Past Events

Free and open to the public. Attendees are welcome to bring lunch. No RSVP is needed and more info at w0rdlab.org.

Ashley Liu is a PhD student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations.

Alexis Dudden is Professor of History, University of Connecticut

Seok Lee (Associate Director of the James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies) & Sinwoo Lee (Moon Family Postdoctoral Fellow)

The Philip Jaisohn Memorial Foundation and the Korean-American Association of Greater Philadelphia will celebrate the centennial anniversary, along with many community groups and governmental entities, from April 12th to April 14th 2019. The symposium and reflection of the First Korean Congress will be held on the first day of the three-day celebration, commemoration of the March-First Independence Movement March along with large Centennial Concert on the second day and the Korea-U.S. Friendship Night on the third day.

As authoritarian governments around the world develop sophisticated technologies for controlling information, many observers have predicted that these controls would be ineffective because they are easily thwarted and evaded by savvy Internet users. In her book titled "Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall", Margaret Roberts demonstrates that even censorship that is easy to circumvent can still be enormously effective. Taking advantage of digital data harvested from the Chinese Internet and leaks from China's Propaganda Department, this important book sheds light on how and when censorship influences the Chinese public.

Sinwoo Lee is Moon Family Postdoctoral Fellow in Korean Studies

This is part of the 2019 Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival series

"American Sutra: Buddhism and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans in World War II"

This groundbreaking history tells the little-known story of how, in one of our country’s darkest hours, Japanese Americans fought to defend their faith and preserve religious freedom. The mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II is not only a tale of injustice; it is a moving story of faith. In this path-breaking account, Duncan Ryuken Williams reveals how, even as they were stripped of their homes and imprisoned in camps, Japanese American Buddhists launched one of the most inspiring defenses of religious freedom in our nation’s history, insisting that they could be both Buddhist and American.

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China’s rapid rise to become the largest investor in and user of clean energy technologies in the world has simultaneously cast it as both an international climate leader and an unfair competitor. How is China innovating in the clean energy space and what is the benefit to the rest of the world? Professor Joanna Lewis will present some of the results of her recent research on this topic and discuss the implications for future energy and climate policy and for US-China relations.

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