Past Events | Global Studies Center

Sunday, March 31

FACES OF WO/MEN Film Screening: Fugue

Alicja has no memory and no knowledge about how she lost it. In two years, she manages to build a new, independent self, away from home. She doesn't want to remember the past.

2:00pm to 4:00pm
McConomy Auditorium, CMU

Saturday, March 30

FACES OF WO/MEN Film Screening: Blindspotting

BLINDSPOTTING is a landmark film that blends poetry, rap, buddy comedy, and social commentary to depict life in the increasingly “hip” Oakland.

7:00pm to 9:00pm
McConomy Auditorium, CMU

FACES OF WO/MEN Film Screening: Liyana

Under the guidance of acclaimed South African storyteller, Gcina Mhlophe, a group of orphaned children in the Kingdom of Swaziland confront past trauma through the collaborative creation of their o

2:00pm to 4:00pm
Rangos Giant Cinema, Carnegie Science Center

Friday, March 29

FACES OF WO/MEN Film Screening: Dogman

Based on a true crime story that fascinated Italy in the 1980s, DOGMAN follows Marcello, a small and gentle dog groomer.

7:00pm to 9:00pm
Regent Square Theater

Keynote Speaker: Soyuz Symposium

Keynote Address by Manduhai Buyandelger, Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT, Author of Tragic Spirits: Shamanism, Gender and Memory in Contemporary Mongolia, "Self-Polishing and Electoral S

5:00pm to 6:30pm
5317 Sennot Square

BPHIL/IAS Global Studies Defense: Rural-Urban Gendered Migration Pathways and Desires under Neoliberalism Socioeconomic Reform in Contemporary China

SiLang Huang (senior, Politics and Philosophy, BPHIL/IAS Global Studies) will defend her thesis on changes that have taken place under China's neoliberal reform since the 1980s with regard to migra

3:00pm to 5:00pm
4217 Posvar

Upwardly Mobile Women in Urban China

China's economic growth and urbanization have created new opportunities and roles for women, such as through education, migration, and employment.

12:00pm to 1:30pm
2432 Posvar Hall

Friday, March 29 to Saturday, March 30

Symposium | Soyuz Research Network for Postsocialist Cultural Studies

The Soyuz Research Network for Postsocialist Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary forum for exchanging work based on field research in postsocialist countries, including Eastern Europe and the

(All day)
Varies

Thursday, March 28

FACES OF WO/MEN Film Screening: Working Woman

Orna is the mother of three young children with a husband struggling to start his own restaurant.

7:00pm to 9:00pm
McConomy Auditorium, CMU

Four Evenings: Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
March 28 | 6-7pm | Hillman Library 171B

6:00pm to 7:00pm
Hillman Library 171B (Latin American Lecture Room)