The Center for East Asian Studies supports the study of East Asia at Penn and to the Philadelphia community.
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.
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.
CEAS offers a number of workshops for K-12 educators on East Asia-related topics, as well as globally themed content.
12:00 pm
Michelle Cho, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Via Zoom *Registration required: please register via the following link
4:30 pm
Morgan Pitelka, Chair, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Professor, Asian Studies and History, UNC-Chapel Hill
4:30 pm
Timothy Webster, Assistant Professor of Law, Western New England University
Virtual talk via Zoom
4:30 pm
Professor Richard McBride, BYU
EALC PhD Candidate Mark Bookman was featured in two recent Japan-related podcasts:
Accessibility in "Japan on the Record" with Mark Bookman
In Fall 2019 CEAS Associate Director David Dettmann and Friends Select School Mandarin Chinese instructor Piyanut Sripanawongsa led a pilot program in Mandarin Chinese for the Free Library of Philadelphia's "Edible Alphabet" program.
Center for East Asian Studies