Staff from the Asian Studies Center, Nationality Rooms Program, and Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies presented information on engagement programs and shared artifacts and craft activities with students.

December 9, 2019 at 11:30am @ Cathedral of Learning 1325

Professor Raja Adal will be discussing his recent publication Beauty in the Age of Empire: Japan, Egypt, and the Global History of Aesthetic Education on Dec. 9 at 11:30 in the Cathedral of Learning Room 1325; please feel free to join this informal brown-bag event!

You are invited to participate in the spring 2020 book discussion on "Jihad, Radicalism and the New Atheism" by Mohammad Hassan Khalil at the University of Pittsburgh. The discussion will be led by Associate Professor Jeanette S. Jouili of Department of Religious Studies. Dinner will be served at 5 PM.

A free book is available to the first 15 registrants, reach out to Elaine Linn at eel58@pitt.edu to get your copy today.

The FLAS Fellowship program is a prestigious and competitive award that allows select Pitt undergraduate and graduate students to devote full time attention to their chosen modern foreign language and area studies specialty. There are separate competitions for the Academic Year FLAS Fellowship and the Summer FLAS Fellowship. Come by the Pitt Global Hub on November 19th from 12PM-1PM to learn how to apply and how to enhance your application!

As part of a collaboration between the Yasuda University students at the English Language Institute and the Asian Studies Center, we will be hosting the second Seijin Shiki at the University of Pittsburgh. We would love to have Pitt students participate. If you are turning 20 years old this year (April 2019-April 2020), we invite you to be part of the ceremony. Please email asia@pitt.edu by December 7, 2019.

Funding provided by the Japan Iron and Steel Federation and Mitsubishi endowments at the University of Pittsburgh.

Recent government and nonprofit professionals will discuss their interest in, pursuit of, and perspective on international and global employment. Discussion Style workshop.

Panelists:

Cyndee Pelt
Chief of Staff, CFO’s Office, University of Pittsburgh
Former Senior Advisor – Democracy, Human Rights, & Governance, Office of Foreign Assistance Resources, U.S. Department of State

Ryan Stannard
Regional Recruiter, Peace Corps
Former Teacher Collaboration and Community Service Volunteer

Reception to Follow
$10 Tickets for Adults | Free for Students/Children
Half price for audience who come dressed in hanbok, the Korean traditional attire.
Questions 310.909.3280

Taking aim at the conventional narrative that standard, national languages transform 'peasants' into citizens, Gina Anne Tam centers the history of the Chinese nation and national identity on fangyan--languages like Shanghainese, Cantonese, and dozens of others that are categorically different from the Chinese national language, Mandarin.

A surprising number of animals appear in the fictional representations of the March 11, 2011 disasters in Japan. Why? My hunch is that the portrayal of animal inferiorities and portrayal of disaster are linked by narrative challenges and techniques: they both are "impossible." Furukawa Hideo has been writing through animals for some time, and with added poignancy after the Tohoku disasters; this presentation focuses on his fiction of Furukawa Hideo to examine his exploration of the fictional possibilities, and limits, of portraying animal inferiorities in fiction.