Asian Studies Center

Synonyms: 
ASC
Asian Studies

Coronavirus Teach In

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Wed, 02/12/2020 - 17:30 to 19:00

The Coronavirus teach-in (full details: here) will offer an interdisciplinary take on the outbreak of the Coronavirus. Students, faculty, staff, and community members will hear from coronavirus experts, epidemiologists, historians of infectious diseases, and experts who can place the outbreak of Coronavirus in its context in China.

Location: 
120 David Lawrence Hall
Contact Person: 
Emily Rook-Koepsel
Contact Email: 
asia@pitt.edu

Making Green Tea for America - and for Japan

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Presenter: 
Robert Hellyer
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Security Notice: Event Changed: 
Date: 
Fri, 02/21/2020 - 15:00

Join Professor Robert Hellyer of Wake Forest University for a discussion on the socio-economic history of green tea in America and Japan in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Location: 
4130 Wesley Posvar Hall
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China, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the United States in 2020: Conditions and Challenges of a New Triangular Relationship

Presenter: 
Professor Enrique Dussel Peters
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 02/13/2020 - 17:30 to 19:30

The Asian Studies Center, in close partnership with the Center
for Latin American Studies and the Graduate School for Public
and International Affairs, is pleased to announce the
appointment of Professor Enrique Dussel Peters as Global
Professor in the University Center for International Studies.

Location: 
Provost Suites, 2500 Wesley W Posvar Hall
Contact Person: 
Dr. Joseph Alter
Contact Email: 
jsalter@pitt.edu

Pitt in the Himalayas - Fall 2020

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Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Security Notice: Event Changed: 
Date: 
Fri, 02/28/2020 - 16:00 to 17:30

Join a group of up to twenty students for the fall semester in North India, one of the most spectacular and diverse mountain ranges on earth. You'll go on backpacking expeditions to the source of India’s sacred rivers, to ancient Tibetan monasteries in Ladakh, learn about conservation at India’s premier Tiger reserve, Corbett National Park, and experience life in a mountain village during a village home stay.

To learn more about the program, please joint us for an information session from 4-5:30 PM on Friday, February 28th, in 3106 Posvar Hall (Anthropology Lounge).

Location: 
3106 Posvar Hall (Anthropology Lounge)
Cost: 
Contact Person: 
Nazir Noori
Contact Phone: 
Contact Email: 
nazir.noori@pitt.edu

Sight and Site

Subtitle: 
Media Art, Urban Screens, and the Politics, Poetics, and Performance of Scale in the Screened City
Presenter: 
Dr. Stephanie DeBoer
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Mon, 02/10/2020 - 16:00 to 17:30

This talk reflects on public media art festivals and screen media projects produced in collaboration among Hong Kong media/video art collectives and commercial to real estate institutions and their material facades, addressing debates concerning how such scaled screening situations potentiate (or refuse to potentiate) new collective modes of not only communicating in but also inhabiting the city.

Location: 
602 Cathedral of Learning

ADDEV Company Info Session

Subtitle: 
A fast-growing company with locations in Pittsburgh and Europe
Presenter: 
ADDEV Associates
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Tue, 02/04/2020 - 16:30 to 18:00

Students, considering career options or a paid summer internship in Europe? Attend the upcoming info session with ADDEV, a fast-growing company with multiple opportunities and locations in Pittsburgh and throughout Europe, to learn more about how you can grow in their company. ADDEV provides high performance materials for aerospace, defense, and transportation industries. They also serve energy, electronics, and the healthcare field. ADDEV is seeking students with backgrounds in business, engineering, finance, project management, economics, and HR.

Location: 
Posvar Hall, Global Hub
Contact Person: 
Steve Lund
Contact Phone: 
412-648-7422
Contact Email: 
slund@pitt.edu

Lantern Festival

Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 02/06/2020 - 13:30 to 15:00

Join us in the Global Hub for refreshments, crafts, and games as we celebrate the Lantern Festival, or Yuan Xiao, in honor of the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar.

Location: 
Global Hub

Militarizing the Belt and Road

Subtitle: 
How China's Geoeconomics Impacts Regional Security Architecture in Asia and Beyond
Presenter: 
Matthew Johnson
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Fri, 01/31/2020 - 15:00 to 16:30

As China’s global interests expand, how do its leaders envision security abroad? How is their security vision being implemented on the ground? This talk examines the security implications of Xi Jinping’s One Belt, One Road connectivity and investment project from three angles: case studies highlighting cultivation of military and security partnerships; privatization of security; and extension of the security concept into non-traditional domains.

Location: 
4130 Posvar Hall

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