Asian Studies Center

Synonyms: 
ASC
Asian Studies

Akira Shimizu Lecture

Subtitle: 
Deregulating Early Modern Market Culture: The Rise of Serigai (Disruptive) Merchants and Issues of Eggs in Edo, 1780-1868
Presenter: 
Akira Shimizu
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Mon, 04/11/2016 - 15:00

Assist professor of Global History and Languages at Wilkes University looks at historical tendency towards subversive trading through lens of egg trade.

Location: 
4130 Posvar Hall

MOVING: Gendered Experiences of Migration, Gentrification, and Displacement

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Event Status: 
As Scheduled
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Date: 
Fri, 04/08/2016 (All day) to Sat, 04/09/2016 (All day)

Join us for a two-day workshop co-sponsored by the Kabak Endowment Fund and the Global Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh that focuses on gendered experiences of moving, especially the changes, challenges, and conflicts that women encounter and the ways that they address them.

Location: 
4130 Posvar
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Working with International Students on Your Campus

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Presenter: 
Karin Fischer, Chronicle of Higher Education
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
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Date: 
Fri, 02/12/2016 - 09:00 to 16:00

The second in a series of annual UCIS professional development workshops organized for faculty and staff of community colleges in the Western Pennsylvania region with the aim of internationalizing these community college campuses. Presenters from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University will discuss admissions, orientation, academics and student life in relation to international students attending US colleges.

Location: 
Community College of Beaver County
Cost: 
Contact Person: 
Gina Peirce
Contact Phone: 
4126482290
Contact Email: 
gbpeirce@pitt.edu

Mindfulness: James Robson

Subtitle: 
The Promises & Problems of Mindfulness: Between Mental Stillness and Mental Illness
Presenter: 
James Robson, Professor of East Asian Languages & Civilizations, Harvard
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Mon, 03/21/2016 - 17:00
Location: 
William Pitt Union, Lower Lounge

International Career Toolkit Series

Subtitle: 
Drafting Your Elevator Speech Workshop
Presenter: 
Anastasia Rose-Diamantis Lopez
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Tue, 02/23/2016 - 12:00

Students selected for the International Career Toolkit Series trip to Washington D.C. are required to attend a one-hour session on creating a 30-second elevator speech. This is an important skill to develop and will be utilized during the trip. Any student is welcome to participate, regardless if they are going on the Washington DC networking trip.

Location: 
4130 Posvar Hall

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