The first psychiatric hospitals in the world were established as early as the 8th century during the Islamic Renaissance. Despite the emergence of a highly sophisticated and interdisciplinary system of understanding the human psyche in early Islamic history, most students of modern psychology are unfamiliar with this rich history. This lecture will provide a historical and contemporary review of the Islamic intellectual heritage as it pertains to modern behavioral science and how mental illness was historically perceived and treated in the Muslim world. (Continuing medical education credit will be available.) Register on the Zoom link!

Come and practice your Hungarian and meet others interested in the language! All levels welcome.

Are you passionate about an issue within the realm of Global Studies? The Global Studies Center BPhil degree provides students with the opportunity to develop an interdisciplinary research project under the mentorship of their chosen professor. Meet with current BPhil seniors, academic advisor Elaine Linn, and capstone professor Dr. Horia Dijmarescu to learn about the optimal timelines, opportunities for research, how to get started, the role of the faculty mentor, and more!

How have immigrants inspired you? Come support immigrants with an activity and have your photo shared on our social media.

Interested in interning in Africa? We're creating custom internships for students to get real-world experience in Senegal and Kenya. Join us to learn more!

This information session is for students who are interested in studying abroad and how to receive funding from the Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs. Learn about how you can make your application stand out and speak to the Nationality Room scholarship coordinators about the application process!

This lecture is part of a larger biography of a WWII-era Japanese destroyer named Yukikaze, or Snowy Wind. Yukikaze fought at most of the major battles of the Pacific Theater, including Java Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, and through the Solomon Islands, the Philippine Sea, Leyte, and Okinawa. In 1944, as Japan faced imminent defeat, the Imperial Navy made a series of tactical decisions that have puzzled military historians and strategists. By concentrating on the years 1944 and 1945, this lecture argues that the obligations to history, more than larger strategies, covered Imperial Navy conduct in the final years of WWII.

Brett L. Walker is Regents Professor of History at Montana State University, Bozeman. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow and author of six books, including a forthcoming book from Cambridge University Press. He also possesses U.S. Coast Guard Merchant Mariner captain credentials. He spends his time between Bozeman, Tucson, and the San Juan Islands. To register for this lecture, please click here.

During this information session, the Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs (NRIEP) and the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) will share details about funding opportunities available to UG students to study and conduct research in Latin America.

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Dr. Fiona Hill, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Former Senior Director for European and Russian Affairs on the National Security Council, will discuss her experience in the Trump administration, including her testimony during President Trump's first impeachment inquiry. Dr. Hill will also discuss Vladimir Putin's authoritarian vision for Russia, the subject of her new co-authored article in the centennial issue of Foreign Affairs. Finally, Dr. Hill will address her remarkable journey from a coal mining community in northeastern England to serving three American presidents and what she has learned along the way about the best way to safeguard American democracy, the subject of her recent memoir, There Is Nothing For You Here.

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A LIVE INTERVIEW WITH Togzhan Kassenova, SUNY-Albany AND Cynthia Werner, Texas A&M University

REEES Fall 2022 series, The Specter in the Present: Trauma and its Legacies in Eurasia, will explore the place of trauma in Eurasia society in four interviews that pair scholars to discuss social and clinical trauma, victimhood, historical memory, and the politics of history in the region.

This event is part of a larger series.

This working group will meet in person every three weeks for the 2022-2023 academic year to discuss new scholarship about Eurasian borderlands. Faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates are welcome to join. No prior expertise in Eurasia is necessary.

Content warnings have become an important feature of pedagogical practice. In this talk and discussion, I reflect on my experiences as a junior scholar trying to promote ethnographic research on topics that are triggering. I focus on “shopping” a book manuscript on sexual violence as a process beset by competing imperatives to engage ethically, to support the mental health of others, to adhere to disciplinary conventions around “thick description,” and to market the book as attracting a wide readership. Register on the Zoom link!

Szczecin is well-suited to analyze urban representation in public discourses and heritage debates. Its transnational history between Germany and Poland, its border shifts after WWII, and the access to the Baltic Sea inform and shape these debates to this day. In her research, Tabitha Redepenning explores urban authenticity. She takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on urban studies, cultures of remembrance, public history, and tourism theory.
Focusing on post-war discussions about specific buildings’ de- or reconstruction, Tabitha highlights the connections between urban structures through overarching narratives in tourist trails. Diverse local actors structure the city space along the linear narrative of the trails while simultaneously creating a particular city image.

Tabitha Redepenning studied book science, German studies, and European studies in Mainz, Frankfurt (Oder), and Wrocław. Her Master’s degree was in "Entangled cultures of remembrance in the German-Polish context on the example of the remembrance of Auschwitz liberation." She worked as an Educational Project Specialist at the Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe. Since June 2020, she has been a research associate and Ph.D. student at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe and a contributor to the project “Urban Authenticity: Creating, Contesting, and Visualizing the built Heritage in European Cities since the 1970s.”

Whether identified as ethnonationalist, pan-European, anti-colonial, or or pan-Islamic, "civilizationist" identification is in the foreground of many nationalist, racist, often white supremist narratives. Such approaches to identification extract concepts and mechanisms from earlier nationalist projects and feed them into the larger narratives of civilizationism taking hold today. While doing so, they tend to reproduce a radicalized approach to history, art, literature, material culture, and demography. This talk will address the broader implications of "civilizationism" with a historicist approach.

Barbara Weinstein is the Silver Professor of History at New York University and Past President of the American Historical Association. Her publications include The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920 (1983), For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo (1996), and The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil (2015). Her research has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Ask questions about the Seminar & Field Trip Program, learn more about the interview process, and discuss your research interests!

In the first installment of the Global Studies Center's Two Evenings, Professor Edda L. Fields-Black from Carnegie Mellon University will facilitate a discussion on author Clint Smith's How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America. A deeply researched and transporting exploration of the legacy of slavery and its imprint on centuries of American history, How the Word Is Passed illustrates how some of our country's most essential stories are hidden in plain view—whether in places we might drive by on our way to work, holidays such as Juneteenth, or entire neighborhoods like downtown Manhattan, where the brutal history of the trade in enslaved men, women, and children has been deeply imprinted.

Global Literary Encounters book discussions are pre-lecture discussions that align with the Pittsburgh Arts & Lecture's Ten Evenings series. Global Literary Encounters put prominent world authors and their work in a global perspective in order to provide additional insight on writers and engaging issues.

This discussion will be held on Zoom. Please register to receive the Zoom link before the event.

This semester's 2022 Micro-Course will focus on humanity’s use of technology and the disparate impacts on and benefits to the environment and varying groups of people. This will include discussion around the material, environmental, and health costs of extracting materials necessary to technological development and production as well as the waste created by the consumption habits initiated by global reliance on technology. It will also include a discussion of technology’s role in advancing sustainability.

In this four-part weekend micro-course (spanning four semesters), we will examine the power of technology on humanity and its implications on social justice in four areas: governance, environment, education, and health. Information about the speakers is on our website!

Barbara Weinstein is the Silver Professor of History at New York University and Past President of the American Historical Association. Her publications include The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920 (1983), For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo (1996), and The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil (2015). Her research has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

During the Silent Film Era in Korea, movie screenings were accompanied by live music and narrators called "byeonsa." Korean Film Archive and director Tae-yong Kim have restored this theatrical experience with live musical accompaniment. This special screening of Crossroads of Youth invites you to experience the film just as Korean audiences did when it was premiered in 1934. For more information about this event, click here. To register for this event, click here.