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Internationalize your career-focused courses with the BETH (Business, Energy, Technology, and Health) series. For year 3 of our faculty development workshops for community colleges and minority-serving institutions, the University Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh is offering a series of monthly webinars focused on technology. Our second webinar will examine Technology in the Time of COVID, specifically addressing international responses to the pandemic regarding efforts to mitigate community spread through contact-tracing.

Join us for this lecture by Dr. Cheehyung Harrison Kim. Register

8:30 a m. Welcome and Greetings
Dr. Christopher Jespersen, Dean, College of Arts and Letters, University of North Georgia
Dahlonega, Georgia.

8:45 a. m. Program Overview
Dr. James A Cook, Associate Director, Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh.

Mr. Rajgopal "Raj" Sashti, Director, Nine University and College International Studies
Consortium of Georgia, ABAC, Tifton, Georgia.

Presentation/ lecture-discussion to Professor Cynthia Marshall's Integrated Reading and Writing class at CCBC on the history of Vietnam, the Vietnam War, and its aftermath as interpreted through the film, Journey from the Fall and an interview with the film's director.

The Asian Studies Center and the Julio Fine Arts Gallery of Loyola University Maryland invites you to join us on Thursday, October 22 at 10:30AM for a virtual artist talk by Mina Cheon, a global Korean new media artist, scholar, and educator who lives and works between Baltimore, New York, and Seoul. The talk, will explore Cheon’s new body of work Dreaming Unification: Protest for Peace. Register here.

Peace Corps Pitt Alumni Panel
Tuesday, October 27th, 6:30-7:30pm
Zoom Discussion

Join us to learn about service overseas from Pitt Alumni that served in the Peace Corps. Gain valuable information from those who served, ask questions about service, and learn how the Peace Corps helped their careers.

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Are you graduating soon? Wondering what your next adventure could be? Learn about the Japan Exchange & Teaching (JET) Program. It is a great opportunity for college graduates to work in Japan as Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) or Coordinators for International Relations (CIR).

LEARN ABOUT THE JET PROGRAM by Pittsburgh JET Alumni Association President Smitha Prasadh.

ASK QUESTIONS to a panel of JET Alumni.

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Join the Asian Studies Center and the Global Hub in exploring the foodways of curry. While people have been enjoying curry throughout Asia for centuries, the type of curry served in Japan is sourced from the 1850s as an import by British sailors and merchants who picked up their fondness for curry in India. Curry became a symbol of a modern, industrial nation and the preferred food at public schools, military academies, and the Japanese Navy.

In this presentation, Kunio Hara explores the essential role of sound and music in how we experience two classics of Japanese animation: Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro and Isao Takahata’s Grave of the Fireflies.