Events Calendar

Arts & Sciences Events

March 24 - April 22, 2023

Friday, March 24

24 Mar
Rep. La'Tasha D. Mayes

"Looking Back, Looking Forward: 50 Years of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at Pitt." The Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program (GSWS)...

March 24, 2023 9:00 a.m.
24 Mar
Spring Cathedral

Biological Sciences PhD Defense: Investigating the drivers and impacts of phenological timing in invaded plant communities Advisor: Dr. Martin M....

March 24, 2023 11:00 a.m.
24 Mar
Astro Lunch Seminar: Aviva Rothman (Case Western Reserve University)

The Dawn of Modern Cosmology Abstract: In the late fifteenth century, the earth stood motionless at the center of a relatively small, hierarchically-ordered...

March 24, 2023 12:00 p.m.
24 Mar
Spring Cathedral

Please join us to support Neil Silveus as he defends his PhD Dissertation, "Essays in Public Economics and Empirical Political Economy"

March 24, 2023 1:00 p.m.
24 Mar
Portrait of doctoral candidate Brian Pardo

Post-Newtonian Gravitational Dynamics from Effective Field Theory Abstract: Gravitational wave astronomy is rapidly maturing into a standard tool to study...

March 24, 2023 3:00 p.m.
24 Mar
Annual Rockman Lecture

Jamie Druckman Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research Northwestern...

24 Mar
Medical Abortion Webinar Panel

Panelists include Nikki Terney (Director of Abortion Care at Allegheny Reproductive Health Center), Danny O'Byrne (First-year Pitt law student, member of...

March 24, 2023 4:00 p.m.

Saturday, March 25

25 Mar
Workshop on Value Theory at Princeton University

Join Nandi Theunissen for a workshop on value theory at Princeton's Center for Human Values: March 25, 2023

March 25, 2023 9:00 a.m.
25 Mar
Love on the Lawn

This Saturday, from 3-6:30 pm on the Cathedral of Learning Lower Lawn, Pitt Tonight will be hosting a benefit concert celebrating our Pride Week and Women’s...

March 25, 2023 3:00 p.m.

Monday, March 27

27 Mar
Graduate program info session - MQE Capstone and Curriculum

Learn more about the Master of Science in Quantitative Economics during this free online information session. Hear from MQE Director Randall Walsh about the...

March 27, 2023 10:00 a.m.
Virtual Event
27 Mar
Spring Cathedral

Please join us to support Marissa Lepper as she defends her PhD Dissertation titled "Experiments on Intertemporal Choice"

March 27, 2023 12:00 p.m.
27 Mar
Dissertation Defense: Yaotian Wang

Dissertation defense for Statistics student Yoatian Wang. Thesis titled High-Dimensional Directed Network Analysis of Human Brains. Abstract; The human...

Tuesday, March 28

28 Mar
Spring Cathedral

Applied Microeconomics Seminar with guest speaker, Max Steinhardt from FU Berlin

28 Mar
Women's Lives in Iran: Between the Religious-Traditional and New Horizons

This 10-week online seminar will explore the social, political, and cultural contexts that underpin the lives of women in Iran. The co-leaders will examine...

March 28, 2023
Virtual Event
28 Mar
Dissertation Defense: Lifeng Wang

Dissertation defense for Mathematics student Lifeng Wang. Title of the thesis is A STUDY ON FUNCTION SPACES. In this thesis, we investigate the properties...

March 28, 2023 9:00 a.m.
28 Mar
Inside the Second Wave of Feminism: A Discussion with Nancy Rosenstock

Join us as we welcome Nancy Rosenstock for a special presentation during Women's History Month! A landmark account of a key radical feminist organization,...

March 28, 2023 4:00 p.m.

Wednesday, March 29

29 Mar
Planned Parenthood Generation Action (PPGen) General Body Meetings

Discuss volunteer opportunities, current events, and spread awareness and educational information

March 29, 2023 9:00 p.m.

Thursday, March 30

30 Mar
Thesis Defense: Philip Palermo

Chemistry MSc Defense: Mechanistic Insights into Iron-Catalyzed Allenic C⁠–H Functionalization Advisors: Yiming Wang Committee members: Wesley...

March 30, 2023 9:00 a.m.
30 Mar
PITT PACC Seminar: Minerba Betancourt (Fermilab)

The Short Baseline Neutrino program at Fermilab The Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program consists of liquid argon time-projection chamber detectors located...

March 30, 2023 4:00 p.m.

Friday, March 31

31 Mar
Experimental/Behavioral Seminar, Ananya Sen (CMU)

Experimental/Behavioral Seminar with guest speaker, Ananya Sen from CMU

March 31, 2023 11:30 a.m.
31 Mar
Astro Lunch Seminar: Bingjie Wang

Toward a New Census of the 0 < z < 20 Universe Current and upcoming surveys conducted by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Rubin Observatory promise...

March 31, 2023 12:00 p.m.
31 Mar
Archival Scholars in Action

Join us and explore the research of the Archival Scholars! Friday, March 31 1 – 3 p.m. Hillman Library, 3rd Floor 340 A&SC Instruction Room This event is...

31 Mar
Dissertation Defense: Paige Moncure

Chemistry PhD Defense: The Role of Polymeric Ligand Shells in the Diffusive Behavior of Nanoparticles in Hydrogels Advisors: Jennifer Laaser & Jill...

March 31, 2023 1:00 p.m.
31 Mar
The Goethe-Lexicon of Philosophical Concepts

Mini-Symposium to celebrate the contributions of The Goethe-Lexicon of Philosophical Concepts 1:00 p.m. – Expert Panel: “Goethe’s Heterodox Thinking and...

Sunday, April 2

02 Apr
The Kukucka Memorial Lecture

The rise of populism in Central and Eastern Europe? Professor Roman Krakovsky University of Ottawa Roman Krakovsky is Assistant Professor in the Department...

April 02, 2023 2:00 p.m.

Monday, April 3

03 Apr
Spring Cathedral

Econometrics Seminar with guest speaker, Bruce E. Hansen from University of Wisconsin-Madison

03 Apr
Labor/Development Brown Bag, Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale)

Labor/Development Brown Bag with guest speaker, Mushfiq Mobarak from Yale University

Tuesday, April 4

04 Apr
Women's Lives in Iran: Between the Religious-Traditional and New Horizons

This 10-week online seminar will explore the social, political, and cultural contexts that underpin the lives of women in Iran. The co-leaders will examine...

April 04, 2023
Virtual Event

Wednesday, April 5

05 Apr
"Nothing to Lose but Your Chains: Convict Resistance in Colonial Australia 1788-1860"

Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, University of New England (Australia) "Nothing to Lose but Your Chains: Convict Resistance in Colonial Australia 1788-1860" Hamish...

05 Apr
Planned Parenthood Generation Action (PPGen) General Body Meetings

Discuss volunteer opportunities, current events, and spread awareness and educational information

April 05, 2023 9:00 p.m.

Friday, April 7

07 Apr
Vinculaciones: (Re)thinking the? We ? in Latin America

Vinculaciones 2023 7th Biennial - International Symposium Keynote speakers : Laura Torres-Rodrguez (New York University) Claudia Salazar...

07 Apr
Cathedral

Experimental/Behavioral Seminar with speaker, Guillaume Frechette from NYU

April 07, 2023 11:30 a.m.

Saturday, April 8

08 Apr
Vinculaciones: (Re)thinking the? We ? in Latin America

Vinculaciones 2023 7th Biennial - International Symposium Keynote speakers : Laura Torres-Rodrguez (New York University) Claudia Salazar...

Tuesday, April 11

11 Apr
Women's Lives in Iran: Between the Religious-Traditional and New Horizons

This 10-week online seminar will explore the social, political, and cultural contexts that underpin the lives of women in Iran. The co-leaders will examine...

April 11, 2023
Virtual Event

Wednesday, April 12

12 Apr
Marta Werner Lecture-Unsilent Springs: De-archivizing Dickinson's Birds

The Program for cultural Studies Presents: Unsilent Springs: De-archivizing Dickinson's Birds Marta Werner is the Svaglic Chair of Textual Studies at...

April 12, 2023 3:00 p.m.
12 Apr
Planned Parenthood Generation Action (PPGen) General Body Meetings

Discuss volunteer opportunities, current events, and spread awareness and educational information

April 12, 2023 9:00 p.m.

Friday, April 14

14 Apr
Cathedral

Experimental/Behavioral Seminar with guest speaker, Dean Karlan Kellog from the School of Management, Northerwestern

April 14, 2023 11:30 a.m.
14 Apr
Uri Gneezy photograph portrait

The Behavioral Economics Design Initiative at the University of Pittsburgh welcomes Dr. Uri Gneezy for a discussion of his new book Mixed Signals: How...

April 14, 2023 3:30 p.m.
14 Apr
Macroeconomics Seminar, Laura Pilosoph (Duke)

Macroeconomics Seminar with gust speaker Laura Pilosoph from Duke

April 14, 2023 3:30 p.m.
14 Apr
Mixed Signals: How Incentives Really Work

Uri Gneezy is the Epstein/Atkinson Endowed Chair in Behavioral Economics and professor of economics and strategic management at the Rady School of Management...

April 14, 2023 3:30 p.m.
14 Apr
Pitt Slavic Alumni Lecture 2023

Aesthetics, Biopolitics, and Empire in Aleksei Fedorchenko?s Angels of Revolution Dr. Ellina Sattarova University of Southern California My research...

April 14, 2023 5:00 p.m.

Monday, April 17

17 Apr
Econometrics Seminar, Mark Watson (Princeton)

Econometrics Seminar with guest speaker, Mark Watson from Princeton

Tuesday, April 18

18 Apr
Women's Lives in Iran: Between the Religious-Traditional and New Horizons

This 10-week online seminar will explore the social, political, and cultural contexts that underpin the lives of women in Iran. The co-leaders will examine...

April 18, 2023
Virtual Event

Wednesday, April 19

19 Apr
Planned Parenthood Generation Action (PPGen) General Body Meetings

Discuss volunteer opportunities, current events, and spread awareness and educational information

April 19, 2023 9:00 p.m.

Thursday, April 20

20 Apr
Dissertation Defense: Shiv Upadhyay

Chemistry PhD Defense: Theoretical Treatment of Weakly Bound Fermions to Atoms, Molecules, and Clusters Advisors: Kenneth Jordan Committee members:...

April 20, 2023 2:00 p.m.

Friday, April 21

21 Apr
Cathedral

Experimental/Behavioral Seminar with guest speaker, PJ Healy from The Ohio State University

April 21, 2023 11:30 a.m.

March 24 - April 22, 2023