Events

Student Club Activity: French Conversation Hour
- Tristan Cavaness
- 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
- Global Hub

Symposium: European and Eurasian Undergraduate Research Symposium - 2023
- (All day)
The 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.
For more information and to apply, please visit: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/creees/urs.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: January 8, 2023
Limited travel grants are available to help defray travel expenses for accepted participants located outside of the Pittsburgh region.
SYMPOSIUM: March 31, 2023

Presentation: Intersectionality and Female Migrants: Exploring employment in global Muslim, female migrant communities
- Jasmine Al Rasheed, BPhil Candidate
- 9:00 am
- Zoom & In Person (School of Public Health, Room 6140)
Come and see BPhil candidate Jasmine Al Rasheed as she presents and defends her thesis. Jasmine explored the impact of intersectional identity in employment experiences of global, female Muslim migrant communities. She conducted a case study in Pittsburgh, interviewing members of the community and compared her findings with research done in the EU. Her research examines gender and religious identity in migrant communities.

Panel Discussion: Decolonization in Focus Series (Panel VI) The Future of SEEES Expertise: How Can We Anticipate Tomorrow’s Differences?
- Serhy Yekelchyk, Ararat L. Osipian, Ilya Gerasimov, Juliet Johnson
- 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
- Zoom
The Future of SEEES Expertise: How Can We Anticipate Tomorrow’s Differences? is the sixth and the last panel of the Decolonization in Focus Series.
The Russian war in Ukraine has had innumerable impacts, from personal to political, local, national, and global. One of the many sea changes wrought by the war has been the reckoning within Slavic/Russian & Eurasian Studies over the outsized role Russia has played and continues to play in the field and what could and should be done about it. The invited panelists in this series will consider the relationships of power that have long dominated the region, how they have impacted the field of study, and what, if anything, could and should be done about it.
The series has six wide-ranging panels featuring speakers from various disciplines and institutions. Panelists and participants will be encouraged to consider why decolonizing Russian & Eurasian studies matters, how to implement concrete change in their classrooms, and how to conceive of the future of expertise within the field. All sessions will be convened using Zoom, live-streamed via YouTube, and recorded to be made available for later viewing.

Lecture: A Jain Yoga Model for Diversity and Inclusion
- Professor Christopher Chapple
- 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm
- 211 David Lawrence Hall
Jain faith and practice has flourished for more than 2800 years in the midst of a host of different faiths. Haribhadra Virahanka (6th century C.E.) provided a template for what in modern times is called interfaith understanding: acknowledge differences and find commonalities. In his text known as the Yogabindu, he identified karma, yoga, worship (puja), and mantra as practices common to all India's faiths. He also noted and explained religious differences, particularly in regard to notions of soul and self. In this presentation, Dr. Christopher Chapple, Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding Director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University, will explore how his method might inform the contemporary academic discipline of Religious Studies.
Registration is not required for in-person attendance at this lecture. To attend this lecture remotely via Zoom, please register here.

Exhibit: Make a Marc
- 12:00 pm to 9:00 pm
- Brightspace Room, Energy Innovation Center 1435 Bedford Avenue
This exhibit will take place from 12-3pm and 5-9pm on Sunday, April 1st. Opening remarks will begin at 7:30pm.
Marc Fogel-- a 61-year-old history teacher from Pennsylvania who taught in Moscow at the Anglo-American School-- was taken into custody by Russian authorities in August 2021 and sentenced to 14 years in prison for the possession of medical marijuana. 80 Pittsburgh creatives and counting have committed to "Making a Marc" to shed light on Fogel and other detainees. As hostage negotiations are ongoing amidst Russia's war against Ukraine, the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies invites the Pitt community to support this initiative by Pittsburgh's community of creatives. Artist Tom Mosser has been collaborating with Sasha Phillips, one of the Fogel family attorneys to make this day happen with the support of Marc's family.

Cultural Event: Chinese American Experiences in Pittsburgh: The Past, Present and Future
- 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm
- Frick Fine Arts Auditorium and Cloister
This forum will bring the Pittsburgh community together to learn about the history of the early Pittsburgh Chinatown and to highlight Chinese immigrants and their contributions to the greater Pittsburgh region and Southwestern Pennsylvania. Registration required at: https://pitt.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6PQOrox1fIJnwfY

Cultural Event: Chinese American Experiences in Pittsburgh: The Past, Present and Future
- 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm
- Frick Fine Arts Auditorium and Cloister
This forum is organized and sponsored by the Chinese Heritage Room Committee of the Chinese Nationality Room of the Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs, University Center for Internatioal Studies, University of Pittsburgh.
Chinese Heritage Room Committee of the Chinese Nationality Room was established in 1939. It has since served as a hub for promoting Chinese scholarship and culture at the University of Pittsburgh and the surrounding communities. For details, please visit the Chinese Nationality Rooms website https://www.nationalityrooms.pitt.edu/committees/chinese-room-committee
At this event, the Chinese Heritage Committee will present the history of the early Pittsburgh Chinatown and the contribution of the Chinese immigrants to the Southwest Pennsylvania. Local community leaders are invited to speak about their role in building a more diversified and equitable communities around the region.
Free to public. Seating is limited, please register at link to attend.https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chinese-american-experiences-in-pittsburgh-...

Film: Those Four Years
- Dr. Joe Thomas Karackattu
- 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
- WW Posvar Hall 3415
"Those 4 Years" is an amazing journey into the lives of those Chinese who came to India around the middle of the 19th century… speaking a language unknown to their neighbours when they first arrived. The film journeys across three countries and reams of colonial office records to retrace the places those people came from, the means and mode of their arrival, and how many of them ended up making India their home. It is a history of people, plants and places - as it catalogues their contributions to plantations, locates places and sites associated with their earliest arrival and stay and, more remarkably, manages to locate some of the descendants of those Chinese who arrived in India over 150 years ago. After the film screening, there will be a Q&A with the film's creator, Dr. Joe Thomas Karackattu.

Lecture: Imperial Russia's Most Successful Port
- Katja Wezel
- 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
- 3703 Posvar Hall
With the recent developments in Ukraine and Putin's talk on restoring the Soviet aor the Russian Empire, newly independent territories and cities at the former imperial periphery are again in focus. Riga, today's capital of Latvia, belonged to the Russian Empire (1710-1917) and used to be one of imperial Russia's main ports. In the decade before World War I, Riga was the port with the highest turnover, surpassing both Odessa and the capital St. Petersburg. But Riga was never really a "Russian" city: before World War I, only 18 percent of its inhabitance were native Russian speakers. More important for its economic viability were its Latvian, German, and Jewish residents. This talk will map Riga as a port city and trading metropolis using research results obtained through GIS and archival research. It will also highlight the diversity of the people behind Riga's economic success.

Lecture: Asia Pop Lecture Series: Chinese Transnational Fandoms
- Dr. Lu Chen
- 6:00 pm
- 5201 WW Posvar Hall
Want to learn about fan cultures of East Asia? Interested in the online culture of k-pop fans? What is Otaku and how does it help define Japanese fandom? This semester's lecture series will explore the fan cultures of East Asia and their influence on contemporary fan cultures across the world. In this lecture, Dr. Lu Chen, Guangzhou University, will discuss traditional fandoms.

Lecture: Old Religion in the Making of the Modern Nation
- Geneveve Zubrzyski, Jose Casenova, Sean Guillory
- 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
- Zoom
Soviet ideology treated religion as an enemy, a tool of oppression and an expression of backwardness. Militant atheism, the prohibition of religious rituals, and the repression of religious communities aimed to create a secular, rational, and scientific society. Yet, religion mattered in Soviet people’s lives. And with institutional religion restricted, many people expressed their spirituality through “lived religion” - the practice of religion and spirituality in everyday lives. What were the practices of lived religion in the context of state socialism? And how did it converge and diverge with the return of institutionalised religion and spiritual lift after the collapse of communism? REEES Spring 2023 Series, Religion in (Post-Socialism) Societies, will explore the role of religion in socialist and post-socialist societies in eight online discussions on religion and its relations to repression, nation-building, indigenous cultures, and memory.
This is a part of REEES’s Spring 2023 lecture series.

Lecture: Climate Change Heats Up: Public Lecture and Discussion with Dr. Hong Yang
- Dr. Hong Yang, Bryant University, Charles J. Smiley Chair Professor of Biological & Biomedical Sciences
- 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
- Zoom & In Person (4130 Posvar Hall)
Global climate change is looming as a long-lasting, all-dimensional issue of the century with far reaching impacts. Despite the increasing interests and rhetoric, higher education is poorly prepared to keep pace with the rapidly changing climate. Global studies can and should play a leading role to prepare students whose lives will be increasingly impacted by the climate crisis. As an Earth scientist, international education administrator, and a current Harvard Radcliffe Fellow, Dr. Hong Yang explores the linkage between climate change and global education by drawing his expertise, experience, and recent interviews with climate change education experts. He examines key questions such as: How do current US-China relations impact climate change collaborations? What kind of intellectual competence should a college graduate acquire about climate change? What can international educators do to move climate change to the center of global studies?
Dr. Hong Yang is the Charles J. Smiley Chair Professor of Biological and Biomedical Sciences and the Inaugural Vice President in charge of campus internationalization at Bryant University. He is also a current Radcliffe Institute Fellow at Harvard University.

Lecture Series / Brown Bag: Conversations on Europe: The Ongoing Struggle to Recover Nazi-Looted Art
- Professor Vivian Curran
- 12:00 pm
- Zoom Webinar
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