On January 15th, 1924, a maidservant in Beijing was murdered at the home of her employer, a bank accountant named Shen Ruihong and his wife. The case became a protracted legal battle as police, prosecutors, and the Shens’ defense lawyers argued different theories of Mrs. Shen’s involvement in the murder on the basis of divergent interpretations of fingerprints and blood stains found at the crime scene.

When China was recovering from the mid-nineteenth century rebellions, Sichuan assumed a special position in the expanding fiscal system of the Qing government. The province developed from a poor frontier region into a major contributor to both central government revenue and interprovincial assistance after the 1860s. Different from other regions, however, a large part of this increase in provincial revenue came not from new commercial taxes but from land tax surcharges. But how was the provincial government able to raise these surcharges?

Dan Selcer will lead an informal seminar on chapters two & three of Ann Blair's Too Much to Know: "Information Management in Comparative Perspective," as a lead-up to the author's visit in October.

Email Jennifer Waldron for directions.

*Part of the The A. W. Mellon Distinguished Lectures in the History of Science

"Newton’s Shadow: Francesco Algarotti and the Passion for Science in the Eighteenth Century"

Paula Findlen is the Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History at Stanford University.

*Part of the The A. W. Mellon Distinguished Lectures in the History of Science

"Newton’s Shadow: Francesco Algarotti and the Passion for Science in the Eighteenth Century"

Paula Findlen is the Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History at Stanford University.

*Part of the The A. W. Mellon Distinguished Lectures in the History of Science

"Newton’s Shadow: Francesco Algarotti and the Passion for Science in the Eighteenth Century"

Paula Findlen is the Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History at Stanford University.

*Lunch provided*
RSVP to losagio@pitt.edu by Monday, September 17, 2012

Graduate students and faculty are invited to participate in this workshop, which will provide training in the theory and application of the multiliteracies approach to teaching advanced-level foreign language courses. Participants will have the chance to develop their own teaching materials.

Lynn Festa is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers. Her publications include Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France (John Hopkins University Press, 2006) and, as co-editor, The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialisms and Postcolonial Theory (Oxford University Press, 2009).

*Part of the 2012 Second Language Research Forum "Building Bridges Between Disciplines: SLA in Many Contexts"