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.
Co-presented with Pittsburgh Sound + Image and Screenshot Asia
Renowned media artist Shu Lea Cheang arrives in person to present her groundbreaking debut feature, a cyberfeminist eco-thriller, newly restored for its 30th anniversary in a stunning 35mm print.
Coined as an avant-anarcho ecosatire, the film envisions a post-apocalyptic landscape strewn with electronic detritus and suffering the toxic repercussions of mass marketing in a high-tech commodity culture. “Kill” is Dutch for stream, FRESH KILL tells the story of two young lesbian parents caught up in a global exchange of industrial waste via contaminated sushi. The place is New York and the time is now! Raw fish lips are the rage on trendy menus across Manhattan. A ghost barge, bearing nuclear refuse, circles the planet in search of a willing port. Household pets start to glow ominously and then disappear altogether. The sky opens up and snows soap flakes. People start speaking in dangerous tongues. A riveting and densely packed film, FRESH KILL evokes the furious rhythms of channel surfing with its rapid-fire editing style.
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Born in Taiwan and now based in Paris, Shu Lea Cheang is an artist and filmmaker whose work aims to re-envision genders, genres, and operating structures. She began her career as a member of activist media collectives Paper Tiger TV and Deep Dish TV. Later, as a celebrated pioneer of Net Art, her work Brandon (1998–99) became the first-ever web-based artwork commissioned and collected by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Since 1994, she has produced four feature films, FRESH KILL (1994), I.K.U. (2000), FLUIDØ (2017), and UKI (2023), which encompass a new genre she calls “Scifi New Queer Cinema.” In 2019, she represented Taiwan at the Venice Biennale with the mixed media installation, 3x3x6. Over the years, Cheang has participated in many renowned international biennials, including Performa 19, New York; the 11th Taipei Biennial; the 50th and 58th Venice Biennale; and the 1992 and 1994 Whitney Biennials among others. Her works are included in the world’s key permanent collections for contemporary art, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and DSL collection, Paris.
Directed by Shu Lea Cheang
Rated NR
Join the Global Experiences Office for a Passport Fair! We are bringing passport processing to you ON-CAMPUS! We have teamed up with the United States Post Office to offer U.S. passport processing for students for this one-day event in the Global Hub.
Come practice your conversational Slovak with your classmates.
Come practice your conversational Hungarian with fellow students!
Gaming all night is fun but what about the energy consumption? How is the German gaming industry responding to climate change both in game design and beyond?
Light Refreshments will be served
Description: Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays during Fall semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
French Club at Pitt will meet twice weekly, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, during Fall 2024, EXCEPT on Tuesday, October 1 and November 6.
A reception for ASC associated faculty members. Introduction of new members and celebrating achievements by all affiliated faculty.
Join the German Club on Wednesdays during Fall semester to practice speaking German and learn about German culture!
German Club at Pitt will meet on Wednesdays during Fall 2024, EXCEPT on Wednesday, October 1.
Join the Asian Studies Center for a celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival and our Welcome Back Student event in the Global Hub! Snacks and a themed activity will be provided!
ALL STUDENTS, FACULTY & STAFF ARE WELCOME!
GSC cordially invites you to our Welcome Back Reception in the Center for Urban Education's Commons Room in 4303 Posvar Hall. We will serve light refreshments. Faculty, staff, and students are all encouraged and welcome to attend. Refreshments will be served.
This is an informal time to meet fellow speakers of African languages and practice your skills with a seasoned facilitator! All levels are welcome.
Monthly schedule -
1st Wednesday: Arabic & Wolof
2nd Wednesday: Swahili & Amharic
3rd Wednesday: Yoruba & Akan/Twi
4th Wednesday: Haitian Creole
Join the French Club on Tuesdays and Wednesdays during Fall semester for conversational meetings and to practice French speaking and listening skills and create a francophone community on campus!
French Club at Pitt will meet twice weekly, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, during Fall 2024, EXCEPT on Tuesday, October 1 and November 6.
Join the International Student Peer Network for a professional Chinese Kun Opera group performance, storytelling, open discussion, and the opportunity to try on traditional costumes and makeup.
Mangia con noi! Bring your lunch and chat with us! Pitt students only, all levels welcome!
A wonderful group of 33 talented young dancers, singers, and musicians will deliver a dance workshop for our students.
Short Bio: Mireya Loza is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and the American Studies Program at Georgetown University and a curator in the Division of Work and Industry at the
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Loza is a public historian who contributed oral histories, trained communities, and helped amass over 800 oral histories with bracero communities featured in the Bracero History Archive. These oral histories became a cornerstone of her book, Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual and Political Freedom (UNC Press). Her first book won the Theodore Saloutos Book Prize awarded by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society and the Smithsonian Secretary’s Research Prize.
Title: Beyond Braceros: How Temporary Labor Shaped Industrialized Agriculture in California,1942-1965
Abstract: As the largest employer of Mexican guest workers during the era of the Bracero Program, California growers stand center stage in this talk about race and food production in America.
Beyond braceros, growers relied increasingly, but not exclusively, on Mexican undocumented workers and actively recruited laborers from Japan and Puerto Rico. California growers’
global search for cheap labor challenges long-held assumptions that Mexican workers were the logical, if not inevitable, ideal farmworker. This talk will explain the lobbying efforts, political reach, and racial meaning-making of California growers as they handpicked their most coveted farmworker and explain how the contemporary reality in American agriculture was not inevitable but created by design through policy and grower influence.
This event is co-sponsored by CESR and CLAS, and is part of Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month!
Please come celebrate with us! Make sure you RSVP by 9/13/2024
Jeremias Brasileiro: Sincretismo NÃO! Coexistência cultural religiosa e ancestral, SIM!
This event will be in Portuguese.
Free and open to the public
Join the Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia for a screening of the World Nomad Games 2024. Included in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List, World Nomad Games is an international sport competition dedicated to ethnic sports practiced in Central Asia. It is like the Olympics with 84 nations, including the US. Learn more about the World Nomad Games at https://worldnomadgames.kz/en.
Join undergraduate Pitt students for a conversation hour to practice speaking in Hindi and Urdu and connect over shared cultural experiences.
Kya Baat Hai will meet weekly, on Fridays, during the 2024-2025 academic year, EXCEPT on the following dates:
September 27
December 20
December 27
January 3
