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Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
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Gender and Politics in South Asia: The First Annual Indian Politics Workshop of the Center on Contemporary India at UC Berkeley
May 6 Agenda:
9 - 10:30 am
Conversations with Public Leaders (Keynote Panel)
Moderator: Jennifer Bussell (UC Berkeley)
Panelists: Nina Singh (Indian Police Service, Rajasthan), Janet Napolitano (UC Berkeley)

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

Panel Discussion | May 5 | 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. | Zoom Event

Moderator: Jennifer Bussell, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy; Director, Center on Contemporary India

Sponsors: Institute for South Asia Studies, Department of Political Science, The Center on Contemporary India

The Center on Contemporary India is delighted to launch the annual Indian Politics Workshop (IPW). The inaugural workshop is a 2-day event and is titled Gender and Politics in South Asia.
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Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

Join Pitt's Muslim staff, faculty and students as they share their traditions, discuss their efforts to break barriers, build bridges and promote interfaith understanding during the holy month of Ramadan

For each participate that attends, the Muslim Affinity Group will make at $10 donation to the Pitt Food Pantry.

Presented by the Pitt Interfaith Dialogue and the Muslim Affinity Group in collaboration with the Muslim Association at Pitt.

Register: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_M-KWvnukSNCtD0Xn_F3Ycw

Activism, Civil Society, and the Marginalized: A Human Rights Panel on Crimea Today
MODERATOR:
Trevor Erlacher, , Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University o fPittsburgh
SPEAKERS
Kateryna Busol, Center for Defense Strategies
Mumine Saliyeva, , Crimean Solidarity Civic Initiative, Crimea
Tamila Tasheva, Mission of the President of Ukraine in Crimea
Maria Tomak, Media Initiative for HumanRights (MIHR) in Ukraine

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION:
Crimea:Embattled Homeland, Suspended Lives

MODERATOR
Vladimir Padunov, Slavic Languages and Literatures and Film Studies, University of Pittsburgh
SPEAKERS
Alim Aliev, Ukrainian Institute
Austin Charron, Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Rory Finnin, Ukrainian Studies, University of Cambridge
Mykola Gnatovsky, Taras Shevchenko NationalUniversity, Kyiv
Nataliya Gumenyuk
Author of Lost Island: Dispatchesfrom Occupied Crimea

Review of film: "Visually striking, but narratively undernourished, the father-and-son-bonding drama “Homeward” unfolds against the backdrop of a fraught road trip from Kyiv to Russia-annexed Crimea and marks a flawed debut from young Ukrainian helmer-writer Nariman Aliev, a Crimean Tatar. Indeed, the plight of Crimean Tatars (both historically and currently) forms an important element of the plot.