This workshop on global human trafficking for regional college faculty and students is presented by the international and area studies programs of the University Center for International Studies (UCIS), University of Pittsburgh. Light refreshments will be provided. This event is part of an annual series of curriculum development workshops connected with the US Department of Education-sponsored Title VI National Resource Center project to internationalize 2-year and 4-year college campuses throughout Western Pennsylvania.

Pitt's Chinese American Students Association and Vietnamese Student Association invite you to join us at our 2017 Lunar New Year Celebration!

Lunar New Year is a traditional holiday celebrated in many parts of East Asia, including China and Vietnam. Also known as Chinese New Year and Tết, it is the longest and one of the most extravagant holidays celebrated in East Asia. Come out to learn more about and celebrate the Year of the Rooster with diverse performances, FREE food, and cultural games/activities!

(There will be OCC credit for all Pitt students)

Ever wanted to learn how to dance K-Pop or traditional Chinese dance? Now is your opportunity with our first How To: Asia event! The ASC Undergraduate Advisory Council is hosting an Asian Dance Workshop with dancers from CSSA, FRESA and possibly more. Join us for refreshments and dance lessons. Earn OCC credit.

For more information, please email asia@pitt.edu.

From unexpected connections to the founding and culture of Nike to the preparation for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Japanese culture flows through the global world of sports and business.

Drawing on his extensive experience as an athlete, trainer, and osteopath in Australia, Great Britain, Italy, and Japan, Paul Francis will share how the aspirational qualities in Japanese culture are cultivated, grown, and celebrated.

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?

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.

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.