Come meet international students, make friends, practice conversational English, and have fun together, during these weekly discussion groups coordinated by the English Language Institute. Feel free to bring your lunch :)
Events
The Asian Studies Center sponsors, announces, or otherwise supports a number of Asia-related events throughout the year. Keep an eye on this space for more information! If there's an event you would like advertised, please contact Kathryn Fortuno at KSF37@pitt.edu.
Faculty members or student organizations who wish to request ASC sponsorship or support for their events should fill out the and submit it to Kathryn at KSF37@pitt.edu.
DATE:
Tuesday, October 3
TIME:
1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
LOCATION:
Global Hub
Come meet international students, make friends, practice conversational English, and have fun together, during these weekly discussion groups coordinated by the English Language Institute. Feel free to bring your lunch :)
DATE:
Tuesday, October 3
TIME:
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
LOCATION:
Global Hub
Learn how to earn credit by taking part in classes, activities, clubs, study abroad, and more, to support you holistically and make you stand out to employers. To start, undergraduate students can earn OCC and myPittGlobal credits by attending this event!
At this...
DATE:
Wednesday, October 4
TIME:
7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
LOCATION:
David Lawrence Hall 120
SCREENSHOT: Asia is a project created to bring Asian and Asian American arts to Pittsburgh and engage students in practical, professional arts programming experience. By screening films from across Asia, we hope to create a dialog based on shared cinematic experiences,...
DATE:
Thursday, October 5
TIME:
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
LOCATION:
Global Hub
Come meet international students, make friends, practice conversational English, and have fun together, during these weekly discussion groups coordinated by the English Language Institute. Feel free to bring your lunch :)
DATE:
Thursday, October 5
TIME:
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
LOCATION:
Harris Theater
Babak Jalali | 2023 | 91 minutes | USA
Beautiful and troubled 20-something Donya, an Afghan translator who used to work with the U.S. government, has trouble sleeping. She lives by herself in Fremont, California, in a building with other Afghan immigrants and often...
DATE:
Thursday, October 5
TIME:
8:00 pm to 10:00 pm
LOCATION:
Harris Theater
Kenneth Dagatan | 2023 | 97 minutes | Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan
As World War II in 1945 Philippines is coming to an end, a wealthy family is trapped in their country mansion and terrorized by Japanese soldiers who are losing control of the island. The family's...
DATE:
Friday, October 6
TIME:
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
LOCATION:
Harris Theater
Lim Oh-Jeong | 2022 | 109 Minutes| South Korea
In this black comedy from Na Mi and Sun Woo, who have been suffering from bullying and school violence throughout their school days, attempt suicide while their classmates go on a school trip. After the silly yet...
DATE:
Friday, October 6
TIME:
8:00 pm to 10:00 pm
LOCATION:
Harris Theater
Makbul Mubarak | 2022 | 115 minutes | Indonesia, Poland, Germany, Qatar, Philippines, France, Singapore
A young man--Rakib (Kevin Ardilova)--is working as a housekeeper in an empty mansion. When its owner, retired general, Purnawinata (Arswendy Bening Swara),...
DATE:
Saturday, October 7
TIME:
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
LOCATION:
Frick Fine Arts Building Room 125 | Pitt Campus
Li Ruijin | 2022 | 133 Minutes | China
In rural Gaotai county, two lonely, middle-aged outcasts are pushed into an arranged marriage by their families. Ma (Wu Renlin) is a humble farmer with little to offer his timid and sickly wife, Cao (Hai Qing), except for a...
DATE:
Saturday, October 7
TIME:
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
LOCATION:
Harris Theater
Chie Hayakawa | 2022 | 112 minutes | Japan
In a near dystopian future, Japan’s government launches PLAN 75, a program encouraging the elderly to terminate their own lives to relieve its rapidly aging population’s social and economic burdens. In Chie Hayakawa’s...
DATE:
Saturday, October 7
TIME:
8:30 pm to 10:30 pm
LOCATION:
Harris Theater
Houman Sayyedi | 2022 | 117 minutes | Iran
Shakib (Mohsen Tanabandeh) is a homeless day laborer who lost his wife and son in an earthquake years ago. Over the last couple of years, he has been in a relationship with Ladan (Mahsa Hejazi), a deaf and mute woman. The...
DATE:
Sunday, October 8
TIME:
12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
LOCATION:
Frick Fine Arts Building Room 125
Anthony Shim | 2023 | 117 Minutes | Canada
Set in the 90s, a Korean single mother raises her young son in the suburbs of Canada determined to provide a better life for him than the one she left behind. RICEBOY SLEEPS is loosely based on the writer-director’s own...
DATE:
Sunday, October 8
TIME:
2:30 pm to 4:30 pm
LOCATION:
Frick Fine Arts Building Room 125
Chan Ching-lin | 2022 | 135 minutes | Taiwan
In Taiwanese filmmaker Ching-lin Chan’s bracing feature debut, a pigeon returns after seven years, reopening a family’s old wounds and festering resentments in a town enmeshed in the illegal pigeon racing circuit. The...
DATE:
Sunday, October 8
TIME:
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
LOCATION:
David Lawrence Hall 121
Amanda Nell Eu | 2023| 95 Minutes | Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore, France, Germany, Netherlands, Indonesia, Qatar
Zaffan (12) struggles with puberty, discovering a terrifying secret about her physical self. Her failed attempts to conceal the inevitable lead her...
DATE:
Tuesday, October 10
TIME:
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
LOCATION:
Global Hub
Are you looking to gain experience that will help prepare you for a globally-connected job market? Stop by Drop-In Hours to learn more about getting the Global Distinction added to your academic transcript, receiving special recognition at graduation, and standing out to...
DATE:
Thursday, October 19
TIME:
5:30 pm
LOCATION:
Online via Zoom
Join us for an engaging K-12 curriculum resource workshop in which we examine the island of Taiwan's rich and compelling historical narrative as well as the important role it plays in today's geopolitical and economic landscape. This workshop will also include strategies...
DATE:
Friday, October 20
TIME:
3:00 pm to 4:30 pm
LOCATION:
4130 Posvar
This year, 2023, represents the 101st anniversary of Emile Licent and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s discovery of a child’s fossilized incisor at Erdos, Inner Mongolia: The first human fossil from China. Since the turn of the 21st century, paleoanthropology in China has...
DATE:
Monday, October 23
TIME:
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
LOCATION:
Global Hub
Explore the World with a Summer Study Abroad Scholarship! Join the Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs' Scholarships Info Session!
Dreaming of an unforgettable summer adventure abroad? We're here to make it happen! Discover your opportunity to...
DATE:
Monday, October 23
TIME:
5:30 pm
LOCATION:
4130 Posvar Hall
Please join us at this information session to learn more about the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) program in room 4130 Posvar Hall, on the 4th floor of W. Wesley Posvar Hall.
DATE:
Tuesday, October 24
TIME:
8:00 am to 4:00 pm
LOCATION:
William Pitt Union and OHara Student Center, Pitt-Oakland Campus
Through experiential learning, high school students engage directly with global issues by assuming the role of world leaders and negotiating responses to timely topics.
DATE:
Wednesday, October 25
TIME:
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
LOCATION:
Global Hub
A language and cultural exchange between Pitt language learners and international speakers. Lunch provided. Registration Required
DATE:
Wednesday, November 1
TIME:
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
LOCATION:
Global Hub
A language and cultural exchange between Pitt language learners and international speakers. Registration Required
DATE:
Wednesday, November 1
TIME:
5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
LOCATION:
via Zoom
Join us for this FREE online K-12 educator workshop that will examine the history, current status, and future of Africa and China's relationship through a global lens and offer strategies and resources for classroom use. We will explore not only Chinese investments in...
DATE:
Friday, November 10
TIME:
9:00 am to 4:00 pm
This seminar delves into the multifaceted nature of the Africa-China relationship and its impact on the international stage. Exploring the economic, political, socio-cultural, and developmental dimensions of this dynamic partnership, the workshop seeks to analyze how the...
DATE:
Thursday, February 15
TIME:
5:00 pm
LOCATION:
Zoom and 4217/4130 Posvar Hall
In the fourth installment of the Global Issues Through Literature Series (GILS), educators will convene to discuss Hunter School by author Sakinu Ahronglong.
This year's theme is: Marginalized Voices in Global Context: Centering Overlooked Narratives in Literature...