Past Events

Friday, February 21

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

1:00pm
Global Hub

Thursday, February 20

Objects and Values of Labor in Socialist Hungary

Income inequality and what to do about it is a hot button political issue throughout our world. Much this disparity is the result of how the value of labor is calculated.

2:00pm to 3:30pm
4130 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

Women, War & Peace in Northeast India : Indigenous Women of Manipur's Extraordinary Non-Violent Resistance Efforts

Manipur & Northeast India is a region of immense geo-strategic importance that shares borders with five countries namely Myanmar, Bangladesh, China, Nepal and Bhutan.

12:00pm
4130 Posvar Hall

Thursday, February 20 to Friday, February 21

Washington DC Career Networking Trip

Together the African Studies, Global Studies, and Russian/East European Studies Centers are organizing a career networking trip to Washington D.C. on February 20-21, 2020.

(All day)
Washington, DC

Wednesday, February 19

Monday, February 17

Mapping Loss in the Anthropocene Workshop on Countermapping

Guided by the 3Cs Counter-Cartography Collective , participants will “drift” through Pitt Library collections of maps and photographs, Carnegie Natural History Museum artifacts and the edge of Sche

3:00pm to 7:00pm
4130 Posvar Hall

Friday, February 14

Language Coffeehouse

Take a break from studying to order and enjoy kaffe and kanelbullar in Swedish, chai and chakli in Hindi, or gazoz and kuru pasta in Turkish!

11:00am to 1:00pm
Assembly Room, William Pitt Union

Wednesday, February 12

Coronavirus Teach In

The Coronavirus teach-in (full details: here) will offer an interdisciplinary take on the outbreak of the Coronavirus.

5:30pm to 7:00pm
120 David Lawrence Hall

Women's Migrations in the Ancient Greek Mediterranean

This talk presents preliminary data from a new research project that attempts to track women's movements throughout the ancient Mediterranean between 600 BCE and 400 CE.

4:30pm
4130 Posvar Hall

Structurally Adjusting Socialism

Socialism is often discussed as a singular, proper noun devoid of ideological, regional, political, or economic difference.

4:00pm to 5:00pm
Alcoa Room, 209 Barco Law Building