The Asian Studies Center and the Department of Anthropology invite you to talk with Dr. Nancy Abelmann, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research—Humanities, Arts, and Related Fields and Harry E. Preble Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In this talk Dr. Abelmann will think about the changing aesthetics of desire and social mobility. She will consider the porous boundary between the radically normative and potentially transgressive in South Korea today.
Focusing on the video industry of Malegaon, India, known for its DIY spoofs of famous Holly- and Bollywood films, this talk will explore plastic world-making practices that open up new avenues of participation. At stake is a bottom-up conceptualization of the global.
Gabriella Lukacs is an Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a Japanologist who specializes in television and digital media studies. She is the author of Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan (Duke University Press, 2010). The book project she is currently working on explores issues of labor and gender in the digital media economy through such case studies as the net idols, cell phone novelists, female Internet traders, young female photographers, video game designers, and fashion bloggers.
Students and local residents who are interested in teaching English in Asia are welcome to attend this information session! The session begins with information on teaching in China and South Korea through various opportunities, including the Teach and Learn in Korea (TaLK) and English Program in Korea (EPiK) programs, and continues with the official Japan Exchange & Teaching (JET) Program information kit and alumni panel. Stop by for a short time or stay for the entire session - we will answer your questions and help you decide which option is right for you and how to get started!
Directors Vasali Sinha and Rebecca Haimowitz will introduce the film and take questions afterwards.
Meet with Pitt Alumni and China Business Expert Lois Dougan Tretiak!
Lois Dougan Tretiak has more than 30 years experience working on China business issues and direct involvement in China. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, Ms. Tretiak is currently the Senior Advisor on China for the Economist Group. She also served as the Economist Group’s Chief Representative in Beijing and Shanghai, advising businesses on Chinese investment strategies.
The struggle between Russia and Great Britain over Central Asia in the nineteenth century was the original "great game." But in the past quarter century, a new "great game" has emerged, pitting America against a newly aggressive Russia and a resource-hungry China, all struggling for influence over one of the volatile areas in the world. In Great Games, Local Rules, Alexander Cooley, one of America's most respected Central Asia experts, explores the dynamics of the new competition over the region since 9/11.
