Past Events | Global Studies Center

Monday, March 25

International Day of Remembrance of Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Meditations on Historical Truth-Telling

For over 400 years, more than 15 million men, women and children were the victims of the tragic transatlantic slave trade, one of the darkest chapters in human history.

12:00pm to 1:00pm
330 (African Heritage Room) Cathedral of Learning

Sunday, March 24

FACES OF WO/MEN Film Screening: What is Democracy?

Coming at a moment of profound political and social crisis, WHAT IS DEMOCRACY? reflects on a word we often take for granted.

4:00pm to 6:00pm
City of Asylum

FACES OF WO/MEN Film Screening: Rafiki

The first Kenyan film to screen at Cannes & banned in its home country, RAFIKI bursts onto the screen with fresh energy.

3:00pm to 5:00pm
McConomy Auditorium, CMU

Saturday, March 23

FACES OF WO/MEN Film Screening: Another Day of Life

Based on renowned reporter Ryszard Kapuściński's book of the same name, ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE tells the gripping story of Kapuściński's three-month trip to civil war torn Angola in 1975.

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

FACES OF WO/MEN Film Screening: Sofia

In this caustic look at contemporary Moroccan society—where premarital sex and giving birth out of wedlock remains a crime—20-year-old Sofia suffers from pregnancy denial.

5:00pm to 7:00pm
McConomy Auditorium, CMU

2019 Islamic Studies Research Symposium: Identity, Culture and Contact Across the Islamic World

Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to present their research or a project (visual or literary arts) related to the broad conference theme.

(All day)
Slippery Rock University

Friday, March 22

FACES OF WO/MEN Film Screening: My Friend the Polish Girl

MY FRIEND THE POLISH GIRL borrows from cinema verite and video bloggers to create a rare naturalism in style and performance.

6:00pm to 9:00pm
McConomy Auditorium, CMU

Maroon Queen, Mother of the Nation, & ‘Science Woman’: Using the Physical, Social and Metaphysical Sciences to Interrogate the History of Queen Nanny of the Jamaican Maroons

Dr. Harcourt Fuller is an Associate Professor at Georgia State University.

2:00pm to 4:00pm
4130 Posvar Hall

Friday, March 22 to Sunday, March 24

Transforming Cities: Global Cities Mini Course

Due to economic development and globalization, cities continue to grow with predictions that 70% of the world’s population will live in urban areas by the year 2050.

5:00pm to 12:00pm
100 Porter Hall, Carnegie Mellon University

Friday, March 22 to Saturday, March 23

De-exceptionalizing Displacement?

With increasing forms of precarity across the globe, there is a need to call attention to sites of struggle that bridge assumed divisions between ”migrants,” “refugees,” and “citizens.” These inclu