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
UPDATE: Bate-Papo's meeting on January 26 has been postponed due to weather.
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 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 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
Theme: The Pulse of Hope: Power and Praxis · El Pulso de la Esperanza: Poder y Praxis · O Pulso da Esperança: Poder e Práxis
A celebration of how we thrive. How do we keep lifting each other higher? How do we honor our heritage while growing into the future? How do we show up for one another in ways that keep our communities vibrant, connected, and full of life? The answer is already unfolding all around us — in classrooms and cultural centers, in art studios and town halls, in the everyday acts of care, creativity, and connection woven into the fabric of our neighborhoods. LatinxConnect 2026 is where we come together to celebrate, amplify, and learn from all of it.
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
Mangia con noi! Bring your lunch to the Global Hub every Thursday to chat with the Department of French and Italian and practice Italian!
Tavola Italiana will meet every Thursday during Spring semester, from January 15 to April 23, EXCEPT on January 29, February 5, February 12, and March 12.
Hosted by the Department of French and Italian
Join the Center for African Studies on Thursdays to practice conversational Swahili in a social environment.
Join us for our next Critical Research on Africa talk:
"In Situ Marginalization: The Urban Wetland-Livelihood (Dis)assemblage in Coastal Ghana"
by Seth Asare Okyere, Urban Studies Teaching Assistant Professor
Thursday, April 16
1:00 to 2:30 PM
5603 Posvar Hall & Zoom
In this talk, Dr. Okyere examines how wetland management policy plays out in rapidly urbanizing Ghana, where land has become a fiercely contested resource. Drawing on rich fieldwork from the Sakumono wetland site, he explores how regulations are selectively enforced to protect the interests of powerful elites while quietly marginalizing local communities in place. Through the lens of assemblage thinking, the talk reframes urban wetlands as vital spaces of survival, knowledge, and ecological justice. We hope to see you there!
Register for Zoom link: https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/2flyLVwASLGvZjWk33rCMw#/registration
Read more about our Critical Research on Africa talk: https://www.global.pitt.edu/cas/events/critical-research-africa-series
Supported by Pitt School of Education
Pitt students: Join Kya Baat Hai, a Hindi-Urdu conversational club that practices language and celebrates South Asian culture, for weekly conversation hours!
As part of the State of International Legal Order Roundtable Discussion:
An important conversation about the state of multilateralism in international affairs and conflict resolution.
Why does "Never Again" keep failing? On the 75th anniversary of the Genocide Convention and the 20th anniversary of the Responsibility to Protect, this roundtable asks why the world still struggles to stop mass atrocities. From Rwanda and Darfur to Ukraine, Sudan, and Gaza, we invite you to consider why global commitments have repeatedly failed—and what can be done about it.
When the World Must Act: Why Multilateralism Matters in Preventing Genocide is a public panel discussion exploring the evolution, challenges, and future of multilateral cooperation in international affairs and conflict prevention.
Speakers:
Mikhail Minakov, DAAD Guest Professor, European University Viadrina
Jonathan Hafetz, Seton Hall University
Ruth Mostern, University of Pittsburgh
During this semester, 10 University of Pittsburgh undergraduate students served as virtual mentors to 11 students in Myanmar participating in the Stars Do Shine program. Stars Do Shine is a Burmese organization that prepares students to take online high school equivalency exams so they can apply to college.
As part of the mentorship, Pitt and Stars Do Shine students collaboratively produced a documentary that will be showing in the Global Hub on April 17.The documentary examines the collapse of education in Myanmar following the 2021 military coup. Using local interviews, the documentary highlights educational challenges faced by students in four communities: an urban town in Myanmar, a rural area in Myanmar, an active conflict zone, and a refugee community along the Thai border.
The Stars Do Shine students will be joining remotely, and the Pitt mentors will be on hand to answer questions. Pizza and drinks will be served and OCC and Global Distinction credits will be available.
Mikhail Minakov is a political philosopher whose research focuses on political systems, historical consciousness, and democratic transformation in post‑Soviet and global contexts. He is currently a DAAD Guest Professor at the European University Viadrina and Editor‑in‑Chief of Ideology and Politics. From 2017 to 2025, Minakovserved as Senior Advisor and Principal Investigator on Ukraine at the Kennan Institute. His scholarship and policy work examine how international norms, multilateral institutions, and political ideologies shape state behavior during crises. Minakov brings a comparative and philosophical perspective to questions of why global commitments to prevent mass atrocities repeatedly falter in practice.
This mini-course will explore the major forces shaping the global landscape over the next half-century including the role of a rising China, equipping participants with the tools to critically analyze and teach about transformative global trends. Through a multi-disciplinary lens, the weekend course examines how emerging technologies, demographic transitions, shifting economies, and global health and environmental challenges intersect to redefine power, security, and opportunity worldwide. This mini course will not attempt to predict how the future will unfold but will highlight some of the important issues of today that will transform the world on the global, regional, national, and local levels over the next fifty years.
In honor of Swiss Albert Gallatin and his important role in the founding generation of the USA, and the 100th anniversary of the NRIEP, the Swiss Nationality Room Committee and the NRIEP are pleased to present famed biographer Greg May, the leading biographer of Albert Gallatin, Saturday April 18, 2026 at 5pm in CL 332 at 5pm. Emigrating to the US at age 20, Albert Gallatin set up local western Pennsylvania roots near Uniontown, PA with his Friendship Hill estate and became a PA Congressman and Senator, was the first Ways and Means Committee Chairman, and served as Secretary of the Treasury under Jefferson that shepherded the Louisiana Purchase to completion. Gallatin funded the Lewis and Clark expedition and the National Road, serving under multiple presidents. He helped end the War of 1812 on the negotiation team and was ambassador to both France and England. Later in life, Gallatin founded the First National Bank of New York and NYU and became the leading ethnologist of the Native-American tribes.
With the topic of our growing national debt taking renewed interest in the current political climate, it is worthwhile to examine Gallatin's urgent message to run the new national government with frugality-not incurring huge debt, as his rival Alexander Hamilton wished. Greg May's talk will focus on this philosophical and financial debate of those times and will include many anecdotes of other aspects of this 'Swiss Founding Father's' life.
Greg May will be available to sell and sign his Gallatin book at the reception to follow in the Croghan-Schenley Room at 6pm. Gallatin re-enactor Ron Duquette will also be present in attendance at the event!
The Swiss Nationality Room Committee and the NRIEP feel this presentation will appeal greatly to: history profs and students, business and finance profs and students, French and German language majors, and all who have a sincere interest in the Founding Generation and unfolding of the American experiment between 1790 and 1840.
Speaker bio:
Gregory May is a historian who writes about the early American republic. He graduated from the College of William and Mary and the Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
After serving as a law clerk for Justice Lewis Powell on the United States Supreme Court, he practiced law in Washington, DC, and New York for over thirty years.
He is the author of Jefferson’s Treasure: How Albert Gallatin Saved the New Nation from Debt and A Madman’s Will: John Randolph, Four Hundred Slaves, and the Mirage of Freedom. He is now completing a book about the legacy of slavery that George Washington left to his heirs.
