Opening reception on Friday, March 29, 5:00 - 8:00 PM.
We're extremely excited for this year's festival which has the potential to be one of the best yet!
With performances from:
- Pitt Taiko
- FRESA
- and Japanese Sword demonstrations from Loren Keifer
That's not all, we'll have all sorts of fun booths set up, including:
-Ikebana (Japanese flower arranging) from JASP
-Japanese Tea with Amy Svoboda
-Lolita Fashion with Kate Davis
-Kimono Fashion with Evan Mason
-Video Games
35-year-old architect Seung-Min receives a visit at his office from a woman. Seung-Min doesn’t recognize the woman at first, but then realizes she is Seo-Yoon, his first love whom he hasn’t seen since his freshman year in college. Seo-Yoon now has a request. She wants to hire Seung-Min to rebuild her home on Jeju Island. 15 years ago, Seung-Min was a naïve young man beginning his architecture studies in college and he first meets Seo-Yoon in his Architecture 101 class. As they work on a class project together, Seung-Min and Seo-Yoon begin to fall in love.
In order to let things cool down from their latest heist, Popeye and his group of thieves go to Macao on a job. But the mastermind behind this job is none other than Popeye’s old partner Macao Park, who escaped with 68kg of gold several years ago on their last job together. But Macao Park's plans takes an unexpected turn when Popeye brings Pepsi, an old flame of Macao Park, to settle the old score. The thieves’ target is a $20 million diamond known as ‘Tear of the Sun’, kept safely away in a casino, brought there to be sold by a notorious Chinese fence.
Any serious attempt at understanding Japan’s modern financial system must address the role of state. From the Meiji regime’s introduction of a national banking system in the early 1870s, the commutation of the annual pensions of the samurai with a single issue of kinroku kosai, or hereditary pension bonds, in 1875, through to the establishment of the Postal Savings System, the Bank of Japan, the Yokohama Specie Bank, and seven other “special” parastatal banks in the latter part of the Meiji period, the state orchestrated the development of Japan’s financial infrastructure.
Learning Chinese characters has frequently been referred to as the "greatest challenge" for learners. Xu reports results from an empirical experiment that tries to bridge the gap between reading theories and the changing realities of learning and teaching. We specifically compared the effectiveness of three encoding methods, i.e., Reading, Writing, and stroke sequence Animation, in developing learners' receptive orthographical knowledge and productive skills. It was found that learners can recognize visual symbols as Chinese characters better when they learned by Writing and Animation.
Light refreshments will be served. For more information please contact: Dr. Mi-Hyun Kim at kimmh@pitt.edu or 412-624-5562
Documentary screening of “Hool”, the story of the oppression of the Adivasis (tribals) in East India and their fight for their rights. In solidarity for Soni Sori, imprisoned Adivasi activist. Come to learn about the cost of development on the human rights of indigenous communities in India, the fate of Soni Sori, and ways to support Adivasi communities and fight violence against women.
A discussion of anthropological research and the Can't Go Native multi-film project, with excerpts from More About Mizusawa.
Panelists:
David Plath
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Illinois
L. Keith Brown
Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
John W. Traphagan
Faculty Research Associate and Associate Professor of Religious Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
