Past Events

Past Events




Eva Pils, Chinese University of Hong Kong - "The Crackdown on China's Human Rights Lawyers"

- | Silverman Hall, Room 240B in the Penn Law School

Eva Pils is an associate professor and director of the Centre for Rights and Justice at the Faculty of Law of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her scholarship focuses on human rights and China, with publications…




Eva Pils, Chinese University of Hong Kong -"Contending Conceptions of Ownership and Property in Urbanizing China"

- | Tanenbaum Hall, Room 345 in the Penn Law School

In the wake of China's great urbanisation process, many of the tens of millions of Chinese rural and urban citizens affected by evictions and expropriations have engaged in complaints, protest and resistance. This…




Akira (1988, 125 mins, Japanese w/ English subtitles) - Film Screening

- | Annenberg 110

"Kaneda is a bike gang leader whose close friend Tetsuo gets involved in a government secret project known as Akira. On his way to save Tetsuo, Kaneda runs into a group of anti-government activists, greedy…




Amy Hai-kyung Lee, Korean Studies Librarian (retired), C. V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University, Daughter of HIH Late Prince Ŭi (Ŭich'inwang) of Korea - "My Early Life in My Father's Palace"

- | Stiteler B26

"For a century, most have regarded Korea’s colonization by Japan in 1910 as an inevitable outcome of imperialist aggressions and failings of Korea’s leadership. According to this view rooted in Japanese colonialist…




Shu-mei Shih, Professor of Comparative Literature, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Asian American Studies at UCLA - “Is Feminism Translatable? Taiwan, Spivak, A-Wu”

- | Class of '55 Seminar Room, Van Pelt Library, Room 241

Using Gayatri Spivak’s encounter with Taiwan feminists in 2002 as a starting point, this lecture will explore the by now seemingly clichéd question of the translatability of feminism across geocultural differences.…




David Shinn, George Washington University -"China-Africa Relations: An Evolving Dynamic"

- | Stiteler B26

Ambassador David Shinn is an adjunct professor of the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University, where he also received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D.…




Jerome Cohen, New York University Law School - "China and the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights: Political Dissent and Other Issues"

- | Silverman Hall, Room 240B in the Penn Law School 

Professor Jerome Cohen is the senior American expert on East Asian law. As Director of East Asian Legal Studies at Harvard Law School from 1964-1979, he helped pioneer the introduction of East Asian legal systems and…




Timon Screech, Professor of the History of Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London - "Cargo of the New Year's Gift: The Early English East India Company and the Japan Trade"

- | Stiteler B26

The New Year's Gift left London in 1614 bound for points east, hopefully as far as Japan. It had on board a most unusual cargo. Having been set up in 1600 the English East India Company was experimenting with its…




James Zhaojie Li, Director, Center for International Legal Studies, Tsinghua University School of Law, “The Impact of International Human Rights in China—Reception into Chinese Law and Chinese Views on the ‘Responsibility to Protect’”

- | Silverman Hall, Room 240B in the Penn Law School

Li's talk will discuss the impact of international human rights on contemporary China followed by my observation on the reception of international human rights law into China's domestic law.  Within that context…




Pierce Salguero, Penn State University, Abington College - "Buddhist Medicine in Crosscultural Translation: Disease, Healing, and the Body in the Chinese Tripitaka"

- | Stiteler B26

As huge volumes of Buddhist literature were transmitted to China in the early medieval period, translators faced the challenge of rendering in a new language the wide range of Indian technical and scientific…