Asian Studies Center

Synonyms: 
ASC
Asian Studies

Talk Time

Presenter: 
Rob Mucklo
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Tue, 09/19/2023 - 13:30 to 14:30

Come meet international students, make friends, practice conversational English, and have fun together, during these weekly discussion groups coordinated by the English Language Institute. Feel free to bring your lunch :)

Location: 
Global Hub
Contact Person: 
Rob Mucklo
Contact Email: 
rob.mucklo@pitt.edu

Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs' Scholarships Info Session

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Mon, 10/23/2023 - 15:00 to 16:00

Explore the World with a Summer Study Abroad Scholarship! Join the Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs' Scholarships Info Session!

Dreaming of an unforgettable summer adventure abroad? We're here to make it happen! Discover your opportunity to study abroad with the help of scholarships at our Summer Study Abroad Scholarships Info Session.

Location: 
Global Hub
Contact Person: 
Katya Kovaleva
Contact Email: 
nriep@pitt.edu

Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs' Scholarships Info Session

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 09/29/2023 - 13:00 to 14:00

Explore the World with a Summer Study Abroad Scholarship! Join the Nationality Rooms and Intercultural Exchange Programs' Scholarships Info Session!

Dreaming of an unforgettable summer adventure abroad? We're here to make it happen! Discover your opportunity to study abroad with the help of scholarships at our Summer Study Abroad Scholarships Info Session.

Location: 
Global Hub
Contact Person: 
Katya Kovaleva
Contact Email: 
nriep@pitt.edu

SCREENSHOT: Asia Film Festival "Tiger Stripes" (with Director Q&A)

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sun, 10/08/2023 - 17:30 to 19:30

Amanda Nell Eu | 2023| 95 Minutes | Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore, France, Germany, Netherlands, Indonesia, Qatar

Zaffan (12) struggles with puberty, discovering a terrifying secret about her physical self. Her failed attempts to conceal the inevitable lead her friends to find out who she really is, and they attack her. As Zaffan is further provoked by her own community, she soon learns that embracing her true self is the only answer to her freedom.

AWARDS: 2023 Cannes Film Festival Critics’ Week Grand Prize

Location: 
David Lawrence Hall 121

SCREENSHOT: Asia Film Festival "Coo-Coo 043"

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sun, 10/08/2023 - 14:30 to 16:30

Chan Ching-lin | 2022 | 135 minutes | Taiwan

In Taiwanese filmmaker Ching-lin Chan’s bracing feature debut, a pigeon returns after seven years, reopening a family’s old wounds and festering resentments in a town enmeshed in the illegal pigeon racing circuit. The story revolves around a poor family dependent on its racing pigeons which is shaken by economic pressures, restless youth and the disappearance of their son. The arrival of another drifting youngster brings changes to their lives. But also heralds an approaching storm.

Location: 
Frick Fine Arts Building Room 125

SCREENSHOT: Asia Film Festival "World War III"

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sat, 10/07/2023 - 20:30 to 22:30

Houman Sayyedi | 2022 | 117 minutes | Iran

Shakib (Mohsen Tanabandeh) is a homeless day laborer who lost his wife and son in an earthquake years ago. Over the last couple of years, he has been in a relationship with Ladan (Mahsa Hejazi), a deaf and mute woman. The construction site on which he works turns out to be the set of a film about the atrocities committed by Hitler during WWII.

Location: 
Harris Theater

SCREENSHOT: Asia Film Festival "PLAN 75" (with Director Q&A)

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sat, 10/07/2023 - 17:30 to 19:30

Chie Hayakawa | 2022 | 112 minutes | Japan

In a near dystopian future, Japan’s government launches PLAN 75, a program encouraging the elderly to terminate their own lives to relieve its rapidly aging population’s social and economic burdens. In Chie Hayakawa’s remarkable and sensitive feature film debut, the lives of three ordinary citizens intersect in this new reality as they confront the crushing callousness of a world ready to dispose of those no longer deemed valuable.

Location: 
Harris Theater

SCREENSHOT: Asia Film Festival "Autobiography"

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 10/06/2023 - 20:00 to 22:00

Makbul Mubarak | 2022 | 115 minutes | Indonesia, Poland, Germany, Qatar, Philippines, France, Singapore

A young man--Rakib (Kevin Ardilova)--is working as a housekeeper in an empty mansion. When its owner, retired general, Purnawinata (Arswendy Bening Swara), returns to start his mayoral election campaign, the young man bonds with him and defends him when his campaign is vandalized, setting off a chain of violence.

Tickets are free with a PITT id, regular tickets $10, Non-Pitt students $5 with ID.

Location: 
Harris Theater

SCREENSHOT: Asia Film Festival "Hail to Hell"

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 10/06/2023 - 17:30 to 19:30

Lim Oh-Jeong | 2022 | 109 Minutes| South Korea

In this black comedy from Na Mi and Sun Woo, who have been suffering from bullying and school violence throughout their school days, attempt suicide while their classmates go on a school trip. After the silly yet ridiculous suicide failure, the two try to take revenge on Chae Rin, who bullied them most and now lives happily in Seoul. However, their plans go awry. Ridiculously, Chae Rin, the worst bully ever, has found religion and has turned into a genuinely good person. What should they do now?

Location: 
Harris Theater

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