Pitt's Asian Studies Center to Present Spring 2010 "Asia Over Lunch" Lecture Series

PITTSBURGH- The University of Pittsburgh's Asian Studies Center will present the Spring 2010 "Asia Over Lunch" lecture series at noon on Thursdays beginning Feb. 4 in 4130 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. Asian Studies is part of Pitt's University Center for International Studies (UCIS). For more information, contact the Asian Studies Center at 412-648-7370 or asia@pitt.edu.

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

Feb. 4

Shih-Hsiang Sung, Pitt PhD student in anthropology, "Fate, Fortune, and Risk Control: A New Interpretation to the High Rate of Cesarean Section in Taiwan";

Feb. 11

Armen Mihran Bakalian, Pitt graduate student in East Asian studies, "'Number-One' Lord: The Unlikely Life of Hayashi Tadataka, 1848-1941";

Feb. 18

Karen Gerhart, Pitt professor in the history of art and architecture, "The Material Culture of Death in Medieval Japan";

Feb. 25

Yexia Zhang, Heinz Fellow, UCIS, "Children's Birth Registration in China: Practice, Problems, and Policies";

March 4

Jesook Song, associate professor in East Asian studies, University of Toronto,

"South Koreans in the Debt Crisis: The Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare Society";

March 18

Eun-Kyung Lee, Pitt PhD student in education, "Effect of Higher Education on the Economic Growth in East Asian Countries";

March 25

Usha Iyer, Pitt PhD student in English, "Finding the Past in Pastiche: The Politics of Intertextuality in Bollywood Cinema"; and

April 1

Xiuying Zou, public services librarian, Pitt East Asian Library, "Introduction to Library Resources and Services on Chinese Studies at the University of Pittsburgh."

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