When the Central European University opened its gates in Prague and Budapest in the early 1990s, George Soros was already the uncontested ‘stateman without a state’ he is known as today. For about a decade, he had cultivated a vast regional network among intellectuals, scholars, dissidents, old and new leaders. Together they sought to facilitate the transformations in Eastern Europe, and CEU aspired to become ‘the’ educational institution for coming generations in the region.

The Asian Studies Center and the Department of Anthropology invite you to talk with Dr. Nancy Abelmann, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research—Humanities, Arts, and Related Fields and Harry E. Preble Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In this talk Dr. Abelmann will think about the changing aesthetics of desire and social mobility. She will consider the porous boundary between the radically normative and potentially transgressive in South Korea today.

Focusing on the video industry of Malegaon, India, known for its DIY spoofs of famous Holly- and Bollywood films, this talk will explore plastic world-making practices that open up new avenues of participation. At stake is a bottom-up conceptualization of the global.

Gabriella Lukacs is an Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a Japanologist who specializes in television and digital media studies. She is the author of Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan (Duke University Press, 2010). The book project she is currently working on explores issues of labor and gender in the digital media economy through such case studies as the net idols, cell phone novelists, female Internet traders, young female photographers, video game designers, and fashion bloggers.

Students and local residents who are interested in teaching English in Asia are welcome to attend this information session! The session begins with information on teaching in China and South Korea through various opportunities, including the Teach and Learn in Korea (TaLK) and English Program in Korea (EPiK) programs, and continues with the official Japan Exchange & Teaching (JET) Program information kit and alumni panel. Stop by for a short time or stay for the entire session - we will answer your questions and help you decide which option is right for you and how to get started!

A week-long summer professional development workshop for instructors from a multistate consortium of two-year colleges.

The University of Pittsburgh hosts the Eighth Annual Graduate Student Conference on the European Union, featuring Alexandre Stutzmann, Diplomatic Adviser to the President of European Parliament, as the keynote speaker. All panel sessions, including the keynote address, are open to the public and will be held in the Patrician Crown Mural Room of the Pittsburgh Athletic Association. For a full listing of panels and a schedule of public events, please visit the EUCE/ESC web page featuring the schedule of the program.

*A practice conference talk

Abstract
This study investigates L2 Spanish rhotic production in learners enrolled in first-semester and fourth-semester courses, specifically addressing the effects that the different ways to produce American English rhotics (retroflex and bunched) have on the production of Spanish taps and trills. It also addresses the influence that the phonological environment producing taps in English has on the acquisition of Spanish taps. The research questions that drove this study are the following:

CHE hosts this monthly meeting to facilitate dialogue about health equity among faculty, students, and staff. We hope to spark an intellectually enriching discussion regarding ways to research a problem or intervene to contribute to the solution.

This month’s meeting is facilitated by Jason Flatt, PhD candidate, and Laura Macia, PhD and features the article Poor People, Poor Places, and Poor Health: the Mediating Role of Social Networks and Social Capital. The "[p]aper is based on qualitative research undertaken in 1996 on two housing estates in East London,UK."

All films will have subtitles accessible to non-German speaking audiences. All film screenings are open to the public. All films will be DVD projection. Many of these films are rare and hard to find. I would encourage you to bring friends so they can take advantage of the experience.

Tuesday September 11
Nerven [Nerves] (Robert Reiner 1919)
Die Austernprinzessin [The Oyster Princess] (Ernst Lubitsch 1919)

Tuesday September 18
Schloß Vogeloed [Castle Vogeloed] (F.W. Murnau 1921)
Nosferatu (F,W. Murnau 1922)