All students with an interest in international studies are welcome to join us for a free workshop with the international studies certificate program advisors and Alyson Kavalukas, Pitt's Internship Coordinator, to learn about how to find international studies internships and volunteer opportunities both locally in Pittsburgh, in the United States, and overseas, through Pitt and on your own!

Meet Mrs. Kiyoko Matsumoto of Handa City, Japan, for a special workshop for students & faculty about love and marriage customs in Japan, including a model demonstration with traditional Japanese wedding attire for women and men! This once in a lifetime event includes special talks by Dr. Clark Chilson (Religious Studies) and Mrs. Fumiyo Iwadachi (Handa City).

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Featuring:

• FriendsWithYou: Experiential Art, L.A.
• Rei Sato: Mixed Media, Tokyo
• Mark Newport: Knit Sculpture, Detroit
• Jeff Schwarz: Ceramic Sculpture, Brooklyn
• Mr. Glaubitz: Illustration, Tijuana
• Janet Towbin: Photography, Phoenix

China's (re)emergence as an economic power over the last thirty-five years has been nothing short of stunning. But China's aspirations as a global leader extend beyond the economic. China Rising is a multi-disciplinary faculty development program that will explore the historical, cultural, environmental and political dimensions of China's re-emergence. Including film showings and talks by leading China specialists, the program aims at offering substantive resources for understanding China's rise and enriching undergraduate humanities and social science teaching and learning.

Since 1960 Ikeda Daisaku has been the leader of Soka Gakkai, one of the largest lay Buddhist movements in the world. He is also the founder of Japan's third largest political party, the Komeito, and of two universities, including Soka University of America in California. Millions of people in Japan today and hundreds of thousands outside it consider themselves his disciples. How has Ikeda been able to attract such a large number of devout followers?

Mixed languages are somewhat amorphous: they are little understood and difficult to recognize. Because of this, they are under-studied and under-represented in the field of contact linguistics, despite being recognized as a clear language “type.” Pidgins and creoles receive a lot of attention, even by non-linguists, leaving mixed languages under-documented. These bilingual languages lie between an in-group linguistic code and a creole. Only three mixed languages are universally agreed upon in the literature; however, many others have been suggested.

Degung kawih have been defined as modern, popular songs performed as interludes by female singers (sinden) within Sundanese rod-puppet performances. After the 1950s and ‘60s “heyday” of the sinden, Sundanese composer Nano Suratno, inspired by the desire to make gamelan and other traditional Sundanese instruments appealing to the post-New Order West Javanese youth, began to compose in innovative hybrid styles that deliberately emphasized aspects of Western music within gamelan performance.

Beginning with the Analects of Confucius, political writings in early China (ca. fifth- to first-century B.C.) are populated with accounts of individuals, historical or fictional, who are both homeless and stateless. Implicit in the articulation of this new space outside of the family and the state is a new humanism, a new understanding of the historical agency and responsibility of individuals, that will come to be the site of contention on which the first empires in early China, namely the Qin and Han dynasties, eventually emerged.

Chinese women’s gender identity in the global workplace in contemporary China is a complex phenomenon. Based on data collected via in-depth interviews, participant observations and focus group discussions, Sun explores the relationship between gender identity of female white-collar workers and their working experiences in foreign companies in China. She examines how different forces from foreign companies, popular culture and women’s own experiences commingle to define these women’s gender identity.

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.