In this lecture, Dr. Berlin will draw on archeological evidence to showcase how ancient Judeans in the first century BCE began the practice of “household Judaism,” using specific goods to infuse homes and lives with a religious sensibility and common material identity that was noticeably distinct from the cosmopolitan lifestyles surrounding them.

This lecture is in memory of the late Professor Jerry Rosenberg, a formative leader of the Jewish studies program at the University of Pittsburgh.

This event is co-sponsored by The Jewish Studies Program, Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs and the Israel Heritage Room Committee.

Register to attend in-person or virtually: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hellenism-hasmoneans-and-household-judaism-...

The Undergraduate Research Symposium is an annual event since 2002 designed to provide undergraduate students, from the University of Pittsburgh and other colleges and universities, with advanced research experiences and opportunities to develop presentation skills. The event is open to undergraduates from all majors and institutions who have written a research paper from a social science, humanities, or business perspective focusing on the study of Eastern, Western, or Central Europe, the European Union, Russia, or Central Eurasia.

After the initial submission of papers, selected participants are grouped into panels according to their research topics. The participants then give 10- to 15- minute presentations based on their research to a panel of faculty and graduate students. The presentations are open to the public.

Visit the website at ucis.pitt.edu/crees/urs

Apply here by January 7, 2022: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd-jrnDiSkgRpr81fKHzQQMXm3E2UN3...

The Emerging Global Leaders Program encourages early- to mid-career global leaders to model their expertise and experience. This year's Emerging Global Leader Tareq Alaows will be holding office hours from April 11-15, 2022 at the Global Hub for students who are interested in hearing more about Tareq's experiences.

Tareq Alaows was a recipient of a Johnson Institute Emerging Leader award in the Fall and is an activist engaged in migrant/refugee issues and a former candidate for the Bundestag whose campaign was derailed by threats to himself and his family. Tareq has been involved in the Seebrucke movement in Germany and more recently has been working on refugee/migration issues related to Afghanistan and Ukraine.

The Euro Challenge is a competition for high school students on European economic and monetary policy. It gives participants the opportunity to learn about the Euro, the single market, and other important concepts central to the European Union and macro/microeconomics.

Stop by the Global Hub to purchase some baked goods in support of Ukraine! Proceeds will be donated to Slovak-Americans Stand With Ukraine fund.

This event is sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, and the Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia.

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!

The Emerging Global Leaders Program encourages early- to mid-career global leaders to model their expertise and experience. This year's Emerging Global Leader Tareq Alaows will be holding office hours from April 11-15, 2022 at the Global Hub for students who are interested in hearing more about Tareq's experiences.

Tareq Alaows was a recipient of a Johnson Institute Emerging Leader award in the Fall and is an activist engaged in migrant/refugee issues and a former candidate for the Bundestag whose campaign was derailed by threats to himself and his family. Tareq has been involved in the Seebrucke movement in Germany and more recently has been working on refugee/migration issues related to Afghanistan and Ukraine.

POSTPONED!!

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a leading cause of death around the world, with the highest burdens in low-resource settings, and is expected to grow exponentially to cause around 10 million deaths annually in 2050. It is defined by high degrees of complexity given its international, multisectoral, ‘one health’ and ‘creeping’ features, which creates significant challenges for good governance. In addition, only 0,5% of all AMR related research comes from the social sciences, which indicates that we know relatively little about the behavioral and institutional aspects of antibiotics. It is also typically referred to as a low-salient political issue. This talk will introduce three dimensions of European governance of antibiotics; first, how experts, typically top senior bureaucrats, create an ‘administrative action space’ when politicians fail to raise the issue; second, the networking dynamics among domestic bureaucracies to create collaborative governance; and thirdly, the role and function of the EU Commission to act as a third-party enforcer in solving the large-scale collective action dilemma of AMR.

Daniel Carelli is a PhD Candidate in political science at the University of Gothenburg. His dissertation investigates how administrative traditions and bureaucratic autonomy affect inter-bureaucratic collaboration around the issue of antimicrobial resistance in Europe.

Dr. Joseph-Masséna will present excerpts from her book manuscript Voicing Vodou: Haitian Women Writers and the Goddess Ezili. Her project highlights a previously unidentified literary genre created by three Haitian women writers which she calls “The Eziliphonic text. ”The term “eziliphonic” is a neologism which combines the name of feminine vodou deity “Ezili'' with the adjective “phonic,” referring to “voice” or “speech sound.” The book centers Haitian Women writers as theorists by demonstrating how, within this collectively created literary genre, they effectively rehabilitate vodou culture through their textualization of the feminine deity Ezili, while also centering voice and sound, not vision, as a critical category of the vodou imaginary. There are many iterations of Ezili spirits or lwas in Haitian vodou, but the ones studied here are Ezili Freda, the flirtatious mulatta and lover of all things beautiful, and Ezili Danto, the passionate dark-skinned single mother and fierce defender of her children. Each chapter draws on an interdisciplinary framework, grounded in Black feminist theory, Voice Studies, literary criticism, and Vodou Studies in order to show how Haitian women novelists mobilize Ezili’s vocal, or phonic, specificities in their narratives.

In preparation for the session, students will get acquainted with Jacques Stéphen Alexis’ Réalisme merveilleux or Frankétienne’s Spiralisme. Then, they will read passages from Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley’s Ezili's Mirrors (2018) and Christina Elizabeth Sharpe’s In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016). They will also listen to a selection of jazz music.

Dr. Cae Joseph-Masséna is an Assistant Professor of Comparative, Cultural and Francophone studies in the department of Modern Literature & Languages at the University of Miami. Her recent work focuses on contemporary Haitian women writers. A trained Jazz Vocalist and Berklee College of Music alumnus, her research focuses more broadly on the entanglement of voice, music, ritual and sound in Black women’s literary texts. Her research areas include comparative approaches to African diasporic literatures of the francophone Atlantic with an emphasis on Sound/Voice Studies, Haitian Studies and feminist queer of color critique.

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

The Emerging Global Leaders Program encourages early- to mid-career global leaders to model their expertise and experience. This year's Emerging Global Leader Tareq Alaows will be holding office hours from April 11-15, 2022 at the Global Hub for students who are interested in hearing more about Tareq's experiences.

Tareq Alaows was a recipient of a Johnson Institute Emerging Leader award in the Fall and is an activist engaged in migrant/refugee issues and a former candidate for the Bundestag whose campaign was derailed by threats to himself and his family. Tareq has been involved in the Seebrucke movement in Germany and more recently has been working on refugee/migration issues related to Afghanistan and Ukraine.

The Summer EDGE in Entrepreneurship and Innovation program will take place from May 9-August 6. This is an undergraduate certificate program offered in the College of Business Administration and targeted toward non-business students. Through this curriculum students will be exposed to the mechanics of opportunity creation. These skills include modules on business plan preparation and feasibility analysis, presentation skills, interactive marketing, customer relationship management, and competitive analysis, project management, and leadership. Upon completion of the certificate students will have increased their ability to compete for summer and permanent positions in a wide range of industries and functions. ALL non-business undergraduate students are welcome to enroll.

Register here: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtcuqsrTMsEtXB3h8KXh8FKBFe3jsnU-3K

Emily Olmstead is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a Global Studies Certificate. She serves as Program Coordinator at American Councils for International Education, Tajikistan and possesses diverse global work experience. Emily is experienced in language instruction, development, and youth work, with an interest in international education, gender equality, and human rights. She will discuss her career experiences as well as insight navigating changes in global work from a currently remote position.

To Register:
https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpf-Crqj4jHNfcF98DJhdvp2ihDYLi5W5F

This keynote event is part of the European and Eurasian Undergraduate Research Symposium 2022.
In this presentation Professor Balmaceda will revisit the burning question of how global, more specifically Europe's dependency on Russian fossil fuel chains has affected international responses to Ukraine's security. Her latest book, Russian Energy Chains: The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union, sheds light on how Russia's fossil fuel exports have created what now seems like more of a threat than an opportunity for all parties involved. In her book, Professor Balmaceda follows the geopolitical journey of three fossil fuel molecules from production in Siberia to processing and transit in Ukraine, to final use in Germany, while giving us invaluable insight into the moving forces behind the politics and economics surrounding fossil fuels.

View the Poster: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/creees/sites/default/files/images/documents/RE...

Register to attend: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsdu6urzkpHNWK_cVUxGX2Ow1F-JSLOv...

In this lecture, Dr. Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College, London, will reveal how the island's shifting fortunes have been shaped by centuries of conquest and by a cast of dynamic characters. Using the backdrop of Cold War intrigue and the rise of its neighbor as a global power, this lecture will examine how this tiny island, caught between the agendas of two superpowers, is attempting to find its place in a rapidly changing world order.

Register here.

The Emerging Global Leaders Program encourages early- to mid-career global leaders to model their expertise and experience. This year's Emerging Global Leader Tareq Alaows will be holding office hours from April 11-15, 2022 at the Global Hub for students who are interested in hearing more about Tareq's experiences.

Tareq Alaows was a recipient of a Johnson Institute Emerging Leader award in the Fall and is an activist engaged in migrant/refugee issues and a former candidate for the Bundestag whose campaign was derailed by threats to himself and his family. Tareq has been involved in the Seebrucke movement in Germany and more recently has been working on refugee/migration issues related to Afghanistan and Ukraine.

Social Italian event for students of Italian at Pitt

A live interview with Nanci Adler (University of Amsterdam)

Register here: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_j6I2NNm-QCy_r_lcvvRNgQ

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

Dr. Victor Figuereo is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work. His work focuses on racialization, the intersections of race and ethnicity, and access to health and mental health care as it pertains to the psychological well-being and distress of Latinx individuals living in the United States. The purpose of his works is to demystify the ethnic and racial homogeneity of U.S. Latinxs, render visible the lived experiences of Afro- and Black-Latinxs, and contribute to the elimination of Latinx health and mental health disparities in the U.S. He is the author of Racialization and Psychological Distress among U.S. Latinxs (Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 2021). Dr. Figuereo received his bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Clark University and master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Ball State University. He completed his master’s degree in social work and doctorate degree at the Boston College School of Social Work.

In this brief presentation, Willem Noe, European Commission Official and former EU Fellow at GSPIA, will give a brief overview of working at the European Commission as an international organization, and his own career path as an economist at the Commission dealing with globalization, European Union Enlargement (entry of new Member States into the EU), and the economies of several Member States. He is currently stationed at the EC Representation in Ireland, where he closely follows the Irish economy and the impact of Brexit on Ireland, and acts as a liaison between government, civil society, and the EC Country Team Ireland in Brussels.

View the poster: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/creees/sites/default/files/images/documents/RE...

Register Here: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsdu6urzkpHNWK_cVUxGX2Ow1F-JSLOv...

Join the Bosnian Croatian Montenegrin Serbian Club at Pitt for an afternoon of Bosnian coffee and making Balkan desserts.

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.

Farsi students and those interested in the Persian language and culture can participate in language practice and cultural events

The Emerging Global Leaders Program encourages early- to mid-career global leaders to model their expertise and experience. This year's Emerging Global Leader Tareq Alaows will be holding office hours from April 11-15, 2022 at the Global Hub for students who are interested in hearing more about Tareq's experiences.

Tareq Alaows was a recipient of a Johnson Institute Emerging Leader award in the Fall and is an activist engaged in migrant/refugee issues and a former candidate for the Bundestag whose campaign was derailed by threats to himself and his family. Tareq has been involved in the Seebrucke movement in Germany and more recently has been working on refugee/migration issues related to Afghanistan and Ukraine.