A forum on mental illness and substance abuse among Indian immigrants in North America. Organized by SV Temple, presented by Professor Balwant N. Dixit, University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. Followed by a panel discussion with Vishwajit Nimgaonkar, MD, PHD, Professor of Psychiatry & Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Ranita Basu MD, Psychiatrist, Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare Systems, and Ms. Anagha Manohar, MSW. Special Guest Speaker: Uma Eyyunni M.D, Founder of “MOTHERS CRY” of Jacksonville, Florida

Asian Studies & the Japanese language program are offering a series of Japanese language tables on campus for students of Japanese language. This session on “Practicing your acting/speaking—Preparing for oral proficiency tests” is designed for all level of Japanese language students. Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) is a speaking proficiency test which is conducted by ACTFL, the national organization for foreign language teaching. This proficiency test is being used worldwide by academic institutions, government agencies, and private corporations to assess one’s language skill.

The notion of cultural purity is demonstrably a myth, as any careful historical analysis of cultural expression anywhere in the world can reveal multiple origins, blends, syncretisms, hybridities that are the inevitable result of human contact.

The 23rd JAWS Conference will be held from Thursday 07 March 2013 through Saturday 09 March 2013, at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh PA, USA. Further details will be posted on the Conferences page as they are available.

Over the past decade, China’s rural villages have lost over half of their residents as the young and talented have moved to coastal provinces in pursuit of better-paying factory jobs. As a result, rural China is now facing a funding crisis in education and health care services. Young children are among the most deeply affected. As rural villages have depopulated, a lack of students have forced many rural middle and high schools to close.

This dissertation study is a controlled comparison between a Han Chinese farming community engaging in an energy crop cultivation project and an indigenous Amis community practicing organic farming in Taiwan. Through investigation of cultural traditions and historical studies of interactions with agricultural specialists, I examine how these two groups’ conceptualizations of the environment have been shaped.

ASC and the Japanese language program at Pitt are offering a series of Japanese language tables on campus for students of Japanese language. This session on “practicing speaking with Show & Tell in Japanese” is designed for all level of Japanese language students-- 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year (and beyond). You will be sharing an item you will discuss with the group. In this session:

Please bring an item you would like to discuss. You can bring anything— a photo (digital or print), a memorable item from your childhood, or magazine article you would like to discuss, etc.

If you are interested in Japanese-related business in the U.S. and Japan, TOP group is the solution for you. We provide individual career information. Walk-ins welcome.

Please bring your resume.

RSVP recommended but not required. See contact information below.

“The subprime crisis revealed a simple fact, that is, that finance is nothing but a fraud,” a former derivatives trader at a major Japanese securities firm, told me in July 2009. He noted that financial market insiders like himself had known this all along, but now that the fraudulent nature of finance had been disclosed, he believed that no further innovation of financial technologies would be possible.

The pre-circulated text for discussion in this seminar will be Professor Ng's forthcoming article, "Dutch Wars, Global Trade, and the Heroic Poem:
Dryden's Annus Mirabilis (1666) and Amin's Sya'ir Perang Mengkasar (1670)." The essay is attached.

BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Ng is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma.