Save the date for Silk Screen's annual film festival!
Festival events include:
-Opening Night Gala: April 25, 2014
-Closing Night Film and party: May 4, 2014
Winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize Documentary at Sundance, A River Changes Course tells the story of three families living in contemporary Cambodia as they face hard choices forced by rapid development and struggle to maintain their traditional ways of life as the modern world closes in around them. "Director Kalyanee Mam follows these families and their distinctive ways of life with her eyes wide open.
Director Keir Moreano's record of his father's experience as a volunteer doctor in Vietnam in 2003 as a journey of a professional who has come to question the difference he makes in the lives of his patients in the US, finding renewed passion in his calling after several weeks conducting surgeries and training staff in a hard-pressed hospital in Hue. "The film observes Dr.
The eighth edition of the Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival is dedicated to the legacy of world-renowned filmmaker, psychologist, and Carnegie Mellon professor, Paul Goodman, and to his professional focus on the human challenges and achievements of diverse groups of workers worldwide.
This talk will focus on the subsistence economies of a region in Northeast China where environmental conditions are conducive to specialized mobile herding. According to a number of scholars, sedentary farmers left their farms to take up full time specialized mobile herding in Northeast China around 1200 BCE. The evidence for this shift is primarily art historical and from received histories. However, there is a lack of direct archaeological data in the region which can support this assertion.
The beginnings of Korean Wave are typically linked to the term 'hallyu', denoting South Korean cultural exports to China and Taiwan.
Presenter: Shruti Rana, Associate Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Discussant: Michael J. Madison, Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Presenter: Daniel C.K. Chow, Joseph S. Platt-Porter Wright Morris & Arthur Professor of Law, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
Discussant: Peter Oh, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
This event will take place on Friday, February 14th from 1:00 to 4:00 PM in the William Pitt Union Assembly Room, Ball Room, and Kurtzman Rooms. It is designed to provide students with an opportunity to learn about the variety of language courses, programs, scholarships, and student organizations available to them at Pitt. Last year's language fair was a major success with over 400 students in attendance. We hope to build on this success in 2014.
In the spring of summer of 1954, Chinese gathered in lecture halls, classrooms, factory workshops and other venues to talk about the revolution. This was not, to be sure, the intention of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which wanted to use the constitution to consolidate its power and legitimacy. However, when the party asked people to raise questions about, and suggest revisions to, the draft Constitution, it allowed them to raise critical issues about the nature of the revolutionary process and China’s future.
