Pitt's Asian Studies Center to Present Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series

PITTSBURGH-The University of Pittsburgh's Asian Studies Center will present the "Asia Over Lunch" lecture series at noon on Thursdays from Sept. 27 to Nov. 15, 4130 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. Pizza will be served; participants are asked to bring their own beverages. Asian Studies is part of Pitt's University Center for International Studies.

The dates, presenters, and titles of the lectures are as follows:

September 27

Minwoo Yun, assistant professor of criminal justice, Wheeling Jesuit University, "Human Trafficking and International Migration into South Korea";

October 4

Mike Roman, PhD candidate in anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, "Youth Perceptions of HIV/AIDS in the Republic of Kirkbati and Social Projects to Educate People about the Virus";

October 11

Martha Chaiklin, assistant professor of history, University of Pittsburgh, "Unseasonal Winds of Love: Prostitution in Early Modern Nagasaki";

October 18

Rashmi D. Bhatnagar, assistant professor of English, University of Pittsburgh, "Literary Traditions of Protest for the Girl Child: Brajbha_a in Meera's Medieval Poetry, Mahadevi Verma's Prose Sketches (1941), and Mrinal Pande's Novel Daughter's Daughter (1993)";

October 25

Julia H. Kaufman, postdoctoral research associate, Learning Research & Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, "Schools in Shanghai";

November 1

Eun-Young Jung, Japan-Korea postdoctoral fellow, University of Pittsburgh, "Transnational Popular Cultural Traffic Between Japan and Korea";

November 8

Mark Metzler, associate professor of history and Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin, "Globalization, East Asia, and the First Great Depression, 1873-1896"; and

November 15

Hao-li Lin, postdoctoral student in anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, "Conservation and Conflict: Ecotourism in a Fijian Village."

For more information, contact the Asian Studies Center at 412-648-7370 or visit www.ucis.pitt.edu/asc/news/overlunch.html.

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