Child Rights and You (CRY) America has been active in Pittsburgh since 2003 and has held a number of fund raising events in support of our cause. This October 10, they are once again organizing our annual CRY America Walk for Child Rights, a non-competitive 5K walk on the Schenley Park trail. Year to year, they aim to bring together groups and individuals from around the community in hopes of spreading the CRY America's message and raising much-needed funds for nearly 30 initiatives currently supported in both India and the U.S.

Celebrate Gandhi's birthday! Winner of 9 Academy Awards & starring Ben Kingsley & Josh Gielgud, Dir by Richard Attenborough

On June 15, 2007, the United Nations General Assembly declared October 2nd to be International Day of Non-Violence, in honor of the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement and pioneer of the strategy of non-violence. Join us for a day of activities celebrating the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi and his teachings!

Helen Rees (UCLA) will deliver a lecture titled 'Intangible Culturel Heritage Preservation in China Today: Theory, State Policy, and Practice', sponsored by the Asian Studies Center and the Music Department.

Hiroyuki Good of the East Asian Library will cover several newly available databases for Japanese studies: Yomidas Rekishikan, a full text database of the Yomiuri Shinbun from the Meiji era to the present, and Zasshi kiji sakuin shusei, a Japanese article index database from the Meiji era to the present. The talk will also update scholars on changes to the JapanKnowledge and three new major online dictionaries: Kokushi Daijiten, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, and Nihon Rekishi Daijiten. We will also explore how to find full texts and correct citations for inter-library loan requests.

Lih Kang Chang is a politician and human rights activist and currently the youngest legislator in Perak, Malaysia, one of the country's thirteen states. He is Vice Chairman of the People Justice Party and the Assistant Secretary of the National Youth Wing. Chang has also worked for the Malaysian human rights organization SUARAM. His presentation will focus on Malaysia's democratization, especially surrounding the 2008 general election, as well as the human rights situation and to what extent the Malaysian government is influenced by the United States.

A lecture in conjunction with the film showing of 'First Person Plural' on October 14th.

In 1966, Deann Borshay Liem was adopted by an American family and sent from Korea to her new home in California. There the memory of her birth family was nearly obliterated, until recurring dreams led her to investigate her own past, and she discovered that her Korean mother was very much alive. Bravely uniting her biological and adoptive families, Borshay Liem embarks on a heartfelt journey in this poignant essay on family, loss and the reconciling of two identities.

This talk explores in a comparative framework who and what passed along the great historical routes of Asia - commodities, officials, brides, sacred objects, trade information, pilgrims, family representatives, and royal emissaries. We explore routes as a unit of analysis for understanding the larger Asian world. Examples include the Grand Canal of China, the Silk Road and the Indian Ocean Slave Trade.

This is the tenth seminar presented by the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA), the Asian Studies Center (UCIS), and the World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh. Our guest speaker will be Professor Stewart Gordon, senior research scholar at the Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan. Dr. Gordon's new book, 'Routes', (University of California, 2011) explores four different kinds of routes: trade, supply, river and pilgrimage in a worldwide perspective.

A screening of new documentary 'Can't Go Native?' featuring the work of Japan anthropologist Dr. Keith Brown, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Anthropology. Film will be followed by a Q&A and discussion with Dr. Brown and the film's producer/director, Dr. David Plath of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A reception will follow.