Past Events

Apr
04
Ensemble Linea: Concert of Pitt Student Compositions
Monday, April 4, 2016 - 8:00pm
Bellefield Auditorium

Arguably the best contemporary music ensemble in France today, Ensemble Linea, a seven-member performance ensemble, will be in residence at the University of Pittsburgh from March 31 through April 5, 2016. The goal of the residency is to foster a deeper understanding of current trends in the European musical avant-garde as well as to create an international dialogue revolving around the current state of contemporary music, art, and technology globally. This event will feature Ensemble Linea performing pieces composed by Pitt music students.

Apr
05
Creativity and Innovation in Business: An Artist's Perspective (Titusville)
Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Mr. Ray Yeager, Associate Professor of Art, at the University of Charleston, will present a talk entitled “Creativity and Innovation in Business: An Artist's Perspective.” Mr. Yeager currently teaches a required course in creativity to business students at his home institution. He will meet with business students during the morning and late afternoon of April 5 during business classes. We are also asking him to be the guest speaker for the Free Enterprise Luncheon that is held annually for Titusville area business leaders. Students will also be invited to attend that luncheon.

Apr
05
Schenley Bridge Last Lecture Series: Bill Strickland (CANCELLED)
Tuesday, April 5, 2016

The Schenley Bridge Last Lecture Series invites Pitt professors and important local figures to speak on a topic they are passionate about and share the wisdom and knowledge of a lifetime in one hour as their "last lecture." This lecture will feature Bill Strickland, President and CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corporation.

[NOTE: This event has been cancelled. We are working to reschedule for the fall.]

Apr
06
What Does it Mean to Be Curious?---What Is Curiosity in Action?
Wednesday, April 6, 2016 - 8:00pm

The last in the popular "What Does it Mean to be Curious?" conversations, this event will focus on what curiosity looks like in action. Do artists, scientists, and intellectuals practice curiosity the same way? If so, what does that look like? How does curiosity differ across these fields?

Apr
07
Humanities in Health Conference
Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 9:00am
University Club

This conference will focus on increasing the visiblity of the humanities and their importance to the successful practice of medicine. The conference is designed to underline the role of humanities in improving the practice of medicine and highlight already existing teaching and research collaborations.

Apr
07
Acceptance Journeys Pittsburgh: Panel Discussion
Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 11:00am
Humanities Center, 602 Cathedral of Learning

Acceptance Journeys Pittsburgh is a project aimed at promoting disease prevention in marginalized populations through community-level stigma reduction. This panel discussion will feature the designers and implementers of Acceptance Journeys Pittsburgh and Acceptance Journeys Milwaukee as they outline the ways that the formative research, design, implementation, and evaluation surrounding the project relate to and draw from the fields of social work, communications, marketing and advertising, art and design, public health, and humanities fields such as religious studies, English, sociology, anthropology, social psychology, and gender, sexuality and women’s studies.

Apr
07
Emotion: An Interdisciplinary Symposium
Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 3:00pm
Martin Auditorium, 4th Floor, Sennott Square

This symposium will describe cross-disciplinary approaches to the conceptualizations and study of emotion. The event will feature Daniel Gross, Associate Professor of English, University of California at Irvine; Stephanie Preston, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan; and Jeffrey Cohn, Professor of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh.

Apr
08
1989 China/Avant-Garde Exhibition – from Gao Minglu Archive
Friday, April 8, 2016 to Monday, October 31, 2016
Hillman Library

Opening for an exhibit titled "1989 China/Avant-Garde Exhibition – from Gao Minglu Archive." The exhibit will be held in Hillman Library from April to October, 2016. The exhibition provides a glimpse into the vast number and variety of primary documentations collected by Gao Minglu, a research professor at the University of Pittsburgh and a foremost contemporary Chinese art historian, scholar, critic, and curator.

Apr
08
Being Human: An Original Devisted Theater Project (Bradford)
Friday, April 8, 2016 - 12:00pm
Studio Theater, Blaisdell Hall

One of the dilemmas of this era of mass incarceration is dehumanization, both in maintaining one's humanity through imprisonment and a potentially long afterlife of second-class citizenship, and in continuing to see felons and ex-convicts as fully human in our society. This original devised theater project is the outcome of the theatre program at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford in conjunction with the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford Prison Education Program and FCI McKean to explore and express the notion of Being Human in a prison setting.

Apr
08
Bodies in Motion: An Exhibit and Lecture by Tim Kaulen
Friday, April 8, 2016 -
12:00pm to 4:00pm
407 Cathedral of Learning

This exhibit and lecture are part of the Bodies in Motion project, which is a partnership between the Film Studies Program and the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.

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