Past Events | Global Studies Center

Tuesday, October 15

Conversations on 1619 Series: Why 1619?

In 1619, a ship carrying 20-some enslaved Africans arrived in British North America.

6:00pm to 7:00pm
Global Hub

JMEUCE Lecture: Imagining Utopia, 1870s-1920s The Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins

As part of our Year of Memory and Politics and 1989 Series, the ESC, in cooperation with REEES, is pleased to welcome Maria Todorova as a Jean Monnet Center of Excellence speaker.

12:30pm to 2:00pm
4130 Posvar Hall

Thursday, October 10

Las Madres de Berks

Join us for a screening and talkback of "Las Madres de Berks," a short documentary created by public artist Michelle Angela Ortiz.

6:00pm to 8:00pm
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

Ibram X. Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist - Four Evenings -- Global Literary Encounters

In conjunction with the Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures program's "Ten Evenings" series, Global Studies Center is hosting "Four Evenings" pre-lecture discussions that put prominent world authors and

6:00pm to 7:00pm
Latin American Lecture Room, Hillman Library

Everyday Radioactive Life in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan

From 1949 to 1989, the Soviet Union conducted 456 nuclear tests at Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in Kazakhstan.

4:00pm
4130 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

Tuesday, October 8

LIVESTREAM: Conversations on Europe: Germany since 1989: Do Differences Persist after Reunification

1:30pm
Pitt Global Hub

Conversations on Europe: Germany since 1989: Do Differences Persist after Reunification

In cooperation with the Department of German’s German Campus Weeks programming, and as a part of the University Center for International Studies Global 1989 Series, this month’s Conversation will d

1:30pm to 3:00pm
211 David Lawrence

Thursday, October 3

Global Issues Through Literature: The Village by the Sea

This reading group for educators explores literary texts from a global perspective.

4:30pm to 7:00pm
4130 Posvar Hall

Wednesday, October 2

1989 Series: Goodbye Lenin Film Screening & Roundtable Discussion

Join us for a screening (with English subtitles)and discussion led by film expert Stephen Brockmann (Carnegie Mellon University). Goodbye, Lenin! (2003) was directed by Wolfgang Becker.

6:00pm to 9:00pm
Alumni Hall, Room 323

Tuesday, October 1

New Global Classics

This lecture is the first in a yearlong series that puts Classics and Global Studies into dialogue.

4:00pm to 5:00pm
4130 Posvar Hall