Past Events

Past Events




Issues in Contemporary East Asia Series: “Young and Middle-aged Japanese Working Outside Japan: With Quantitative and Qualitative Data”

- | Claudia Cohen Hall 402 (249 South 36th Street)
Kenji Ishida, University of Tokyo 
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This talk focuses on our ongoing research project on career opportunities among overseas Japanese workers. Japanese career trajectory is characterised as long-term employment in the same company with a job-rotation-…




EALC GSRC Grad Conference 2023

- | Dr. Ruodi Duan, Haverford College
Green Room, Irvine Auditorium 
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The Graduate Student Research Colloquium for East Asian Studies is pleased to announce the 5th Annual University of Pennsylvania East Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference. Our 2023 conference, “Untold Narratives…




CSCC Event: "Th Sex Trade in China: Policing, Health, Business, and the Regulation of Prostitution"

- | Margaret Boittin, York University 
CSCC Conference Room (133 S. 36th., Room 418)
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Distinguished East Asia Lecture: "China-Africa Encounters: Navigating Across Inter-Asian Waters"

- | Helen F. Siu, Yale University 
Annenberg 110 (3620 Walnut Street), and online via Zoom
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The growing economic and political relationships between China and the African continent in the past two decades are well documented in social science and policy studies. As Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Belt-and-…




Japanese Book Binding Workshop

- | Vitale II Media Lab (623 Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, 6th floor)
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Create a book in the Japanese tradition. We will practice several variations of the stab binding stitch, from simple to more decorative stitches, on sewing cards. We will then use one of these stitches to bind a book…




CSCC Event: "Xi Jinping's Power Concentration and Implications for Chinese Foreign Policy"

- | Suisheng Zhao, University of Denver 
CSCC Conference Room (133 S. 36th St., Room 418)
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Japan Global Issues: "Inu-Oh"

- | Inu Oh directed by Masaaki Yuasa
Claudia Cohen Hall 402  (249 South 36th Street)
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Inu-Oh (Japanese: 犬王) is a 2021 Japanese animated musical film directed by Masaaki Yuasa and based upon the novel Tales of the Heike: Inu-Oh by Hideo Furukawa.




Japan Global Issues: “Cooking Up Change: Sustainability, Seafood, and Substitution in Japan”

- | Anne Claus, American University 
Claudia Cohen Hall 402 (249 South 36th Street)
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A large-scale and consequential game of substitution is playing out in kitchens worldwide as sustainable seafood advocates try to replace over-harvested fish like salmon and tuna with more abundant species. Such…




CSCC Event: “Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People’s Republic”

- | Mike Chinoy, University of Southern California 
CSCC Conference Room, 133 S. 36th Street, Room 418 
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Quakers and Japan

- | Kislak Center 
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