The next lecture of the NCTA video-conference lecture series is “Japan and Its Asian Neighbors: History, Islands and National Identity,” featuring Constantine N. Vaporis, Professor of History and Director of the Asian Studies Program, University of Maryland. A light dinner will be served for all participants starting at 5:30

This lecture is part of a series of an NCTA video-conference lectures “Japan in the Broader Context of Asia,” which will feature a variety of talks by professors from Pitt, Elizabethtown College, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Come out to play with the Japan-America Society of Pennsylvania at the 2013 Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art! The Carnegie International is the preeminent exhibition of new international art in the United States. The 2013 Carnegie International presents new voices rooted in history, a sense of place, and play.

This exhibition will feature video work from Chinese artists produced at the turn of the 21st century. Visitors will have the opportunity to experience Chinese artworks that have not been shown in the U.S. before, or have not previously been available in this part of the world. Through these artworks, the curator intends to show how Chinese artists and intellectuals responded to the rapid political and economic changes in China in the late 20th century, and how the artists used their eyes and even their own bodies to address certain social concerns.

During its rapid modernization, beginning in the Meiji Era (1867–1912), Japan eagerly transplanted advanced technologies, social systems, and conceptual frameworks from the West. Japanese leaders were inspired by advanced models of technology and sociopolitical structures in countries like Great Britain, United States, France, Germany, etc. and made an effort to transplant them in the Japanese soil as quickly as possible.

On April 4-6, 2014, the University of Pittsburgh will host the second of two conferences that constitute the project “Voices of Asian Modernities: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Asian Popular Music of the 20th Century.” The conference will bring together a group of scholars from a range of fields including Music, Literature, History, Anthropology, Film Studies,Cultural Studies, Women's Studies, Performance Studies, and Asian Studies to properly historicize the artistic sounds, lyrical texts, visual images, and social lives of female performers in Asian popular music of the 20th century.

从中国油画看中国当代女性和青年的形象
演讲时间45分钟，演讲的语言为中文，提供午餐和饮料。

Do you consider yourself a very basic user of Facebook? Do you know the difference between Twitter and Tumblr? Have you tried to create a wiki for a class project, or does the very idea keep you up at night? Pitt’s international studies outreach program will host an interactive workshop to help teachers improve their use of social media websites and tools for education and personal use, including:

· Collaborative projects (for example, Wikispaces)
· Blogs and microblogs (for example, Twitter)
· Social news networking sites (for example, Reddit)

Dr. Givens seeks to explain why unrest has continued to rise in China, despite a major attempt by the Chinese government to reduce peasant tax burdens, previously the largest source of unrest. He hypothesizes that local officials, strapped for cash after a series of tax reforms, increasingly resorted to another form of extraction: the expropriation and sale of land used by peasants.

In the globalizing world, what are the determinants of fisheries income in South Korea? What should be considered and investigated before formulating, designing and implementing fisheries policies? Hwang’s research starts with a concise history of fisheries management before and after colonialism based on a literature review and proceeds with the analysis part using an econometric model and quantitative analysis.