By Cindy McNulty.
Resource Listing
Video
Intended Audience:
K-12
In this Q and A, Dr. Ian Miller, Professor of History at Harvard University, and Mr. Matthew Sudnik, ethics and comparative religion teacher at Georgetown Preparatory School, discuss the history of energy in Japan, including its early electrification, its use of coal and nuclear energy, and the challenges that climate change presents to Japan today.
Intended Audience:
K-12, Post-Secondary
In this Q and A, Dr. Tonio Andrade, Professor of Chinese History and Global History at Emory University, discusses Qing dynasty China and its diplomatic and trade relations with the British and the Dutch.
Intended Audience:
9-12, Higher Education, Faculty, Post-Secondary
In late October 2017 as part of the 1917 Centenary Series organized by the Center for Russian and East European Studies, Grace Kennan Warnecke spoke on her recently completed memoir "Daughter of the Cold War." Daughter of the leading Cold War strategist George Kennan, Grace Kennan Warnecke has had a lifelong association with Russia and the former Soviet Union. She currently serves as Chairman of the Board of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, and is outgoing chair of the National Advisory Council, Harriman Institute, at Columbia University, as well as a member of the Advisory Council of the Kennan Institute. In 2013, she was named a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. Previously, she was founding executive director of the American-Soviet Youth Orchestra and associate producer of the prize-winning PBS documentary The First Fifty Years: Reflections on U.S.-Soviet Relations. As a professional photographer, she was senior editor of A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union.
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Intended Audience:
Higher Education, Faculty, Post-Secondary
The longtime home of the Soviet nuclear program, the Chelyabinsk region contains beautiful lakes, shuttered factories, mysterious closed cities, and some of the most polluted places on earth. Based on her recent book Putin Country (Farrar, Straus&Giroux, 2016), Anne Garrels charts in this lecture the aftershocks of the U.S.S.R.’s collapse. Having returned again and again to Chelyabinsk, Garrels argues that the area’s new freedoms and opportunities were exciting but also traumatic. As the economic collapse of the early 1990s abated, the city of Chelyabinsk became richer and more cosmopolitan, even as official corruption and intolerance for minorities grew more entrenched. Today, as Vladimir Putin tightens his grip on power and Western sanctions continue to lower the standard of living, the local population mingles belligerent nationalism with a deep ambivalence about their country’s direction. Through it all, Garrels sympathetically charts an ongoing identity crisis. In the aftermath of the Soviet Union, what is Russia? What kind of pride and cohesion can it offer? And why does Putin command the loyalty of so many Russians, even those who decry the abuses of power they regularly encounter?
Anne Garrels has been honored with numerous journalism awards, including the Peabody and the Polk. Garrels is on the board of Oxfam America and the Committee to Protect Journalists. For almost 25 years Anne Garrels was the senior foreign correspondent for NPR, reporting from Russia and the other former Soviet republics, the former Yugoslavia, the Middle East, China, Mongolia, and Iraq. She arrived in Baghdad six months before the 2003 U.S. invasion, stayed during the U.S. bombing campaign and continued to cover Iraq for the next six years. Before joining NPR in 1986 she was chief correspondent in Moscow and Central America for ABC, and the State Department correspondent for NBC.
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Intended Audience:
9-12, Higher Education, Faculty, Post-Secondary
Recorded in the days before the centenary of the October Revolution, this lecture by Professor Mark Steinberg revisits the question of “utopianism” in the Russian revolution - conventionally a negative charge of fanciful desire, wishful illusion, or worse - from the perspective of the streets and diverse lives.
Mark Steinberg specializes on the cultural, intellectual, and social history of Russia and the Soviet Union in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His research focuses on urban history, revolutions, emotions, religion, violence, and utopias. From 2006 to 2013, he was editor of the interdisciplinary journal Slavic Review. He is currently completing the 9th edition of A History of Russia and beginning a new project on “the straight and the crooked” in urban spaces in Leningrad, Odessa, and Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s. At the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, he recently concluded his term as coordinator of the Department of History’s Center for Historical Interpretation, which focused for three years on the them of on Global Utopias (http://globalutopias.weebly.com). Mark Steinberg's newest book is The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921 (Oxford University Press, 2017).
To view the slides and the lecture, click here.
Intended Audience:
Higher Education, Faculty, Post-Secondary
After the Brexit referendum in the UK and Trump’s election in the U.S. in 2016, political observers wonder what is in store for 2017. Join us to discuss the results of the March 15, 2017 elections in the Netherlands and the forecast for next month’s elections in France. How is populism fairing in Europe? What does Geert Wilder’s showing in the Netherlands suggest for Marine Le Pen’s prospects to become the next French president? Given the Euroscepticism expressed by both candidates and their popularity in recent polls, how likely is a Netherlands or French exit from the EU? This video is a part of Part of the European Studies Center's award-winning series of virtual roundtables. Its length is 1:28:01.
Intended Audience:
K-12, Post-Secondary
The Sound of (Japanese) Music Course Resources: A series of presentations and performances by four Japanese music ethnomusicologists that occurred in the late spring/summer of 2020. Designed to deepen your level of understanding of traditional Japanese music, these presentations expand your knowledge of Japanese history and culture, including modern music innovations. The presentations covered the evolving traditions of the koto, shakuhachi, shamisen and the recent development of taiko drumming.
https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/ncta/sound-japanese-music-online-mini-course-resources-hub
Intended Audience:
9-12
The European Studies Center hosts several webinars each year called Conversations on Teaching Europe (CoTE). This virtual roundtable discussion was presented by Dr. Barbara McCloskey (History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh) on March 29, 2016. Its length is 26.36.
Intended Audience:
Higher Education, Faculty, Post-Secondary
Join the ESC for a moderated “virtual roundtable” on the issues facing transgender men and women in Western and Eastern Europe today. This event will be co-sponsored by the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program and moderated by the GSWS Director, Todd Reeser. This video is a part of Part of the European Studies Center's award-winning series of virtual roundtables. Its length is 1:27:46.
Intended Audience:
Higher Education, Faculty, Post-Secondary
The referendum on Brexit and the new foreign policy priorities of American President Donald Trump hold the potential for significantly altering EU-US relations over the next few years.
The Jean Monnet European Union Centers of Excellence at the University of Pittsburgh and Florida International University have joined together with the European Union Studies association to assemble a panel of experts to explore the state of transatlantic relations after the first one hundred days of the Trump Presidency. What are the prospects for a multi-lateral trade agreement? Have new security concerns changed traditional defense priorities? How does the current stage of the Transatlantic relationship compare to other episodes in its history? What can American businesses and professionals expect moving forward?
This video is a part of Part of the European Studies Center's award-winning series of virtual roundtables. Its length is 1:12:54.
Intended Audience:
9-12
This presentation was part of the 2021 Summer Institute for Global Studies and was recorded on July 28, 2021. Its length is 57:51.
Presenters:
- Michael Walter, Tour Coordinator, Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs
- Reagan Harper, Quo Vadis Guide, Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs
Intended Audience:
K-12, Post-Secondary
Whose Narrative: Re-examining War Memorials in East Asia and the US was an innovative collaboration held on April 4, 2019. The recorded video program featured Dr. David Kenley, Elizabethtown College, and Dr. Kirk Savage, University of Pittsburgh. This two part workshop focused on understanding the history, context and messages convayed through war memorials in East Asia and the US.
https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/ncta/whose-narrative-re-examining-war-memorials-east-asia-and-us#overlay-context=resource-types/other-resources-created-ncta-alumnistaff
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