting a red and white string attached to a small piece of jewelry or a flower. This is believed to bring health and luck to the wearer.

The University of Pittsburgh's Global Hub, along with the Center for Latin American Studies, Global Studies Center, and Center for African Studies, is hosting art exhibition to showcase Latinx, Indigenous, and Black art. The exhibition will be displayed in the Global Hub from February 28th to March 4th, with a special evening of performances to honor International Women's Day on March 3rd from 7-10PM.

Join the French Club for French language conversation practice

Portuguese conversation at all levels

Come join the German Club to practice your language skills and learn about German culture!

3 perspectives on the current moment (US & Ukrainian experts in law, history, & politics)
REGISTER: https://pitt.zoom.us/.../register/WN_y_bn6rZ-TfCXV_tHMR8xow

JMEUCE Lecture: Citizenship in Hard Times: How Ordinary Citizens Respond to Democratic Threat

Sara Wallace Goodman is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Irvine Department of Political Science. Her research focuses on democracy, citizenship, and political identity. This talk is built from her new book, Citizenship in Hard Times: How Ordinary People Respond to Democratic Threat (Cambridge University Press), which examines a the civic and politics in the UK, US, and Germany. Goodman's research has been cited and featured in several popular publications including The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Vox.

Are you a graduate student eager to discover citation management tools, academic publishing information, and available resources at ULS? Register for the graduate student academic writing workshop scheduled for Tuesday, March 1st from 1-2PM in ULS G74 Hillman Library Instruction Room/Zoom. The session will be led by Martha Mantilla, Librarian for Latin American Studies and Eduardo Lozano Collection.

Panoramas intern Nadiyah Fisher will discuss food deserts and COVID-19 in Brazil’s favelas. This event is open to all and we hope to see you there. OCC credit will be offered!
Read Nadiyah’s article: https://www.panoramas.pitt.edu/health-and-society/environmental-and-syst...

Join us for refreshments and pizza as we gather to support our Ukrainian community.

Are you interested in doing independent research? Are you unsure about how to take a broad topic of interest and turn it into a research question? This workshop, led by Dr. K. Frances Lieder, UCIS Visiting Professor of Contemporary Global Issues, will help you to begin thinking through potential research topics in a generative and generous low-stakes environment. Any student with an interest in developing an independent academic research project in the social sciences and humanities is welcome. Bring your questions and a general sense of the topics that interest you! We will focus on how to develop clear research questions, but any and all questions, concerns, and interest in independent research are welcome. We especially encourage students pursuing or considering a BPHIL/IAS to attend.

Join the Arabic Language & Culture Club for an hour of conversing in the colloquial Arabic language while speaking on various current events.

Join the Chinese Language & Culture Club every other Tuesday to practice the Chinese language and participate in Chinese cultural activities,

The first meeting on 1/18 will be virtual: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/94596594820

Learn the history of mărțișor and watch the Romanian Room committee make them and talk about this old tradition.

Falling on March 1 of every year, Mărțișor is an old Romanian tradition of gifting a red and white string attached to a small piece of jewelry or a flower. This is believed to bring the wearer health and luck.

As part of the month-long virtual celebration of Mărțișor, come to the Global Hub to make mărțișor on March 2 with materials provided by the Romanian Nationality Room Committee.

Join Pitt Global Ties for a de-stress event where they will be giving out materials and demonstrating activities to help students relax during midterms.

Social Italian event for students of Italian at Pitt

French casual conversation table. Open to all students of all levels of proficiency.

ADDverse+Poesia is a poetry collective that shares stories and works of art from underrepresented communities within our society - including but not limited to: the LGBTQIA+ community, Black and Indigenous individuals, and people living with disabilities.

Join us for an evening of special performances featuring women artists in honor of International Women's Day from 7-10PM at the Global Hub. Refreshments will be provided.

These performances are an accompaniment to "Genesis: An Exhibition of Latinx, Black, and Indigenous Art," on display at the Global Hub from February 28-March 4.

Assembling diverse materials ranging from poetry to stories, wills, personal and model letters, manuals, and other miscellanea, majmu'as or anthologies offer fresh insights for writing the history of the early modern Persianate world. Often produced outside the state and religious institutions, they provide a distinct vantage point to the social and cultural history of the communities that produced them. This workshop introduces the majmu'a and explores its capacity for driving scholarly insights through a hands-on exploration of a majmu'a collected by a family of bureaucrats living in seventeenth-century Isfahan.

INSTRUCTOR: Kathryn Babayan is Professor of Middle East Studies and History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her expertise lies in the medieval and early-modern Persianate world and focuses on the cultural, social and political histories of Iran, Iraq, Anatolia, and parts of Central Asia, Persian-speaking regions in which Islam was diversely “translated” in the processes of conversion. Professor Babayan's scholarship on the Irano-Islamic past has been inspired and broadly informed by critical innovations over the last three decades in the field of cultural studies, and ‘materialist’ modes of analysis that offer new historical approaches to the materiality of human lives as well as the remarkable range of evidentiary materials historians now employ. Her books include Mystics, Monarchs, and Messiahs: Cultural Landscapes of Early Modern Iran (Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs, 2002) and City as Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan (Stanford UP, 2021).

MODERATOR: Sahar Hosseini, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture
University of Pittsburgh

Registrations limited.

Are you a graduate student looking for a research opportunity or internship abroad? The East Africa Field Based Program is right for you! Learn about the program and the various organizations you can work with in Uganda or Kenya this summer.

As we come to know more about trauma, describing a single event—physical or psychological, as ‘traumatic’ often ignores its role as a historical-political-social phenomenon that pertains to much more than an individual’s experience. Perhaps it is the lack of appropriate language within the fields of trauma studies that has caused this disconnect as the stories of survivors are more often than not, tossed aside and regarded as anomalous. My thesis seeks to delve into the almost inconceivable and inaccessible territory of the Gwangju Uprising and the Tiananmen Massacre, whose histories have been created and defined by the state. Within the stories of survivors emerge heterotopias or countersites to the dominant, ‘acceptable’ renditions of these events and as such, I seek to reconstruct the theoretical framework by which we analyze the cultural nuances of trauma within East Asia that is particular to student-led democratization movements.

Kayla Smitson is a second year IDMA student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature. They received their bachelor’s degree in Asian Studies with a minor in Korean Culture and Language at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Their research interests include the portrayal of trauma in literature and film in contemporary China and South Korea, particularly in the 1960s-1980s.

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Passcode: 616172

Stop by the Global Hub on March 4 from 1:30-2:30 for a bake sale of Ukrainian nalistniki (pancakes), learning Ukrainian songs, and more! Donations will be used to support the Ukrainian people.

This event is organized and sponsored by the Slavic Department, the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, and the Russian Club.