Director: Martin Repka

The film tells the story and of an older poetry club, Lonely Runners. But it is mainly about the great friendship between Ivan, Peter and Ivan. At the beginning of this road movie, Peter leaves Offenbach am Main, his current residence, to go to see Ivan in Bratislava and then to go together to Liptovský Mikuláš to visit another Ivan. They want a meeting between Lonely Runners and Lonely Runners. But the main motto and inspiration behind is their friendship.

82 min.; 2019; Genre: creative documentary
Slovak version; Subtitles: English

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!

Monday, November 27, 8pm

Cathedral of Learning Room 253 OR Zoom: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMuceytrjgrG9VPsFLNc7km-MhiwzWy6_vq

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.

Peter Haslinger is Director of the Herder Institute for Research on East Central Europe. He is a distinguished professor in history at the University of Giessen. His main areas of interest are security and conflict studies; minorities, multilingualism and intersectionality; nationalism, regionalism and historical memory; spatial turn and historical cartography. He has published widely on gaps in theory and model building that are related to theories of secularization and their spatial and cultural aspects. Peter Haslinger has been co-investigator in the LOEWE research cluster "Regions of Conflict in Eastern Europe" (2017-2021), the Jean Monnet Network SecurEU, as well as Principal Investigator in the collaborative research center (SFB) "Dynamics of security" (since 2014), where he was also the speaker of the concept group "Spaces of Security."

Agenda
Session I: New Trends in Security and Conflict Studies--Introductions, background, and statement of interests. Questions and discussions.

Session II: Critical Perspectives on Security and Conflict--Securitization Theory and/vs. Conflict studies. What is the added value of perspectives from humanities and cultural studies.

Session III: The War of Russia against Ukraine, as an example--Open Thesis: Putin's regime, history of Russian-Ukrainian relationship, novel character of the war (cyber aspects), the significance of war for Europe, and on the global level (China, Africa, grain supply and migration crisis). What can we learn from the war for security and conflict studies?

Session IV: Final Discussion and Wrap Up.

Facilitated by Randall Halle, Director, European Studies Center.

Come practice your Hungarian speaking skills and meet other individuals who are interested in the language. All levels are welcome!

Join Lingovation, a club focused on merging language and service, for their general body meeting.

Come practice your BCMS conversational skills at this weekly, informal language table!

NOTE: BCMS Conversation Table will not meet on November 22 due to the Thanksgiving break.

Join the French Club for a conversation hour for French speaking individuals of varying levels to practice the French language.

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.

Join weekly Bate-Papo Portuguese conversation practice for all levels, from brand-new beginners to advanced or heritage speakers!

Note: Meetings will take place weekly in the Global Hub except on September 27, October 18, and November 1.

This summer specific SHRS Goes Global information session will look at global experiences offered in the summer and centering on health, health care, health information and disability. SHRS undergraduate students, come learn from the Pitt Global Hub and Global Experiences Office, as well as student presenters, about opportunities to study abroad, earn the Global Distinction to demonstrate your global mindset to employers, and more!

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.

Mangia con noi! Bring your lunch and chat with us! Pitt students only, all levels welcome!

In this talk, Robin Visser will speak about her new book, Questioning Borders: Ecoliterature of China and Taiwan. Published by Columbia University Press in 2023, the book engages with the intersection of ethnic minorities and environmental studies in modern China from a comparative, interdisciplinary, and global context. Lunch provided.
This event is sponsored by the Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research, Global Studies in the History Department, the Environmental Humanities Research Seminar, and the Humanities Scholars Program.

Pitt in Rome info session on Thursday 11/30 in the Global Hub from 12-1pm. Come learn about the Pitt in Rome program for Summer 2024, applications are open until 1/22!

EU ENLARGEMENT LECTURE SERIES: 20th Anniversary of the EU Enlargement

As part of our continued efforts to bring together experts with diverse perspectives to discuss contemporary issues facing Europe, the European Studies Center/European Union Center of Excellence (ESC/EUCE) along with the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES) offers a new lecture series to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the EU Enlargement. This virtual lecture series will be held on the last Thursday of each month. 

2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the biggest enlargement of the European Union in its history. Ten countries, mainly former socialist Eastern European states, almost doubled the EU from 15 to 25 member states. May 1, 2004, was the triumphal return to the European Family for many. But for some, it initiated a process of disenchantment with the EU and the West.

Each month, the ESC/EUCE, together with REEES at the University of Pittsburgh, will focus our attention on a specific country or a group of countries in the EU by inviting experts and eyewitnesses to discuss the hopes and realities of the EU integration before and after expansion to address what hopes were fulfilled and what new hopes exist for the Union in the present.

Each session is recorded and later posted on the internet with suggested additional readings and further resources. Please check out our webpage for more details and mark the last Thursday of the month to attend this event.

Moderator:
Gregor Thum, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh Department of History

Panelists:
Michal Vašečka, PhD, Bratislava Policy Institute. He is sociologist by background and focuses his interests on issues of ethnicity, race, antisemitism, and migration studies. As an Associate Professor he operates at the Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts (BISLA) since 2015, he is a program director of Bratislava Policy Institute. Since 2012 Michal Vašečka serves as a representative of Slovakia in the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) of the Council of Europe. He operated at the Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University in Brno in 2002-2017 and at the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences of the Comenius University in 2006-2009.

Miloslav Bahna, PhD., Slovak Academy of Science. He is a senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, where he currently serves as the director. His research focuses on international migration, quantitative comparative sociology and quantitative survey methodology. He is a long term representative of Slovakia in the International Social Survey Programme and the CESSDA ERIC pan-European infrastructure. His first book focuses on post-2004 EU enlargement migration from Slovakia (VEDA, the publishing house of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, 2011).

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 :)

Indigenous knowledge of local ecosystems often challenges settler-colonial cosmologies that naturalize resource extraction and the relocation of nomadic, hunting, foraging, or fishing peoples. In this talk, Dr. Visser will present findings from her new book, Questioning Borders (Columbia UP, 2023), which analyzes relations among humans, animals, ecosystems, and the cosmos in ecoliterature by Han and non-Han Indigenous writers of China and Taiwan. She will compare “root-seeking” novels by Beijing writers, set in China’s “exotic” southwest, with literature by Wa, Nuosu Yi, and Gyalrong Tibetan Indigenes from Yunnan and Sichuan provinces to discuss the different implications of utilizing indigenous ecological perspectives in these works.

Robin Visser is professor in modern Chinese and Sinophone literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures in China and Taiwan (Columbia UP, 2023) and Cities Surround the Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China (Duke UP, 2010).

Come practice your conversational Polish at these weekly meetings!

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!

VSA's committee will be serving chè thái, a chilled Vietnamese dessert.