The East Asian Library, located on the second floor of the Hillman Library, has outstanding staff and resources, including many books and periodicals in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, access to scholarly and news online databases, special collections (such as Japanese company histories, Chinese land records, North Korean textbooks and films, etc.), English language materials, and more. The EAL librarians and bibliographers will give an overview of the services and resources available to Pitt students and faculty, including how they can help you with your own research!

The University of Pittsburgh's Confucius Institute is offering a basic Chinese language class for students and the general public. The course is designed to give beginners a solid foundation in Chinese pronunciation, as well as a strong introduction to practical conversation and Chinese culture. The class will be held on Tuesday and Thursdays from 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, and will run from September 24 - December 5. Enrollment is limited to 24 participants.

For more information about the class, please contact the instructor, Frank M. Dolce (杜启天), at fdolce1458@gmail.com or (716)628-6016.

Toker led excavations of the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, Italy from 1970-1974 and again in 1980, which led to discoveries about the tombs of the great Italian artists Giotto and Filippo Brunelleschi, as well as facts about Saint Ambrose, the Bishop of Milan. In light of his more recent discoveries, his lecture will focus on a horseshoe-shaped pool uncovered during the 1912 excavations under the Baptistery of St.

China Today is a one-credit (Pitt)/ three-unit (CMU) mini course, consisting of 14 hours of classes over a weekend, with a major paper assignment to be completed for credit. This course is created for undergraduate and graduate students. However, K-12 educators, business and community members are welcome to attend all or sections of the course for free. The course will open with two keynote lectures on Friday evening on an overview of the issues. This will be followed by instructional lectures on Saturday on the various themes by experts in the fields.

The Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI) will lead this simulation, which turns individuals into lead negotiators for one of the six countries involved in the North Korea nuclear negotiations. (North Korea, South Korea, China, Japan, Russia, and the United States.) As government representatives, participants will be tasked to reach a comprehensive agreement for North Korea’s denuclearization. With private information, resources, and their own wit, negotiators are out to win the best outcome for their respective governments.

Tablaphilia is a tabla symphony based on the central theme of Chaturashram, the four stages of human life. Composed and directed by renowned tabla maestro, Pandit Samir Chatterjee, the Chhandayan Tabla Symphony brings together the power of 22 thundering tablas and four gifted vocalists to produce a moving and inspiring sound experience.

High-tech science it has placed the archetypically medieval diseases of plague and leprosy at the forefront of new methods to investigate the major diseases that have afflicted humans on every inhabited continent, in every period of human existence. Not simply plague and leprosy, but also tuberculosis, malaria, smallpox, syphilis, cholera, and even the most recent global scourge, HIV/AIDS, can all now be investigated historically by combining the disciplinary perspectives of molecular genetics, bioarcheology, and documentary-based historical analysis.

Enlargement posed a serious challenge for the European Commission, which set as a goal bringing on board thousands of new staff. How successful was the Commission in meeting this challenge? And how successful were the newcomers in integrating in to the organization? Now, after several years, can we see that the staff from Central and East European countries have had an impact on the organization? Answering these questions sheds new light on the evolution of the Commission’s organizational culture which Ban, author of the new book analyzing these questions, will discuss.

After a decade of experiments with different techniques, in 1930s Soviet animation began a transformation to celluloid and aesthetics of social realism. However, interpretation of socialist realist aesthetic in animation turned out to be rather problematic, especially considering the influence of American animation, Disney in particular.