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Pitt hosts conference on the future of international and area studies

The University of Pittsburgh welcomed leading scholars and practitioners working across international and foreign language education this May to…

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PITTWIRE: Bracuí Community Engagement Partnership Earns Partnership of Distinction Award

Active for more than two decades, the partnership is anchored through Pitt's Center for Latin American Studies in the University Center for…

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Professor’s ‘In Slavery’s Wake’ exhibit provides immersion into trans-Atlantic slave trade

In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a traveling multimedia exhibit, co-conceived and curated by a Pitt faculty member, on the history of the global slave…