Deborah Wong, Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Riverside, poses the question: Why do ethnomusicologists still rely on books to present their scholarship? This presentation will consider the challenges that research on taiko (Japanese/American drumming) poses to textual representation, and addresses how any research on performance should push at the limits of the page.

For Pitt undergraduate students considering study abroad in Asia, please join us for an information session about the many program options in Japan, South Korea, China, India, and other countries that are available to you! We will be answering questions, helping you to find a program that best fits your needs and budget, and offering information about scholarships at Pitt and outside the university, as well as inviting past program participants to come and share their experiences with others!

For Pitt undergraduate students considering study abroad, please join us for an information session about two great Pitt-run summer programs, Pitt in China and Pitt in India! We will be answering questions, helping you to find a program that best fits your needs and budget, and offering information about scholarships at Pitt and outside the university. A second session relevant to all study abroad in Asia programs will be held in January 2011.

Part of the Global Lens 2010 Series. In a poor mining town in western China, the stories of a father and his two children intersect and intertwine, illuminating complicated relationships hidden beneath the community's hardened exterior. Accused of an affair with her manager, the attractive daughter of the household finds herself spurned by her boyfriend and forced to accept an arranged marriage.

Abstract TBA.

This discussion will revolve around Luo Zhongli's iconographic painting, Father (1980), in the context of cultural changes in the 1980s' China. In particular, the session will question what it means to 'see things as they are' at a time when socialist realism was still the dominant paradigm even as the influence of Western forms was gaining purchase. Luo's seemingly uncomplicated image of an ordinary old peasant has a disturbing effect on its contemporary viewers, to the point that an effort to tame the image has left a 'stain' on the work itself.

As the role of drones in targeting so-called terrorist sanctuaries in Pakistan's tribal areas bordering eastern Afghanistan increases, both in frequency and ferocity, A.S.M. Ali Ashraf debunks three myths about drone strikes and points to three alternative realities. Drawing on a database of all the reported drone strikes between June 2004 and December 2009 in Pakistan's FATA region, Ashraf claims that U.S. drone strikes are not precision airstrikes; they cannot avoid civilian casualties; and such strikes are carried out with the tacit support from the Pakistani State.

Often copied, but never truly duplicated, Asian Horror is renowned for providing genre fans with some of the most boundary-pushing and artful cinema experiences to be found.

So, please join us for a distinctive selection of blood-curdling, spine-tingling, watch-with-one-eye-covered, spooky films this Halloween season.

Often copied, but never truly duplicated, Asian Horror is renowned for providing genre fans with some of the most boundary-pushing and artful cinema experiences to be found.

So, please join us for a distinctive selection of blood-curdling, spine-tingling, watch-with-one-eye-covered, spooky films this Halloween season.