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Events Calendar

This calendar lists Cultural Studies events, as well as joint and co-sponsored events. The Cultural Studies Program's events are listed in bold. Items are subject to change. Please confirm details with the sponsor or contact person closer to the event. If none is indicated, please reach the Cultural Studies Administrator at cultural@pitt.edu or 412-624-7232.

 

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Spring 2013 Semester Events (2134)

April 18, 2013

"The Problem with Work"

  • Kathi Weeks (Duke University), Annual Cultural Studies Common Seminar Distinguished Guest Lecturer
  • 602 CL
  • 5:00-6:30pm
  • Principal Sponsor: Cultural Studies
  • Contact: Ron Zboray (COMM)
  • More details click here

April 19, 2013

Cultural Studies Graduate Student Colloquium

  • Kathi Weeks (Duke University) will provide comments on student papers
  • 602 CL
  • 10:00am-4:00pm
  • Principal Sponsor: Cultural Studies
  • Contact: Gabriella Lukacs (ANTHRO)
  • Full program

 

 

 

Spring 2011 Semester Events (2114)

 

January 12-April 6, 2011

Contemporary Queer Cinemas Public Film Series - Spring 2011

  • University of Pittsburgh, 2201 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
  • Cost - Free!
  • Prinicipal Sponsor - Women's Studies
  • Contact - Cathy Hannabach (WMST)

January 31-February 5, 2011

Judith Halberstam Lectures at Humanities Center

  • Various Dates and Times
  • Venue: 602 Cathedral of Learning
  • Principal Sponsor: Humanities Center
  • More Information: Judith Halberstam Events

February 24-25, 2011

French and Italian Graduate Student Conference

March 18-20, 2011

Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting and Pre-Conference Symposium on Gypsy Music

  • Various Dates and Times
  • Keynote Speaker: Peter Manuel
  • Principal Sponsor: Music
  • Contact: Adriana Helbig (MUSIC)

     

   March 22, 2011

"Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen"

  • Sherrie Tucker Lecture in MUSIC
  • 11:00am-12:00pm
  • Venue: 132 Music Building
  • Principal Sponsor: Music Studies
  • Contact: Yoko Suzuki (MUSIC)

March 24-26, 2011

Cultural Studies Association - 9th Annual Conference

March 31, 2011

Heidi Hartmann to speak at Iris Marion Young Award Ceremony

  • The lecture will be held at 3:30 in the University Club, Ballroom A
  • An awards ceremony and reception will follow
  • Contact: Nancy Glazener (WMST)

April 4, 2011

Lecture by Bruno Bosteels (Cornell University)

  • 5:00-7:00pm
  • Venue:1228 Cathedral of Learning
  • Principal Sponsor: Cultural Studies
  • Contact: Giuseppina Mecchia (FRIT)

April 5, 2011

A Conversation with Documentary Filmmaker John de Graaf

  • 12:00-1:30pm
  • Venue: 20th Floor Conference Room Cathedral of Learning
  • Principal Sponsor: Women's Studies
  • Contact: Cathy Hannabach (WMST)

April 21, 2011

Common Seminar Graduate Colloquium

  • See complete program here
  • 10:00am-5:00pm
  • Venue: 602 CL, Humanities Center
  • Principal Sponsor: Cultural Studies
  • Contact: Giuseppina Mecchia (FRIT)

April 21, 2011

Lecture by Wlad Godzich (University of California - Santa Cruz)

  • "Imagination Beyond the Matrix of Modernity"
  • 5:00-7:00pm
  • Venue: 602 CL, Humanities Center
  • Principal Sponsor: Cultural Studies
  • Contact: Giuseppina Mecchia (FRIT)

May, 2011

Russian Film Symposium

Fall 2010 Semester Events (11-1)

September 28, 2010

“On the Dialectics of Secularization: The Cases of Jacob Taubes and Carl Schmitt.”

  • Lecture, Martin Treml (ZENTRUM FÜR LITERATUR- UND KULTURFORSCHUNG BERLIN (ZfL))
  • Venue: 602 Cathedral of Learning, Tues. Sept. 28, 1:00
  • Principal Sponsor: Humanities Center

October 7, 2010

Innagural Lecture by R.A. Judy (English, University of Pittsburgh)

October 14-16, 2010

"The Place of the Image: Global Connections, Local Affiliations"

  • Graduate Student Symposium
  • Venue: Carnegie Museum of Art Theater
  • For complete program click here
  • Principal Sponsor: Department of History of Art and Architecture

October 18-November 2, 2010

Romanian Cinema on the Edge

  • Romanian Film Festival
  • Venue: All films will be shown at 7pm in the University of Pittsburgh's Bellefield Hall, 315 S. Bellefield Avenue in Oakland
  • Admission to all films is free
  • See the complete schedule here
  • Principal Sponsor: Film Studies

November 18-19, 2010

EMPIRE: A Retrospective

  • The Second Biannual Faculty and Graduate Students Colloquium
  • For complete program click here
  • Three Venues: Babcock Room, 5130 Posvar, and 121 David Lawrence Hall, see program for details
  • Keynote Speaker, Michael Hardt, Friday Nov 19, 4:00pm
  • Principal Sponsor, Cultural Studies
  • Contact: Giuseppina Mecchia (FRIT)

 

 

 

Events Archive

 

Spring 2010 Semester Events (10-4)

January 29, 2010

Donna Buchanan, (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

  • Lecture: "Beyond Nation? A Thrice-Told Tale from Bulgaria’s Postsocialist Soundstage"
  • Venue: 4130 Posvar Hall, 3–5 p.m.
  • Principal Sponsor: Music
  • Contact: Adriana Helbig (MUSIC)

February 4, 2010

Caetlin Benson-Allott (UC Santa Cruz)

  • Lecture: "Going, Going, Grindhouse: Digital Effects and the Economies of Cinematic Nostalgia"
  • Venue: 12:00pm, 501 CL
  • Principal Sponsor: Film Studies
  • Contact: Marcia Landy (ENG)

February 18, 2010

Lawrence D. Kritzman (Dartmouth University)

February 24, 2010

Daniel T. O'Hara (Temple University)

February 26-28, 2010

Film Studies Graduate Symposium

 

March 4, 2010

Marcia Landy (University of Pittsburgh)

  • Lecture: "In the World of the Egg: Gilles Deleuze and the Logic of the Sensible"
  • Venue: 501 Cathedral of Learning, 4:30-6:00pm
  • Principal Sponsor: Cultural Studies
  • Contact: Giuseppina Mecchia (Cultural Studies)

 

March 18-20, 2010

The Eighth Annual Cultural Studies Association (US) Conference

March 25-April 24

CMU International Film Festival: Faces of Globalization

  • More info TBA

April 1, 2010

Janell Watson (Virginia Tech)

April 19, 2010

Ruth Hung (University of Hong Kong)

April 20, 2010

The Erotics of Humanism: Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference

  • End of Year event, Cultural Studies Common Seminar
  • Venue: 501 Cathedral of Learning
  • Time: 9:30AM-5:00PM
  • See program of events here
  • Principal Sponsor: Cultural Studies
  • Contact: Paul Bove (ENG)

May 3-8, 2010

Russian Film Symposium

 

             Fall 2009 Semester Events (10-1)

Items are subject to change. Please call or write the faculty contact indicated below for updated information closer to the event.

September 14, 2009

Aamir Mufti (University of California-Los Angeles)

  • Lecture: "Orientalism and the Institution of World Literature"
  • Venue: 4:00pm, 501 Cathedral of Learning
  • Principal Sponsor: Humanities Center
  • Contact: Jonathan Arac (ENG)

September 29, 2009

Ellen Herman (Professor of History, University of Oregon)

  • Lecture: "Scientific Rules for Realness: Matching and Its Critics in American Adoption"
  • Venue: 4:00pm, room TBA
  • Contact: Marianne Novy (ENG)

October 1, 2009


Greg Grandin (Professor of History, New York University)

  • Lecture: “American Exceptionalism: Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of William Appleman Williams's The Tragedy of American Diplomacy”
  • Venue: 3:00-5:00, 501 Cathedral of Learning
  • Cosponsors: The Humanities Center, Center for Latin American Studies, University Center of International Studies
  • Contact: Joshua Lund (HISP)             

October 9-10, 2009

(des) articulaciones Graduate Student Conference

  • Website with program of events
  • Venues: Various locales on Pitt campus
  • Created by the graduate students of Hispanic Languages and Literatures Department
  • Contact: Aarti Madan (HISP) or Sarah Ohmer (HISP)

October 24, 2009

Peterfest: A Workshop in Honor of Peter Machamer

  • Click here for a program of events
  • Venue: 817 Cathedral of Learning
  • Principal sponsor: Center for Philosophy of Science
  • Contact: Sandra Mitchell (HPS)

October 29, 2009

George Lamming (Brown University)

  • Lecture: "The Politics of Theory: Caribbean Literature and the Search for a New Critical Language"
  • Venue: 501 Cathedral of Learning, 4:30-6:30pm
  • Principal Sponsor: Boundary 2
  • Contact: Margaret Havran (Boundary 2)

 

Spring 2009 Semester Events (10-1)

 

February 6-21, 2009

Italian Film Festival: "Violence in Contemporary Italian Cinema"

February 26-March 8, 2009

Faces of Realism: CMU International Film Festival

March 18, 2009

Dr. Martin Kley (Assistant Professor of German, Gettysburg College)

  • Lecture: "Wir nennen es ARBEIT! - We Call it Work! Cultural Responses to Germany's Brave New World of WORK"
  • Principal Sponsors: European Union Center of Excellence, European Studies Center

March 20, 2009

"A New Democracy?": A One Day Workshop with CIQR at Duquesne

  • Keynote speakers are Franco "Bifo" Berardi , Clarence Sholé Johnson, and David Schweickart
  • Event in conjunction with Duquesne University
  • Venue: Duquesne University, Uptown Pittsburgh
  • Room: Duquesne Room at Student Union
  • For more info and program click here
  • Contact: Giuseppina Mecchia (Cultural Studies)

March 26, 2009

Joanna Woods-Marsden (Department of Art History, UCLA)

  • Lecture: "L'Arme and Gli Amori: Gendered Identity in Titian's Portraits for the Este Court of Ferrara"
  • Principal Sponsor: History of Art & Architecture

April 3-4, 2009

Colloquium: "Remembering the Future: The Legacies of Radical Politics in the Caribbean"

  • Venue: TBA
  • Principal Sponsor: English Dept.
  • Contact: Shalini Puri (ENG)

April 7, 2009

Joshua D. Pilzer (Columbia University)

  • Lecture: "Surviving Between Public and Private: Songs of Three South Korean Survivors of the Japanese Military 'Comfort Women' "
  • Principal Sponsor: Asian Studies Center
  • Contact: Andrew Weintraub (MUSIC)

 

April 16-18, 2009

The Seventh Annual Cultural Studies Association (US) Conference

April 24, 2009

Cultural Studies Annual Graduate Colloquium with Guest Speaker, Roberto Esposito (Italian Institute for the Human Sciences, Naples)

  • Select students from Joshua Lund's 2009 Cultural Studies Common Seminar, "Race in the Americas: The Biopolitical Turn" will present
  • Roberto Esposito will give a lecture "Time for Biopolitics"
  • Venue: 1501 Posvar Hall, 2:30-6:30pm
  • For full program, see here
  • For more info, contact Giuseppina Mecchia

 

June 3-6, 2009

Class Matters: Working Class Studies Association Conference

 

             Fall 2008 Semester Events (10-1)      

September 22, 2008

Ann Fessler (Professor of Photography, Rhode Island School of Design)

  • Film screening and discussion: "The Girls Who Went Away"
  • Venue: 8:00pm, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
  • Principal Sponsor, Women's Studies Program
  • Contact: Marianne Novy (ENG)

September 29, 2008

Author Maxine Hong Kingston

  • Series: Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series
  • Venue: 8:30pm, 120 David Lawrence Hall
  • Principal Sponsor: English Department (Writing Program)
  • Contact: Jeanne Marie Laskas (ENG)

September 30, 2008

Q & A with Maxine Hong Kingston

  • Venue: 2:00pm, 501 Catherdral of Learning
  • Principal Sponsor: Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series

 

October 10-12, 2008

Graduate Student Symposium: Storytelling: Playful Interactions and Spaces of Imagination in Contemporary Visual Culture

  • Venue: Carnegie Museum of Art Lecture Hall
  • Principal Sponsor: History of Art and Architecture
  • Contact: Cristina Albu (HAA)
  • See website for schedule and more info

October 10-12, 2008

Interisciplinary Conference: Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia

  • Venue: Various  (See program here)
  • Sponsors include UCIS, School of Arts and Sciences, and Dept. of Music
  • Contact: Andrew Weintraub (MUSIC)
  • See website for more info

October 23, 2008


Susan Gillman (University of California, Santa Cruz)

  • Lecture: "Black Jacobins, Black Reconstruction, and New World Mediterraneans: Specters of Comparison?"
  • Venue: 4:00 p.m., 501 Cathedral of Learning
  • Principal Sponsor: English Department
  • Contact: Jonathan Arac (ENG)

 

October 24, 2008

Susan Gillman (University of California, Santa Cruz)

  • Colloquium: "Adaptation, Translation, Americas Studies"
  • Brown Bag Lunch, soft drinks & coffee provided
  • Venue: Noon-2:00pm, 2201 Posvar Hall
  • Principal Sposnor: English Department
  • Contact: Jonathan Arac (ENG)

November 6-9, 2008

Conference: "Goethe and the Postclassical: Literature, Science, Art, and Philosophy 1805-1815"

  • Venue: Pitt campus, various locations
  • See general conference information here
  • See program information here
  • Principal Sponsor: Goethe Society of North America
  • Free to Pitt students and faculty
  • Contact: Clark Meunzer (GER)

 

November 14, 2008

Ellen Nerenberg (Wesleyan University)

  • Lecture: “Murder, Real and Represented: The “Caso Cogne” and Contemporary Italian Narrative”
  • Venue: Room 144, Cathedral of Learning, 5:00pm
  • Reception: Room 156, Cathedral of Learning
  • Principal sponsor: French and Italian Dept.
  • Contact: Lina Insana (FRIT)

November 18, 2008

Jackie Kay (Newcastle University, UK)

  • Literary reading: poetry and fiction
  • Venue: 501 Cathedral of Learning, 8:30pm
  • Principal Sponsor: Pittsburgh Consortium for Adoption Studies
  • Contact: Marianne Novy (ENG)

December 2, 2008

Mary Neuburger (University of Texas at Austin)

  • Lecture: "Smoke-Filled Wombs: The Gender of Smoking and Anti-Smoking in Communist Bulgaria"
  • Venue: 3703 Posvar Hall, 2:00 pm
  • Principal Sponsor: History Department
  • Contact: Irina Livezeanu (HIST)

 

            

SPRING SEMESTER 2007-2008

February 4, 2008

Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza (Music Department, Makerere University - Kampala)

  • Lecture: "Gendering 'Musicking': The Commodification of Women in Uganda’s Music Business"
  • Venue: Noon, 123 MUSIC Building (Corner of 5th Ave and Bellefield)
  • Principal Sponsor: Music
  • Contact: Andrew Weintraub (MUSIC)

February 18, 2008

Jason Stevena (English, Harvard University)

  • Lecture: "Origins of an Ailing Polemic: The Neo-Liberal Critique of American Evangelicalism in its Cold War Context"
  • Venue: 501 Cathedral of Learning, 4:00pm
  • Sponsors: Boundary 2 and Dept. of English
  • Contact: Joshua Schriftman (ENG)

 

February 27, 2008

Lawrence Schehr (Professor of French, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

  • Lecture: "The [Im]Mor[t]ality of Proust"
  • Venue: 5:00 pm, Room TBA
  • Principal Sponsor: French and Italian
  • Contact: Roberta Hatcher (FRIT)

March 5, 2008

Wei Dedong (Renmin University, China)

  • Lecture: "New Cultural Trends in Buddhism in Modern China"
  • Venue: TBA
  • Principal Sponsor: Religious Studies
  • Contact: Linda Penkower (RELGST)

March 7, 2008

Hai Ren (Department of East Asian Studies, University of Arizona)

  • Lecture: "The Middle-Class as a Social Norm: Consumer Citizenship in China's Reform"
  • Venue: Anthropology Lounge, 3106 Posvar Hall, 3:00pm
  • Principal Sponsor: Anthropology
  • Contact: Gabriella Lukacs (ANTH)

March 17-18, 2008

National conference on issues of global citizenship in the 21st Century

  • Keynote address by Étienne Balibar (Professor Emeritus, Université Paris X-Nanterre)
  • Additional speakers include Yves Citton, Antonella Corsani, Todd May, James Swenson, and Philip Watts
  • Details TBA
  • Principal Sponsor: Cultural Studies
  • Contact: Giuseppina Mecchia (Cultural Studies)
  • See more info here

March 25, 2008

New York novelist, Joshua Cohen

March 28, 2008

Paula Massood (Film Studies, Brooklyn College)

  • Lecture: "Numbers Runners and New Negroes: Harlem Gangsters in the 1930s"
  • Venue: Noon, 501 Cathedral of Learning
  • Principal Sponsor: Film Studies
  • Contact: Vladimir Padunov (SLAV, Film Studies)

 

May 22-24, 2008

The Sixth Annual Cultural Studies Association (US) Conference

  • New York, NY (New York University campus)
  • For updated information, see www.csaus.pitt.edu

May 2008

Russian Film Symposium

 

FALL SEMESTER 2007-2008

September 12-15, 2007

Outside Inn by German playwright, Andreas Jungwirth

  • In association with Theater Rampe in Stuttgart
  • Separate performances in English and German
  • Venue: Pitt Repertory Theatre's Charity Randall Theatre at Stephen Foster Memorial Theater
  • Principal Sponsor: Germanic
  • Contact: Melanie Dreyer (THEA) or for tickets 412-624-PLAY

September 18, 2007

John Onians (Professor at University of East Anglia)

  • Lecture: "Neuroarthistory: Make More Sense of Art"
  • Venue: Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, 6:00pm
  • Principal Sponsor, History of Art and Architecture
  • Contact: Ann Harris (HAA)

September 25, 2007

Franziska Meier (University of Göttingen)

  • Lecture: “The Self and History: Autobiographical Writing in the 19th Century”
  • Venue: CL 149, 5:00pm
  • Principal Sponsor: French and Italian
  • Contact: Dennis Looney (FRIT)

October 5-6, 2007

Graduate Studies Conference, Hispanic Languages and Literatures

  • Keynote Speaker: Debra A. Castillo (Cornell), "Transamericans: I Call it New Orleans"
  • Venue: G-24 CL
  • Principal Sponsor: Hispanic
  • Contact: John Beverley (HISP)

October 10, 2007

Marc Epprecht (Queens University, Canada)

  • Lecture: "The Science of Silence: How Same-sex Transmission of HIV Became Invisible in Africa"
  • Venue: History Dept. Lounge, 3rd Fl, Posvar Hall, 4:00pm
  • Principal Sponsor, History
  • Contact: Lara Putnam (HIST)

October 11-14, 2007

Conference: Encountering New Worlds of Adoption: The Second International Conference on Adoption and Culture

  • Keynote speakers: Susan Bordo, Emily Prager, and Dorothy Roberts
  • Featured Filmmakers: Phil Bertelsen and Jean Strauss
  • Contact: Marianne Novy (ENG)

October 15, 2007

Abdul Mawgoud Dardery (South Valley University, Egypt)

  • Lecture: “Why Do they Hate Us? A Muslim Perspective on Islam and Violence”
  • Venue: 501 CL, 3:00pm
  • Principal Sponsor: Religious Studies
  • Contact: Linda Penkower (RELGST)

October 18-November 2, 2007

Romanian Cinema on the Edge

  • Click Here for dates and film titles in October
  • Click Here for dates and film titles in November
  • Click Here for film decriptions
  • All Showings are in Bellefield Hall Auditorium, 7:00pm, Free
  • Principal Sponsor, REES
  • Contact: Irina Livezeanu (HIST)

October 18-November 28, 2007

Amigos del Cine Latinoamericano present a Short Film and Documentary Festival

  • Opening Film: "American Visa" (2006), dir. Juan
    Carlos Valdivia (Bolivia)
  • Venues, films, times/dates, see here
  • Principal Sponsor: Center for Latin American Studies
  • Contact: Miguel Rojas Sotelo (HAA)

November 7, 2007

Gabriela Nouzeilles (Princeton University)

  • Lecture: "The Ruins of Nature"
  • Venue: 501 CL, 3:00-5:00pm
  • Principal Sponsor: Center for Latin American Studies
  • Contact: Joshua Lund (HISP)

November 13, 2007

Lucia Dolce (University of London)

  • Lecture: “Ritualizing Duality: Secret Iconographies of Empowerment in Mediaeval Japan”
  • Venue: TBA
  • Principal Sponsor: Religious Studies
  • Contact: Linda Penkower (RELGST)

November 29, 2007

Tyrus Miller (UC Santa Cruz)

  • Lecture: "No Man's Land: Central Europe and the Symbolic Geography of the Avant-Garde"
  • Venue: TBA
  • Principal Sponsor: French and Italian
  • Contact: Dennis Looney (FRIT)

November 30-December 2, 2007

Conference: Women in War: World War II

December 3, 2007

Rogers Brubaker (UCLA)

  • Lecture: "Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town"
  • Venue: History Dept., 3rd Flr Posvar Hall, 4:00pm
  • Principal Sponsor: History (Graduate Speaker Series)
  • Contact: Lara Putnam (HIST)

          

SPRING SEMESTER 2006-2007

January 29, 2007

Ashley Tauchert (Exeter University and Critical Quarterly)

  • Lecture: "Are Women Oppressed?"
  • Principal Sponsor, Department of English
  • Contact: Colin MacCabe (ENG)

 

February 9, 2007

Medicine, Ritual, and the Contemporary Deathbed: A one-day seminar fostering dialogue between scholars, medical staff, and clinicians. Featuring colleagues at the University's Center for Bioethics and Health Law, and visiting scholars from the London Consortium.

               

March 3, 2007

Steve Kurtz (Critical Art Ensemble, and SUNY Buffalo)

March 13, 2007

Ellis Avery (Author, The Teahouse Fire)

  • Reading from her novel, The Teahouse Fire, set in the tea ceremony world of 19th-century Kyoto
  • Principal Sponsor: Cultural Studies
  • Contact: Giuseppina Mecchia (Cultural Studies)

March 19, 2007

Nicholas Dobelbower (Macalester College)

  • Lecture: "Cette fraternite de chaines: Criminal (Anti-)Sociality in Early Nineteenth-Century France"
  • Venue: TBA
  • Principal Sponsor: Honors College

March 20, 2007

Denis Flannery (Leeds University)

  • Lecture: "Exuberance and the Spaces of Inept Instruction: Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys and Henry James's The Art of the Novel"
  • Venue: 501 Cathedral of Learning, 4:00pm
  • Principal Sponsor: English
  • Contact: Kellie Robertson (ENG)

March 22, 2007

Moshe Levinson (Founder and President, Profile Productions, Tel Aviv)

March 22-23, 2007

Adaptation Conference

  • Invited participants include Patrick McCabe, Laura Mulvey, Tom Gunning, James Naremore, and Dudley Andrew
  • Contact: Colin MacCabe (English)

March 26, 2007

Daniel Anker (Director, Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust)

March 27, 2007

Amongst White Clouds (director Edward Burger); screening and Q & A

  • Principal Sponsor: Religious Studies
  • Contact: Linda Penkower (Religious Studies)

April 2-3, 2007

Anthony Vidler (Cooper Union) and Terry Smith (Mellon Professor, Pitt)

THREE EVENTS:

  • Monday, April 2: Anthony Vidler Lecture: "The Necessity of Utopia: Art, Architecture and Society from Plato to Koolhaas"
  • Tuesday, April 3: Anthony Vidler Seminar: "The Persistence of Theory"
  • Tuesday, April 3: Vidler and Smith: "Contemporary Architecture After the Aftermath: Problems and Prospects"
  • Papers and Discussion between the two scholars
  • Principal Sponsor: History of Art and Architecture
  • Contact: Terry Smith (HAA)
 

April 4, 2007

Raúl Ferrera-Balanquet (University of Merida)

  • Sponsored by History of Art and Architecture, College of Arts and Sciences, and Cultural Studies
  • Contact: Miguel Rojas Sotelo (HAA)

 

April 14, 2007

Martin Espada (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)

  • Poetry Reading
  • Principal Sponsor: History
  • Contact: Marcus Rediker (HIST)

 

April 19-21, 2007

The Fifth Annual Cultural Studies Association ( U.S.) Conference

  • Portland, OR (Portland State University)
  • for updated information, see www.csaus.pitt.edu

April 20, 2007

Shail Mayaram (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi)

  • Lecture: "Debating Cosmopolitanism"
  • Principal Sponsor: English
  • Contact: Jonathan Arac (ENG)

May 2007

Russian Film Symposium

               

FALL SEMESTER 2006-2007

October 5, 2006

Alexander Alberro (University of Florida, Gainesville)

  • "Disappearing Element/Disappeared Element: Cannibalism, the Non-object, and Institutional Critique"
  • Principal Sponsor: History of Art and Architecture
  • Contact: Terry Smith (History of Art and Architecture)

 

October 26, 2006

Dumpster (Director, John Rice): screening and talk

Director John Rice and Scriptwriter Jim Daniels will be present to discuss the film after the screening. Dumpster was shot on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University.

  • Principal Sponsor: History and Philosophy of Science, Cultural Studies
  • Contact: Peter Machamer (History and Philosophy of Science)

October 26-28th, 2006

African Novels and the Politics of Form

               

November 2, 2006

Martha Olcott (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC)

November 20, 2006

Daniel Javitch (New York University)

  • "The Repudiation and the Allure of Chivalric Romance in
    Sixteenth-Century Poetics"
  • Principal Sponsor: French and Italian Languages & Literatures
  • Contact: Dennis Looney (Chair, French and Italian)

November 30, 2006

Gayatri Spivak (Columbia University)

  • "3 Women's Texts and a Critique of Reproductive Heteronormativity"
  • Principal Sponsor: boundary 2
  • Contact: Paul Bové (English)

December 6, 2006

Russell McCutcheon (University of Alabama)

  • Graduate Student Symposium: "On the Limits of the Humanistic Study of Religion"
  • Principal Sponsor: Religious Studies
  • Contact: Paula Kane (Religious Studies)

December 7, 2006

Russell McCutcheon (University of Alabama)

  • Lecture: "Religion's Roots and Tangled Branches, or, Fighting the War on Terror with Authentic Fakes"
  • Principal Sponsor: Religious Studies
  • Contact: Paula Kane (Religious Studies)

 

SPRING SEMESTER 2005-2006

 

January 9, 2006

Frank Stern (University of Vienna)

  • "Vienna in the 1920s: Cultural and Social Criticism on the Screen"
  • Principal sponsor: Austrian Cultural Forum
  • Contact: Amy Colin (Germanic)

January 11, 2006

Anthony Krupp (University of Miami)

  • "Damned Babies? Leibniz vs. the Jansenists"
  • Principal sponsor: Germanic Languages and Literatures
  • Contact: John Lyon (Germanic)

January 13, 2006

Alice Kaplan (Duke University)

  • "The Interpreter: Race and Justice in Liberated France, 1944"
  • Principal sponsor: French and Italian
  • Contact: Philip Watts (French and Italian)

February

Memory Speaks! Series: “Alzheimer’s & Lost Moments” and Constance Congdon’s Tales of the Lost Formicans

  • Principal sponsor: Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences
  • Contact: Attilio Favorini (Theatre Arts)

February 17, 2006

Ann Stoler (New School for Social Research)

  • "Habits of a Colonial Heart"
  • Principal sponsor: Sociology
  • Contact: Akiko Hashimoto (Sociology)

February 17, 2006


Marianne Sommer (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich)

  • "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Neanderthal as Image and 'Distortion' in Early 20th-Century French Science and Press"
  • Principal sponsor: Anthropology
  • Contact: Jeffrey Schwartz (Anthropology)

March 21, 2006

Dr. Martin Potschka (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Vienna)

  • "Language Capacity beyond Chomsky and Searle"
  • Principal sponsor: Stan Shostak
  • Contact: Stan Shostak (Biology)

March 31, 2006

Claudia Swan (Northwestern University)

  • "The Ends of Art and the History of Science: Natural History and Its Representation ca. 1600"
  • Principal sponsor: History of Art and Architecture
  • Contact: Kirk Savage (HAA)

April

Memory Speaks! Series: “Memory & Autobiography” and Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa

  • Principal sponsor: Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences
  • Contact: Attilio Favorini (Theatre Arts)

 

April 19-21, 2006

The Fourth Annual Cultural Studies Association ( U.S.) Conference

  • Washington. D.C. (George Mason University, Arlington campus)
  • For updated information, see www.csaus.pitt.edu

April 20, 2006

Ubonrat Siriyuvasak (Communication Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)


  • "Mainstreaming K-Pop: Thai Youth and Music Consumption"
  • Principal sponsor: Music
  • Contact: Andrew Weintraub (Music)

April 24, 2006

Contact Zones and Refractions: From Vico to Benjamin to...?

  • Annual Graduate Student Colloquium
  • Principal sponsor: Cultural Studies
  • Contact: Hermann Herlinghaus (Hispanic)

May 1-6, 2006

White Russian—Black Russian: Race & Ethnicity in Russian Cinema

  • Russian Film Festival
  • For further information, see www.rusfilm.pitt.edu
  • Principal sponsor: REES: Pittsburgh Filmmakers
  • Contact: Vladimir Padunov (Slavic)

 

FALL SEMESTER 2005-2006

 

September 7, 2005

Karl Schlögel (Europe University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder)

  • “Reading Time in Space: The Spatial Turn in Historiography”
  • Principal sponsor: Graduate Program Speaker Series, History
  • Contact: Irina Livazeanu and Gregor Thum (History)

September 24, 2005

Memory Speaks! Series: “Embodied Memory” and Harold Pinter’s Old Times

  • Speakers: Dr. James L. McClelland and Dr. Merlin W. Donald
  • Principal sponsor: Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences
  • Contact: Attilio Favorini (Theatre Arts)

September 27, 2005

Ulrike Landfester (Deutsche Sprache und Literatur, Universität St. Gallen)

  • "Mapping Beauty. Tattooing and the Aesthetics of Liminality"
  • Principal Sponsor: Germanic Languages and Literatures
  • Contact: Clark Muenzer (Germanic)

October 5-27, 2005

Intimate Histories. Italian Film Series

  • Pittsburgh Filmmakers Melwood Screening Room
  • Principal sponsor: Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences
  • Contact: Lina Insana (French and Italian)

October 11, 2005

Susan Willis (Duke University)

  • "To Err on the Side of Life: Guantanamo, Extraordinary Rendition and Terry Schiavo"
  • Principal sponsor: Hispanic Languages and Literatures
  • Contact: John Beverley (Hispanic)

October 18, 2005

David Summers (University of Virginia)

  • "Real Spaces: World Art History and the Rise of Western Modernism"
  • Principal sponsor: History of Art and Architecture
  • Contact: Kirk Savage (HAA)

October 21-22, 2005

Memory, History, and Identity in Bessarabia and Beyond. mini-conference

  • Principal sponsor: Pittsburgh Romanian Studies Group
  • Contacts: Jennifer Cash (Anthropology) and Irina Livezeanu (History)

October 21-22, 2005

Colloquium: Reading Otherwise: The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism

  • Principal sponsor: Hispanic Languages and Literatures
  • Contact: Erin Graff Zivin (Hispanic)

October 24, 2005

David Coury (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay)

  • "Jihad vs. McWorld: Globalization and the Concept of National Literatures"
  • Principal sponsor: Germanic Languages and Literatures
  • Contact: Sabine von Dirke (Germanic)

October 24, 2005

Xu Hong (National Art Gallery of China)

  • "Contemporary Chinese Women's Art "
  • Principal sponsor: Asian Studies Center
  • Contact: Gao Minglu (HAA)

Shui Tianzhong (Research Institute of Fine Arts, China Academy of Arts)

  • "Nationalism in Contemporary Chinese Art "
  • Principal sponsor: Asian Studies Center
  • Contact: Gao Minglu (HAA)

October 26, 2005

Boubacar Boris Diop (independent writer)

  • Principal sponsor: French and Italian Languages & Literatures
  • Contact: Roberta Hatcher (French and Italian)

October 27-29, 2005

International Conference: Comparative Postcolonialities: Aesthetics, History, Locality

October 29, 2005

Memory Speaks! Series: “Memory & Narrative” and William Shakespeare's Pericles

  • Speakers: Suzanne Nalbantian and Attilio Favorini
  • Principal sponsor: Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences
  • Contact: Attilio Favorini (Theatre Arts)

November 2, 2005

Patrick Imbert (Professeur titulaire, Département des Lettres françaises, Université d'Ottawa)

  • "The Girardian Appropriation Mimesis, the Platonic Mimesis and Bhabha’s Mimicry: The Passion for Controlling Representation"
  • Contact: Amy Colin (Germanic)

November 2, 2005

Jan Gross (Princeton University)

  • "Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz, 1944-48"
  • Principal sponsor: History
  • Contact: William Chase (History)

November 3, 2005

Taieb Belghazi (University Mohamed V, Rabat, Morocco)

  • "The Democratic and the Human Rights Narrative in the Context of the New Global Arrangements"
  • Contact: Ronald Judy (English)

November 3-5 and 10-12, 2005

Francophone Film Festival

  • Principal sponsor: French and Italian Languages and Literatures
  • Contact: Roberta Hatcher (French and Italian)

November 11, 2005

Tanja Ostojic, visual artist, performer

  • The Integration Project
  • Principal sponsor: History of Art and Architecture
  • Contact: Miguel Rojas (HAA)

November 17, 2005

Alena Ledeneva (University College London)

  • "How Russia Really Works"
  • Principal sponsor: Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences
  • Contact: Nancy Condee (Slavic)

December 3, 2005

Memory Speaks! Series: “Trauma” and Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind

  • Speaker: Janice Haaken and Mark E. Wheeler
  • Principal sponsor: Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences
  • Contact: Attilio Favorini (Theatre Arts)

December 6, 2005

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (director, Robert Greenwald): screening and talk

  • Principal sponsors: Cultural Studies, Film Studies and the Pittsburgh Anti-Sweatshop Community Alliance
  • Contact: Nancy Condee (Cultural Studies)

December 7, 2005

Ronald Schechter (College of William and Mary)

  • "Conceptions of Terror in the European Enlightment"
  • Principal sponsor: History
  • Contact: William Chase (History)

December 13, 2005

Graduate Students of the History and Slavic Departments

  • Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Stalin But Were Afraid to Ask
  • Principal sponsor: Cultural Studies
  • Contact: Olga Klimova and Tim Schlak (Slavic)

 

FALL SEMESTER 2004-2005

September 29, 2004

El Palenque de San Basilio [From the Stockades of El Palenque]
(Director, Erwin Goggel)
Screening and panel discussion with the director and guest faculty

  • Principal sponsors: Center for Latin American Studies; Hispanic Languages & Literatures
  • Contact: Ligia Aldana (Hispanic Languages & Literatures)

October 5, 2004

Counter-Kissinger: The Other Henry Kissinger Event
Screening of The Trials of Henry Kissinger
(Director, Eugene Jarecki)
Discussion with Christopher Hitchens (Vanity Fair)

  • Principal sponsors: City Paper, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Film Kitchen, Cultural Studies, English, Film Studies, Gypsy Cafe
  • Contact: Nancy Condee (Cultural Studies)

October 14, 2004

Alfred F. Young (Northern Illinois University)
The Twelfth Annual E.P. Thompson Memorial Lecture

  • "The Liberty Tree: Made in America, Lost in America"
  • Principal sponsors: Working-Class History Seminar; Pittsburgh Center for Social History
  • Contact: Marcus Rediker (History)

October 29, 2004

Critical Quarterly Seminar:
David Trotter (Cambridge University)

  • "Parallel Histories: Modernist Literature and Early Cinema"
  • Sponsor: Critical Quarterly
  • Contact: Colin MacCabe (English)

Issac Julien (Harvard University)

  • "Baltimore, Paradise Omeros and True North"
  • Sponsor: Critical Quarterly
  • Contact: Colin MacCabe (English)

November 2, 2004

Elliot Wolfson (Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University)

  • "Othering the Other: Polemic Images of Christianity and Islam in Medieval Kabbalah"
  • Sponsor: Jewish Studies Program
  • Contact: Adam Shear (Religious Studies)

Christina von Braun (Humboldt University)

  • "Gender and Media: The Alphabet and the Symbolic Gender Order"
  • Sponsor: Germanic Languages & Literatures
  • Contact: Amy Colin (Germanic Languages & Literatures)

November 4-6, 2004

Modernity and Contemporaneity: Antinomies of Art and Culture After the 20th Century

  • Principal sponsors: The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Heinz Endowments, Office of the Provost, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences
  • Contacts: Terry Smith (History of Art & Architecture), Okwui Enwezor (History of Art & Architecture), Nancy Condee (Slavic Languages & Literatures)
  • For information and online registration, see www.mc.pitt.edu

November 18, 2004

David Galloway (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)

  • "Crosses in the Sky: The Christianform's War on Godless Communism"
  • Principal sponsor and contact: David Birnbaum (Slavic Languages & Literatures)

Saul Ostrow (Cleveland Institute of Art)

  • "Rehearsing Revolution and Life: Walter Benjamin and the End of the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
  • Principal sponsor and contact: James Thomas (Germanic Languages & Literatures)

December 1, 2004

Carol Leonard (St. Antony's, Oxford University)

  • "Putin and Property Rights"
  • Commentary by Daniel Berkowitz (Economics)
  • Sponsors: Cultural Studies, GSPIA and REES
  • Contact: Nancy Condee (Slavic Languages & Literatures)

December 3, 2004

Alex Drace-Francis (SSEES, University College London)

  • "Who Invented Europe? An 18th Century View from Transylvania in European Context"
  • Principal sponsor and contact: Irina Livezeanu (History)

SPRING SEMESTER 2004-2005

January 21, 2005

E. Ann Matter (Chair of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania)

  • "De cura feminarum: Augustine the Bishop, North African Women, and the Development of a Theology of Female Nature"
  • Sponsor: Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program
  • Contact: Kellie Robertson (Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program)

February 13-27, 2005

Through Polish Eyes: The Best in Contemporary Polish Cinema

February 21, 2005

Ian Christie (Anniversary Professor of Film and Media History, Birkbeck College, University of London)

  • "The Most Important Art/New Perspectives on Eisenstein, Vertov and Malevich and the the Struggle for Artistic Supremacy in 1920s Russia"
  • Sponsor: Film Studies
  • Contact: Vladimir Padunov (Film Studies)

February 24, 2005

Larry Venturi (Translation Studies, Temple University)

  • "Translation Theory"
  • Sponsor: French and Italian Languages & Literatures
  • Contact: Lina Insana (French and Italian Languages & Literatures)

Steven Connor (Birkbeck College, University of London)

  • "Thermotaxis: On Air, Heat and Culture"
  • Sponsor: Cultural Studies
  • Principal contact: Nancy Condee (Cultural Studies)

February 25-26, 2005

REES Second Annual Graduate Student Conference

  • Shifting Borders: Political and Cultural Boundaries in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia
  • Katerina Clark (Slavic, Yale University)
  • Principal sponsor: Center for Russian and East European Studies
  • Contact: Robert Hayden (REES)

March 3, 2005

Gino Strada (founder of Emergency)

  • "Green Parrots: A War Surgeon's Journal" Talk and book presentation
  • Sponsor: French and Italian Languages & Literatures
  • Contact: Dennis Looney (French and Italian Languages & Literatures)

March 17, 2005

Kenneth Kendler (Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics)

  • "Psychiatric Genetics: A Current Perspective"
  • Principal sponsors: Cultural Studies Program and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC)
  • Contacts: Nancy Condee (Cultural Studies) and Peter Strick (CNBC)

March 18-19, 2005

Jacques Rancière: Aesthetics and Politics International conference

  • Sponsor: French and Italian Languages & Literatures
  • Contact: Phil Watts (French and Italian Languages & Literatures)

April 6, 2005

Thomas Lesch Schmidt (Schott Verlag and Suhrkamp Verlag)

  • "Tay-Sachs: Allegedly Jewish Genetic Disease"
  • Principal sponsor and contact: Amy Colin (Germanic Languages & Literatures)

April 7-10, 2005

Music and Cultural Rights

  • Principal Sponsor: Ford Foundation
  • Contact: Bell Yung (Music)

April 8-9, 2005

Love of Country: Working Symposium

  • Principal Sponsor: UCIS
  • Contacts: Donna Gabaccia (History), Giuseppina Mecchia (French and Italian Languages & Literatures), Paula Kane (Religious Studies)

April 21-24, 2005

Sex, Race, and Globalization. Third Annual Meeting: Cultural Studies Association (U.S.), Tuscon, AZ


April 23 , 2005

The Enigmatic Image
Symposium in honor of Daniel Russell

  • Guest speakers: Didier Course (Hood College), David Graham (Memorial University, Newfoundland), Lawrence Grove (University of Glasgow), and Nicolas Russell (Smith College)
  • Principal sponsor: French and Italian Languages & Literatures
  • Contact: Phil Watts (French and Italian Languages & Literatures)

April 25 , 2005

Joseph Buttigeig (William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor, English, Notre
Dame University)

  • "Is It Imperialism? Is It Hegemony? Does It Matter?
  • Contact: Paul Bové (English)


Barrington Anthony Bogues (Royce Professor of Teaching Excellence and Chair of Africana Studies, Brown University)

  • "States of Exception, American Exceptionalism, and the Empire of Liberty"
  • Contact: Paul Bové (English)

April 26 , 2005

Annual Graduate Student Colloquium: Empire
Barrington Anthony Bogues (Brown University) and Joseph Buttigieg (Notre Dame University)

  • Contact: Paul Bové (English)

May 2-7, 2005

The Yellow House of Cinema: Russian Film Symposium

  • Principal sponsors: REES, Pittsburgh Filmmakers
  • Contact: Vladimir Padunov (Slavic Languages & Literatures)
  • For further information, see www.rusfilm.pitt.edu

 

Institutional Affiliations of Guest Speakers

National:
Brown University

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Cleveland Institute of Art
Columbia University
Duke University
Emory University
Harvard University
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Hood College
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Maryland Art Institute
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

New School for Social Research
New School University
New York University
Notre Dame University
Northern Illinois University

Northwestern University

Princeton University
Smith College
State University of New York at Buffalo
Temple University
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Chicago

University of Miami
University of Pennsylvania
University of Virginia

University of Wisconsin, Green Bay

Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio

William and Mary College
Yale University

International:
Birkbeck College, University of London
Cambridge University
Catholic University of São Paulo
Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
Centre de sociologie de l'innovation, Ecole national supérieure des mines, Paris

Chulalongkorn University (Thailand)

Europe University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder

Humbol dt University

International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Vienna

Memorial College , Newfoundland

National Art Gallery of China
Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Research Institute of Fine Arts, China Academy of Arts
Schott Verlag and Suhrkamp Verlag
St. Antony's, Oxford

Swiss Federal Institute of Technolgoy Zurich
Universität St. Gallen

Universität Wien

Université de Paris, 8

Université d'Ottawa

University College, London

University Mohamed V, Rabat Morocco

University of Glasgow
University of Melbourne

Whitechapel Gallery, London

CO-SPONSORS:

University of Pittsburgh co-sponsors:
Anthropology

Asian Studies Center

Biology

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Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (University of Pittsburgh/
Carnegie Mellon University)
Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences
English
Film Studies Program
French and Italian Languages and Literatures
Germanic Languages and Literatures
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
Hispanic Languages and Literatures
History
History of Art and Architecture
Jewish Studies Program

Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program
Music
Office of the Provost
Religious Studies
Russian and East European Studies Center
Slavic Languages and Literatures

Sociology

Theatre Arts
University Center for International Studies

Outside co-sponsors:
Austrian Cultural Forum

Andy Warhol Museum
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Museum of Art
City for the Cultures of Peace
City Paper
Film Kitchen
Gypsy Cafe
The Heinz Endowments
Mattress Factory
Miller Gallery

Pittsburgh Anti-Sweatshop Community Alliance
Pittsburgh Filmmakers

Pittsburgh Romanian Studies Group
The Pittsburgh Foundation
Working-Class History Seminar

 

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