University of Pittsburgh Calendar of Events, Feb. 3-9
The following events are open to the public.
FILM
Anime Film Series, showing of film Akira set in Neo-Tokyo in the year 2019 follows a biker with psychic powers, 7 p.m. Feb. 5, The ToonSeum, 945 Liberty Avenue, Downtown, Pitt Asian Studies Center, visit www.ucis.pitt.edu/asc/animefestival/index.html for more information.
LECTURES
“Shale Gas: From Poland to Pennsylvania,” Dimiter Kenarov, fellow at the Pulitzer Center in Washington D.C., 7 p.m. Feb. 5, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, European Union Center of Excellence/European Studies, Global Studies center, Center for Russian and East European Studies, contact Eleni Valliant (env1@pitt.edu) for more information.
“Firefights and Foot Patrols: Documenting America's Engagement in Afghanistan and Iraq,” Carmen Gentile, foreign correspondent for the New York Times, USA Today, and other publications, noon Feb. 6, 3911 Wesley W. Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland, Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies, contact Beverly Brizzi (beb38@pitt.edu) for more information.
“Negotiating Decay, Delay, and Debt: Speculation and Time-Travel in South India's Grocery Trade,” Laura C. Brown, Pitt assistant professor of anthropology, noon Feb. 6, 4130 Wesley W. Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St. Oakland, Pitt’s Asian Studies Center, Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series, contact Adam Reger (reger@pitt.edu) for more information.
“Shale gas in Poland and Europe,” Dimiter Kenarov, fellow at the Pulitzer Center in Washington, D.C., noon Feb. 6, 4217 Wesley W. Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St. Oakland, European Union Center of Excellence/European Studies, Global Studies center, Center for Russian and East European Studies, contact Eleni Valliant (env1@pitt.edu) for more information.
“In the Center of Europe, But on the Fringe? Liechtenstein and European Integration,” Claudia Fritsche, ambassador of Liechtenstein to the United States, noon Feb. 7, 4217 Wesley W. Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St. Oakland, free and open to the public but contact Allyson Delnore (adelnore@pitt.edu) to RSVP.
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