Asian Studies Center

Synonyms: 
ASC
Asian Studies

Striving in Excess: Remaking Persons and Objects in India's New Athletic Cultures

Presenter: 
Dr. Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 02/03/2017 - 15:00

Anthropologists often claim sports matter because they are metaphors for society. But how do we account for the sensuous excesses of physical cultures—the feelings of movement, pleasure, pain, love and fatigue, as well as the sense of aspiration, experimentation and striving that accompany them?

Location: 
4130 Posvar

Careers in Diplomacy and in the Foreign Service

Presenter: 
Dr. Kenneth Chern
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 01/13/2017 - 15:00 to 16:30

Interested in becoming a Foreign Service Officer at the US Department of State? Passionate about diplomacy and international relations? Come and hear from Dr. Kenneth Chern about life in diplomacy and how to join the foreign service as part of our International Career Toolkit Series.

Location: 
4217 Posvar Hall
Contact Person: 
Tim An
Contact Email: 
ysa9@pitt.edu

The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction, Reading and Discussion with the Author

Presenter: 
James Milward, Professor of History, Georgetown University
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 01/12/2017 - 13:30 to 15:00

Place: Posvar Hall 4217
Text: Participants need to acquire the book themselves.
For more information about this, contact Patryk Reid (par85@pitt.edu).

Prof. Milward will give a public lecture later that day, titled "Silk Road Journeys of the Eurasian Lute."
Time: 4-6pm
Date: January 12th, 2017

Place: Frick Fine Arts Auditorium Rm. 125.

Location: 
4217 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

Erotic Encounters of an Extra Judicial Kind: The Liminal Worlds of Law and Crime in Indian Cinema

Subtitle: 
Imagining the Future in India at 70 Speaker Series
Presenter: 
Lawrence Liang
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 01/27/2017 - 12:00

Lawrence Liang is a professor of Law at Ambedkar University and currently Rice Scholar at Yale University. He co-founded Alternative Law Forum (ALF), a public interest and human rights lawyering group in Bangalore with whom he worked for fifteen years. ALF has engaged in strategic litigation on various socio-legal issues, and Liang's work lies at the intersection of law, technology, and culture. He is a member of the Kafila collective and a co-founder of two online video archives: indiancine.ma and pad.ma

Respondents: Jinying Li (Film Studies) and Michael Madison (School of Law)

Location: 
501 Cathedral of Learning

Aristotle meets Sei Shonagon

Subtitle: 
Figures of Speech in Japanese Advertising
Presenter: 
Patricia Wetzel
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 01/20/2017 - 16:00

It would not come as a surprise to the fields of marketing and consumer research that language—specifically rhetoric—is crucial to effective advertising. But just how might linguistics look at the same figures of speech that fascinate the world of commerce? A meeting of the minds between business and marketing on the one hand and linguistics on the other is taking place through their mutual interest in semiotics and classical rhetoric. This recent work relies on rhetoric’s elaborate and time-honored taxonomy for talking about how language is used for effect.

Location: 
4130 Posvar

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