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News & Events
As you may have heard, Professor Keiko McDonald was in a fishing accident and passed away on September 14.
The University of Pittsburgh has lost an invaluable professor, colleague, and friend. We are deeply saddened by this tragedy.
A Memorial Service was held on Wednesday, October 1, 2008, at 3:00 pm, at The Heinz Memorial Chapel on the Pitt Campus.
In lieu of flowers, donations are being accepted by the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures. Your gift will be for the purpose of assisting students at the University of Pittsburgh in their study of the language and culture of Japan. It will be administered by the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures. Checks should be made out to the University of Pittsburgh with a note that the gift is for the Keiko McDonald Memorial Fund. Checks can be sent to:
Matt Smith, Financial Gifts Specialist, University of Pittsburgh, 316B Craig Hall, 200 South Craig Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Donors will receive a donation receipt.
You may also use this link:
http://www.giveto.pitt.edu/keiko.php
EALL COLLOQUIUM SERIES
FALL 2008
Please join us on several friday afternoons at 2:00 for informal presentations. Light refreshments will be served.
Friday, October 3, 2008 2:00
2008 KONKUK UNIVERSITY STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM RETROSPECTIVE: Priscilla Liu "Deconstructing, renovating, reconstructing"; Kenneth Stewart "Korean Beer Tastes Terrible, but Soju is alright"; Laura Marczuk "Seoul through the Subway"; Eric Leone "My Summer in Seoul"
Room: 4130 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Friday, October 31, 2008 2:00
Dr. Chisato Hotta, Ph.D., Asian Studies Center, Postdoctoral Fellow, Japanese-Korean Studies "A Cross-cultural Study of the Minority Experience: Koreans in Osaka and African Americans in Chicago, 1920-1945"
Room: 4130 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Friday, November 7, 2008 2:00
Seung-hwan Shin, Ph.D. Candidate, Film Studies, Department of English, "Hopeless Return and Endless Mourning: The Priciples of Hope in Lee, Chang-dong's SECRET SUNSHINE"
"Main characters in Lee, Chang-dong's films often appear caught in between irrevocable losses and hopes beyond reach, which I take as offering a good occasion for interrogating the history and culture of contemporary South Korean. Underscoring the persistence of the leitmotifs in his oeuvre and focusing on the desperate search for hope in the post-loss situation in SECRET SUNSHINE (2007), his latest film, my discussion will explore how the evolution of Lee's film language involves his critical notes on South Korea of the post-democratization era."
Room: 4130 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Friday, November 21, 2008 2:00
Jie Cui, Ph.D. Student, Department of Linguistics, "Cognitive Motivations of Chinese Characters"
Along with the emergence of development of embodied philosophy and cognitive linguistics ever since 1970s, Linguists began to pay more attention to human-being rather than language itself. Iconicity is one of the most important themes. Iconicity was introduced to Chinese mainstream academics around 1990s. Some discussion and products came out recently. Most scholars tried to understand it from aspects such as connotation, classification, demonstration, the relationship between iconicity and language system. At the same time, scholars apply some iconicity principles to explain phenomena in Chinese language. However, studies on theory and style research of iconicity and systematic researches on Chinese structure demand further efforts. This paper intended to discuss iconicity issues through analyzing cognitive motivations of Chinese Character as well as reconsider Saussure’s first principle of linguistic sign: arbitrariness.
Jennifer Crandall, Ph.D. Student, Department of Education, "Cultural Assumptions in Conversations"
Room: 4217 Wesley W. Posvar Hall (inside UCIS Offices in Suite 4400)
2008 Japanese
Film Series
Friday, September 26, 2008, Sequel to Always (2006), based on Ryohei Saigan's popular comic series that sold 14 million copies. Set in 1959, this sequel concerns the everyday lives of those living in the backstreets near Tokyo Tower.
"Always: Sunset on Third Street 2" /"Always zoku san-chome no yuhi"(2007)
Friday, October 3, 2008, Based on the hit manga of the same title by Chika Umino, this adoescent drama unfolds five college art students' lives as the face their growing pains -- and joys as well.
"Honey and Clover"/"Hachimitsu to kuroba" (2006)
Friday, October 10, 2008,
"Happily Ever After" /"Jigyaku no uta"(2007) has been cancelled.
Shows start at 7:00 PM in McConomy Hall, U.C., Carnegie Mellon University
All films are shown in Japanese with English Subtitles.
Funded by the University of Pittsburgh's Asian Studies Center with a National Resource Center Grant from the U.S. Dept. of Education, the Toshiba International Foundation, BNY Mellon, and the University of Pittsburgh's Japan Iron and Steel Foundation/Mitsubishi Endowment.
Organized by the Asian Studies Center, the University for International Studies of the University of Pittsurgh in collaboration with the Department of Modern Languages and MLSAC of Carnegie Mellon University.
FINDING OUR DEPARTMENT:
The Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures is now located at 702 Old Engineering Hall (formerly in 1501 Cathedral of Learning). To get to our new offices, enter "Engineering Hall" at 3943 O'Hara Street, through the main doors at the curved driveway. Use the elevator to the 6th floor. You will need to use the stairs to the 7th floor.
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