Events
Information Session: Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs' Scholarships Info Session
- 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
- Global Hub
Explore the World with a Summer Study Abroad Scholarship! Join the Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs' Scholarships Info Session!
Dreaming of an unforgettable summer adventure abroad? We're here to make it happen! Discover your opportunity to study abroad with the help of scholarships at our Summer Study Abroad Scholarships Info Session.
What You'll Gain from Our Info Session:
Scholarship Insights: Learn about various scholarships designed specifically for summer study abroad programs.
Application Tips: Get expert advice on crafting a compelling scholarship application.
Destinations Galore: Explore exciting study abroad destinations and programs available.
Q&A Session: Ask your burning questions and get answers from experienced advisors.
Don't miss out on the opportunity of a lifetime! Secure your spot at our Summer Study Abroad Scholarships Info Session and embark on a transformative journey that will broaden your horizons and enrich your life. Your global adventure begins here!
Workshop: Art of the Interview Masterclass: Stories of Displacement
- David Greene and Shannon Reed
- 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
- University of Pittsburgh main campus
UCIS and the Department of English are offering a one-credit masterclass led by former NPR Morning Edition co-host, David Greene, and author and frequent contributor to the New Yorker, Shannon Reed, on the Art of the Interview. Focusing on stories of displacement (refugees, migrants, threatened scholars from around the world), the course will meet in person four times during the semester. Students will work on their individual projects between class meetings and through the end of the semester.
This class may count toward your certificate in Global Studies, Latin American Studies, Russian, European, and Eurasian Studies, African Studies, European Studies, the Global Distinction, and more.
Course sessions: Friday September 29 (2-5), Saturday September 30 (10-4), Friday October 27 (2-5), Saturday October 28 (10-4).
Students should register for the course (ENGWRT 1360) through Peoplesoft. After add/drop, registration is still possible up to September 28th by completing the following form: https://forms.gle/VhKLSRNc5aPxkgCX6.
Don't miss this unique opportunity!
Cultural Event: Referral: Bulgarian Night
- Bulgarian Macedonian National Educational and Cultural Center
- 8:00 pm
- 449 W. 8th Avenue, W. Homestead, PA 15120
Lecture: Marie Curie in Pittsburgh
- Dr. Fatiha Benmokhtar, Associate Professor of Physics in Duquesne University’s School of Science and Engineering
- 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
- Cathedral of Learning French Nationality Room
Marie Curie, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize (twice!) visited the University of Pittsburgh in 1921, where Pitt Chancellor John Bowman awarded her an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. Come to the French Nationality Room to learn more about Marie Curie’s connection to Pittsburgh.
Dr. Fatiha Benmokhtar, Associate Professor of Physics in Duquesne University’s School of Science and Engineering, will discuss Marie Curie’s life and work and her ongoing scientific legacy. The talk will be in English and accessible to a general audience.
The one-hour lecture and discussion will be followed by a light reception in the Cathedral of Learning’s Braun Room. This event is sponsored by the Centre Francophone de Pittsburgh as part of a cultural series on Femmes Françaises.
Seating is limited. Please RSVP to cfpittsburgh@gmail.com
Festival: East European Festival
- 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
- Cathedral of Learning, Commons Room
Join us for a celebration of the East European region and experience the festive music, delicious cuisines, and traditional dances of Eastern Europe and its surrounding regions! This event will bring together numerous food vendors, performers, student & academic organizations, and local diaspora organizations.
Cultural Event: Paul Riis Birthday Celebration
- 4:00 pm
- Cascades in South Park
Join the Swiss Nationality Room Committee, the Paul Riis Legacy Preservation Volunteers, and the Swiss-American Society of Pittsburgh as we celebrate Paul Riis’ birthday on October 1, 2023 at 4:00 PM in South Park. We will gather at the Forbes Pavilion near the beautiful Cascades, designed by Riis.
Paul Riis was a Swiss-born landscape architect who served as the first director of Allegheny County Parks from 1928 to 1932. He designed numerous nature-inspired features in both North Park and South Park. We’ll sample some Swiss foods including Raclette and Fondue, learn how to sing Happy Birthday in German, and hear from the sponsoring organizations about their work.
Did you know a group of people meet monthly to help preserve Riis structures in South Park? Did you know Pittsburgh will host the North American Swiss Singing Alliance competition in 2024? Have you heard about the Swiss Nationality Room and the scholarships it sponsors for summer study in Switzerland?
Please RSVP to Ellen Porter by MONDAY SEPTEMBER 25 with the number of adults and children planning to attend:
ecarlson118@gmail.com
412.335.9659
Presentation: Browne Leadership Fellows poster presentation
- Aliya Durham
- 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
- Global Hub
Film: SCREENSHOT: Asia Film Festival Opening Night Goldfish
- 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
- David Lawrence Hall 120
SCREENSHOT: Asia is a project created to bring Asian and Asian American arts to Pittsburgh and engage students in practical, professional arts programming experience. By screening films from across Asia, we hope to create a dialog based on shared cinematic experiences, letting our audiences learn about and embrace different cultures, peoples, and ways of being in the world.
Pushan Kripalani | 2022 | 103 Minutes| India, United Kingdom, United States
Sadhana Tripathy (Deepti Naval), who is beginning to suffer from dementia, has one foot in the door that opens out to the hellish realm of memory loss and speech disruption. Summoned by Sadhana’s neighbor after a domestic mishap, her daughter Anamika (Koechlin) returns to a mother whom she resents for reasons both trivial and significant. The film is finely attuned to the symptoms of atrophy, both in Sadhana’s mind and the mother-daughter relationship. If the mother wants to remember, the daughter wishes to forget. Sadhana and Anamika’s relationship is peculiar to their past but is hauntingly familiar to anyone approaching that vulnerable point where parents begin to resemble children and children must double up as parents.
Tickets are free with a PITT id, regular tickets $10, Non-Pitt students $5 with ID.
For more information about the film festival, click here
Film: SCREENSHOT: Asia Film Festival Fremont
- 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
- Harris Theater
Babak Jalali | 2023 | 91 minutes | USA
Beautiful and troubled 20-something Donya, an Afghan translator who used to work with the U.S. government, has trouble sleeping. She lives by herself in Fremont, California, in a building with other Afghan immigrants and often dines alone at a local restaurant watching soap operas. Her routine changes when she’s promoted to writing the fortunes at her job at a fortune cookie factory in the city. As her fortunes are read by strangers throughout the Bay, Donya’s smoldering longing drives her to send a message out to the world, unsure where it will lead.
Tickets are free with a PITT id, regular tickets $10, Non-Pitt students $5 with ID.
For more information about the film festival, click here
Film: SCREENSHOT: Asia Film Festival In My Mother's Skin
- 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm
- Harris Theater
Kenneth Dagatan | 2023 | 97 minutes | Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan
As World War II in 1945 Philippines is coming to an end, a wealthy family is trapped in their country mansion and terrorized by Japanese soldiers who are losing control of the island. The family's patriarch, Aldo, is rumored to have stolen Japanese gold and hidden it nearby. Knowing that his family will be killed if the gold is found, Aldo leaves to seek help from the Americans. His absence causes the family to fear that he will never return, while the mother's health deteriorates. Desperate for help, the family's young daughter Tala turns to a deceitful and flesh-eating fairy, who plans to devour them all.
Tickets are free with a PITT id, regular tickets $10, Non-Pitt students $5 with ID.
For more information about the film festival, click here
Film: SCREENSHOT: Asia Film Festival Hail to Hell
- 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
- Harris Theater
Lim Oh-Jeong | 2022 | 109 Minutes| South Korea
In this black comedy from Na Mi and Sun Woo, who have been suffering from bullying and school violence throughout their school days, attempt suicide while their classmates go on a school trip. After the silly yet ridiculous suicide failure, the two try to take revenge on Chae Rin, who bullied them most and now lives happily in Seoul. However, their plans go awry. Ridiculously, Chae Rin, the worst bully ever, has found religion and has turned into a genuinely good person. What should they do now?
Tickets are free with a PITT id, regular tickets $10, Non-Pitt students $5 with ID.
For more information about the film festival, click here
Film: SCREENSHOT: Asia Film Festival Autobiography
- 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm
- Harris Theater
Makbul Mubarak | 2022 | 115 minutes | Indonesia, Poland, Germany, Qatar, Philippines, France, Singapore
A young man--Rakib (Kevin Ardilova)--is working as a housekeeper in an empty mansion. When its owner, retired general, Purnawinata (Arswendy Bening Swara), returns to start his mayoral election campaign, the young man bonds with him and defends him when his campaign is vandalized, setting off a chain of violence.
Tickets are free with a PITT id, regular tickets $10, Non-Pitt students $5 with ID.
For more information about the film festival, click here
Film: SCREENSHOT: Asia Film Festival Return to Dust
- 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
- Frick Fine Arts Building Room 125 | Pitt Campus
Li Ruijin | 2022 | 133 Minutes | China
In rural Gaotai county, two lonely, middle-aged outcasts are pushed into an arranged marriage by their families. Ma (Wu Renlin) is a humble farmer with little to offer his timid and sickly wife, Cao (Hai Qing), except for a small, abandoned house on a barren patch of land. From just a few seeds, their newly planted crops take root and flourish; and similarly, an unexpected bond between the two starts to blossom. As seasons pass their dedication to each other grows stronger but change and adversity soon threaten the idyllic existence they share.
Tickets are free with a PITT id, regular tickets $10, Non-Pitt students $5 with ID.
For more information about the film festival, click here
Film: SCREENSHOT: Asia Film Festival PLAN 75 (with Director Q&A)
- 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
- Harris Theater
Chie Hayakawa | 2022 | 112 minutes | Japan
In a near dystopian future, Japan’s government launches PLAN 75, a program encouraging the elderly to terminate their own lives to relieve its rapidly aging population’s social and economic burdens. In Chie Hayakawa’s remarkable and sensitive feature film debut, the lives of three ordinary citizens intersect in this new reality as they confront the crushing callousness of a world ready to dispose of those no longer deemed valuable.
Chieko Baishō stars as a 78-year-old Michi who considers signing up for the program after losing her meager but fulfilling hotel job and the means to live independently. A young Plan 75 salesman Himoru (Hayato Isomura) initially believes in the program’s benefits and serves as the human face of the program. And Maria (Stephanie Arianne), a Filipino care worker living overseas, reluctantly accepts a position with PLAN 75 to send money home to her ailing daughter. On the surface, the plan and its hawkers exude a kindness that serves as the film’s chilling vision of bureaucratic indifference and our increasing loss of interconnectedness. However, Hayakawa’s view is far from grim, as these characters soon learn to fully reckon with their own lives and what it truly means to live.
Tickets are free with a PITT id, regular tickets $10, Non-Pitt students $5 with ID.
For more information about the film festival, click here
Film: SCREENSHOT: Asia Film Festival World War III
- 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm
- Harris Theater
Houman Sayyedi | 2022 | 117 minutes | Iran
Shakib (Mohsen Tanabandeh) is a homeless day laborer who lost his wife and son in an earthquake years ago. Over the last couple of years, he has been in a relationship with Ladan (Mahsa Hejazi), a deaf and mute woman. The construction site on which he works turns out to be the set of a film about the atrocities committed by Hitler during WWII.
Against all odds, he is given a house and an opportunity of a lifetime. When Ladan learns about his movie role and the house, she comes to his workplace to ask for help and a place. Shakib’s plan to hide her fails and threatens to destroy his chance to be somebody.
Tickets are free with a PITT id, regular tickets $10, Non-Pitt students $5 with ID.
For more information about the film festival, click here
Film: SCREENSHOT: Asia Film Festival Coo Coo 043
- 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm
- Frick Fine Arts Building Room 125
Chan Ching-lin | 2022 | 135 minutes | Taiwan
In Taiwanese filmmaker Ching-lin Chan’s bracing feature debut, a pigeon returns after seven years, reopening a family’s old wounds and festering resentments in a town enmeshed in the illegal pigeon racing circuit. The story revolves around a poor family dependent on its racing pigeons which is shaken by economic pressures, restless youth and the disappearance of their son. The arrival of another drifting youngster brings changes to their lives. But also heralds an approaching storm.
Tickets are free with a PITT id, regular tickets $10, Non-Pitt students $5 with ID.
For more information about the film festival, click here
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