Professor Bergsten developed and for 20 years administered the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, which has been held annually for the past 22 years in Vienna, Austria. Nearly 300 law schools from approximately 70 countries participate in the Vis Moot each year. During his lecture, he will discuss the genesis of the Vis Moot and how it serves as a platform for legal education. Following his lecture, Ronald A. Brand, Chancellor Mark A.

This is the second in a series of three workshops designed specifically for instructors of less-commonly-taught languages. This workshop offers the opportunity to examine the differences between exercises and tasks, explore the benefits of using tasks in teaching, and adapt textbook exercises to tasks. Participants will walk away with the knowledge needed to design effective tasks that motivate students to learn.

A faculty and curriculum enrichment workshop sponsored by the international and area studies programs of the University Center for International Studies (UCIS) at the University of Pittsburgh. This is the first in a planned series of annual workshops aimed at internationalizing college campuses in the Western Pennsylvania region, with support from the Title VI National Resource Center program of the U.S. Department of Education. Participation by faculty from minority-serving institutions and community colleges is particularly encouraged.

Master Drummer Ega Robot joins the University Gamelan as they play the gamelan music of the Sundanese people, an ethnic group that inhabits roughly the western third of the island of Java.

Please come join us for food, fun, and friends. Learn about opportunities in Academic Year 2015.

Please RSVP by April 13, 2015 to Somkiat Kamolpun at sok30@pitt.edu or 412-980-6916.

Join Rowena Xiaoqing He of Harvard University for a lecture based on her newly published book. "Tiananmen Exiles" was selected as one of the TOP FIVE books China in 2014 by ChinaFile, a project of the Center on the US-China Relations at the Asia Society.

Books will be available for purchase.

My talk discusses how and why repetition operates in the Japanese language. Interestingly linguists of various persuasions have intensively analyzed deletion in language but they seldom dealt with repetition in language. Kuno (1978:8) defined the function of deletion as “lowering redundancy of a sentence by deleting information known to the listener”. It sounded as if the function of repetition were only elevating redundancy level of information.

A celebration of the international achievements of the Class of 2015. The UCIS Graduation Ceremony recognizes students who have attained a Certificate or a Bachelor of Philosophy in International & Area Studies.

Since China and South Korea normalized diplomatic relations in 1992, Korean Chinese, part of an officially recognized ethnic minority group in China, have migrated to Korea in search of both long-lost family members and better working opportunities. This massive and persistent migration to Korea is commonly called the Korean Wind. Based on ethnographic research in Yanbian, China, this paper examines how the ethnic politics of Korean Chinese Communist Party members have developed in response to the Korean Wind. South Korea was long been considered a forbidden capitalist enemy.

The Pitt Graduate Program for Cultural Studies' Annual Distinguished Lecturer will be Aiwha Ong, Professor of the Socio-Cultural Anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California Berkeley, whose talk is entitled, "Constellation and Flow: How Citizenship Captures Capital Flight." She is the author of Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia (1987); Flexible Citizenship: the Cultural Logics of Transnationality (1999); Buddha in Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America (2003); and Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and