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The Center for East Asian Studies supports the study of East Asia at Penn and to the Philadelphia community.

Outreach Activities

We currently offer a program in which Penn experts present one-hour lectures to classes on a variety of topics pertaining to East Asia, at no cost to your school. For more information and to request a speaker please contact the Center.

Student Activities

Members of Nihon Hidankyo, Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, recount their personal experiences of surviving the Atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki 70 years ago to a large audience from Penn, high school, and the Philadelphia communities.

K-12 Teacher Professional Development

CEAS offers a number of workshops for K-12 educators on East Asia-related topics, as well as globally themed content.

  • Wed 3/3

    CEAS Classroom Series with Brooke McCorkle: "Nature, Technology, and Sound Design in Gojira (1954)"

    5:00 pm

    Brooke McCorkle, Carleton College

    Register here

  • Thu 3/4

    CEAS ICEA Series: "Organized for Peace?: Japan's Postwar Military Experiment"

    12:00 pm

    Dr. Sheila Smith, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

    REGISTER HERE

  • Thu 3/4

    CEAS Humanities Colloquium: Joshua Batts, "Outreach to the East(ern Nanban): Tokugawa Japan's Spanish Decade, 1603-1613"

    4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

    Joshua Batts, PhD, Research Associate, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge University

    REGISTER HERE

  • Fri 3/5

    CSCC Speaker Series: "Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era"

    12:00 pm

    Jie Li, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University

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CEAS Faculty in Media

Jolyon Thomas' book, "Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan" won the 2020 American Academy of Religion Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Analytical-Descriptive Studies.

See here for AAR's announcement. Congratulations Jolyon!

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Highlights

  • The Arthur Tress Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books

    Click here to see Arthur's generous donation! 

  • Tomoko Takami was honored recently as she was elected President of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese

    Congratulations Tomoko for being elected and also being featured in a Japanese-language interview as part of a small project interviewing language teachers around the

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Featured News

International Haiku Day Reflection by CEAS Faculty

 

 

when does it end then?
all the world wonders, silent
tulip quarantine

 

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Center for East Asian Studies

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255 South 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

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