Past Events

Defending and Advancing Equity & Rights in the COVID-19 Economy

As those furthest behind economically find themselves on the front lines, we need policies that put needs of people furthest behind first to ensure health and well-being for all of us.

Postponed: Human Trafficking Workshop

The Global Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh and Liberty Shared will convene an interdisciplinary workshop on Human Trafficking on April 30 - May1, 2020 on the University of Pittsburgh

Online Session: Shipwrecks by Akira Yoshimura

CANCELED: Social Hour with Global Studies Ambassadors

The Global Studies Center looks forward to beginning a monthly, informal social hour - hosted by Global Studies Ambassadors and fellow GSC students Mark, Sarah and Destiny - as a way to get to know

Online Session: Everyday Maoism in Revolutionary China

Communist revolution in the 20th century was reliant on a profound change in individual consciousness.

Online Sessions: ARTSC 1000 - UCIS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Designed for juniors, seniors, and graduate students to establish a career direction
and formulate a strategy for securing a full-time position in today's competitive

Online Session: Socialism for Realists

Forty years ago, Margaret Thatcher declared that “there is no alternative.” State socialism was dying and capitalism, restructured as neoliberalism, was ascendant.

CANCELED: Mapping Loss in the Anthropocene Workshop on Maps as Art

Artists will demonstrate how to use found and recycled materials to make speculative and renderings of landscapes that are spatially aware while also being aesthetically pleasing and imaginative.

CANCELED: CERIS Research Symposium -- Muslims in the Global: Past and Present

Papers are welcome from students - both undergraduate and graduate – from all disciplines on topics including (but not limited to) politics, culture, society, policy, religion, and their impact on

Postponed: The Communist Horizon

There has been a resurgence of the Left since the 2008 Great Recession. A class-based politics, dormant for so long, has finally returned to mainstream political discourse. But what is this Left?