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Calling all Pitt graduate students!📢 UCIS is hiring an Engagement Communications and Simulations Intern for Fall 2024/Spring 2025.🌍 Apply now for this hybrid on-campus/remote opportunity and contact Zita Toth-Shawgo (zita.toth-shawgo@pitt.edu) with any questions.

Friendly reminder that next Tuesday (6/4) Pitt will host a concert featuring talented Ukrainian artists and war veterans who served in the military during Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine. Mark your calendars and join us in solidarity next Tuesday to show your support. 🇺🇦

Students- the first information session for the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations is two days away (this Wednesday, 5/29)! Don't forget to attend and get all of your questions answered about this wonderful opportunity.

Another opportunity for advanced Ph.D. and master's students: ASU’s Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies is now accepting applications for an academic and professional writing online workshop.✍️📝 Follow the link for more info: melikian.asu.edu/jobs

🚨Attention REEES students at Pitt! 🚨Our center wants to draw your attention to the following opportunity: the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Attend one of the following virtual office hours sessions to learn more, and consider becoming a member today!

Please join us for this concert featuring talented Ukrainian artists and war veterans who served in the military during Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine. Mark your calendars for June 4 and attend to show your support.

Pitt's 2024 New East Film Symposium will begin this Thursday and continue into the weekend!📽️ The 3-day screening of films—spatially from the REEES region; temporally from the recent Putin years (2019-2023)—examines the impact of state assault on private irreplaceability.

Happy graduation day, UCIS students! 🎓🎉 Congratulations on all of your hard work. Our center can't wait to see the difference you make in the world with your regional certificates. #pittgrad2024 #H2P #pittglobalgrad

The University of Pittsburgh’s New East Film Symposium is happening next weekend, from May 2-4! This year's theme is “Home After State Violence” and examines the concept of ‘home’ in the wake of acts of state brutality. Register now to secure your spot: neweastcinema.pitt.edu

It's graduation week, students! 🥳 As you look towards the future, our center wants to remind you of these three wonderful opportunities, whose application deadlines are quickly approaching. Don't forget to apply now!

TODAY at noon (4/16) Pitt's Center for Governance and Markets will host Till Mostowlansky for a discussion on his latest work, "Transforming Landscapes of Aid: How Gulf Business, the War in Ukraine, and Equestrian Sports Change Small-Town Kyrgyzstan.

Friendly Reminder that TODAY (4/15) is the last day to RSVP for this event! Scan the QR code to register and join the Muslim Affinity Group for lunch in the Global Hub on April 17th to celebrate Eid al-Fitr!

🚨Happening TODAY at 4:30 p.m.🚨 Join our center in Room 1500 of Posvar Hall for a screening and moderated discussion of the documentary film, "Navalny" to commemorate the life of political activist, Aleksei Navalny.

Join our center TOMORROW (4/12) for a commemorative screening of Daniel Roher’s 2022 documentary, "Navalny." Following the film, Dmitry Bykov, an exiled writer, poet, and journalist who (like Navalny) was poisoned (though unsuccessfully), will lead a discussion.

Our center wants to draw your attention to another wonderful event that is happening this Friday (4/12).📆 Pitt will host renowned rhetoric professor Ekaterina Haskins to discuss her latest book, "Remembering the War, Forgetting the Terror." Participation is encouraged!

Tomorrow (4/10) Dr. Olga Kim, an Alumni from Pitt's Slavic Department, will be giving a lecture on Sergei Parajanov's cinematographic style. Parajanov has been regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in cinema history.

This Friday (4/12), join our center in honoring the life of Russian lawyer and political activist, Aleksei Navalny, through a screening and discussion of the documentary film "Navalny." The film will be introduced, and the discussion will be led by Dmitry Bykov.

This Friday (4/5), join Tatyana Gershkovich in her discussion on how the Soviets and the Russian émigré community used Leo Tolstoy’s work as an instrument for their own purposes. The lecture begins at 4 p.m. in 246A Baker/Porter Hall on CMU's campus. Participation is encouraged.

Our center wants to bring your attention to two wonderful events happening TODAY! (1) At 12 p.m. our center’s own Zsuzsanna Magdo will moderate a panel on the Roma in Europe. (2) At 2:30 p.m., A panel will discuss providing health services in humanitarian emergencies.

Next Tuesday (4/2) our center’s very own Zsuzsanna Magdo will moderate this panel on the development and inclusion of the Roma in Europe. Register: ow.ly/S3z050QYZNA