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All K-12 students in the Pittsburgh region have the opportunity to enter a multimedia project—paper, poster, art portfolio, documentary, podcast, or website—with a focus on the European Union in the ESC’s Europe Day Contest. Submissions from all contest participants will be on display at the first annual Europe Day Festival on Saturday, May 7th, 2016 and each division’s first and second place winners will be awarded cash prizes.
The deadline for submissions has been moved to Friday, April 15, 2016. Please see below for more information on both the contest and festival.
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March 30, 2016
Talk | The Future of the Transatlantic Security Community
Presenter: Magnus Petersson, Professor of Modern History, Head of Centre for Transatlantic Studies, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, Oslo, Norway
12:00pm, 4217 Posvar Hall
Europe is under hard military and societal pressure from several directions; from the refugee crisis and the Syria Conflict in the South to the Russian revisionist behavior in the East and North-East. Former Swedish Prime and Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has recently said that Europe is surrounded not by a "ring of friends" but by a "ring of fire". The combination of the external pressure and the internal financial crisis this has created a lot of frictions within Europe. In addition the US is rebalancing to the Asia-Pacific, and is no longer playing a leading role in European security affairs. What kind of consequences can that have for the Transatlantic Security Community that we have for so long taken for granted?.
March 30, 2016
Lecture | The Hebrew Bible and the Roots of Modern German Literature
Presenter: Karin Schutjer, Professor of German Studies, University of Oklahoma
4:00pm, 602 Cathedral of Learning
The advent of historical biblical criticism in the late eighteenth century created a seismic shift that seemed to release the Hebrew Bible from its subservience to Christian doctrine. For Goethe and other German writers of this era, the Hebrew Bible began to emerge with striking, new contours, inviting heterodox explorations that had been previously unthinkable, and serving as a surprising source for their very modern fictional worlds.
March 31, 2016
Lecture Series | “PEGIDA’s Populist Media Strategies: Right-Wing Extremism in Contemporary Germany”
Presenter: Helga Druxes, Professor of German, Williams College
12:00pm, 4130 Posvar Hall
When PEGIDA began its weekly protest marches in October 2014, many were blindsided by its steady outpouring of support. From a mere 350 followers on October 25, 2014, the numbers grew to between 17,000 and 25,000 on January 12, 2015. This talk analyzes the rhetoric and ideological affinities of PEGIDA with other right populist groups, both past and present. Their biases rely on chauvinistic nationalism and anti-government and anti-journalist stances. Slogans like “lying press” and “government abuse” create disdain for democratic mechanisms and open the door to violence and conspiracy theories. A close look at PEGIDA’s and AfD’s ideological backers (Udo Ulfkotte, Götz Kubitschek, and Tanja Festerling) reveals the group’s violent actionism despite its claim to represent mainstream citizens. Employing Jacques de St. Victor’s concept of anti-politics, Professor Druxes analyzes how PEGIDA instrumentalizes mistrust in governmental institutions to create a digital simulacrum of political participation.
April 1, 2016
Undergraduate Research Symposium | Europe: East and West
9:00-4:00 pm, University of Pittsburgh
William Pitt Union: Rooms 538, 540, and 548
The Europe: East and West Undergraduate Research Symposium is an annual event 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. Students will present revised versions of research papers from social science, humanities, or business courses focusing on the study of Eastern, Western, or Central Europe, the European Union, Russia, or other countries of the former Soviet Union. The presentations are open to the public.
The full schedule of presentations is available at www.ucis.pitt.edu/ursymposium.
For more information, contact Gina Peirce at gbpeirce@pitt.edu.
April 1, 2016 to April 16, 2016
Film Series | Italian Film Festival
7pm, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
In collaboration with the St. Louis non-profit “Italian Film Festival USA,” we are pleased to announce the fourth edition of our three-week-long festival of contemporary, Pittsburgh-premiere Italian films; our festival begins next week, on Friday, April 1 with Francesca Archibugi’s Il nome del figlio. This year, all screenings will be on Pitt’s Oakland campus: the April 2, 8, 14, 15, and 16 screenings will be held at the Frick Fine Arts auditorium, while the April 7 screening will be held in the Cathedral of Learning, in G-24. All screenings will take place at 7pm, and are free and open to the public. The full schedule, with links to film synopses and a printable PDF flyer, is available here: www.italianfilmfests.org/pittsburgh.
April 7, 2016
Lecture Series | “Whose Crisis? Germany and the Right to Asylum”
Presenter: Olivia Landry, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of German, University of Pittsburgh
12:00pm, 3703 Posvar Hall
This lecture aims to offer a broader and more nuanced perspective on what has been widely referred to as Europe’s “refugee crisis.” With a focus on Germany, the lecture will reflect on the national and international events and changes that occurred between 2011 and the present as a means of rethinking this crisis as both a humanitarian crisis and an example of humanitarianism in crisis.
April 9, 2016
Teach Forum on Internationalizing the K-12 Classroom
8:30am, University of Pittsburgh’s School of Law
The University Center for International Studies will host a Teacher Forum on Internationalizing the K-12 Classroom on Saturday, April 9, 2016 in the Alcoa Room at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Law.
The forum will provide educators, either as an individual participant or as a team of two, with the opportunity to present a project or lesson with a regional or global focus that they have used in the classroom. The project or lesson should focus on one or more of the following items: build understanding and awareness of other cultures, analyze multiple perspectives, communicate effectively across diverse groups, or take action on an international or global issue. Teams consisting of an in-service and a pre-service teacher are particularly encouraged to attend.
Educators will participate in a carousel poster presentation competition in the morning session. During this time educators will have the opportunity to learn from one another’s lessons, while also engaging in a judged competition. Each team will be allowed fifteen minutes to present their lesson or projects to the audience and judges.
Following the morning presentations, educators will participate in a number of workshops that focus on internationalizing the K-12 classroom led by University of Pittsburgh faculty as well as highly qualified teachers from the region.
At the end of the day, all participants will gather together for the awards ceremony. One winner will be selected from each division – elementary, middle, and high school. Each winner will be awarded $500.00.
The deadline for educators to enter the competition has passed; however, teachers interested in joining as participants may still register HERE.
April 23, 2016
French Immersion Workshop
8:30am, 4130 Posvar Hall
This Institute offers area secondary school French teachers an opportunity to maintain or improve their language skills, to develop deeper understanding of French culture and its global influence, and to share relevant teaching strategies. The French Immersion Institute hosts three Saturday workshops through the year and an intensive, weeklong workshop beginning in the summer of 2016.
Click here for more information, or contact Kathy Ayers at kma69@pitt.edu.
May 7, 2016
Europe Day Festival
12-7:00pm, Posvar Hall
On May 7, 2016 the European Studies Center at Pitt's University Center for International Studies will be hosting its first ever Europe Day Festival! The festival, which will run from 12:00 PM – 7:30 PM in and around Posvar Hall (230 S. Bouquet Street), will be a celebration of European culture, cuisine, and heritage. Local artisans and vendors will create a dynamic marketplace and performances of regional song and dance will be presented on the main stage. Artistic demonstrations, music and children’s activities will take place throughout the day.
More information can be found on our Festival website at www.ucis.pitt.edu/eurofest.
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Europe Day Contest
University of Pittsburgh
Deadline Extended: Friday, April 15, 2016
The European Studies Center's Europe Day Contest is a multimedia contest for students in grades K-12. Students participating in the Europe Day Contest can submit projects using different forms of media related to each year's theme as an individual participant or as a member of a group of two to four students based on the type of project. Selected student winners will be awarded prizes and the opportunity to display their work at the first annual Europe Day Festival on Saturday, May 7, 2016 on the University of Pittsburgh campus.
About the Contest
Through participation in the Europe Day Contest, students will engage in an in-depth study of European cultures, people, history, as well as contemporary issues that are relevant to both the United States and European Union. This experience will help students develop research skills and gain expertise on a topic of their interest related to an annual theme. Any of the following submission formats are possible: paper, poster, art portfolio, documentary, podcast, or website.
Please click HERE to learn more about the Europe Day Contest rules and requirements on the European Studies Center's website.
If you have any questions, please contact the ESC’s Outreach Coordinator, Kathy Ayers, at kma69@pitt.edu.
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