Join JSA on 2/9 in Setsubun 🇯🇵, a day that marks the "division of seasons" and a shift from winter to spring! Come experience "mamemaki", or bean-throwing, and ward off those unwanted spirits and bad vibes! 👹It runs from 12:00 to 2:00 pm in room 216 of the Cathedral of Learning (map).
Spring is an important time of year for Japanese culture, and we want you to enjoy it with us! ㊗️
This talk reflects on public media art festivals and screen media projects produced in collaboration among Hong Kong media/video art collectives and commercial to real estate institutions and their material facades, addressing debates concerning how such scaled screening situations potentiate (or refuse to potentiate) new collective modes of not only communicating in but also inhabiting the city.It runs from 4:00 to 5:30 in room 602 of the Cathedral of Learning (map) and is free and open to the public.
The mischievous Doodle POP! duo invites you into the delightful doodling world! Join as they experience an exciting adventure in an ocean world they imagine and create while on stage. What will happen to them in this beautiful but scary watery world, as will they try to return a turtle doodle to the sea safely?The performance is scheduled for May 16, 2020, at 2:00 pm. Group tickets are available now but individual tickets will not be available until next spring. It will be held at the Byham Theater in the Cultural District (map).
With live sound effects, stunning animation, and an abundance of theatrical imagination, this is a touching and exciting screen show for anyone ages 3+
The Process Optimization Intern will be working cross-functionally with both the GNC Pittsburgh team and the GNC China team (China JV) to support the standardization and optimization of the operational processes between the two teams, as well as providing ad hoc support as needed to assist in maintaining an open and active line of communication with China JV.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Assist in standardizing processes for key functions, such as supply chain and product development.
- Communicate with involved functional teams to fully understand the processes and lead time for each step.
- Lay out the current-state processes using process mapping tools.
- Support optimization of the processes.
- Identify the critical path of the processes.
- Identify opportunities to improve the processes for a more efficient future state.
- Assist in validating the feasibility of the optimized processes.
- Implement process improvement following Lean Six Sigma methodologies.
- Propose action plans for process compliance assurance.
- Provide ad hoc support as needed for other JV projects.
- Identify problems and shortfalls and propose solutions.
- Attend related meetings and take minutes; support communication cadence between Pittsburgh team and China JV.
The next GlobalPittsburgh First Thursdays happy hour on February 6 will welcome visiting English teachers from Korea National University of Education, who are studying at Pitt's English Language Institute.Join us for an informal evening with globally-minded friends and visiting teachers from the Korea National University of Education who will be coming here for training at the English Language Institute, University of Pittsburgh. Meet people from around the world, practice your language skills and citizen diplomacy! Kids welcome!The happy hour runs from 5:30 to 8:00 pm at Roland's Seafood Grill in the Strip District (map). Tickets are required and may be purchased online.
Japanese video games have had a significant impact on the medium worldwide. Dr. Rachael Hutchinson considers how ‘Japan’ has been packaged for domestic and overseas consumers, and how Japanese designers have used the medium to express ideas about home and nation, nuclear energy, war and historical memory, social breakdown and bioethics. She explores how ideology and critique are conveyed through game narrative and character design as well as user interface, cabinet art, and peripherals. Ultimately, she argues that Japanese artists have expressed similar ideas in the video game medium as in older narrative forms such as literature and film.The talk runs from 6:00 to 8:00 pm in room 232 of the Cathedral of Learning (map). It is free though seating is limited and registration is required.
Join us in the Global Hub for refreshments, crafts, and games as we celebrate the Lantern Festival, or Yuan Xiao, in honor of the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar.It runs from 1:30 to 3:00 pm in the Global Hub on the first floor of Posvar Hall (map).
