This experience offers a unique perspective on the events that led to the founding of the Republic of Turkey as seen through the lens of American newspaper clippings. An exhibition curating and contextualizing American newspaper coverage of the transformative events between 1918 and 1923 that led to the birth of the Republic of Turkey
Join us for our Dia de los Muertos celebration!
From October 30th to November 6th, stop by the Global Hub in Posvar Hall to celebrate Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead. Center for Latin American Studies students, community, and staff have worked together to build an ofrenda, or alter, where you can bring photos or momentos of your loved ones.
As you engage with the display, you'll have the opportunity to learn more about the symbolism and traditions of Dia de los Muertos. This is a wonderful way to honor the memory of those we've lost and celebrate their lives. We welcome everyone to join us in this celebration of life and cultural understanding.
For more details or inquiries, please reach out to clas@pitt.edu
Beginner Swahili students are invited to join this weekly conversation hour to practice the language outside of the classroom.
Come meet international students, make friends, practice conversational English, and have fun together, during these weekly discussion groups coordinated by the English Language Institute. Feel free to bring your lunch :)
Join German Club at Pitt’s weekly meetings during Fall 2023 to converse in German and learn German culture!
Join Brazilian Student Association members who attended the BRASA Summit in DC as they give a re-cap about what they learned.
Join us on Monday, October 30, 8:00pm on Zoom only: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYuceyhpjsiE9BDDkS9GkoAUOuPd3diCluk. Learn more about the summer program Nursing at Trinity College Dublin!
Come meet international students, make friends, practice conversational English, and have fun together, during these weekly discussion groups coordinated by the English Language Institute. Feel free to bring your lunch :)
Join the French Club for a conversation hour for French speaking individuals of varying levels to practice the French language.
Are you looking to gain experience that will help prepare you for a globally-connected job market? Stop by Drop-In Hours to learn more about getting the Global Distinction added to your academic transcript, receiving special recognition at graduation, and standing out to prospective employers!
Fall 2023 Global Distinction Drop-In Hours: Tuesdays at 3:30-4:30 pm, except on November 21.
Come practice your Hungarian and meet other people who are interested in speaking the language. All levels welcome!
A language and cultural exchange between Pitt language learners and international speakers. Registration Required
Join the French Club for a conversation hour for French speaking individuals of varying levels to practice the French language.
Join the Center for Latin American Studies and the Center for Creativity to make papel picado in honor of the Day of the Dead!
Papel picado, the colorful cut paper banners used for Mexican fiestas, is translated as “minced paper” because it is made by cutting out shapes in a see-through pattern.
It is commonly displayed for both secular and religious occasions, and is often incoporated into altars during the Day of the Dead. Come learn its history and meaning and how to make it!
Snacks will be provided!
Join advanced Swahili students from Swahili 3 to practice the language outside of the classroom!
Note: Meetings will take place weekly in the Global Hub, during Fall semester, except on September 20 and October 18.
Portraits of Irish Art in Practice mines the space where aesthetic expression for Irish artistic Rita Duffy, Mairead McClean, Paula McFetridge, and Ursula Burke. Portrait essays, woven with photographs, documents each artist's coming of age in Ireland and Northern Ireland, in the context of her emerging practice. As individuals, their work considers infringements on human rights, systemic violence, gender roles, and the negotiations of figurative and literal borders and boundaries. Together, they interrogate past and present conflict and emergence from conflict, locally and globally. Their critical work is threaded with hope in the context of past and present political fragmentation.
Join us for this FREE online K-12 educator workshop that will examine the history, current status, and future of Africa and China's relationship through a global lens and offer strategies and resources for classroom use. We will explore not only Chinese investments in infrastructure in Africa, but provide examples from other regions such as Europe, as well. This workshop will offer teaching strategies and resources for K-12 classroom use, and Act 48 hours and FREE classroom materials will be provided for all participants. This workshop is being conducted in conjunction with the day-long conference, "Africa-China Relationship and Its Global Impact," which will take place on Friday, November 10 from 9 am-4 pm ET via Zoom. Workshop participants are invited (but not required) to register for and attend parts, or all, of the November 10 conference, if interested. To register for this workshop, please click here.
Students will get the opportunity to learn about the Latinx holiday el Día de los Muertos.
Join biweekly Turkish Language Table meetings for an opportunity for students to practice Turkish while
enjoying Turkish snacks and refreshments.
Note: During Fall semester, Meetings will take place biweekly on November 1, November 29, and December 13, but NOT on November 15.
Join us on Wednesday, November 1,at 8:00pm Victoria Building Room 125 OR Zoom: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0uf-mgrzMtG9yOz4uhvhtcOJAcOiPJSwwp. Learn more about the summer program Healthcare Delivery in Switzerland!
Mangia con noi! Bring your lunch and chat with us! Pitt students only, all levels welcome!
CLAS Speaker Series presents Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Childcare: Experiences of African Women and their Descendants in the Americas (19th Century) by CLAS Postdoctoral Fellow, Lorena Telles
Zoom link will be sent out to those registered as virtual attendees. A light lunch will be served.
Come meet international students, make friends, practice conversational English, and have fun together, during these weekly discussion groups coordinated by the English Language Institute. Feel free to bring your lunch :)
Learn about funding and scholarships for study and research in Latin America!
Plus3 Argentina: Healthcare Management Information Session with Professor Grant Martsolf
Thursday, November 2, 4pm
Posvar Hall Room 4625 OR Zoom: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwqf-uuqDMiGtPMweZTzKLh_iYYlkmSwvv_
Join us to celebrate Professor Wendy Z. Goldman's recent book; "Fortress Dark and Stern: The Soviet Home Front During World War II."
After Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, German troops seized the heartland of Soviet industry and agriculture and turned the occupied territories into killing fields. "Fortress Dark and Stern" chronicles the epic story of resistance on the home front. Focusing on the impact of total war, it examines the efforts of ordinary people, who withstood starvation and horrific conditions, to make the Allied victory possible.
WHAT ARE KINGS MADE OF?
RETHINKING THE ROYAL BODY
IN EARLY MODERN FRANCE
Dr. Anna Rosensweig
University of Rochester
Anna Rosensweig is Associate Professor of French and the Director of the Graduate Program in Visual & Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. Rosensweig’s scholarship and teaching focus on early modern literature and culture, the intersections of literature and political theory, and performance studies.
Dr. Rosensweig's lecture will address civic endurance in France through fountains, statues, coins, and royal bodies.
Come practice your conversational Polish at these weekly meetings!
Join students from Pitt and CMU's Russian programs' for a networking event with snacks, desserts, an art workshop, & karaoke!
Professor Jochen Hellbeck of Rutgers University will give the third and final presentation of the Socialist Studies Seminar series, presenting on a chapter from his book-in-progress, "A War Like No Other?"
Part of a forthcoming monograph devoted to the decades-long stand-off between Nazi antibolshevism and Soviet antifascism, this chapter traces the Red Army’s incursion into Germany in 1944 and 1945 as it focuses on the interpretive lenses that propagandists, soldiers, and civilians on both sides of the front applied to the final stage of the Second World War in Europe.
Join Kya Baat Hai weekly conversation hours for students to practice speaking in Hindi and Urdu and connect over shared cultural experiences!
Join Addverse Poesia, an international and multilingual poetry group that discusses, reads and translates poems in at least 4 languages, for their weekly meetings!
