Historically, we have understood home and travel as antitheses: to travel is to be away from home. What happens when home becomes travel, when the difference between home and travel is sublated? Franke's paper explores the contemporary tropes of home and travel in German film as they transform under the influences of Europeanization and globalization. Images of home, offering a sense of belonging have always been crucial to representations of identity.

Directed by Michael Perlman of “Tibet: Beyond Fear” and co-produced by New Tang Dynasty Television, the award winning 53-minute documentary tells the remarkable survival stories of best-selling author Jennifer Zeng, and Dr. Charles Lee, a Chinese-American businessman. Both Jennifer and Charles, along with hundreds of thousands of peaceful citizens in China, were tortured and subjected to slave labor for their spiritual beliefs.

Laura Mulvey is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has written extensively on film and film theory. Her books include Fetishism and Curiosity (1996), Death Twenty-four Times a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image (2006), Experimental British Television (edited with Jamie Sexton, 2007), and Visual and Other Pleasures (2nd edition, 2009). She has co-directed films, including Riddles of the Sphinx (1978) and Frida Kahlo and Tina Malatti (1980), as well as the documentary Disgraced Monuments (1996).

*Reception to follow*

Second showing: Saturday, April 13 at 8:00 PM

Pitt students free with valid ID
Advance tickets: $5 non-Pitt students and seniors; $8.50 General admission
Tickets at the door: $15 non-Pitt students and seniors; $15 General admission

Featuring the University of Pittsburgh Gamelan and singing sensation Rika Rafika, with virtuoso drummer Ruherlan. Directed by Andrew Weintraub and Indra Ridwan.

Visit the University gamelan website: www.ucis.pitt.edu/gamelan or www.music.pitt.edu/gamelan

Vocal composition of Ravi Shankar
Performed by Music of India Ensemble, University of Pittsburgh

Instrumental compositions of Ravi Shankar and Samir Chatterjee
Performed by Chhandayan Ensemble: Pawan Benjamin (sax), Rohan Prabhudesai (piano), Todd Miller (electro-bass) and Stephan Cellucci (tabla)

Vocal recital
Performed by Mitali Banerjee Bhawmik (vocal), Samir Chatterjee (tabla), Rohan Prabhudesai (harmonium)

Few architectural tracts remain from the medieval period in the west. Two tracts on architecture that this paper utilizes from this period—one by Gervase in 1185, and one by Edmer in 1116—both discuss subjects that collectively include the fire, building, and arrangement of different architectural campaigns at Canterbury Cathedral. Here, these texts are used to trace the written knowledge of the succession of churches—those of Lanfranc, Anselm, William of Sens, and William the Englishman, the last of whose termination of the cathedral remains intact today.

In this research, I will analyze how Liang Qichao’s idea of nation played a role in the emergence of national identity in China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The concept of nation in China didn’t emerge from the bottom-up spontaneously. Rather, I will argue, the emergence of Chinese national identity can largely be explained as an imported ideology pursued by Chinese elites. In the formation of the concept of nation in China, not only the contact with the West but also interactions and tensions among the East Asian countries were crucial.

In February President Obama announced the beginning of negotiations designed to produce a US-EU Free Trade Agreement. Mutual tariffs are already low and trade high; business and labor constituents seem supportive, and officials are eager to conclude this agreement “on one tank of gas,” i.e., quickly. But significant issues will be in play, including: opening markets for agriculture products, trade in services, and access to public contracts.

Student presentation as part of research defense for a Bachelor of Philosophy -International and Area Studies/Global Studies track.