Dr. Urbansky discusses the challenges faced by Chinese immigrants during the late Tsarist Empire and early Soviet Union, highlighting the racial and cultural prejudices that fueled hostilities in urban settings. His analysis explores how these early interactions shaped the experiences and perceptions of Chinese communities in a rapidly changing socio-political landscape.
Join the University of Pittsburgh’s Alliance for Learning in
World History & the Global Studies Center for a series of
workshops about using History for the 21st Century (H21)
modules in the classroom. The H21 project offers complete
modules for introductory world history classrooms that include
student readings and primary sources, lesson plans, instructor
guides, and discussion, activity, and assessments suggestions.
The Pittsburgh Medley Conference will showcase the research conducted by Department of Economics graduate students during the past academic year, many of which center on international research and data, such as in Norway and India.
“Translects” (Zabus & Das, 2020) are transnational, transgender-inflected terms rooted in ancestral contexts. Hinging on ‘transing’ and ‘translating’, I examine the use of translects in ‘autofictions’ — South African Zandile Ngozi Nkabinde’s Black Bull, Ancestors and Me (2008), contrasted with South African Anastacia Thomson’s Always Anastacia (2015); Nigerian-born, US-based, Igbo-Tamil writer, Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater (2018); and Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir (2021) — to reflect on a ‘post-queer’ and post-secular turn in approaching transgender identities and personhoods, which translate into various shades of postcolonial naming practices in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Join the Pitt Disability Community for a casual night of board games!
Global Literary Encounters book discussions are pre-lecture discussions that align with the Pittsburgh Arts & Lecture's Ten Evenings series. Global Literary Encounters put prominent world authors and their work in a global perspective in order to provide additional insight on writers and engaging issues.
These pre-lecture discussions, hosted by the Global Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh, will take place via Zoom at 6pm EST. Please note that the "Global Literary Encounters" pre-lecture discussions are held on the Thursday before the Author Lectures, which are held on the following Monday and hosted by Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures.
Join us for a virtual K-12 educator workshop exploring the history of Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule through the baseball film, Kano. The film depicts the true story of the Kagi Agricultural and Forestry School (Kano) baseball team, an underdog, multi-ethnic team of Chinese, Indigenous Taiwanese, and Japanese high school players, who defied the odds to reach the 1931 Japanese High School Baseball Championship. While Korea’s experience as a Japanese colony is often discussed in textbooks, this workshop looks to highlight the unique contours of Taiwan’s colonial experience as well as how it is remembered in the island today. This program will include a discussion of the history of Japanese colonialism in Taiwan and how memories of colonialism shape Taiwanese identity. Speakers will also introduce a lesson plan, a website, and resources for integrating these themes into your classroom.
Educators who register will receive access to the film to watch before the workshop. Also, the first 20 educators who register, attend, and fully participate in the workshop will receive a copy of John Manthorpe's Forbidden Nation: A History of Taiwan book to aid in your teaching and knowledge after the program. Benefits also include a Certificate of Completion and Pennsylvania teachers will also receive Act 48 hours.
Are you a high school or community college educator who is interested in deepening your understanding of the history, culture and current events of Russia and Eurasia? Consider applying for the Engaging Eurasia Teacher Fellowship!
Applications for the 2024-2025 fellowship year, which is devoted to the theme Explorations of Identity in Russian & Eurasian Studies, are now open. The application deadline is May 15, 2024.
2024-2025 Fellowship Details
This year-long study will take a multidisciplinary approach to understanding identity in Eurasia. The fellowship will allow participants to take a deep dive into the complex nature of identity, how it is created and perceived, how it changes, and how it can be politicized and polarized. The monthly webinars will help contextualize historically the many aspects that contribute to identity, ranging from topics like nationality, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and race. Fellows will consider novels, poetry, art, film, and other media that both shape perspective and cultural identity as well as how identity is viewed and interpreted globally. They will also be asked to challenge their own assumptions and commonly held beliefs about identity and culture in Eurasia.
Over the 9-month fellowship, fellows will participate in 8 content webinars, hearing from scholars with expertise on the fellowship topic. Each fellow is expected to complete a final project–either curriculum development or a literature review on a question that develops during the course of the fellowship.
DEADLINE: May 15, 2024
FINALISTS NOTIFIED: End of May 2024
ARRGH, Avast Ye Swabs! (or so pirates are supposed to say...)
Join us for a swashbuckling mini-course on historical bandits and pirates around the world. What are the myths? What are the facts? Faculty experts will discuss global piracy, representations of pirates in the media, piracy in the Atlantic world, and bandits in East Asia. We will also discuss curricular applications of pirates and bandits for the K-12 classroom. This two day mini-course is particularly applicable for teachers of World History, U.S. History, East Asia studies, Global Studies, Film Studies and World Cultures.
We strongly encourage in-person attendance, but the program will be hybrid, and you may choose to attend online or in person. All participants will receive Global Piracy: A Documentary History of Seaborne Banditry by James Wadsworth; in-person participants will receive an extra book. Benefits also include a Certificate of Completion and some travel reimbursement subsidies available for in-person attendees who live at least one hour outside of the Pittsburgh area. Pennsylvania teachers will also receive Act 48 credits.
ARRGH, Avast Ye Swabs! (or so pirates are supposed to say...)
Join us for a swashbuckling mini-course on historical bandits and pirates around the world. What are the myths? What are the facts? Faculty experts will discuss global piracy, representations of pirates in the media, piracy in the Atlantic world, and bandits in East Asia. We will also discuss curricular applications of pirates and bandits for the K-12 classroom. This two day mini-course is particularly applicable for teachers of World History, U.S. History, East Asia studies, Global Studies, Film Studies and World Cultures.
We strongly encourage in-person attendance, but the program will be hybrid, and you may choose to attend online or in person. All participants will receive Global Piracy: A Documentary History of Seaborne Banditry by James Wadsworth; in-person participants will receive an extra book. Benefits also include a Certificate of Completion and some travel reimbursement subsidies available for in-person attendees who live at least one hour outside of the Pittsburgh area. Pennsylvania teachers will also receive Act 48 credits.
Dear Colleagues,
You are cardinally invited to attend in person or online the international conference on “Asian Religions in Law and Litigation” from Friday 31 to June 1, 2024 at the University of Pittsburgh. This conference has been generously sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh’s Asian Studies Center, School of Law, Department of Religious Studies, and Japan Council. With an exciting list of 16 scholars in law, history, anthropology, religious studies, and East Asian studies from Europe, Asia, and North America, this conference will discuss the treatment of Asian Religions (Buddhism, Confucianism, Shintoism, Islam, and Bon) in Chinese, Japanese, Mongolian, Tibetan, Burmese, and American communities.
For details about the conference (schedule, participants, and abstracts) , visit the conference website at https://cuilanliu.com/conference/.
Registration is appreciated but not required. To register, please click the following link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1nOx93_httqoQuc33RevhxuzxkR_ozCVxP2GIqt5...
To join us online, use the following zoom link:
https://pitt.zoom.us/j/93984448528
Zoom ID: 939 8444 8528
Passcode: 867304
For questions, contact Cuilan Liu by email cul3@pitt.edu
Schedule:
Day 1 – Friday, May 31
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM — Opening Remarks
10:30 AM – 12:00 AM — Panel 1 : China
Chair: Cuilan Liu
Taisu Zhang: “Confucianism” and Legality in Qing China
Huaiyu Chen: Legalizing and Legitimizing the Use of Animal Bones in Chinese Buddhism
Gilbert Chen: Temple in Flux: Property, Gender, and Temple Transfer in Qing China (1644-1912)
12:10 PM – 2:00 PM — Lunch Break
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM — Panel 2: The Mongols and the Burmese
Chair: Huaiyu Chen
Bettine Birge: Law and Religion in the Adjudication of Marriage Disputes in China under Mongol Rule (1260-1368)
Paehwan Seol: Clergies and Religion households on the Jarghu (Mongol Inquisition): Embodied Prayer for Great Qans and Legal and Physical Autonomy
Kate Crosby: What is in a judgement? From canonical self-regulation to military control in Burmese Theravada
Day 2 – Saturday, June 1
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM — Panel 3: Japan
Chair: Yasmin Flodin-Ali
Clark Chilson: Lawful Meditation: Naikan and How the Japanese Constitution Incentivized Its Secularization
Ernils Larsson: Religious freedom in pluralist Japan: The SDF Enshrinement case and the balancing of rights of religious communities
Levi McLaughlin: The Politics of Dissolution: The Unification Church in Japan after the Abe Assassination
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM — Break
10:45 AM – 12:15 AM — Panel 4: Tibet
Chair: Benno Weiner
Charles Ramble: Monks and Nuns Behaving Badly: Disciplinary Measures in Tibetan Buddhist and Bonpo Communities of Highland Nepal in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Weirong Shen: The Yogic Practice of Buddha Amitābha at the Moment of Death: A Fine Blend of the Sūtric and Tantric Practice of Mahayana Buddhism
Cuilan Liu: The Peacock’s Poison: Clerical Immunity in Tibetan Buddhism
12:15 PM – 2:00 PM—Lunch Break
2:30 PM – 4 PM — Panel 5: Beyond Asia
Chair: Clark Chilson
Spearlt: Abdul Maalik Muhammad: A Prisoner Pursuing Divine Justice
Yasmine Flodin-Ali: The Fatwa Function of a Domestic Violence Prevention Manual
Dannial T. Cardillo: Buddhist Inmates and Litigation in the US
4:00 PM-4:15PM — Closing Remarks
