Asian Studies Center

Synonyms: 
ASC
Asian Studies

Digital Japanese Studies

Subtitle: 
Current Trends and Professional Dilemmas
Presenter: 
Dr. Paula Curtis, UCLA
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Tue, 10/05/2021 - 14:00

Now more than ever students and faculty are asked to be proficient in the latest digital tools and technologies while considering how these materials may be useful to their teaching and research. In this talk, Dr. Curtis will survey the current state of the field in Digital Japanese Studies, including recent projects, perennial changes, and sites of community building. Dr.

Location: 
4130 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

Global Horror Studies Conference

Subtitle: 
Linking J-horror and Asia
Presenter: 
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
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Date: 
Fri, 10/01/2021 - 21:00 to 23:00

The University of Pittsburgh and the Horror Studies Working Group invite you to join us for a two day conference exploring ways to connect J-Horror to Asia. This gathering continues the conversations started at SCMS 2021 and Kyoto July 2021 about Global Horror Studies.

Location: 
Zoom
Cost: 
Contact Person: 
Adam Lowenstein
Contact Phone: 
Contact Email: 
alowen@pitt.edu

Global Horror Studies Conference

Subtitle: 
Linking J-horror and Asia
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 09/30/2021 - 21:00 to 23:00

The University of Pittsburgh and the Horror Studies Working Group invite you to join us for a two day conference exploring ways to connect J-Horror to Asia. This gathering continues the conversations started at SCMS 2021 and Kyoto July 2021 about Global Horror Studies.

Location: 
Zoom
Contact Person: 
Adam Lowenstein
Contact Email: 
alowen@pitt.edu

Asian American Shorts

Subtitle: 
SCREENSHOT: Asia Festival
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sun, 10/10/2021 - 14:00

The first annual SCREENSHOT: ASIA Film Festival will take place October 6-10, 2021. In its inaugural year, the Festival will screen features from all over Asia as well as highlight some lesser-known Asian filmmakers through a shorts program.

Location: 
Outdoor Pavilion, Allegheny Rivertrail Park, Aspinall

As We Like It

Subtitle: 
SCREENSHOT: Asia Festival
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 10/07/2021 - 20:30

The first annual SCREENSHOT: ASIA Film Festival will take place October 6-10, 2021. In its inaugural year, the Festival will screen features from all over Asia as well as highlight some lesser-known Asian filmmakers through a shorts program.

A retelling of Shakespeare’s As You Like It, the Taiwanese movie As We Like It critiques the exclusion of women in Shakespeare classics and asks viewers to question life beyond the gender binary.

For more information about the film festival, click here

Location: 
Posvar Patio

Transforming Cities: Cities and Social Justice Mini Course

Subtitle: 
Mini Course
Presenter: 
Veronica Dristas
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 10/22/2021 - 17:00

Due to economic development and globalization, cities continue to grow with predictions that 70% of the world’s population will live in urban areas by the year 2050. This course, then, will view cities as hubs where patterns, connections, discussions, and the processes shape such issues as social justice, economic development, technology, migration, the environment among others. By examining cities as a lens, this sequence of weekend courses encourages students to examine cities as a system for discussing social processes being built and rebuilt.

Location: 
Zoom
Cost: 
Free and Open to the Public w/ registration
Contact Person: 
Veronica Dristas
Contact Email: 
dristas@pitt.edu

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

Subtitle: 
SCREENSHOT: Asia Festival
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sun, 10/10/2021 - 17:00

The first annual SCREENSHOT: ASIA Film Festival will take place October 6-10, 2021. In its inaugural year, the Festival will screen features from all over Asia as well as highlight some lesser-known Asian filmmakers through a shorts program.

Film description: An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap, and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.

Location: 
Carnegie Museum of Art Theater

Barah by Barah

Subtitle: 
SCREENSHOT: Asia Festival
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sat, 10/09/2021 - 19:30

The first annual SCREENSHOT: ASIA Film Festival will take place October 6-10, 2021. In its inaugural year, the Festival will screen features from all over Asia as well as highlight some lesser-known Asian filmmakers through a shorts program.

Film description: A photographer who clicks the last photographs of the dead goes on a journey through the periphery of the circle of life and death only to discover that his own death will be documented by his son through his old camera.

We welcome special guest Sunny Lahiri, co-writer and producer, at this film screening.

Location: 
Botany Hall, Phipps Conservatory

An Old Lady

Subtitle: 
SCREENSHOT: Asia Festival
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Sat, 10/09/2021 - 17:00

The first annual SCREENSHOT: ASIA Film Festival will take place October 6-10, 2021. In its inaugural year, the Festival will screen features from all over Asia as well as highlight some lesser-known Asian filmmakers through a shorts program.

About "An Old Lady": A 69-year-old woman has to find justice for herself when she faces doubt and disdain from authorities who can't imagine her as the victim of sexual assault.

For more information about the film festival click here

Location: 
125 Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

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