University of Pittsburgh Global Studies Center, Center for Russian and East European Studies
One of the core assumptions underpinning the EU’s operations is that the implementation of the human rights principles is crucial for democratization processes and for coming to terms with the past, in particular in post-conflict settings. However, despite these efforts, nationalism, which opposes the uniform standardization of global rights, still remains the most potent ideology across the globe, in particular in conflict and post-conflict settings.
The 28 member states of the European Union have faced considerable challenges of late as hundreds of thousands of migrants flood the land and sea borders to enter Europe. It is clear that the members do not all agree on how to handle the crisis. But the movement of people continues unabated. And with no end in sight to the conflicts that prompt many people to make their way to Europe at any cost, it is likely to continue for some time.
Global Engagement and Leadership Luncheon on the occasion of the 84th Annual Meeting
John T. Ryan Memorial Lecture
Dr. Colin P. Clarke, Associate Political Scientist, RAND Corporation
As Syria continues to be shattered by its civil war, the U.S. and Russia are at odds about the best strategy to stabilize this nation. Neighboring states are sharing the brunt of the ongoing crisis and there is the need to reach negotiations quickly.
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412-281-7970 or email welcome@worldpittsburgh.org.
University of Pittsburgh Center for International Studies
Come join the discussion of Russian Intervention in Syria featuring Professor Mark N. Katz, Professor of Government and Politics from George Mason University.
Organized by the Consortium for Christian-Muslim Dialogue (CCMD) of Duquesne University in collaboration with the Turkish Cultural Center of Pittsburgh.
Father Stephen Concordia, O.S.B., Director of Programs in Sacred Music at Saint Vincent College, and Professor Sadık Kara of Fatih University, Istanbul, will discuss the place of music in Christian and Muslim life.
Free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
Contact:
Emad Mirmotahari at mirmotaharie@duq.edu or 412.396.6420
University Lecture Series, the Department of History/Global Studies, The Center for International Relations and Politics, J Street Pittsburgh, The University of Pittsburgh Global Studies Center, and the Consortium for Educational Resources on Islamic Stud
Toward a Non-violent Solution to the Palestinian -Israeli Conflict
OCMES, Baldwin Wallace Univer- sity, Case Western Reserve University, and Kent State University
International news media called Ahmet Yildiz’s murder the "first Turkish gay honor killing." The crime and the discourses that unfolded in its aftermath speak to racializing narratives within Turkey, as well as across transnational queer circuits, and to the imagined transnational division of labor between the domestic and the public, where the relationship between sex and violence is used to shore up the West as the place of stranger danger by establishing the so-called "East" as the location of family violence.
The Consortium for Christian–Muslim Dialogue invites local faculty, students, and members of the general public to the “Religion & Society Lecture Series” of monthly talks. The series has been organized in collaboration with the Turkish Cultural Center of Pittsburgh, which will provide refreshments.