Past Events

Past Events




CSCC Event: "Can China Stop Climate Change?"

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Alex Wang, Professor of Law, UCLA




Tsagaan sar Mongolian Lunar New Year virtual celebration

- | Online via ZOOM.
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Are you curious about how lunar new year is celebrated in Mongolia? Join us for a virtual celebration of the "white month" (Tsagaan sar) on Thursday morning! The program will be held online via zoom, and will include…




Korean Studies Colloquium: "Should We Take Authoritarian Anti-Corruption Seriously? Evidence from South Korea"

- | Christopher Carothers Williams Hall 623 (Optionally Zoom) 

Christopher Carothers, CSCC (Center for the Study of Contemporary China) Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania 




Korean Studies Colloquium: "Embodying the Complexity of Korean Queerness: Affective Counter-profiling, Affective Solidarity, and Reconfigured Citizenship"

- | Virtual talk  

Woori Han, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication and the Center on Digital culture and Society, University of Pennsylvania




CEAS Humanities Colloquium: “Sovereignty!: Japanese Independence after the Meiji Restoration (1868) and the San Francisco Peace Treaty (1951)”

- | Kaoru Iokibe, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo
 
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Zoom connection info:
Join Zoom Meeting https://upenn.zoom.us/j/98821624884
 

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Penn-Fudan Virtual Series on Global Issues and Governance: "Real Estate Taxes: A Comparative Discussion--China's New Pilot Rollout and the US Experience"

- | Online

Online event featuring the following speakers: Yijia Jing (Fudan University), Dan Guttman (Tianjin University), Ping Zhang (Fudan), Qiang Ren (Central University of Finance and Economics), Maisy Wong (Wharton), and…




Japan Global Issues Series: "Why the Fishhead Faces Left and Other Tales: Learning from Food Workers in Japan"

- | Merry White, Boston University
Stitler B10- The Forum
 
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Note this event was postponed from October

An ongoing study of the experiences of food workers in Japan – domestic, industrial, artisanal and more – includes stories of people who work in food as craft, art…




Korean Studies Colloquium: "Heterogeneous Cultural Logics Shared by South Koreans: Using Explicit and Implicit Responses from Surveys"

- | Ji Hye Kim, Moon Family Postdoctoral Fellow in Korean Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Williams Hall 623

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CEAS East-Southeast Asia Colloquium: "The Wa People Between China and Southeast Asia"

- | Magnus Fiskesjö, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Cornell University
 Online via Zoom
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The Wa have an unusual history. It's the story of a people of approximately one million, trying to maintain themselves while navigating a neighborhood of big, powerful, pushy states and empires, in the borderlands…




2021 Freedom Crossing Film Festival 3rd weekend: Crossing Truth and Freedom, film screening and workshop with film critic Hao Jian

- | STREAMING ONLINE
For more information about series films including how to register CLICK HERE

From the event organizers: "Freedom Crossing Film Festival (FCFF) is a stage for storytelling and that nourishes free dialogue across all kinds of boundaries. Over the past two years, we have celebrated a diversity…