Join us for a networking event and panel discussion!
* What are the challenges faced by individuals taking their companies global from the US?
* What challenges do foreign entrepreneurs experience when bringing their companies to the US?
* What are some solutions to close the divide and open up opportunities?
* Who is providing these solutions?

Panelists:
Ilana Diamond, Sima Corporation
David Iwinski, Blue Water Growth, LLC
More to be announced soon!

Limited registration is available for this event. Please sign up soon.

Join FSA, Malacca, and VSA to celebrate our cultures with dancing, food, and fun!

You are cordially invited to this splendid event presented by the Confucius Institute at the University of Pittsburgh and the London Confucius Institute for Traditional Chinese Medicine. The performance includes Chinese Lion Dance, Chinese Folk Dance, Chinese Martial Arts and various Chinese traditional instruments. It will be a great interactive opportunity to experience Chinese dance and kungfu as well as a wonderful cultural immersion experience!

Bellefield Auditorium: 315 S. Bellefield Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Doors open at 7:00 PM
FREE WITH PITT ID!
General Admission: $5
Free for children under 12
Tickets sold at the door.

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.