Week of May 1, 2022 in UCIS

Wednesday, May 4

12:00 pm Cultural Event
Eid Around the World
Location:
Global Hub - 1st Floor Posvar
Sponsored by:
Global Hub along with Office of Diversity, Equity and and Inclusion; Office of Interfaith Dialogue and Engagement; Muslim Affinity Group
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Celebrate Eid with your colleagues and neighbors at the Global Hub! Eid is the holiday held at the end of Ramadan and celebrated by 1.2 billion people world wide. Our celebration will include snacks, small group discussions, and gift bags.

Sponsored by the Muslim Affinity Group, the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and the Office of Interfaith Dialogue and Engagement.

4:00 pm Lecture Series / Brown Bag
Charlemos: Authoritarian Police in Democracy (LASA Congress)
Location:
Zoom
Sponsored by:
Center for Latin American Studies along with Political Institutions and Processes Section of the Latin American Studies Association
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Join us for a conversation with González about her book, Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America, which was a co-winner of the 2021 Donna Lee Van Cott Book Award. Katherine Bersch, a former recipient of the Donna Lee Van Cott Book Award, will be the moderator. NOTE: This episode of Charlemos is only accessible through the LASA Congress.

6:00 pm Reading Group
Clube do livro
Location:
City of Asylum
Sponsored by:
Center for Latin American Studies
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Discussion of Torto Arado in Portuguese.

Thursday, May 5

6:00 pm Panel Discussion
Four Evenings Discussion: Isabel Wilkerson's Caste
Location:
Zoom
Sponsored by:
Global Studies Center along with Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures
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We are excited to continue our collaboration with the Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures "Ten Evenings" series. The Global Studies Center will be once again hosting "Four Evenings: Global Literary Encounters" pre-lecture discussions that put prominent world authors and their work in global perspective. The series is co-sponsored by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.

Open to all, these evening discussions, conducted by Pitt experts prior to author events with Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures, provide additional insight on prominent writers and engaging issues. You can register for the book discussions here - https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/caste

Poetically written and brilliantly researched, Caste invites us to discover the inner workings of an American hierarchy that goes far beyond the confines of race, class, or gender. A book steeped in empathy and insight, Caste explores, through layered analysis and stories of real people, the structure of an unspoken system of human ranking and reveals how our lives are still restricted by what divided us centuries ago. Wilkerson rigorously defines eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, heredity, and dehumanization. She documents the parallels with two other hierarchies in history, those of India and of Nazi Germany, and no reader will be left without a greater understanding of the price we all pay in a society torn by artificial divisions.

For questions and more information, contact Maja Konitzer at majab@pitt.edu.