Prof. Shunsaku Miyagi (University of Tokyo) is one of Japan's most eminent landscape architects. He is also the representative director of the Byodoin Temple, a temple in Kyoto that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and so important in Japan that an image of it is on the back of every 10-yen coin. Trained and educated in the US and Japan, his guiding philosophy is "Life is Design Itself." He will discuss Japanese gardens and connecting Pittsburgh and Japan through landscape design.

Learn more with our flyer: https://www.japanstudies.pitt.edu/sites/default/files/miyagi_flyer.pdf

Join the Global Studies Center for our annual welcome reception! Meet current and new students, faculty and staff and learn about GSC initiatives while enjoying conversation and refreshments.

Lecture about "How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States" by Daniel Immerwahr, Northwestern University, Professor of History

Join the African Studies Program as we welcome in the new academic year with our annual welcome reception! Meet staff, affiliated faculty and fellow students and discuss the program, events for the year and opportunities for engagement!

The Chernobyl disaster immediately comes to mind when we think of the Soviet nuclear industry. What about the history of Soviet nuclear power in the four decades prior? This live interview with Sonja Schmid will explore the development of the Soviet nuclear industry from the 1950s to Chernobyl to shed light on its institutional, technological, social, and political development.

This event is a part of the REEES Fall Speaker Series "Nuclear Fallout: Science and Society in Eurasia"

Professor Chantal Bouchard from McGill University in Montreal will offer a lecture in French on language use in Quebec today.

Natalia Aleksiun is Professor of Modern Jewish History at Touro College, Graduate School of Jewish Studies, New York. She studied East European and Jewish history in Poland, where she received her first doctoral degree in history at Warsaw University, with a dissertation that resulted in her first book, “Where to? The Zionist Movement in Poland, 1944-1950.” She received her second doctoral degree in Jewish studies at New York University.

Dr. Aleksiun has been a fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich, Germany; the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania; a Senior Fellow at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Vienna; a Yad Hanadiv Postdoctoral Fellow in Israel; Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow, at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM, Washington D.C., and the Imre Kertesz Kolleg in Jena, Germany.

She has published in Yad Vashem Studies, Polish Review, Dapim, East European Jewish Affairs, Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Polin, and Gal Ed, and other journals. Her second book, “Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust” is forthcoming (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2019). She co-edited two volumes of Polin, (v. 20, devoted to the memory of the Holocaust, and v. 29, on Jewish historiography in Eastern Europe). Aleksiun is currently working on a book about the cadaver affair at European universities in the 1920s and 1930s and on a project dealing with daily lives of Jews in hiding in Galicia during the Holocaust.

Join us for an evening of language and cultural exchange between Pitt students and International students.

With more than 350 programs in 75 countries, getting started with study abroad can be overwhelming! Stop by the Study Abroad Fair to talk to advisors, faculty, exchange partners, and Pitt-Recognized providers about what programs might make sense for you! It's never too early to get started!

Jewish Studies Work in Progress Series.

Lunch Provided, RSVP by September 9 to jsp@pitt.edu

12:00 pm -1: 30 pm:
Seminar about ProfiCinema and useful resources about Russian Cinema

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm:
Applied session, analysis of films

Aleksei Fedorchenko: Anna’s War by Andrei Rogatchevski
Aleksei German: Dovlatov by Otto Boele
Anton Meregdichev: Going Vertical by Beach Gray
Oleg Trofim: Ice by Olga Mesropova

Please join the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures for a poetic exploration of the ill-fated friendship between Confederate General Lewis Armistead and Union General Winfield Hancock. In this unique noh drama, Playwright Elizabeth Dowd and composer David Crandall re-imagine the conflict at the center of American history as a Japanese noh drama. Noh, originating in Japan more than 650 years ago, is one of the oldest continuously evolving stage arts in the world. It combines highly stylized dance, chant, music, mask, and costume with intense inner concentration and physical discipline, resulting in a uniquely powerful theatrical event.

Developed by Theatre Nohgaku with the mission to share noh's beauty and power with English-speaking audiences through the creation of new works that transcend the boundaries of culture and language.

Please visit the Events page of the Department of East Asian Languages, National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA) and Japan Studies for more information.