Asian Studies Center

Synonyms: 
ASC
Asian Studies

Exploring Cybersecurity Through a Legal Lens Luncheon Discussion

Subtitle: 
Cybersecurity Discussion Series
Presenter: 
David Hickton, Matthew LaVigna, J. Keith Mularski
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
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Date: 
Wed, 10/26/2016 - 12:00 to 13:45

David Hickton
United States Attorney, Western District of Pennsylvania

Matthew LaVigna
Interim President and CEO, National Cyber Forensics & Training Alliance

J. Keith Mularski
Supervisory Special Agent, Cyber Squad, FBI - Pittsburgh Field Office

Moderated by: Andrew Conte
Director of the Center for Media Innovation, Point Park University

Location: 
The Rivers Club, 301 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15219
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Is China the Next Global Power? Luncheon Discussion

Subtitle: 
Allen and Selma Berkman Speaker Series
Presenter: 
Allan H. Meltzer
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Wed, 10/19/2016 - 12:00 to 13:30

Allan H. Meltzer
The Allan H. Meltzer University Professor of Political Economy, Carnegie Mellon University

Moderated by: Augustine (Gus) Faucher
Senior Vice President and Deputy Chief Economist, The PNC Financial Services

Join us as we relaunch our Allen and Selma Berkman Speaker Series with an engaging discussion on China. Through a moderated discussion with Gus Faucher of The PNC Financial Services Group, world-renowned economist, Dr. Allan Meltzer, will address the political and economic policies he argues are holding China back.

Location: 
The Duquesne Club, 325 Sixth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222

Asian Community Panel Discussion

Subtitle: 
Diversity Through the Eyes of Women Program Series
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Mon, 10/17/2016 - 17:30 to 19:00

Join us for a series of dynamic discussions surrounding Pittsburgh's changing cultural landscape, featuring local women leaders.

Our Asian community panel discussion will include representatives from Pittsburgh's Bhutanese, Chinese, Indian, and Iraqi communities. More details to be released soon.

Register here: https://www.worldpittsburgh.org/event/diversity-through-the-eyes-of-women/

Location: 
Point Park University, Lawrence Hall, Room 200 (Second floor), 212 Wood Street, Pittsburgh, 15222

A New Grand Strategy for America Evening Discussion

Presenter: 
Dr. Stephen Walt
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 10/06/2016 - 16:30 to 18:00

Join the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh and Duquesne University's Department of Political Science as they host Dr. Stephen Walt, the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, for a discussion on foreign policy and new strategies for America.

This free event is sponsored by Duquesne University's Raymond J. Kelley Endowed Chair as a Distinguished Speaker in International Relations.

This event is free and open to the public.

Location: 
College Hall 104, Duquesne University

The Everyday Politics of Digital Life in China

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sat, 10/08/2016 - 09:00

Panel Discussions will be held on the following topics:
Networks and Power
9:30-11:30 am
Moderator: James Cook
Panelists:
Andrew MacDonald (University of Louisville)
The Impact of Internet Use on Political Attitudes: New Survey Data from China
Bo Mai (University of Pennsylvania)
Talking about Censorship: Mapping Topic Clusters on the Chinese Twitter Sphere
John Wagner Givens (Carnegie Mellon University)
Justice Online: Is the Internet Empowering Lawyers, Legal Mobilization, and Rule of Law Reform in China?

Location: 
Conference Room A, University Club

Keynote Lecture: Enchantment and Disenchantment in the Everyday Politics of Digital Life in China

Presenter: 
Professor Guobin Yang
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 10/07/2016 - 17:00

Professor Guobin Yang, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania will give the keynote lecture as part of the Everyday Politics of Digital Life in China 2-day workshop. His lecture will argue that the everyday politics of technological life has a dialectics of its own. It aspires to the sublime but often falls back to the banal, swinging back and forth between moments of enchantment and disenchantment.

Location: 
Conference Room A, University Club

Round Table Conversations with Experts from the Field:

Subtitle: 
Education, Health, and Medicine
Presenter: 
Medi Bugembe, Alison Karnes, Dr. Mark Karnes, Victoria Nalongo
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 09/30/2016 - 12:00 to 14:00

These experts will share their entrepreneurial field experiences working with populations in East Africa to provide education, shelter, healthcare and other basic social services. Students will have the opportunity to meet with them, hear their stories, ask questions, and learn about opportunities to get involved.

Location: 
4217 Posvar Hall
Contact Person: 
Katherine Mooney
Contact Phone: 
4126481802
Contact Email: 
kwm18@pitt.edu

Careers in International Development and Education Policy

Subtitle: 
As part of International Career Toolkit Series
Presenter: 
Lindsay Randall
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 09/15/2016 - 14:30 to 16:00

Passionate about working abroad in international development issues? Interested in education policy and working with international actors, state actors, and non-governmental organizations? Want to learn about working for non-profits? Come join us to speak and hear from Lindsay Randall, the regional manager of More Than Me, a non-profit organization
that is on the cutting edge of improving Liberia’s education policy through the Government of Liberia’s Partnership Schools For Liberia initiative.

Location: 
4217 Posvar Hall
Contact Person: 
Tim An
Contact Phone: 
412-648-5085
Contact Email: 
ysa9@pitt.edu

Mid Autumn Festival

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Sat, 09/24/2016 - 17:00
Location: 
William Pitt Union Assembly Room
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Anime Film Festival

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Row House Cinema
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
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Date: 
Fri, 10/14/2016 - 12:00 to Thu, 10/20/2016 - 22:00

The Row House Cinema in Lawrenceville will be holding a film series dedicated to some of the most acclaimed anime movies of all time.

Films:
Belladonna Of Sadness (New restoration)
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
Grave Of The Fireflies
Millennium Actress
Paprika

Note: Times listed here are approximate. Tickets, pricing, and showtimes are available via Row House's website here:
http://www.rowhousecinema.com/

Location: 
Row House Cinema 4115 Butler St, Pittsburgh, PA 15201
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