Spring 2008 Schedule

January 24

Nancy Guy, Associate Professor, Music
University of California at San Diego
"Farewell to Rational Actors: Music, Emotion,
and Social Movement in Taiwan"

January 31

Hiroyuki Good, Japanese Bibliographer
East Asian Library
"Making the Fullest Use of Japanese Databases: How to Get Articles, How to Find Information"

February 7

Michael Roman, PhD student, Anthropology
"Youth Perceptions of HIV/AIDS in the Republic of Kirivati and Social Projects to Educate People about the Virus"

February 14

Xiaofei Kang, Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages, Carnegie Mellon University
"Cooking in the Temples: Elderly Rural Women and Religious Revival in Contemporary China"

February 21

Yasuhiro Shirai, Professor, Linguistics
"Is Resultative Meaning More Difficult than Progressive Meaning in the Acquisition of the Imperfective Aspect -te i-ru in Japanese?"

February 28

Ying Peng, Heinz Fellow, Global Studies Center
"Does Public Health Reach Them?"

March 6

Mayumi Terano, Program Coordinator
Office of Cross Cultural and Leadership Development
"Social and Cultural Needs and Participation of International Students: A Case Study at the University of Pittsburgh"

March 20

Yujie Li, Heinz Fellow, Global Studies Center
"China's Petition Issues and its Institutional Origin"

March 27 - NEW!

Nicole W.T. Cheung, Assistant Professor of Sociology,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
and Visiting Fulbright Fellow, Department of Sociology
"Dancing on Drugs: Normalization, Culture,
and Adolescent Recreational Drug Use in Hong Kong"

April 10

Ellen Motohashi, Teaching Fellow
Administrative and Policy Studies, School of Education
"When One Door Opens, Another Closes: Immigration Impact on Japanese Educational Policy"