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Join lead curator Dr. Lina Insana, Professor in the Department of French and Italian, on Wednesday, March 18, 2026 from Noon-12:45 p.m. for a gallery talk on the new exhibit, Read the Room! Uncovering the Italian Room's Transnational Traces.  This exhibit documents the transnational networks and economic class dynamics at play during the Room's development in the 1930s and 1940s. ...more

Join curator Joanna Conings, PhD candidate in the Department of French and Italian, on Thursday, March 19, 2026 from 11 - 11:45 a.m. for a gallery talk on the new exhibit, The Women Behind the Walls!  This exhibit is dedicated to uncovering the hidden labor and “affective diplomacies” through which women made the French Nationality Room at the University of Pittsburgh ...more

Explore the latest soundscape radio-art piece by August Wilson Archive Community-Artist Scholar, Ricardo iamuuri Robinson. “The Gospel According to WILSON” uses excerpts from interviews with the late playwright August Wilson to convey contemporary messages. It transforms Wilson’s spoken words into a cohesive experimental jazz vocalese, creating a recycled stream of consciousness that bridges historical language with current societal issues....more

The University of Pittsburgh Library System receives a National Endowment of the Humanities grant for the third time since 2022, to fund the program called the “Homestead Steel Strike and the Growth of America as an Industrial Power,” a two-week-long workshop hosted at the University of Pittsburgh Library System. ...more

“The goal is to transform the experience that students researchers and the community have in the research library to offer a lot more than what traditional libraries offer,” Ms. Tancheva said. “Now we are also offering access to experiences, to experiential learning and to the library as a big gathering space.” ...more