Past Events

Past Events




Burmese Buddhist Exceptionalism and the Violence of Religious Tolerance

East Southeast Asia Colloquium Co-sponsor with Religious Studies
Alicia Turner, York University
- | Annenberg School for Communication 111 | 3620 Walnut Street

Early European accounts of Burma expressed shock at the presence of what they understood to be liberal modern values imbedded in what would soon be a…




Conversations with Musicians from the Philadelphia Orchestra

Kim Center Event
- | The Benjamin Franklin Room (Event) & Golkin Room (Reception), Houston Hall

The event will begin promptly at 3 PM with a moderated conversation between panelists and the Director of the James Joo-Jin Kim Center for Korean Studies, Dr. Hyunjoon Park. Join us to hear about David, Christine and…




6th Annual EALC Graduate Student Research Colloquium

- | The Benjamin Franklin Room, Houston Hall | 3417 Spruce Street

Please join the EALC department for the 6th Graduate Student Research Colloquium Conference, featuring a keynote speech by Dr. Seiji Shirane!

Hear about the research graduate students at Penn…




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…