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2007-2008 Academic Year

• March 11, 2008
  Yinghong Cheng, Professor, Dept. of History, Political Science, and Philosophy, Delaware State University
  Yinghong Cheng presented the seminar "From Revolution to Globalization: A Half-Century Rendevous between Beijing and Havana" as part of the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia's seminar series for K-12 teachers and the general public, sponsored by ASC, NCTA, the World History Network, and the Center for Latin American Studies.
• March 10, 2008
  Sky Foerster, President of the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh, and Roger Cranville, Senior Vice President of Global Marketing, Pittsburgh Regional Alliance
  Sky Foerster and Roger Cranville gave a lecture entitled "Pittsburgh and China: Building and Sustaining Economic Opportunities" as part of the "Great Wall, Terrible Towel: Understanding China, Connecting to Pittsburgh" lecture series sponsored by the Confucius Institute, ASC, and Winchester Thurston School.
• March 7, 2008
  Sadia Sattar, MA in East Asian Studies Candidate
  Sadia Sattar presented the lecture "Old Friendships: Exploring the Historic Relationship between Pan-Islamism and Japanese Pan-Asianism" as part of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures Colloquium.
• March 6, 2008
  Mayumi Terano, Program Coordinator, Office of Cross Cultural and Leadership Development
  Mayumi Terano presented the lecture "Social and Cultural Needs and Participation of International Students: A Case Study at the University of Pittsburgh" as part of ASC's Asia Over Lunch lecture series.
• March 5, 2008
  WEI Dedong, Professor, Renmin University of China; Postdoctoral Fellow, Baylor University
  WEI Dedong presented the lecture "New Trends in Buddhism in Modern China," sponsored by ASC, Dept. of Religious Studies, China Council, Program in Cultural Studies, and the Depts. of Anthropology, History, and Sociology.
• March 3, 2008
  Thomas Rawski, Professor of Economics and History
  Thomas Rawski presented the lecture "China's Economic Boom: Where is It Headed, What are the Consequences?" as part of the "Great Wall, Terrible Towel: Understanding China, Connecting to Pittsburgh" lecture series sponsored by the Confucius Institute, ASC, and Winchester Thurston School.
• February 29, 2008
  Xiaosu Sun, MA in East Asian Studies Candidate
  Xiaosu Sun presented the lecture "Mulan on Stage and Page" as part of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures Colloquium.
• February 28, 2008
  Ying Peng, Heinz Fellow, Global Studies Program
  Ying Peng presented the lecture "Does Public Health Reach Them?" as part of ASC's Asia Over Lunch lecture series.
• February 25, 2008
  Katheryn Lindruff, Professor of Anthropology
  Katheryn Lindruff presented the lecture "New Art from Old China: Recent Archaeological Recovery and Chinese Art History" as part of the "Great Wall, Terrible Towel: Understanding China, Connecting to Pittsburgh" lecture series sponsored by the Confucius Institute, ASC, and Winchester Thurston School.
• February 22, 2008
  Yiyang Hu, MA in East Asian Studies Candidate
  Yiyang Hu presented the lecture "Identity and Support for Political Communities Based on Language Choice Data in Tibet" as part of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures Colloquium.
• February 21, 2008
  Yasuhiro Shirai, Professor of Linguistics
  Yasuhiro Shirai presented the lecture "Is Resultative Meaning More Difficult than Progressive Meaning in the Acquisition of the Imperfective Aspect -te i-ru in Japanese?" as part of ASC's Asia Over Lunch lecture series.
• February 14, 2008
  Xiaofei Kang, Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University
  Xiaofei Kang presented the lecture "Cooking in the Temples: Elderly Rural Women and Religious Revival in Contemporary China" as part of ASC's Asia Over Lunch lecture series.
• February 13, 2008
  Namgi Park, Professor at Gwangju National University and current Visitng Scholar at the Institute for International Studies in Education
  
  Namgi Park presented the lecture "Korean Model of Higher Education Development," comparing Korean higher education data with other countries based on Education at a Glance (OECD, 2007). This lecture was sponsored by ASC, the Institute for International Studies in Education, and the Global Studies Program.
• February 7, 2008
  Siddharth Chandra, Director, University Center for International Studies' Asian Studies Center and Associate Professor, Graduate School for Public and International Affairs
  
  Siddharth Chandra presented the lecture "The Development of China and India: Implications for the United States" as part of the "Great Wall, Terrible Towel: Understanding China, Connecting to Pittsburgh" lecture series sponsored by the Confucius Institute, ASC, and Winchester Thurston School.
• February 7, 2008
  Mike Roman, PhD student, Anthropology
  
  Mike Roman presented the lecture "Youth Perceptions of HIV/AIDS in the Republic of Kiribati and Social Projects to Educate People about the Virus" as part of ASC's Asia Over Lunch lecture series.
• February 5, 2008
  Global Issues Lecture Series: Musings on the Saffron Revolution: Is There Hope For Burma?
  
  ASC, the Global Studies Program, the Global Solutions Education Fund, and the Office of Cross Cultural and Leadership Development sponsored this lecture by Ms. Aung-Thwin, director of the Burma Project/Southeast Asia Initiative of the Open Society Institute, who discussed the fall out of the so-called "Saffron Revolution" and the prospects for a genuine political transformation in Burma.
• February 1, 2008
  Eastern Music in Western Contexts Symposium
  ASC and the Music Department presented the symposium "Eastern Music in Western Contexts " in conjunction with Attack Theatre's performance of its "Preserve and Pursue" dance event, featuring composers Somei Satoh and Miyuki Ito of Japan, Dave Eggar of Attack Theatre, and Mathew Rosenblum of the University of Pittsburgh.
• January 28, 2008
  Diana Marston Wood, Coordinator, National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA) at the University of Pittsburgh
  Diana M. Wood presented the lecture "Understanding China: Five Essential Themes" as part of the "Great Wall, Terrible Towel: Understanding China, Connecting to Pittsburgh " lecture series sponsored by the Confucius Institute, ASC, and Winchester Thurston School.
• January 24, 2008
  Nancy Guy, Associate Professor of Music, University of California at San Diego
  Nancy Guy presented the lecture "Flowing Down Taiwan's Tamsui River: Towards an Ecomusicology of the Environmental Imagination" as part of a colloquim co-sponsored by ASC, the Music Department, and the Department of Political Science.

• January 24, 2008
  Nancy Guy, Associate Professor of Music, University of California at San Diego
  Nancy Guy presented the lecture "Farewell to Rational Actors: Music, Emotion, and Social Movement in Taiwan" as part of ASC's Asia Over Lunch lecture series.
• December 4, 2007
  Larry Kominz, Professor of Japanese and Director, Center for Japanese Studies, Portland State University
  A lecture and workshop on the Japanese theatrical form kyogen, presented by the Departments of Theatre Arts, History, ASC, and the Honors College.
• November 19, 2007
  Africa: China's Great Leap into the Continent
  A seminar for teachers and the public, presented by the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia, the World History Network, and the African Studies Department
• November 15, 2007
  Hao-li Lin, PhD Student, Anthropology
  Hao-li Lin presented the lecture "Conservation and Conflic: Ecotourism in a Fijian Village" as part of ASC's Asia Over Lunch lecture series.
• November 13-15, 2007
  Lucia Dolce, Senior Lecturer of Japanese Religion, Department of the Study of Religion, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
  Lucia Dolce presented two lectures on Japanese religious themes: Ritualizing Duality: Secret Iconographies of Empowerment in Medieval Japan and The Worship of Celestial Bodies in Japan: Politics, Rituals, and Icons.
  
• November 9, 2007
  Richard Smethurst, Professor of History, author of From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister: Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan's Keynes - Book Symposia
  A lecture as part of the History Department's Book Symposia Series, featuring commentary by Sheldon Garon of Princeton University, Gregory Kasza of Indiana University, and Mark Metzler of the University of Texas at Austin, with funding from the Japan Iron &  Steel Federation endowment.
• November 8, 2007
  Mark Metzler, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin
  Mark Metzler presented the lecture "Globalization, East Asia, and the First Great Depression, 1873-1896" as part of ASC's Asia Over Lunch lecture series.
• November 7, 2007
  Donald S. Sutton, Professor of History and Anthropology, Carnegie Mellon  University
  Donald Sutton presented his lecture "Contesting Sacred Space in China's Ethnic Borderlands: Ritual and Myth at Huanglong, Northern Sichuan," discussing the "ethnic frontier" of China and the intersection between ethnicity, religious practice, tourism, and environmentalism in West Hunan and the Tibetan borderlands, at and near the Huanglong Scenic and Historical Interest Area World Heritage Site.
• November 5, 2007
  Mark Ravina, Associate Professor of History, Emory University, and author of The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigō Takamori
  Mark Ravina explored the legends, popular culture and historiography of the Japanese rebel and revolutionary, linking the story of Saigō’s suicide to the rise of modern Japanese nationalism, and examined other Saigō legends as counter-narratives for modern Japan.
  
• November 1, 2007
  Eun-Young Jung, Japan-Korea Postdoctoral Fellow
  Eun-Young Jung presented the lecture "Transnational Popular Cultural Traffic between Japan and Korea" as part of ASC's Asia Over Lunch lecture series.
• October 25, 2007
  Julia H. Kaufman, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Learning Research &  Development Center
  Julia Kaufman presented the lecture "Schools in Shanghai" as part of ASC's Asia Over Lunch lecture series.
• October 22, 2007
  V.V. Krishna, Professor in Science Policy and Chairperson of the Centre for Studies in Science Policy at Jawharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India
  V.V. Krishna presented the lecture "Globalization and Changing Social Contract Between Science and Society: Some Implications" as a distinguished foreign guest of the ASC.
• October 18, 2007
  Rashmi D. Bhatnagar, Assistant Professor of English
  Rashmi Bhatnagar presented the lecture "Literature Traditions of Protest for the Girl Child: Brajbhasa in Meera's Medieval Poetry, Mahadevi Verma's Prose Sketches (1941) and Mrinal Pande's Novel Daughter's Daughter (1993)" as part of ASC's Asia Over Lunch lecture series.
• October 12, 2007
  Dept. of East Asian Languages & Literatures Colloquium Series
  A series of talks about Korea by four Pitt students who participated in an exchange program with Korea's Konkuk University.
  -Matthew Ferrick, Chinese major: "Fast Culture"
  -Jessica Finberg, Japanese & Linguistics major: "Combating Sterotypes as a Foreign Exchange Student"
  -Neal Hamilton, Japanese major: "Riding the Rails"
  -Clara Lee, CBA: "The Three Great I's of My Expedition to Korea: Independence, Introductions, and Investments"
  
• October 11, 2007
  Martha Chaiklin, Assistant Professor of History
  Martha Chaiklin presented the lecture "Unseasonal Winds of Love: Prostitution in Early Modern Nagasaki" as part of ASC's Asia Over Lunch lecture series.
• October 8, 2007
  Leonard Schoppa, Professor of Politics, University of Virginia
  Leonard Schoppa presented his talk "Exit, Voice, and Reform of the Male Breadwinner Social Structures: Low-Fertility Equilibrium in Japan and Italy," discussing the decision of firms to relocate production work overseas and the decision of young women to exit from the difficulties of combining work with family by either leaving the work force or opting out of marriage and motherhood.
• September 28, 2007
  Colloquia: Tabla Virtuoso Pandit Samir Chatterjee
  "Theory and Practice of Rhythm in North Indian Classical Music," a  lecture and demonstration by Pandit Samir Chatterjee, percussion virtuoso and Pitt faculty member.
• September 27, 2007
  Minwoo Yun, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Wheeling Jesuit University
  Minwoo Yun presented the lecture "Human Trafficking and International Migration into South Korea" as part of ASC's Asia Over Lunch lecture series.
• September 26, 2007
  Contemporary Slavery: Implications for Global Health and Policy
  A presentation by the Project to End HUman Trafficking, a non-profit organization working regionally, nationally, and internationally in the anti-slavery movement that explained human trafficking and some of the ways in which policy-makers, public health professionals, and concerned citizens can get involved.
• September 20, 2007
  Ted Plafker, Correspondent, Beijing Bureau, The Economist, and author of Doing Business in China: How to Profit in the World's Fastest Growing Market
  Ted Plafker discussed his guide to the challenges of China's business market, using his first hand experience to pinpoint top emerging markets in China; laws, rules and regulations of doing business in China; and how to promote and move products and services to Chinese consumers.
  
• September 17-19, 2007
  Li Yinhe, Noted Chinese Sociologist
  Pitt's most famous alumnae in China, Li Yinhe presented a series of three lectures on changing sexuality, homosexuality, and gender equality in the People's Republic of China.