Sponsorships

Given CLST’s mission to foster interdisciplinary inquiry and cultural critique, it reaches out to other university units and beyond to co-sponsor a range of events.

Co-sponsorships during 2015-2016 included:

1. September 3, 2016: “Welcome back reception for faculty and grad students in GSWS” – Sponsored by: GSWS, Jewish Studies, Medieval and Renaissance studies program 
 
2. September 22-24; October 20-22, 2016: “European Literature in the 19th century: Between Nation and Market with Olivier Delers and Silvana Patriarca” – Sponsored by: Office of the Dean of Graduate studies, EUCE, Humanities Center, and Department of French and Italian 
 
3. October 2-3, 2015: “Screening Politics: Affect, Identity, and Uprising – Film Studies GSO Conference” – Sponsored by Film Studies Graduate Student Organization.
 
4. October 9-10, 2015: “Hispanic Grad Conference: (des)articulaciones 2015” – Sponsored by: Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Office of the Provost, Center for Latin American Studies, Humanities Center, Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, John Beverley, and Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Organization 
 
5. October 29-30, 2015: “FRIT 50th Anniversary Celebration” – Sponsored by: Center for Russian and East European Studies and International Week along with Humanities Center, The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Year of the Humanities in the University 
 
6. November 5, 2015: “The Mitzvah Project with Roger Grunwald” – Sponsored by: The University of Pittsburgh: Department of German, Jewish Studies Program, the Theater Arts Department, the European Union Center of Excellence/ European Studies, The Humanities Center, the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences; Hillel-Jewish University Center; the City for the Cultures of Peace: International Interdisciplinary Institute 
 
7. November 6, 2015: “An American in Madras with Neepa Majumdar” – Sponsored by: Film Studies Program, Indo-Pacific Council (Asian Studies Center), Department of English
 
8. November 13, 2015: "The Determinant of Female Participation in Labor Market(s) in EU Countries," by ESC Italian Fulbright Professor Raffaella Patimo – Sponsored by ECS, UCIS 
 
9. November 16, 2015: “Celebrating 50 Years of the Slavic Department with Sergey Gandlevsky” – Sponsored by: Center for Russian and East European Studies and International Week along with Humanities Center, The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures 
 
10. December 3, 2015: “Texts with External Objectives with Roman Osminkin” – Sponsored by: Center for Russian and East European Studies along with Humanities Center, The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures 
 
11. January 15, 2016: “Versailles: Space, Power, Memory with Claire Goldstein” – Sponsored by: Year of the Humanities, Architectural Studies Program, the Department of History of Art and Architecture, the Department of French and Italian, Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Department of History, the Department of Sociology, and the Humanities Center 
 
12. February 5, 2016: “The Origins of Jazz and the End of Jazz Writing with Brent Hayes Edwards” – Sponsored by: Department of English, Year of the Humanities in the University, Humanities Center 
 
13. February 9, 2016: “Ferguson Syllabus with Marcia Chatelain” – Sponsored by: Departments of History and Africana Studies and the Humanities Center
 
14. February 22, 2016: “Infrastructural Democracy? with Brian Holmes” – Sponsored by: Global Studies Center, The Humanities Center, the Provost's Year of the Humanities Initiative, the Department of English, the Department of History of Art and Architecture, and the Department of Studio Arts at the University of Pittsburgh, and Global Studies at Carnegie Mellon University 
 
15. March 17, 2016: “Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival: Faces of Conflict” – Sponsored by: { http://www.cmu.edu/faces/sponsorlist.html
 
16. March 18-20, 2016: “Ilya Kukulin Visit: Elise Thorsen PhD Defense”  – Sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
 
17. March 23, 2016: “Lecture: Farah Jasmine Griffin, Columbia University (Music department)” – Sponsored by: the Year of the Humanities, the Department of Music, the Department of English, and the Humanities Center 
 
18. March 28, 2016: “Cotemporary Writing in Israel: Can you Avoid Politics? with Assaf Gavron” – Sponsored by: Carnegie Mellon University: Global Studies Program, Department of History, and Department of English; University of Pittsburgh: English Department, Humanities Center, and Global Studies Center; J-Street Pittsburgh; City of Asylum
 
19. March 31 – April 2, 2016: “Doing the Body in the 21st Century Conference (GSWS)” – Sponsored by: Bioethics Program; Department of Communication; Department of English; Department of Sociology; Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program; Humanities Center; Year of the Humanities 
 
20. April 4 – 6, 2016: “Text as Process Symposium” – Sponsored by: Department of Classics, Department of Communication, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Department of English Department of French and Italian, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Department of Music Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Theatre Arts, Faculty Research Support Program, Roggiano Fund 
 
21. April 29, 2016: “Film, Criteria, and Judgement – Dan Morgan Lecture” – Sponsored by: Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Film Studies Program, and Humanities Center 
 
22. May 13-14, 2016: “Society for Novel Studies Conference” – Sponsored by: NOVEL and the Society for Novel Studies, Novel: A Forum on Fiction; The University of Pittsburgh: Dietrich School Graduate Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship Program, The Year of the Humanities in the University (Office of the Provost), Humanities Center, Center for Latin American Studies, European Studies Center, Graduate Program for Cultural Studies, Department of English, Department of French and Italian Languages and Literatures, Department of German, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Charles Crow Chair of English David Bartholomae, Distinguished Professor Paul Bové (Department of English), Distinguished Professor Colin MacCabe (Department of English)
 
PITT UNIT SUPPORT FOR THE ANNUAL CLST “BIG EVENT”: Keywords Lecture Series
Humanities Center
Keywords Project Pitt and Jesus College, Cambridge)
Year of the Humanities Program