Past Events

Past Events




CSCC Speaker Series: "The Limits of State-Led Innovation: Evidence from Chinese Patents"

- | Yuen Yuen Ang, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan

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Penn Forum on Japan Critical Race Studies: Will Bridges, "Epistemology of the Violets: Heuristics toward a Sensorium of Afro-Japanese Co-creativity"

- | William H. Bridges IV, Associate Professor of Japanese, University of Rochester
Registration HERE

In Development Drowned and Reborn,Clyde Woods proposes that we envision new worlds—worlds “more egalitarian and democratic,” and more committed to “sustainability” and “social, cultural, and economic…




Korean Studies Colloquium: "North Korea’s Nuclear Posture and Implications for the Biden Administration"

- | Hyun-Binn Cho, Assistant Professor, The College of New Jersey) Ariel Petrovics, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School

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CEAS Classroom Series with Hilary Smith, "Vitamins, Chinese Dietetics, and Modern Nutritional Knowledge."

- | Hilary A. Smith, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Denver
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What has Chinese medicine contributed to modern nutritional knowledge? Ever since the 1920s, when nutrition science began to emerge as a professional discipline in China, open-minded biochemists and nutritionists…




CEAS Humanities Colloquium: Jessey Choo, "The Men in Women's Hell: Gender in Daoist Blood Lake Soteriology in Pre-Modern China"

- | Jessey Choo, Associate Professor of Chinese History and Religion at Rutgers University-New Brunswick
ONLINE via Zoom. REGISTER HERE

In pre-modern China, there appeared a curious and seemingly misogynous belief, namely, that all women were condemned to a special hell after death because their menses and blood from childbirth …




RELS Book Launch: Hsiao-wen Cheng, "Divine, Demonic, and Disordered"

- | Online via ZOOM
Hsiao-wen Cheng (Penn), with Lori Meeks (USC) Responding

Hsiao-wen Cheng (Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Penn) will talk about her brand-new book…




CEAS Classroom Series with David Sneath: "Evolutionism in Historical Representations of 'Nomads'"

- | David Sneath, Professor at Cambridge University
ONLINE via ZOOM. REGISTER HERE

In East Asian history, nomads




CEAS Classroom Series with Yan Liu: "Healing with Poisons"

- | Yan Liu, Assistant Professor in History at SUNY, Buffalo
ONLINE via ZOOM. REGISTER HERE

At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China’s formative era of pharmacy (200–800 CE), poisons were strategically deployed as healing agents to cure everything from chills to pains to…




Film screening of Alone Again in Fukushima ナオト、いまもひとりっきり

- | Streaming online on March 7th to 8th for preregistrants only! Register here for the film
and Register here for the panel discussion event on March 8th at 6pm EST.

Film synopsis: