Pitt's Asian Studies Center to Present Spring 2008 "Asia Over Lunch" Lecture Series

PITTSBURGH-The University of Pittsburgh's Asian Studies Center will present the Spring 2008 "Asia Over Lunch" lecture series at noon on Thursdays beginning Jan. 29, at 4130 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. Asian Studies is part of Pitt's University Center for International Studies.

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

Jan. 29

Siddharth Chandra, associate professor of international affairs and director of the Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh, "Marijuana Policy and Consumption in India: A Historical Perspective";

Feb. 5

Huiping Xie, PhD candidate, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, "What Advances Community-Driven Development? A Cultural Perspective of Gender Mainstreaming and Self-Organization Mechanisms in the Rural Areas of China";

Feb. 12

Asif Khan, Jie Cui, and Muriel Zhou, PhD candidates in education, University of Pittsburgh, "Gender and Higher Education in Pakistan";

Feb. 19

Seung-Hwan Shin, PhD candidate in English, University of Pittsburgh, "Tale of Two Koreas: Division System, Semi-sovereignty, and Broken Subjectivity in "Shiri" and "JSA"";

Feb. 26

Lee Branstetter, associate professor of economics and public policy, Carnegie Mellon University, "Will India and China Dominate the 21st Century Global Economy?";

March 5

Hiro Good, librarian, East Asian Library, University of Pittsburgh, "Guide to New Japanese Digital Resources: Asahi Shinbun Database and Institutional Depositories";

March 19

Donald Goldstein, professor of public and international affairs and interim director of the Matthew B. Ridgway Center, University of Pittsburgh, "Pearl Harbor: The Relevance of the Attack 68 Years Later"; and

March 26

Clark Chilson, assistant professor of religious studies, University of Pittsburgh, "How to Hide a Religion: Dissimulation as a Transformative Process in the History of a Modern Secretive Shin Buddhist Association."

For more information, contact the Asian Studies Center at 412-648-7370.

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