CONFERENCES AND ONE-CREDIT WEEKEND COURSES

The Asian Studies Center is host to a variety of academic conferences and symposia each year, covering a broad array of topics and regions of Asia. The Center also hosts a series of one-credit courses in partnership with other area studies centers and universities to bring together faculty from a number of disciplines to teach intensive weekend sessions on contemporary Asia.

2012-2013 Conferences & Symposia

• October 5-7, 2012: 18th International Conference of the Association of Chinese Professors of the Social Sciences in the United States (ACPSS), the United Societies of China Studies (USCS), and the University of Pittsburgh (University Library System and Asian Studies Center)
  • CALL FOR PAPERS (English): Modernity and Cultural Development: The Changing China in a Globalized and Digitized World  
  • CALL FOR PAPERS (Chinese): 现代化与文化发展：中国在全球化和数字化时代中的变革
• November 9-10, 2012: Local Government in China symposium
• March 7-9, 2013: 23rd Conference of the Japan Anthropology Workshop (JAWS)

Past Events

• March 2012: New Research in Asian and American Music
• December 2011: Anglophone Asian Novels 1945-Present
• September-October 2011: Japan's World War II in Asia, 70 Years On
• May 2011: China's Periphery and Beyond: Perspectives from Art & Archaeology
• April 2011: Postcolonial Feminisms and the Ethic of Care: South to South Dialogue (Asia and Latin America Symposium)
• March 2011: China Today Weekend Course
• March 2010: Youth, Labor and Neoliberal Governmentality
  
• April 2010: Reframing Gender in Latin America and Asia (Asia and Latin America Symposium)
• October 2009: Japan's Cultural Imagination and Its Contributions to the World
• April 2009: Matthew B. Ridgway and the Korean War Conference
• March 2009: China Today, One-credit Weekend Course
• October 2008: "Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia" Conference

Updated November 8, 2012