EALL Spring Fling!
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Date:
Fri, 03/21/2014 - 16:00 to 18:00
Join the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures for their Spring Fling! There will be food, games, and entertainment!
Location:
O'Hara Student Center
Asian Studies Center
Synonyms:
ASC
Asian Studies
Applying for the Kakehashi Project Summer Trip
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Date:
Fri, 03/21/2014 - 15:00
Undergraduates who are interested in traveling to Japan this summer should attend this information session!
The KAKEHASHI Project aims to heighten potential interest in Japan and increase the number of overseas visitors to the country, as well as enhance international understanding of the “Japan brand,” or the nation’s strengths and attractiveness, such as Japanese-style values and “Cool Japan.” The project is also anticipated to revitalize and boost the Japanese economy.
Location:
4217 Posvar Hall (Inside Suite 4400), University of Pittsburgh
Event Web Site:
Japanese-English Translation as a Career
Presenter:
Ms. Melissa Cano, Bilingual Japanese-English Translator and Consultant
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Date:
Fri, 03/21/2014 - 14:00
Join Ms. Melissa Caro to learn about careers in the field of translation. Ms. Caro works as a Japanese-English translator and consultant in business and manufacturing.
Location:
4217 Posvar Hall (Inside Suite 4400), University of Pittsburgh
Working at the Japanese Embassy
Presenter:
Mr. Joel Zara, Diplomatic Assistant, Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C.
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Date:
Fri, 03/21/2014 - 13:00
Join Mr. Joel Zara for a conversation about working in the Japanese Embassy in Washington D.C. Students interested in pursuing international or diplomatic careers won't want to miss this!
Location:
4217 Posvar Hall (Inside Suite 4400), University of Pittsburgh
Seeking Healing Through Internet Suicide Websites? Existential Suffering and Lack of Meaning Among Japanese Youth
Presenter:
Dr. Chikako Ozawa-de Silva, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Emory University
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Date:
Thu, 04/10/2014 - 16:00
Suicide has become a major public health concern in Japan over the past decade due to extremely elevated suicide rates since 1998. Discourse in Japan on suicide prevention has nevertheless focused almost exclusively on the state of the Japanese economy and levels of mental illness, neglecting the subjective experience of suicidal individuals and the roles that meaning and positive mental health play in suicide and its prevention.
Location:
4130 Posvar Hall
Plastic Narratives: Kaiyodo and the Evolution of Database Consumption
Presenter:
James B. Williams, M.A. Candidate, East Asian Studies
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Date:
Fri, 03/21/2014 - 12:00
The purpose of this study is to examine the utility of Azuma Hiroki's Database Consumption Model in explaining the historical production and consumption of secondary goods by examining the history and products of Japanese toy company Kaiyodo. Founded in 1964 as a small Osaka hobby shop by Miyawaki Osamu Kaiyodo is a model success story of Japan's post-industrial intellectual property based economy. It also provides a uniquely situated test case for examining both Azuma's model of historical development and the production and consumption of secondary goods.
Location:
4130 Posvar Hall
Contact Person:
Dr. Mi-Hyun Kim
Contact Email:
kimmh@pitt.edu
Campaign Rhetoric and the Surprising Stability of Leadership Transitions in the Asia-Pacific
Subtitle:
Symposium on Political Violence
Presenter:
Professor Jessica Chen Weiss, Department of Political Science, Yale University
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Date:
Fri, 03/21/2014 - 12:00 to 13:30
Conventional wisdom holds that leadership transitions are periods of heightened uncertainty as foreign actors seek to probe the resolve of new and untested leaders. However, a careful examination of leadership transitions in the Asia-Pacific reveals a striking pattern of stability. What explains the absence of diplomatic and military conflict following the election or installation of new leaders? We argue that campaign rhetoric, whether hawkish or dovish, is a more credible signal of policy in the aftermath of leadership turnover than typically acknowledged.
Location:
Posvar Hall, Room 3610
Asian Intersections "Mini-Conference" for Graduate Students
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Date:
Tue, 03/25/2014 - 12:00 to 13:30
The Asian Studies Discussion Group is an inter-disciplinary and international graduate student group that meets bi-monthly to discuss selected theoretical readings on "Asia" as method, field-site, and imagined region. They also discuss current scholarship in Asia-focused journals, regional politics, and the relevance of these to their own research.
Students interested are welcome to join discussions. The next meeting is an informal "mini-conference" on 12pm-1.30pm, 25 March (Tuesday), on the theme "Asian Intersections".
Location:
TBA - Email for more information and location
Contact Email:
zic4@pitt.edu
Second Annual Undergraduate Asian Studies Research Conference
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Date:
Sat, 04/05/2014 - 08:00 to 16:00
The Pittsburgh Asia Consortium (PAC) Undergraduate Research Conference is a one-day, interdisciplinary event for students from PA, WV, OH, MD, NY, NJ, and DE with an interest in any geographical region of Asia. Students will give a 15-minute presentation on Asia-related research topics from any discipline, with faculty from PAC overseeing each student panel. First time presenters are welcome! Students will meet other undergraduates and faculty with an academic interest in Asian Studies from throughout the region, and enjoy a keynote presentation and banquet lunch.
Location:
Carruth Rizza Hall, Slippery Rock University (Slippery Rock, PA)
Cost:
Free
Event Web Site:
Contact Person:
Dr. George Brown, Conference Organizer
Contact Email:
george.brown@sru.edu
Voices of Asian Modernities
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Date:
Fri, 04/04/2014 (All day) to Sun, 04/06/2014 (All day)
On April 4-6, 2014, the University of Pittsburgh will host the second of two
conferences that constitute the Voices of Asian Modernities Project (VAMP), a
consortium between the University of Pittsburgh, Leiden University, and the Royal
Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV). The aim of
the conference is to properly historicize the artistic sounds, lyrical texts, visual
images, and social lives of female performers in Asian popular music of the 20th and
21st centuries.
Location:
Multiple locations, see link
Event Web Site:
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