Past Events
- H.E. Andrei Muraru
- Alumni Hall 531
Andrei Muraru was appointed as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Romania to the United States on July 7, 2021. Ambassador Muraru has held positions at the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile (IICCMER); the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Romania and was also personal advisor to the General Director of the National Archives of Romania (CNSAS). Ambassaro Muraru was a member of the Administrative Board of the Romanian Television. He was Senior Advisor to the President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis, at the Presidential Administration, serving as the head of the Department of Relationship with Public Authorities and Civil Society. Ambassador Muraru was awarded the ”Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana” by the President of the Italian Republic, H.E. Sergio Mattarella. Ambassador Muraru holds a PhD in History from the University “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” in Iași. He was an Erasmus-Socrates student at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, as well as a Doctoral Fellow at New Europe College and at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He received a postdoctoral fellowship at Yad Vashem - The International Institute for Holocaust Research. Ambassador Muraru is the author of the volume “Vișinescu, the Forgotten Torturer: the Prison, the Crimes, the Trial.”
- Cathedral Commons Room
The 41st Annual Polishfest is designed to give the festival guests, families, and students an opportunity to experience the living cultures of the Polish, Lithuanian and Carpatho-Rusyn Peoples that throughout history were joined, separated and independently are connected. A living legacy presented to teach, to experience, to taste, to try and to have fun. This family-oriented event is FREE to everyone and will include many activities such as Polish name writing; Lithuanian angel papercutting demonstration; pierogi / pirohy cooking demonstrations and samples; and Carpatho-Rusyn spinning and lace making; and a pierogi toss. Every display, demonstration, and activity will offer an explanation of the cultural history of the tradition. Entertainment will include Polish folk songs with a violinist; a Lithuanian choir with Bocjai folk songs; Polish Karazula folk songs and folk dancing by the “Lajkoniki” Ensemble; Polka dancing; and contemporary Polish music.
- Rob Mucklo
- Global Hub
- Molly McSweeney
- Global Hub
Are you looking to gain experience that will help prepare you for a globally-connected job market? Stop by Drop-In Hours to learn more about getting the Global Distinction added to your academic transcript, receiving special recognition at graduation, and standing out to prospective employers! NOTE: Fall 2023 Global Distinction Drop-In Hours: Tuesdays at 3:30-4:30 pm, except on November 21. On November 7, Global Distinction Drop-in Hours will take place at 3-4 pm.
- Rob Mucklo
- Global Hub
- Rob Mucklo
- Global Hub
Lecture: Paradoxical Bodies: Responsibility, Morality and Culture in Weight Loss Surgeries in Israel
- Dr. Hilla Nehushtan
- 144 English Room
“Paradoxical Bodies: Responsibility, Morality and Culture in Weight Loss Surgeries in Israel”
The 2023 Israel Heritage Room Lecture will be given by Dr. Hilla Nehushtan, the current Israel Institute teaching fellow at the Jewish Studies Program of the University of Pittsburgh. She specializes in critical medical anthropology, exploring the intersection between health, gender, and culture through the prism of weight loss practices. Her dissertation ethnographically studies a weight loss surgery clinic in Israel; it won the prize for best Ph.D. dissertation by The Israeli Anthropological Association (IAA). Dr. Nehushtan is currently teaching courses on Modern Israel, Health in Israel, and Body Size Around the Globe.
The social and cultural constructions of body size affect many aspects of daily life: how larger-bodied people are treated by their family and peers; discrimination against larger-bodied people in the workplace and the fashion industry; how people are judged while eating in public; the ways children and adolescents are socialized to dislike their bodies; the ever-growing diet industry, and biomedical perspectives that influence all the rest. Dr. Nehushtan advocates a more nuanced listening to both patients and medical professionals. Her research, conducted in Israel, is resonant with American practice as well.
Dr. Nehushtan’s Israel Heritage Room talk will be given at 4 pm on Sunday, November 5, 2023, in the English Nationality Room, 144 Cathedral of Learning.
- Cathedral Commons Room
- Dr. Anna Rosenweig
- Frick Fine Arts Building
WHAT ARE KINGS MADE OF?
RETHINKING THE ROYAL BODY
IN EARLY MODERN FRANCE
Dr. Anna Rosensweig
University of Rochester
Anna Rosensweig is Associate Professor of French and the Director of the Graduate Program in Visual & Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. Rosensweig’s scholarship and teaching focus on early modern literature and culture, the intersections of literature and political theory, and performance studies.
Dr. Rosensweig's lecture will address civic endurance in France through fountains, statues, coins, and royal bodies.
- 4130 Posvar
- Rob Mucklo
- Global Hub
- Molly McSweeney
- Global Hub
Are you looking to gain experience that will help prepare you for a globally-connected job market? Stop by Drop-In Hours to learn more about getting the Global Distinction added to your academic transcript, receiving special recognition at graduation, and standing out to prospective employers! Fall 2023 Global Distinction Drop-In Hours: Tuesdays at 3:30-4:30 pm, except on November 21.
- Rob Mucklo
- Global Hub
- Rob Mucklo
- Global Hub
- Croghan Schenley Ballroom, Cathedral of Learning, First Floor, Room 156
This experience offers a unique perspective on the events that led to the founding of the Republic of Turkey as seen through the lens of American newspaper clippings. An exhibition curating and contextualizing American newspaper coverage of the transformative events between 1918 and 1923 that led to the birth of the Republic of Turkey
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