Arif Dirlik is now an Independent Scholar living in Oregon. Arif Dirlik was Professor of History at Duke University from 1971 – 2001. He was then Knight Professor of History and Anthropology and Director of Center for Critical Theory and Transnational Studies at the University of Oregon. Dirlik is one of the leading experts on the political culture and party politics of the People’s Republic of China. He is the author of more than a dozen books on Chinese Communism, Revolution, Chinese Historiography, and historiography from such presses as Oxford, California, and Duke.

Nicole Constable is a professor in the Department of Anthropology and the director of the Asian Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh. Her latest book, Born Out of Place: Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Migration was co-published by the University of California Press and Hong Kong University Press, and had its first official launch in Hong Kong in June. At this University of Pittsburgh book launch, Constable will speak on her work, and Shalini Puri (Department of English) and Lara Putnam (Department of History) will respond.

As the world faces unprecedented challenges caused by financial and ecological crises, social movements have been advancing alternatives to the programs and policies of elites. Nevertheless, they remain plagued by persistent challenges to building global solidarity. This conference looks at emerging alternatives to the capitalist world-system and considers their strengths and limitations, uncovering the factors affecting their prospects for realization.

On April 4-6, 2014, the University of Pittsburgh will host the second of two
conferences that constitute the Voices of Asian Modernities Project (VAMP), a
consortium between the University of Pittsburgh, Leiden University, and the Royal
Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV). The aim of
the conference is to properly historicize the artistic sounds, lyrical texts, visual
images, and social lives of female performers in Asian popular music of the 20th and
21st centuries.

Expressing her muse through ghazals and Punjabi folk songs, Kiran Ahluwalia explores the language of the heart with beautiful artistry and smoldering intensity. Born in India, raised in Canada, and now living in New York City, her enchanting and seductive music has garnered glowing praise from critics around the world. Kiran Ahluwalia is the winner of Canada’s Juno Award for World Music Album of the Year in 2004 (Beyond Boundaries) and 2012 (Common Ground). She will be accompanied by her band (guitar, bass, accordion, and tabla).

Tickets :
GENERAL ADMISSION $10
Seniors $8
Students $5

Expressing her muse through ghazals and Punjabi folk songs, Kiran Ahluwalia explores the language of the heart with beautiful artistry and smoldering intensity. Born in India, raised in Canada, and now living in New York City, her enchanting and seductive music has garnered glowing praise from critics around the world. Kiran Ahluwalia is the winner of Canada’s Juno Award for World Music Album of the Year in 2004 (Beyond Boundaries) and 2012 (Common Ground). She will be accompanied by her band (guitar, bass, accordion, and tabla).

On April 4-6, 2014, the University of Pittsburgh will host the second of two conferences that constitute the project “Voices of Asian Modernities: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Asian Popular Music of the 20th Century.” The conference will bring together a group of scholars from a range of fields including Music, Literature, History, Anthropology, Film Studies,Cultural Studies, Women's Studies, Performance Studies, and Asian Studies to properly historicize the artistic sounds, lyrical texts, visual images, and social lives of female performers in Asian popular music of the 20th century.

A Colloquium at The University of Pittsburgh Conversations amongst scholars from the Humanities and the Social Sciences towards a public discourse about the role of fieldwork in humanities scholarship on the global south.

This event is part of the research theme Gender and the Global sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Women's Studies Program.

Workshop for undergraduates with Justin Adkins, Williams College, on "What's the 'T' in LGBT?"

This event is part of the research theme Gender and the Global sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Women's Studies Program.