Winchester Thurston's faculty Karen Gaul, Central Catholic High School's faculty Matthew Sudnik, and Professor Roger Rouse, Global Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh, will frame Hsiao-Hung Pai's Scattered Sand in the context of Human Security to discuss China's rural migrants. They will share with our K-12 community on how they also used the book to look at globalization and consumerism.

Co-sponsored by the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia and the International Business Center

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).

Join the University of Pittsburgh Film Studies Program for a free lecture on Korean National Cinema in the Post-Film Era! Refreshments will be provided.

Unlike other American wars, the Vietnam War never really ended. It is being re-fought in scholarly works, at college reunions, in family living rooms, and among veterans. Aside from the Civil War, Vietnam was America's most divisive military conflict, and the University of Pittsburgh's Honors College program features some of the war's most outspoken scholars, participants and journalists.

A panel presentation featuring:
Sen. Bob Kerrey, former governor of Nebraska, Vietnam veteran
Peter Arnett, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Vietnam

Attend this event to hear Thuan Nguyen, President of the National Asian Deaf Congress in Washington, DC discuss topics from the novel, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. The book is a powerful collection of vignettes about the Vietnam War written from the soldiers’ perspective.

This year's Big Read program that is centered around Tim O’Brien’s book, The Things They Carried. This is a powerful collection of vignettes about the Vietnam War written from the soldiers’ perspective. Join CCAC in their upcoming kickoff celebration on March 3 and the month-long series of events. The kickoff celebration will feature a theatre and dance performance, food, music and keynote speaker, Jan Scruggs, Founder and President, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.

For most of our existence, humans have lived by hunting and gathering alone. The extent to which our biology, physiology, psychology, cultural dispositions, and social conventions are each a function of this deep history is an open question. Research on hunter-gatherers is therefore essential to understanding what it is to be human, and the vast majority of what there is to learn about them (and therefore us) is visible only in the cryptic remains of histories bereft of written records.

The next lecture of the NCTA video-conference lecture series is “Japan and Its Asian Neighbors: History, Islands and National Identity,” featuring Constantine N. Vaporis, Professor of History and Director of the Asian Studies Program, University of Maryland. A light dinner will be served for all participants starting at 5:30

This lecture is part of a series of an NCTA video-conference lectures “Japan in the Broader Context of Asia,” which will feature a variety of talks by professors from Pitt, Elizabethtown College, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Come out to play with the Japan-America Society of Pennsylvania at the 2013 Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art! The Carnegie International is the preeminent exhibition of new international art in the United States. The 2013 Carnegie International presents new voices rooted in history, a sense of place, and play.

This exhibition will feature video work from Chinese artists produced at the turn of the 21st century. Visitors will have the opportunity to experience Chinese artworks that have not been shown in the U.S. before, or have not previously been available in this part of the world. Through these artworks, the curator intends to show how Chinese artists and intellectuals responded to the rapid political and economic changes in China in the late 20th century, and how the artists used their eyes and even their own bodies to address certain social concerns.