Events
Symposium: European and Eurasian Undergraduate Research Symposium 2025
- (All day)
- Posvar Hall
The European and Eurasian Undergraduate Research Symposium is an annual event since 2002 designed to provide undergraduate students, from the University of Pittsburgh and other colleges and universities, with advanced research experiences and opportunities to develop presentation skills. The event is open to undergraduates from all majors and institutions who have written a research paper from a social science, humanities, or business perspective focusing on the study of Eastern, Western, or Central Europe, the European Union, Russia, or Central Eurasia.
After the initial submission of papers, selected participants are grouped into panels according to their research topics. The participants then give 10- to 15-minute presentations based on their research to a panel of faculty and graduate students. The presentations are open to the public.
SYMPOSIUM: Friday, March 28, 2025
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Friday, January 10, 2025
https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/creees/urs
QUESTIONS? Contact Zita Tóth-Shawgo
SPONSORS
Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Consortium for Educational Resources on Islamic Studies
European Studies Center
University Center for International Studies
Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Lecture: Keynote Address: Russian Orthodox Sacred Objects in Central Asia: A Legacy of Imperialism?
- Daniel Scarborough
- 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm
- 5601 Posvar Hall
Orthodox Christianity first came to Central Asia along with the Russian conquest in the 19th century. Along with Slavic settlers came Orthodox sacred objects, such as miraculous icons and the relics of saints. Churches, monasteries, and parish communities were build around these objects. During the colonisation process, control over Orthodox sacred objects was contested by the imperial regime, settler communities, and the native population. These objects ultimately became targets of violent conflict during the anti-colonial uprising of 1916, and the revolutionary violence and terror of the following decade. The physical survival of the Orthodoxy in Central Asia was possible due to the collaborative efforts of both settlers and natives, despite the efforts of the colonial regime to utilise the Church for the consolidation of Russian rule. The Orthodox objects and spaces that dot the landscape today comprise part of Central Asia's shared cultural heritage.
Lecture: Telling the Multiple Histories of Taiwan
- 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
- Hill Library Archives & Special Collections Instruction Room, 3rd Floor
Information Session/Presentation: Risk Assessment Strategies for Studying Abroad: Practical Advice for Trans, Queer, and 2SLGBTQIA+ Students - Part 2
- 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
- 802 William Pitt Union
Are you in the Trans, Queer, or 2SLGBTQIA+ community and want to travel abroad? Are you a student, faculty, or staff member in these communities who has traveled abroad previously? Join us for our second discussion on traveling abroad and risk assessment, where we will discuss how the University conducts risk-assessment on behalf of students and share ways we navigate safety as individuals.
Refreshments provided!
Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScdu9undw8VABt0SfeHRDcFxDJNJwQw...
Information Session/Presentation: Risk Assessment Strategies for Studying Abroad: Practical Advice for Trans, Queer, and 2SLGBTQIA+ Students - Part 2
- 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
- 802 William Pitt Union
Are you in the Trans, Queer, or 2SLGBTQIA+ community and want to travel abroad? Are you a student, faculty, or staff member in these communities who has traveled abroad previously? Join us for our second discussion on traveling abroad and risk assessment, where we will discuss how the University conducts risk-assessment on behalf of students and share ways we navigate safety as individuals.
Refreshments provided!
Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScdu9undw8VABt0SfeHRDcFxDJNJwQw...
Lecture: Experiments in Clean Living? Group Houses as Radical Activism in 1970s West Germany
- Belinda Davis, Rutgers University
- 4:15 pm to 5:30 pm
- Wesley Posvar, Room 5601
Please note a change of time:
Keynote Speaker for the Undergraduate Research Symposium:
The Discussion will explore one of the means by which primarily young people in West Germany attempted to “revolutionize” everyday life and beyond, through new, explicitly political forms of cohabitation designated Wohngemeinschaften (WGs). WGs served as critical hubs of more conventional popular politics of the era, but also housed intense experiments in remaking the self and relations with others, transcending the nuclear family and the centrality of the couples relationship, and working through ideas and convictions across populations often conceived as incompatible. Part of broader efforts to remake German society from the bottom up, these experiments mark one site of successful youth efforts to transform the world around them.
About the Speaker:
Belinda Davis is a professor of history at Rutgers University and director of the Rutgers Center for European Studies. She is author or co-editor of five books, including the coedited Social Movements After ’68: Selves and Solidarities in West Germany and Beyond (2022); The Internal Life of Politics: Extraparliamentary Opposition in West Germany, 1962-1983 (forthcoming with Cambridge). She is currently completing work on Voices of the Organized Poor: Learning from the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign’s Everyday Struggles for Survival and Alternative Futures; and working on an environmental history of modern Europe for Cambridge University Press. She is a member of the Rutgers team participating in the Jean Monnet-funded ValEUs grant, of which the University of Pittsburgh is also a consortium member.
Deadline: LatinxConnect Conference Proposals
- 4:30 pm
There is no cost to attend the conference, and all are welcome to participate and submit proposals. We welcome all members of the global community to submit proposals for the 2025 Latinx Connect conference. Proposals are accepted for: workshops, panels/panel discussions, lightning round talks, and virtual poster presentations. The deadline to submit a proposal is extended to March 28, 2025.
About the Conference:
The Latinx Connect Conference aims to move us beyond “celebrating” Latinxs, calling for empowerment and justice for Latinx communities, who face numerous inequities in the US and across the world, particularly for those at marginalized intersections of Latinx identity (e.g., Afro, Indigenous, Queer, Trans*, Undocumented).
The theme of the conference this year is: ¡Com(o)unidad! (Com)unidade, (Comm)unity: State of the People. The Latinx Connect conference will bring together students, educators, community leaders, and political advocates to dialogue about Latinidad and envision ways to empower and support thriving futures, both near and distant, for diverse Latinx communities at local, national, and global levels.
Workshop: The Palaver: Leveraging AI in Academia
- 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
- 4165 Posvar Hall
They say AI may not replace you, but it will replace those who do not know how to use it. Come learn how to best use AI in academia without compromising academic integrity!
Dinner will be served.
RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSes7FPRTkOD27mNWr-wtu0VzR6ASWfp...
Student Club Activity: AddVerse
- Guilherme Meletti Yazbek
- 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
- Global Hub
Performance: Women's Bandura Ensemble of North America
- Various
- 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
- Bellefield Hall
Deadline: Political Science / Global Studies Artist-in-Residence
- (All day)
Undergraduate students pursuing degrees (majors, minors, certificates) in Studio Arts, Political Science, and/or Global Studies are invited to apply for this artist-in-residence experiential learning program. Two artists-in-residence will be selected to create unique artworks for exhibition in the Political Science Department and the Global Studies Center. Material funding (up to $800) will be available, and selected artists will receive a $500 award upon project completion. The theme is "Global Appalachia," which captures the interplay among the deeply rooted socio-political processes, practices, and traditions of the Appalachian region and its dynamic connections to the broader world. It also highlights how the region transcends those boundaries through global influences, migrations, and shared struggles.
Cultural Event: Celebrating Greek National Independence Month: Invocations to Liberty featuring the Halidon Muse Ensemble
- 7:30 pm
- https://pahellenicfoundation.org/LibertyConcert
The American Hellenic Foundation of Western Pennsylvania, The Greek Nationality Room Committee of the Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs, and the European Art Center of Greece (EUARCE) Present: Celebrating Greek National Independence Month "Invocations to Liberty" featuring the "Halidon Muse" Ensemble
Poetry by American Women on the Greek Revolution set to modern and classical music
Two concerts: March 29th: Poetry settings in modern music; March 30th in classical music.
The concerts will be broadcast live over the internet:
https://pahellenicfoundation.org/LibertyConcert
at 7:30 PM on Saturday, the 29th of March and at 7:30 PM on Sunday, the 30th of March
Information Session: Spring 2025 Global Distinction Drop-In Hours
- Molly McSweeney
- 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm
- Global Hub
Attention: Undergraduate students! Are you looking to gain experience that will help prepare you for a globally-connected job market? Stop by Drop-In Hours to learn more about getting the Global Distinction added to your academic transcript, receiving special recognition at graduation, and standing out to prospective employers!
Workshop: Transmediating Blackness in Early Modern France
- NOÉMIE NDIAYE
- 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
- Humanities Center, 602 Cathedral of Learning
Join us for a workshop with Noémie Ndiaye, Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Chicago, focusing on early modern English, French, and Spanish theater with an emphasis on race. Her monograph, Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race (2022), explores how performance culture shaped the racialization of Blackness across Western Europe. Ndiaye's work has won numerous awards, including the 2023 Bevington Award and the 2023 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize.
The workshop will be conducted in English, and pre-circulated readings are available upon request from Chloé Hogg at hoggca@pitt.edu.
Lecture: Inventing Racial Whiteness: Early Modern Playbooks of Racial Triangulation
- Noémie Ndiaye
- 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
- William Pitt Union Ballroom
Join us for an event featuring Noémie Ndiaye, Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Chicago, whose research focuses on early modern English, French, and Spanish theater with an emphasis on race. Ndiaye will discuss her award-winning book, Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race (2022), which explores how performance culture influenced the construction of race in early modern Europe. Her book has received multiple prestigious awards, including the 2023 Bevington Award and the 2023 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. Ndiaye is also the co-editor of Seeing Race Before Race (2023), which won the 2024 PROSE Award for Art Exhibitions. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from a leading scholar in the field!
Refreshments after the lecture
Lecture Series / Brown Bag: Speaker Series: In Search of Ship Camargo: the quilombo of Bracui and the historical research about slavery in Brazil
- Martha Abreu
- 4:30 pm
Lecture: From Secularism to Public Order: Identity Politics and the Idea of Muslim Solidarity in France
- Kirsten Wesselhoeft, Vassar College
- 4:30 pm to 5:45 pm
- 4130 Posvar Hall
As part of the Unmasking Prejudice: Confronting Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Racism Across Europe
Spring Lecture Series
Lecture Summary: TBD
About the Speaker:
Kirsten Wesselhoeft is associate professor of religion at Vassar College. She is a scholar of contemporary Islam, drawing on ethnography and political analysis to study Muslim thought and culture in contexts shaped by colonial encounters and secular liberalism. Her first book, Fraternal Critique: The Politics of Muslim Community in France (Chicago, 2025), shows how young engaged Muslims use disagreement and dissent to cultivate community, a value that is in turn stigmatized by political elites. Her scholarly writing has
appeared in Political Theology, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, and Sociology of Islam, among other journals.
Conference: LatinxConnect Conference
- 8:30 am to 9:00 pm
- TBD
The Latinx Connect conference aims to move us beyond “celebrating” Latinxs, calling for empowerment and justice for Latinx communities, who face numerous inequities in the US and across the world, particularly for those at marginalized intersections of Latinx identity (e.g., Afro, Indigenous, Queer, Trans*, Undocumented).
The theme of the conference this year is: ¡Com(o)unidad! (Com)unidade, (Comm)unity: State of the People. The Latinx Connect conference will bring together students, educators, community leaders, and political advocates to dialogue about Latinidad and envision ways to empower and support thriving futures, both near and distant, for diverse Latinx communities at local, national, and global levels. #LXC25
As the largest pan-ethnic group in the United States, Latinxs are extremely diverse by race, gender, language, immigration, and experiences along the diaspora, which creates opportunity for dialogue. Participants will discuss together what it means to thrive as Latinx/a/o/e/Hispanic at the intersections of their identities in topic areas including but not limited to education, public health, arts, and history.
There is no cost to attend the conference, and all are welcome to participate and submit proposals. The proposal deadline has been extended to March 28.
Featured Events: "The Amazonas of Yaxunah" Film Screening and Q&A with director Alfonso Algara; performance by Zuly Inirio at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater; Keynote Speakers Yosimar Reyes (Poet & Activist) and Sheila Velez Martinez (Pitt School of Law, Center for Civil Rights and Racial Justice); and more!
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