Dr. Urbansky discusses the challenges faced by Chinese immigrants during the late Tsarist Empire and early Soviet Union, highlighting the racial and cultural prejudices that fueled hostilities in urban settings. His analysis explores how these early interactions shaped the experiences and perceptions of Chinese communities in a rapidly changing socio-political landscape.
Join us for a lunch and learn event with Nina Sajić.
Dr. Sajić served as the ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to France, UNESCO, Algeria, Monaco, Andorra, and Romania. She was also a foreign policy advisor in the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. She will be at Pitt to discuss her diplomatic experiences with students and the wider community.
Light lunch will be provided.
We love to hate Shakespeare's Richard III, but what do we know about this most infamous of English kings? Did he have a hunched back? Was he a tyrant and a murderer? In a presentation featuring Britsburgh member Andy Kirtland and Felicia Perez of the Youth Shakespeare Society of Pittsburgh, we will compare what we know of Shakespeare's character and the historical King that inspired him. Discover some facts, and fictions, ahead of the Youth Shakespeare of Pittsburgh's upcoming production of Richard III. We will be joined by Izabella Wolfe the plays director to let us know what you can expect at the show. Come and make friends, or enemies, with Richard.
Meet us in the English Nationality Room in the Cathedral of Learning at 3pm on Sunday 09 March for the talk (and across the street for a pint after). The event is free, but space is limited. Please register at www.britsburgh.com.
Join us for an upcoming lecture with special guest Dr. Trevor Getz!
Dr. Trevor Getz is a Professor of African and World History at San Francisco State University. He is a historian of 19th century Ghana and its connections to the wider anglophone world. His main areas of focus are social history at the intersection of slavery and marriage and the cultural history of the West African bourgeoisie.
Tina S. Clemente is Professor at the Asian Center, University of the Philippines (UP), Diliman. She earned her Ph.D. at the School of Economics at the same university. Her research interests include China Studies, Philippines–China economic relations, economic history, and development.
The state of China/Chinese Studies as a field in the Philippines and the corresponding expertise landscape have increasingly generated interest especially owing to Philippine relations with China. In the Philippines, studies on China and the Chinese do not necessarily adhere to strict academic demarcations such as those associated with Sinology, Area Studies, and Chinese Overseas Studies in accordance with civilizational, state, and ethnic interrogations. My discussion begins with the historical interest in the Chinese and proceeds to an exposition on the domains of scholarship, which consists of discussions on academic programs and types of research.
Join us for an upcoming lecture with special guest Dr. Trevor Getz!
Dr. Trevor Getz is a Professor of African and World History at San Francisco State University. He is a historian of 19th century Ghana and its connections to the wider anglophone world. His main areas of focus are social history at the intersection of slavery and marriage and the cultural history of the West African bourgeoisie.
Stop by the Global Hub to learn more about financial wellness!
Are you an international student at Pitt looking to connect, or interested in connecting with international students? Stop by the Nook in the Global Hub on Tuesdays, between 2 and 4 pm during Spring semester, to chat with OIS Outreach Coordinator Zharia White from the Office of International Services!
Attention: Undergraduate students! 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!
This event will in theme with International Women's day. We will be inviting speakers specifically in International Development sector to give career advice.
Sike, Deborah Nwachinemere is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Meeting for Women in International Careers
Time: Mar 14, 2025 04:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://pitt.zoom.us/j/96432914892
Meeting ID: 964 3291 4892
In the 1990s, two joint studies by Japanese and U.S. researchers were published: Total War and “Modernization” and Deconstructing Nationality. The continuity between the prewar and postwar periods and the constructability of the concept of nation, as these two studies argue, is already becoming common knowledge. However, the specific constructiveness of the concept of nation in wartime Japan has not been fully explored.
In fact, the wartime period was one of the most inundated periods in the history of Japanese society with the concept of “nation/kokumin,” from “national culture(Kokumin-Bunka),” “national literature(Kokumin-Bungaku),” and “national schools(Kokumin-Gakko)” to “national uniform (Kokumin-Fuku),” “national diet(Kokumin-Shoku),” and “national housing(Kokumin-Jutaku).” What is the meaning of the concept of “nation/kokumin” that appeared so frequently during this period? Does it have any special characteristics that differ from the concept of “nation/kokumin” in other periods?
In this presentation, first, we focus on things related to people's lives, such as national uniform, national diet, and national housing. Second, we will focus on surveys related to people's lives, such as the Survey of Living Expenses and the Survey of the National Physical Fitness. What is unique to the “nation/national” in wartime Japan is neither imagined objects, representations, nor citizenship. It has most to do with mass production technology and standardization. The nation was above all a set of bodies to be quantified, standardized, and governed. The principles of mass production technology were applied to people's lives and their lives were reorganized. And as “citizens,” wartime people were excessively expected to govern their own lives with reference to a certain standard.
On March 11, join us for Irish Heritage Night when we host the Vegas Golden Knights! Featuring a concourse display courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh Nationality Rooms & Intercultural Exchange Programs, be here when we honor the incredible impact of our city’s Irish community and celebrate their rich culture and history.
In celebration of your heritage, lock in special pricing now. Plus, the first 200 community members that purchase tickets through this offer will receive an exclusive Penguins-branded Irish Heritage Hockey Shirt!
To purchase groups of 10 or more tickets or to request additional information, please contact Ryan Clark at (412) 255-1957.
Penguins vs. Golden Knights
Mar 11, 2025 7:00 PM EDT
PPG Paints Arena
1001 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, US
Purchase Deadline: Mar 11, 2025 5:00 PM EDT
Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays during Spring semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
The French Club will meet twice weekly, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, during Spring 2025, EXCEPT on January 22, February 5, March 4, and March 5.
Tina S. Clemente is Professor at the Asian Center, University of the Philippines (UP), Diliman. She earned her Ph.D. at the School of Economics at the same university. Her research interests include China Studies, Philippines–China economic relations, economic history, and development. Dr. Clemente is a former president of the Philippine Association for Chinese Studies and the first editor-in-chief of the Chinese Studies Journal. In 2022, Dr. Clemente received the Gawad Tsanselor Sa Natatanging Guro, the most prestigious award for UP Diliman faculty that recognizes excellence in teaching, research, and service.
Notwithstanding different calibrations in dealing with China—scoring a legal victory through the arbitral ruling, cooperating while shelving maritime claims, or posing resistance while engaging more vigorously in building alliances—the main critique on the Philippine security perspective is that it has wide room for improving strategic calculation. The perennial but unresolved question is how the Philippines can navigate its responses to China’s coercive levers. We examine strategies and implications of resilience vis-à-vis vulnerability in considering the options of an economically and militarily weaker country in dispute. We first contextualize the bilateral relations in recent years and the turn of the academic discourse then frame the notion of resilience in a game-theoretic context. We then demonstrate how pay-offs and actions in a multistage bilateral interaction are contingent on sanction-sender types, sanction-receiver’s resilience, and the players’ strategic reckoning of each other. Finally, we analyze the interaction space and particularize the scenario of a resilient Philippines.
Join your classmates for Slovak conversation practice in a fun, relaxed environment!
Join us for an upcoming lecture with special guest Dr. Jaimie Bleck!
Dr. Jaimie Bleck is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. She specializes in African politics with a focus on democratization, civil society, participation, and citizenship. Her research has been funded by grants from the Spencer Foundation, National Science Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, and USAID-DRG.
Noriko Unno, PhD, is an assistant professor at Osaka University. This talk traces the history of cultural interactions between Japan and the Hui people (Sinophone Muslims), an ethnic minority group in the People's Republic of China said to be descended from foreign Muslims who migrated to China from today’s Middle East, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia from the seventh to fourteenth century. It reviews the influence of Islam in China on Japanese intellectuals during the Edo period, political and cultural activities of Hui youths studying in Meiji Japan, the Hui people’s responses to Japanese imperialism in the first half of the twentieth century, one contemporary Hui writer’s perception of Japan, and the rising popularity of halal Chinese cuisine in Japan. This overview offers a new perspective on the history of relations between East Asia and Islam by considering the mutual influences on Japan and Muslims in China, as well as Japanese understandings of Chinese and Islamic culture.
“Fugitive Decisions, Free Soil, and Antillean Geopolitics in the 1820s and 1830s”
A symposium based on a pre-circulated chapter draft by Prof. Gunvor Simonsen (Copenhagen University).
Initial comments, Professor Sue Peabody (Washington State University)
To receive the draft chapter, please reach out to Pernille Røge (per20@pitt.edu).
Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
History Department Lounge (3702 Posvar Hall).
Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies and the Early Modern Worlds Initiative
Join us on Wednesdays in the Global Hub for casual Portuguese conversation!
Bate-Papo meet on Wednesdays, during Spring 2025, starting February 12 and ending April 16, EXCEPT on March 5.
Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays during Spring semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
The French Club will meet twice weekly, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, during Spring 2025, EXCEPT on January 22, February 5, March 4, and March 5.
Join the German Club on Wednesdays during Spring semester for conversational meetings and to practice German speaking and listening skills.
The German Club will meet on Wednesdays during Spring 2025, EXCEPT on January 22, February 5, and March 5.
Our annual Model African Union simulation for local high schools. This year it's bigger than ever!
Sign up to volunteer here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeQXgpaVH59cRr7zdSzNEAUeUdvUFX_...
Swahili Level 4 students: Join Swahili instructor Faraja Ngogo on Thursdays at 11 am-12 pm in the Global Hub to practice Swahili.
Join us for an upcoming lecture with special guest Dr. Jaimie Bleck!
Dr. Jaimie Bleck is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. She specializes in African politics with a focus on democratization, civil society, participation, and citizenship. Her research has been funded by grants from the Spencer Foundation, National Science Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, and USAID-DRG.
Mangia con noi! Bring your lunch and chat with us! Pitt students only, all levels welcome!
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently predicted that global average temperatures will rise 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in the mid-2030s. Over the last decades, a global network of scholars, policy makers, activists, and others have organized to offer ways to mitigate and even reverse the effects of climate change. What offramps can these solutions and movements offer our collective humanity?
“Eurasian Environments” seeks to provide some reflections to mark the UN’s 2024 Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan. This series will examine social justice and sustainability efforts to address climate change by putting scholars of Eurasia in conversation with their peers specializing on Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The series will comprise six events that will illuminate the challenges and possible solutions to climate change in Eurasia in regional and global contexts.
This event is part of the Eurasian Environments: Climate Justice and Sustainability in Global Context series.
Swedish Speaking Club is a space for practicing Swedish and deepening cultural understanding alongside others who are learning.
As part of the Unmasking Prejudice: Confronting Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Racism Across Europe
Spring Lecture Series:
For about 25 years, a minority security dilemma has been crystalizing in Germany. With increasing Muslim immigration, the state has gradually instituted measures to acculturate this small but growing minority to the official memory culture centered on the Holocaust. It does so in part out a concern with Jewish safety, which is increasingly centered on sensitivities about German support of Israel rather than antisemitic crimes, nearly all of which are committed by Christian Germans. To make Jewish people feel safer, Muslim migrants are made to feel less safe. Conversely, Muslim security is experienced as endangering Jews. Therein lies the dilemma. This development hardened dramatically after October 7. How and why the trilateral relationship between the German state and its two non-Christian minorities issued in a dilemma
rather than reconciliation is the subject of this paper.
About the Speaker:
A. Dirk Moses is the Spitzer Professor of International Relations at the City College of New York. He is author and editor of publications on German history and in Genocide Studies, including Nachdem Genozid: Grundlage für eine neue Erinnerungskultur (2023). His public writings on Germany, Gaza, and Ukraine have appeared in the Geschichte der Gegenwart, the Boston Review, Noema Magazine and Lawfare. He edits the Journal of Genocide Research.
Join the Persian Club for Nowruz Festivities in the Global Hub.
Join undergraduate Pitt students for a conversation hour to practice speaking in Hindi and Urdu and connect over shared cultural experiences.
Kya Baat Hai will meet weekly, on Fridays, during the 2024-2025 academic year, EXCEPT on March 7.
Swahili Level 2 students: Join Swahili instructor Faraja Ngogo on Fridays at 4-5 pm in the Global Hub to practice Swahili.
Join Addverse, a transcultural, multilingual, and intergenerational poetry organization, for weekly meetings in the Global Hub.
Addverse will meet weekly, on Fridays, during Spring 2025, EXCEPT on January 24 and March 7.
This annual national competition provides US school and college students the opportunity to demonstrate their Russian language knowledge while meeting with other students of Russian and conversing with native Russian speakers. Students will receive recognition for their demonstrated language proficiency, improve their chances of getting international and study abroad scholarships, and enhance their professional resume.
Event date: Saturday, March 15, 2025
Location: 1500, 1501, 1502 Posvar Hall and Zoom
Registration Deadline: January 25, 2025
For more information and to register, please visit: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/creees/events/olympiada
Join the Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs and the Hungarian Room Committee, along with the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, the European Studies Center, and the Hungarian Program of Less Commonly Taught Languages in the Department of Linguistics to commemorate the 1848 Hungarian Revolution.
Daniel Mikecz, PhD, Fulbright Visiting Professor, at the University of Pittsburgh will talk about the importance of the 1848 revolution in Hungary’s history and the influence of the revolutionary leader, Lajos Kossuth's trip in the United States and the Hungarian '48-ers who joined the Union forces in the Civil War in the United States. A reading of the the Nemzeti dal or "National Song", the patriotic poem written by Sándor Petőfi, will also be shared.
A reception will be held following the program portion in the Frick Fine Arts Building Cloister.
The event is free and open to the public.
