Join us for our weekly Global Distinction Drop-In Hours on Tuesdays from 3-4 pm in the Global Hub! Come learn how to gain experience that will help prepare you for a globally-connected job market, get the Global Distinction added to your academic transcript, receive special recognition at graduation, and stand out to prospective employers.
Join Brazil Nuts in the Global Hub for weekly Bate-Papo Conversation Hours to meet other students and to practice Portuguese of all levels!
Bate-Papo Conversation Hours are every Monday during Spring semester, starting January 26 and ending April 20.
Hosted by Brazil Nuts
Join the German Club for weekly meetings on Mondays in the Global Hub to practice German and share about German culture!
Hosted by the German Club
Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6-7 pm during Spring semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
Hosted by the French Club
This marks the beginning of our 2026 EU Film Festival. This year's theme: "Democracy, Community and (Space) Aliens!"
Spain
2024
Director: Dir. Albert Solé
Documentary, 54 MIN
A rare, behind-the-scenes look at how the EU navigates an increasingly chaotic geopolitical landscape. This documentary follows Josep Borrell through real-time diplomatic crises, revealing how global policy actually gets made.
A discussion after the documentary.
Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6-7 pm during Spring semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
Hosted by the French Club
Join the Arabic Club in the Global Hub every other Wednesday during Spring semester, starting January 28, to practice Arabic language, structured by varying geographic dialects and level of speaker proficiency!
Hosted by the Arabic Club
Join us for a conversation with Pitt students who have participated in diverse experiential learning opportunities. Hear what inspired them, how these experiences helped internationalize their degrees, and the impact on their personal, academic, and professional growth. Facilitated by Dr. Abdesalam Soudi, this session will include audience engagement to share experiences and explore ways to get involved. Students, faculty, and administrators alike are invited to contribute to this dialogue on enriching experiential global learning.
Pitt undergraduate students can earn Global Distinction credit for attending.
A light lunch will be served. Attendees are encouraged to bring a refillable water bottle.
Co-Sponsors:
- University Center for International Studies
- Pitt Global Hub
- Pitt Global Studies Center
- Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation
- Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences
Part of the Socialist Studies Seminar series
During the Socialist Education campaign and Cultural Revolution, Communist Party in Xinjiang broke the previous promise of “No Struggle, No Division, No Classification of Classes” made to the pastoral regions in the early 1950s. Mao’s anti-capitalism, anti-Soviet revisionism, and Learn from Dazhai movement in combination led to a rapid pace of landscape transformation through constructing infrastructures such as water conservation, permanent stalls, and artificial grassland forage bases. Based on oral history interviews with the individuals and Party historical materials, Guldana Salimjan examines how land and labor transformation led to a second dismantlement of the Kazakh political structures and an emergence of grassland degradation on the steppe.
The Socialist Studies Seminar is co-sponsored by the Carnegie Mellon University Department of History and the University of Pittsburgh Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. For further information, contact Wendy Goldman (goldman@andrew.cmu.edu) or Alissa Klots (alissaklots@pitt.edu).
2026 EU Film Festival: Democracy, Community and (Space) Aliens!
Czech Republic
2024
Director: Rudolf Havlik
Sci-Fi, 109 MIN
Strange happenings in a quiet Moravian village spark an offbeat alien mystery no one is prepared for. Campy, charming, and deeply European, this sci-fi romp asks what happens when your weirdest neighbor might actually be from space. Come to our feature screening for your space alien swag!
This talk examines how Islamic lifeworlds are governed, reshaped, and sustained on the Sino–Kazakh borderland. Drawing on ethnography, Kazakh oral histories, Han settler literature, and state gazetteers, I show that state governance in its western borderland has relied on settlement, enclosure, and racialized control across ideologically distinct eras. I also trace how Kazakh religiosity—lived through embodied rituals, ancestral relations, and active remembering of sacred landscapes—shifts and persists despite secular developmental regimes. By foregrounding these contested memory politics over land and belonging, this talk extends the critical scholarship on religious governance in China to global histories of settler colonialism, secular power, and cosmological dispossession.
Guldana Salimjan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies and the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. She is an interdisciplinary scholar of East and Inner Asia who uses historical and anthropological method to study the intersection of borderland, religion, memory, gender, and environment.
2026 EU Film Festival: Democracy, Community and [Space] Aliens!
France
2024
Director: Julie Delpy
Comedy/Drama, 101 MIN
When a French village accidentally welcomes the “wrong” refugee family, their assumptions get turned upside down. Julie Delpy’s warm, funny dramedy asks who the real barbarians are when fear meets humanity.
*Free Admission with University and College ID
*Free to Pitt ID for Faculty and Staff
2026 EU Film Festival: Democracy, Community and (Space) Aliens!
Latvia
2024
Director: Dāvis Sīmanis
Historical Drama, 104 MIN
A Latvian actress enters Stalin’s USSR seeking her grandchild and finds herself trapped inside a machinery of terror. This gripping historical drama exposes the everyday innocence shattered by ideology and violence.
2026 European Film Festival (EUFF): Democracy, Community and (Space) Aliens!
Poland
2025
Director: Bartek Paduch
Drama, 97 MIN
A Polish cop uncovers a disturbing case that pulls him into a web of secrets uncomfortably close to home. Tense and tightly wound, it’s a European thriller with emotional stakes that hit universally.
Free Admission with University and College ID
Free to Pitt ID for Faculty and Staff
