Please join us for dinner and what promises to be an informative read & book discussion on Islam After Communism by Adeeb Khalid.
James Pickett, Assistant Professor, History Department, University of Pittsburgh will facilitate the discussion.
Please register at: https://cerisnet.secure.pitt.edu/resource/faculty-readers-forum

Writing systems, the ways that orthography maps to phonology and semantics, influence word reading. In written Chinese, the character is a basic writing unit maps onto a single syllable morpheme. The morphosyllabic nature of the Chinese writing system brings some challenges to Chinese learning and Chinese teaching. Dr.

Dr. Lippit is the T.C. Wang Family Endowed Chair in Cinematic Arts in the Division of Cinema and Media Studies from University of Southern California. His published work includes Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife (2000), Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) (2005), Ex-Cinema: From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video (2012), and Cinema without Reflection: Jacques Derrida's Echopoiesis and Narcissism Adrift (2016).

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 2018-April 2019), we invite you to be a part of the ceremony. Visit this link to register or for more information, please email asia@pitt.edu by December 7, 2018.

Dr. Barry Kerzin is a personal physician to the Dalai Lama and a Buddhist monk. He is a leading teacher on the relationship between Buddhism and Medicine. His MD degree is from the University of South California. He is a former Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington and the author of No Fear, No Death: The Transformative Power of Compassion. He is the founder and president of the Altruism in Medicine Institute, which has started to offer a resilience training program for 16,000 UPMC nurses.

Annual Model United Nations simulation for regional high schools.

Through this interactive workshop, learn about the intricate art of dressing in kimono with expert and Pitt alumnus Evan Mason. The workshop will begin with a lecture on the culture and history of the kimono in Japan followed by a demonstration of kitsuke and an opportunity for participants to dress in yukata and try out their new skills!

Reception to Follow

Kimonos in literature and film are often ignored by scholars as nothing more than aesthetic objects/clothing that enhance historical realism. But in fact, kimonos speak of many things, including the character of the wearer, social commentary, and important symbolic meanings for the plot.