Focus on Asia
(March 27 – April 11, 2017)
3/27 (7:00 p.m.): Nico Slate, “Gandhi’s Shadow: The Struggle to end Rural Poverty in India,” HSS 225.
(co-sponsored by Asian Studies, Sustainability Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies and)
3/30-4/11: Takashi Morizumi Photography Exhibit, “Strange Beauty: Autoradiography from Fukushima,” HSS 103.
4/3 (7:00 p.m.): David Mould (University of West Virginia), “In Search of National Identity: Central Asia in the Post-Soviet Era,” HSS 225.
(organized by Department of Communications Media, co-sponsored by Asian Studies)
4/4 (3:30 p.m.): Brett Walker (University of Montana), “Natural and Unnatural Disasters: 3/11, Asbestos, and the Unmaking of Japan’s Modern World,” HSS B10.
(co-sponsored by Asian Studies and the Pittsburgh Asian Studies Center)
4/5 (6:00 p.m.): Lior Sternfeld (Penn State), “Iran and Israel: from Intimate Alliance to Fierce Animosity,” HSS 215
(co-sponsored by Asian Studies and the Political Science Department)
4/6 (Evening) Short Performance by IUP Korean Drum Group, HSS Lobby
4/8 (9:00 a.m.-): Undergraduate Asian Studies Conference, Various rooms in Humanities and Social Science Building.
Keynote by Kristin Stapleton (University of Buffalo), “Seeing Chinese History through Fiction.” 1:15
Musical performance by Yuko Eguchi (University of Pittsburgh). 12:15
(organized by Asian Studies Committee, co-sponsored by College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Pittsburgh Asia Consortium)