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Seeking Truths and Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarian Rule in China

Center for the Study of Contemporary China
Jeremy Wallace, Professor of Government, Cornell University
- | CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418 | 133 S. 36th St

Temple Tracks: Labor, Piety, and Railway Construction in Asia

East-Southeast Asia Colloquium Co-sponser with Southeast Asia Reading Group and South Asia Studies
Vineeta Sinha, National University of Singapore
- | Annenberg School for Communication 110 | 3620 Walnut Street

Temple Tracks presents a textured tale of the complex ties between labour, mobility and piety. Here, I use the history of colonial railway…




High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Govern Its Economy

Center for the Study of Contemporary China
Angela Zhang, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong
- | CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418 | 133 S. 36th St

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The Art of Vernacular Reading in Choson Korea: Kugyol for Memory, Eloquence, and Adornment

Korean Studies Colloquium
Si Nae Park, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
- | 3600 Market Street, Suite #310

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En Route to the Taj Mahal: Transformation of Royal Identity and Architecture under the Qarakhanids in Pre-Mongol Central Asia

EALC Book Talk
Dilrabo Tosheva, Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University
- | EALC Discussion Room (844 Williams Hall) | 255 S. 36th St

Dr. Dilrabo Tosheva, postdoctoral fellow in Central Asian Studies at Yale, will discuss her forthcoming book , "En Route to the Taj Mahal: Transformation of Royal Identity and Architecture under the Qarakhanids…




Penn Museum Asia Seminar: Death and Buddhism in 6th c. North China

Co-sponser with Penn Museum
- | Penn Museum

Please join us at the Penn Museum on Saturday April 13th at 1pm, Widener Lecture Hall, to hear Prof. Xu Jin 徐津(Columbia) and Ma Xiaoyang 馬曉陽…




Pedagogy Workshop for Korean Language Teachers in Philadelphia: Innovative Approaches to Korean Language Education: Empowering Students with Generative AI and Immersive VR

Co-sponsor with EALC, Organized by Korean Language Program
- | Williams Hall 844

The Korean Language Program is pleased to announce the first Pedagogy Workshop for Korean Teachers in Philadelphia with support from EALC and CEAS. The theme of this year’s workshop is “Innovative Approaches to…




Education Fever and Low Birth Rates in Korea

Korean Studies Colloquium
Seongeun Kim, Associate Professor of Economics, Sejong University
- | 3600 Market Street, Suite #310

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Alternative Hygienic Modernity: Chinese Medical Therapy Project for Industrial Pollution in Cold War Taiwan

Humanities Colloquium
Po-Hsun Chen, PhD candidate, Centre for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Manchester
- | David Rittenhouse Lab 2C6 | 209 S 33rd Street

The concept of Hygienic Modernity has been proposed for about 20 years. This talk takes the Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) poisoning event in Taiwan in the Cold War period as an example to revisit this well-known…




Japanese Calligraphy Demonstration with Ebihara Rogen

Co-sponsor with the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia
- | Penn Museum

Step into a timeless realm of visual artistry with Japanese calligraphy master Ebihara Rogen, celebrated worldwide for his dramatic…