Asian Studies Center

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UCIS International Career Toolkit Series Presents:LinkedIn Workshop with Alyson Kavalukas

Presenter: 
Alyson Kavalukas
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Wed, 03/03/2021 - 15:30 to 16:15

Mastering LinkedIn for Future Global Affairs Careers
Wednesday, March 3rd, 3:30-4:15pm

Alyson Kavalukas joins us from Career Services to discuss successful generation of a LinkedIn account in seeking positions, learning from professionals and alumni, and increasing networking potential in global affairs. Question and Answer session to follow.

Register:
https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMldemprT4uGNGoE4BN_XfFP4nPb0mGEDi5

Location: 
Zoom Discussion
Contact Person: 
Angela Illig
Contact Phone: 
4127267230
Contact Email: 
ami17@pitt.edu

Asia Pop: From Hanok to Hanbok

Subtitle: 
Traditional Iconography in Korean Hip-Hop Music Videos
Presenter: 
CedarBough Saeiji
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Wed, 02/24/2021 - 18:30

Dr. Saeji will explore the contradictions and effects of the use of imagined and real Korean settings and traditional iconography in recent videos from Korean hip-hop artists with a particularly close reading of the rapper Beenzino’s mid-2016 offering “January.” She investigates what symbols and icons are used to visually represent Korea in the videos, as they take a foreign genre and imbue it with Koreanness.

Location: 
via Zoom

Exploring the Eurasian Urban Spaces through Persian Verse

Presenter: 
Sunil Sharma (Boston University)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Mon, 06/07/2021 - 12:00 to 13:30

The Shahrashub (city disturber) and / Ekphrases genre of Persian poetry provides a window into the urban spaces of early modern Eurasia, revealing the relationship between people, their imaginaries, and the built environment around them. This workshop provides an introduction for using this specialized literary material to derive scholarly insights.

PLEASE NOTE that registrations are limited and will be confirmed on a first-come, first-serve basis for Ph.D. students and faculty who work on Eurasia and can meet the language prerequisites specific to each topic.

Location: 
Zoom
Contact Email: 
crees@pitt.edu

Demystifying Diplomatic Communication in Early Modern Russia

Presenter: 
Ulfat Abdurasulov (Austrian Academy of Science)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 06/24/2021 - 12:00 to 13:30

Among the abundant paperwork of 17th century Posol'skii prikaz, there were two main forms of record-keeping known as posol'skie knigi and stolptsy, which stand out due to their functionality. Apart from the sheer linguistic complexity, the records were bound together in leather-bound books consisting of dozens, if not hundreds, documents of the distinct genres related to diplomacy communications. Yet beneath this complexity lies a world of diplomatic contact and transregional connectivity.

Location: 
Zoom
Contact Email: 
crees@pitt.edu

Transcultural Codicology on the Silk Road

Presenter: 
Devin Fitzgerald (UCLA)
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Repeats every week every Friday 3 times.
Fri, 03/26/2021 - 15:00 to 16:00
Fri, 04/02/2021 - 15:00 to 16:00
Fri, 04/09/2021 - 15:00 to 16:00

What was the nature of 'the book' on the Silk Road? How can we move beyond Eurocentric terminology toward an organically Eurasian codicology? This workshop introduces scholars to the study of manuscripts, posing fundamental questions about what we can learn from this field in a Eurasian context.

PLEASE NOTE that registrations are limited and will be confirmed on a first-come, first-serve basis for Ph.D. students and faculty who work on Eurasia and can meet the language prerequisites specific to each topic.

Location: 
Zoom
Contact Email: 
crees@pitt.edu

Reading Safavid Occult-Scientific Miscellanies

Presenter: 
Matthew Melvin-Koushki, University of South Carolina
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Repeats every week every Thursday until Thu Mar 11 2021.
Thu, 03/04/2021 - 09:00 to 10:30
Thu, 03/11/2021 - 09:00 to 10:30

We will examine a representative Safavid Persian miscellany of the mid-seventeenth century, MS Majlis 12575. Significant for the history of science, it comprises occult-scientific works by Iranian philosophers of various periods, including Suhravardi, Fakhr al-Din Razi and Sadr al-Din Dashtaki, as well as a lettrist work by Mahmud Dihdar Shirazi, teacher to Shaykh Baha'i in the occult sciences. Our focus will be on 'Ali Safi Kashifi's (d.

Location: 
Zoom
Contact Email: 
crees@pitt.edu

UCIS International Career Toolkit Series Presents:HealTogether CIC

Presenter: 
Anabelle Hoffman, Founder & Director, HealTogether CIC
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 02/19/2021 - 11:00 to 12:00

HealTogether CIC is a community enterprise organization with a vision for improving access for mental health care services for the Somali community in England and Wales. Anabelle joins us from the UK to discuss starting her own organization to help fellow Somalis in her community after a lockdown and a furlough. She spent 15 years in HR and Talent Acquisition before actualizing her dream during Covid-19.

Location: 
Zoom Discussion
Contact Person: 
Angela Illig
Contact Phone: 
4127267230
Contact Email: 
ami17@pitt.edu

Nailed It Panel Discussion with BAS & ASA

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Event Status: 
As Scheduled
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Date: 
Fri, 02/19/2021 - 20:00 to 21:00

The Black Action Society and Asian Student Alliance will be hosting a panel discussion in response to the screening of Adele Pham's documentary, "Nailed It," and expand on topics of Black and Asian American relationships in the U.S.

Registrants for the Nailed It screening on February 16th will automatically receive the Zoom link for the panel discussion.

Register Here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeamsSa5nxqSAmmsHqIAnQ-tKnaqujm...

Location: 
Zoom
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Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale

Subtitle: 
A Conversation with Director Wei Te-sheng
Presenter: 
Wei Te-sheng
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Tue, 02/23/2021 - 20:30

We are excited to announce a discussion with award-winning film director and screenwriter Wei Te-Sheng. Wei’s films, including Kano, Cape #7, and Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale, are often centered around Taiwan’s indigenous peoples history and explore relationships between Taiwan’s different ethnic communities during colonization and after. This event is organized by the Taiwan Student Association. Register here

Location: 
Online via Zoom

Global Issues Through Literature Series (GILS) "To Swim Across the World" by Frances Park & Ginger Park

Subtitle: 
"To Swim Across the World" by Frances Park & Ginger Park
Presenter: 
Professor Seung-hwan Shin and Catherine Fratto
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 02/18/2021 - 17:00 to 20:00

This reading group for educators explores literary texts from a global perspective. Content specialists present the work and its context, and participants brainstorm innovative pedagogical practices for incorporating the text and its themes into the curriculum. Sessions this year will take place virtually on Thursday evenings from 5-8 PM (EST). Books and 3 Act 48 credit hours are provided.

Registration is closed.

Location: 
Zoom

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