Asian Studies Center

Synonyms: 
ASC
Asian Studies

Sunda: Gamelan Music and Dance of West Java

Date: 
Fri, 04/08/2011 - 20:00

Directed by Andrew Weintraub and Indra Ridwan. Guest Artists: Ening Rumbini, dancer; Undang Sumarna, master drummer. Buy tickets in advance from ProArts for a discount: $8.50 general admission and $5 non-Pitt students and seniors. At the door: $15 general and $10 non-Pitt students and seniors.

Location: 
Bellefield Auditorium
Cost: 
Free for Pitt students
Contact Person: 
Andrew Weintraub
Contact Phone: 
412-624-4184

EALL Spring Fling

Date: 
Fri, 04/08/2011 - 16:00

Food, talent show, games, and more! Join EALL fundraising efforts for the victims of the earthquake/tsunami in Japan.

Location: 
548 William Pitt Union
Cost: 
Free
Contact Person: 
Paula Locante
Contact Phone: 
412-624-5568

Asian and Latin American Studies Symposium

Date: 
Fri, 04/08/2011 - 09:00 to 17:00

Postcolonial Feminisms and the Ethic of Care: South-to-South Dialogues is the inaugural symposium by the Asian and Latin American Women's Studies working group. We are convening for the second year to further develop the project. This project will bring together leading scholars in Asian and Latin American studies to create new understanding and knowledge in the areas of gender, race, and class.

Location: 
A425 Public Health (Parran Hall)
Cost: 
Free
Contact Person: 
Jennifer Murawski

Asia Over Lunch - 'The Khmer Rouge Tribunal: Justice vs. Impunity' --Sopheada Phy, Heinz Fellow, University Center for International Studies

Date: 
Thu, 04/07/2011 - 12:00

After more than three decades since the demise of the so-called genocidal Khmer Rouge regime, in which an estimated 1.7 million people died, in 1979 in Cambodia, real justice for victims of the massacre still remains elusive even though the Khmer Rouge tribunal, which was established in 2006, has been in the process of prosecuting the senior leaders and those most responsible. The talk will be mainly about how the Khmer Rouge tribunal, the court that must ensure that impunity does not exist, seeks justice for Cambodian victims.

Location: 
4130 Posvar
Contact Person: 
Jennifer Murawski

CHINA: Exploring the Interior 1903-1904 Photography Exhibit

Date: 
Thu, 04/07/2011 (All day) to Sat, 04/30/2011 (All day)

Exhibit on display at Shady Side Academy, 423 Fox Chapel Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15238. Exhibit Hours: Monday-Friday 9-6, for weekend hours call 412-968-3045. Closed on holidays.

Opening Reception with Curator Robert M. Sargent: Thursday, April 7, 2011, 5:00 p.m. At 7:00 p.m. there will be a lecture by Dr. Evelyn S. Rawski, Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh on 'China on the Eve of Modernization'. Refreshments will be served.

Location: 
Hillman Center for the Performing Arts, Shady Side Academy
Contact Person: 
Jennifer Murawski

History of Art and Architecture Colloquium -- 'Learning from Seoul': Choi Jeong-hwa, Urban Vernacular, and the Postmodern City -- By Chunghoon Shin, Binghamton University

Date: 
Wed, 04/06/2011 - 12:00

This paper examines Choi Jeong-hwa's critical engagement with the changing natures of the urban environment in the 1990s. Renowned as the established leader of Korean Pop Art, Choi Jeong-hwa has appropriated crude, cheap, and mass-produced objects from the everyday environment for making art. His strategy of 'kitsch' appropriation has been interpreted as either a subversive gesture to high art seriousness or a social commentary on Korea's hasty modernization in general.

Location: 
203 Frick Fine Arts

Black Swan in Northeast Japan: Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Threat

Date: 
Fri, 04/01/2011 - 15:00

Panelists will include:

Aya Okada (PhD Student, GSPIA), Muge Finkel (Assistant Professor, GSPIA), Larry Foulke (Adjunct Professor, School of Engineering), Paul Scheinert (Advisory Engineer, Bettis Laboratory), Atsunori Nakao (Tokusyukai Medical Assistance Team, School of Medicine), and Louise Comfort (Director, Center for Disaster Management).

Location: 
3431 Posvar Hall
Contact Person: 
Louise Comfort

Asia Over Lunch - 'Teaching and Learning English in China and Indonesia' - Sara Bularzik, MA Candidate, School of Education

Date: 
Thu, 03/31/2011 - 12:00

Through this interactive presentation, I will describe my experiences with English language education in two of the largest countries on earth: China and Indonesia. My research as a graduate student has taken me to Indonesia to co-author a book on English for young learners and to China to work with volunteer teachers in migrant schools. Both nations are currently dealing with similar issues in English education, such as how to improve teacher quality and the evolving status of English in elementary schools.

Location: 
4130 Posvar
Contact Person: 
Jennifer Murawski

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