FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
International Week Event: Information Session--International Fair
11:00 a.m.- 3:00 p.m.
William Pitt Union - Kurtzman and Lower Lounge
Interested in studying abroad but don't know where to start? Come visit the International Fair in the William Pitt Union to find out about the thousands of options available around the world! You can chat with study abroad providers, mingle with past participants, learn more about different cultures right here at Pitt, and sample some delicious international food.
http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/internationalweek
Audience: Open to the public
Cost: Free
Sponsored by: International Week, Study Abroad Office
For more information, contact Ben Pilcher - 412-383-7165 bjp10@ucis.pitt.edu
International Week Event: Festival--Annual African Festival 2008
2:00 p.m.- 10:00 p.m.
William Pitt Union Assembly Room
This is the Fifth African Studies Annual Festival. The following activities will be featured: Students showcasing their photo journals of Africa trips and study abroad in Africa
Display of African artifacts, fabrics and carvings
A performance and dance workshop
A panel of students will discuss their study abroad in Africa experiences and research activities
Dinner will be served featuring tastes of Africa (Congo and Ethiopia)followed by the final event of the day which will be a Keynote Lecture on Africa's infrastructure: Challenges and Opportunities
http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/africa/
Audience: Open to all
Cost: Free
Sponsored by: African Studies Program, International Week, African Students' Organization (ASO)
For more information, contact Macrina C. Lelei - 412-648-2058 africast@pitt.edu
International Week Event: Lecture--Japan Speaker Series: Dr. Miyako Inoue, Stanford University: "Walking the magazine, reading the street: the birth of the capitalist semiosis in Japanese women's magazines, 1900-1930"
3:00 P.M.- 4:00 P.M.
Anthropology Lounge, 3rd floor, Posvar Hall
Dr. Inoue will be discussing the birth of commodity advertising in women's magazines during the emergence of Japanese capitalist modernity in the first third of the twentieth century. Her focus is on a particular type of gendered advertisement, which she will call "schoolgirl speech advertisement," whose characteristic effect is to "sound" as if the woman depicted in the ad image
were speaking directly to the reader.
Audience: Open to all members of the Pitt community
Cost: Free
Sponsored by: Asian Studies Center, International Week, Japan Council, Japan Iron and Steel Federation and Mitsubishi Endowments
For more information, contact Brenda Jordan - jordanb@pitt.edu
International Week Event: Workshop--African Student Organization Workshop and Yabasso Dance Showcase
5:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m.
William Pitt Union- Ballroom
This event will showcase the African art, game. clothing, and history and ways of living. ASO Dance Team (Yabasso), will perform to different Africa song, in different dance attires.
http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/internationalweek
Audience: Open to the public
Cost: Free
Sponsored by: International Week, African Studies Program, African Student Organization
For more information, contact Sandra Dike - missdike@gmail.com
International Week Event: Film--Japanese Film Festival - Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 (Always: Zoku San-chome no Yuhi), 2007
7:00 p.m.- 9:30 p.m.
McConomy Hall, Carnegie Mellon University
Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 (Always zoku san-chome no yuuhi, 2007), in Japanese with English subtitles. Directed by Takeshi Yamazaki. Pittsburgh premiere. -- Sequel to Always (2006) based on Ryohei Sagan's popular comic series that sold 14 million copies. Set in 1959, this sequel concerns the everyday lives of those on the backstreets near Tokyo Tower.
Audience: Open to the public
Cost: Free
Sponsored by: Asian Studies Center, International Week, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Japan Iron and Steel Federation and Mitsubishi Endowments
For more information, contact Jennifer Murawski - 412-648-7426 jennm@pitt.edu
International Week Event: Film--Beur Is Beautiful: Maghrebi-French Filmmaking
7:00 p.m.- 8:45 p.m.
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
The term beur is French inversion-slang (verlan) for the word arabe, and refers to the French-born children of North African (Maghrebi) immigrants of Arab as well as Amazigh and Kabyle origin. For the most part, this generation grew up in the concrete wastelands of France's low-income housing projects in the suburbs (banlieues). While beur has been part of the European lexicon for more than 20 years, the term and the culture it describes remain largely unknown in the United States.
Bled number one- Barely released from prison, Kamel is deported to his birthplace Algeria. This enforced exile obliges him to lucidly observe a country undergoing great change, split between a desire for modernity and the weight of ancient traditions.
Audience: Open to the public
Cost: Free
Sponsored by: International Week, European Studies Center, Global Studies Program, Less Commonly Taught Languages
For more information, contact Veronica Dristas - 412-624-2918 dristas@pitt.edu
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