Events

Globalizing World History, a symposium sponsored by the World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh and organized by graduate students in the Department of History, will bring together local faculty, regional graduate students, and world historians, into conversation about the trajectory of world history across borders and disciplines. This two-day symposium will feature a graduate student masterclass on mapping and the World-Historical Gazetteer project well as a series of interactive roundtables with our four keynote speakers working on world history outside the United States and Pittsburgh-area faculty.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Mariana Candido
Notre Dame University
Armando Garcia de la Torre
University of West Indies, St. Augustine
Kazuo Kobayashi
Osaka Sangyo University
Filiipa Riberio da Silva
IISH

The Center for Latin American Studies presents the Latin American Film Festival Fall 2018:

September 11 ... The Future Perfect
October 2 ... The Candidate
October 23 ... On the Roof
November 6 ... Spider Thieves
November 27 ... The Queen of Spain

Tuesdays at the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Free & Open to the Public!

English subtitles provided.

Join the Asian Studies Center as we welcome the new academic year! This will be a chance to meet the Asian Studies Center staff, mingle with affiliated faculty and students, and learn about opportunities available in the coming year. Refreshments will be served.

An opportunity for current students and faculty and new students and faculty to meet the Global Studies Center team and learn what the Center has to offer

Join us for our 3rd Annual EuroFest!

EuroFest is a family friendly festival featuring all things Europe in the ‘Burgh. Local artisans and vendors will create a dynamic marketplace and performances of song and dance will be presented on the main stage. Food booths featuring various European cuisines will be participating and artistic demonstrations and children’s activities will take place throughout the day.

Free and open to the public!

For more information visit https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/esc/events/eurofest

Come and join the African Studies Program to welcome in the new academic year. Meet staff, affiliated faculty and fellow students and discuss the program, events for the year and opportunities for engagement!

This paper explores the significance of linguistic and cultural regions for the global expansion and localization of digital media platforms. Bringing enduring concerns of cultural difference to bear on digital media in South Asia, I explore the industrial and cultural logics at work when platforms like YouTube recognize and value southern India's linguistic and cultural diversity. Focusing on Tamil internet culture, I explore how one specific YouTube channel (Put Chutney) leveraged algorithmic knowledge as well as industry lore about south Indian internet users to produce a series of videos that articulated three distinct and at times competing conceptions of the region - a peninsular region of south India, a linguistic region revolving around the Tamil language, and an urban region centered in Chennai, a powerful global media capital. More broadly, I argue that platform localization is the contingent outcome of the interaction of algorithmic and representational logics that structure the operations of digital platforms.

ASWIN PUNATHAMBEKAR
Aswin Punathambekar is an associate professor of media studies and founding director of the Global Media Studies Initiative at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His books and articles explore the impact that globalization and technological change have on the workings of media industries, audience and user practices, and cultural identity and politics. He is the author of From Bombay to Bollywood: The Making of a Global Media Industry (NYU Press, 2013) and co-editor of Global Bollywood (2008, NYU Press), Television at Large in South Asia (2013, Routledge), and Global Digital Cultures: Perspectives from South Asia (forthcoming, University of Michigan Press). He is currently working on his next book, provisionally titled The Digital Popular: Media, Culture, and Politics in Networked India. He is an editor of the peer-reviewed journal Media, Culture and Society and also co-edits the Critical Cultural Communication series for NYU Press.

Join faculty and students as we discuss pressing Global issues affecting all of us

Workshop on Networks Amid Global. Proposals are sought for research papers to be presented at a workshop at the University of Pittsburgh, September 27-29, 2018. We invite researchers--particularly junior scholars, scholars from underrepresented groups, and scholars from countries of the global South--to propose research papers that employ data we have collected: the Transnational Social Movement Organizations (TSMO) and Inter-Organizational Network Databases. These databases have explicit aims to promote social or political change, but also consider how TSMOs are connected to other international organizations. For more information on the databases and on how to apply, visit tsmoworkshop.wikispaces.com.

The Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) invites you to celebrate another year with us...

CLAS Welcome Back Reception
September 27, 2018
5 PM
4130 Posvar Hall

For more information:
ket82@pitt.edu
https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/clas/

The Center for Latin American Studies presents the Latin American Film Festival Fall 2018:

September 11 ... The Future Perfect
October 2 ... The Candidate
October 23 ... On the Roof
November 6 ... Spider Thieves
November 27 ... The Queen of Spain

Tuesdays at the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Free & Open to the Public!

English subtitles provided.

The Education, Research and Training (ERT) Section of ACR advances K-12 conflict resolution education. On Friday, October 5, 2018 ERT will sponsor an event designed to raise awareness with high school youth about ways of resolving conflict. Peace Circles Training is conducted by the Center for Community Dialogue based in Tucson, AZ. The training is designed for high-school age youth interested in learning how to resolve differences. Students will leave the training knowing how to factitiate a circle process.
The ERT Section is now looking for teachers and schools willing to commit to bringing their students to the program. ACR can cover transportation costs and will provide lunch. Because of space limitations, this program will be limited to about 40 students from Pittsburgh area schools.

Join us for tea and conversation from 2-3 pm in the Kurtzman Room. Visit the information and activity tables from Pitt and local community groups. The program will start at 3 pm and include interfaith prayers, a keynote speech, and cultural performances in the Assembly Room.

Nisi Shawl will present on themes that surround her recent novel "Everfair" which is set in an alternative future of the Congo. Please join us for an interesting conversation!

Everfair is a wonderful Neo-Victorian alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier. Fabian Socialists from Great Britian join forces with African-American missionaries to purchase land from the Belgian Congo's "owner," King Leopold II. This land, named Everfair, is set aside as a safe haven, an imaginary Utopia for native populations of the Congo as well as escaped slaves returning from America and other places where African natives were being mistreated.

Come here about your fellow ASP students' summer experiences in Africa. Whether it be in the Tanzania, Ghana or South Africa study abroad programs, the Uganda field-based internship program, or independent research and learning, your fellow students have some amazing stories to tell. This is a great opportunity for you to learn about options and logistics if you are contemplating studying or working abroad in Africa this coming summer!

The Center for Latin American Studies presents the Latin American Film Festival Fall 2018:

September 11 ... The Future Perfect
October 2 ... The Candidate
October 23 ... On the Roof
November 6 ... Spider Thieves
November 27 ... The Queen of Spain

Tuesdays at the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Free & Open to the Public!

English subtitles provided.

Global Health: Health and Well Being:PS 1903/29734
This course will examine food insecurity and malnutrition as a part of a larger discussion on how to ensure healthy lives and well-being for all ages. Sustainable Development goals 2 and 3 will be the primary focus of the course.The course is for 1 credit and will run Friday November 2- Sunday November 4 2018

Pitt's Model UN Student Club will host the 22nd Annual University of Pittsburgh Model United Nations Conference on Monday, November 5th, 2018!

Model United Nations provides students the opportunity to learn about and discuss today's most relevant issues of international diplomacy through participation in an academic simulation. Pitt Model United Nations is a long-standing club at the University of Pittsburgh. The club prepares and competes in Model United Nations conferences throughout the year. Through the conferences, our club members have the opportunity to gain knowledge on current events, international relations, and countries' diplomacy.

The Center for Latin American Studies presents the Latin American Film Festival Fall 2018:

September 11 ... The Future Perfect
October 2 ... The Candidate
October 23 ... On the Roof
November 6 ... Spider Thieves
November 27 ... The Queen of Spain

Tuesdays at the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Free & Open to the Public!

English subtitles provided.

Dr. Oni is a visiting professor at Robert Morris University this fall. He specializes in Sociology of Education. His area of research focus includes; social problems in education, Social change in education, social deviances/social disorganizations in education with particular focus on students’ secret cult in Nigeria.

The Center for Latin American Studies presents the Latin American Film Festival Fall 2018:

September 11 ... The Future Perfect
October 2 ... The Candidate
October 23 ... On the Roof
November 6 ... Spider Thieves
November 27 ... The Queen of Spain

Tuesdays at the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Free & Open to the Public!

English subtitles provided.

Laura Brueck, Chair, Asian Languages and Cultures Department; Associate Professor of South Asian Literature and Culture

Will be presenting to the University of Pittsburgh, Global Studies Center.

Salmaan A. Keshavjee, Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Presenting to University of Pittsburgh

Patricia Ehrkamp, University of Kentucky Department of Geography

Presenting to University of Pittsburgh