Asian Studies Center

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Asian Studies

Sound of Japanese Street Demonstrations from the Antinuclear Movement to Pro-Democracy Protests

Presenter: 
Professor Noriko Manabe, Temple University
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 02/09/2018 - 15:00 to 16:30

The Fukushima nuclear accident has launched a series of ongoing social movements in Japan—the antinuclear movement; the anti-racist movement; and the protests against such policies as the Secrecy Law, the Security Bill, and the Conspiracy Law. This talk examines the ways in which musicians' and activists' responses have shifted with political developments in recent social movements.

Location: 
4130 Posvar Hall
Contact Person: 
Lynn Kawaratani
Contact Phone: 
3-3062
Contact Email: 
lyk12@pitt.edu

Karuppi

Subtitle: 
The Dark Woman
Presenter: 
Ponni Arasu
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Tue, 02/20/2018 - 18:00

The play, originally created in Tamil, is a collection of writing by and about Tamil speaking women who traveled across oceans from Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka for work or were displaced by war. The script consists of poetry, traditional folk songs, excerpts from short stories and government documents. The stories date back to the early 19th Century to the present day. While translating the play in English, the Marapachchi team found that the play works on many registers. While the play is about Tamil-speaking women, the incidents and stories may resonate with other contexts and histories.

Location: 
Charity Randall Theatre, Stephen Foster Memorial
Event Web Site: 
http://www.gsws.pitt.edu/events/performance-karuppi-dark-woman

Matter of Death

Presenter: 
Professor Anne Allison, Duke University
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 02/16/2018 - 15:00 to 16:30

At a moment when marriage and childbirth are on the decline, employment is increasingly short-term and precarious, and more and more people are living longer and all alone, sociality is changing in Japan. Away from the workplace or the family, ever more attention is placed on a free-floating, mobile but responsible self. Consistent with this streamlining of the social is a new trend in “simple living” spurred by de-clutter guru, Marie Kondo.

Location: 
Anthropology Lounge, 3106 Posvar
Contact Person: 
Lynn Kawaratani
Contact Phone: 
383-3062
Contact Email: 
lyk12@pitt.edu

UCIS Graduation Celebration

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Event Status: 
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Date: 
Fri, 04/27/2018 - 15:00

Students from all UCIS centers graduating in Spring and Summer 2018 are invited with their families to join this UCIS wide ceremony celebrating their completion of the certificate or BPHIL/IAS.

Location: 
Ballroom, O'Hara Student Center
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Rivers and History, Rivers of History- Symposium Keynote Lecture

Presenter: 
Terje Tvedt
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 02/22/2018 - 16:30

The talk will discuss some examples of the very important but changing roles of rivers in history (the small Akerselva in Oslo, Norway, the Derwent in England, the Indus, and the Huang He in China). Based on these cases it will discuss modernization theories that dominated international discourse on development after World War II, theories that disregarded the role of water in historical developments.

For more information, please see: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/rivers-symposium.

Location: 
602 Cathedral of Learning
Contact Person: 
Patryk Reid
Contact Email: 
par85@pitt.edu

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