Past Events

Past Events




CEAS Humanities Series "Ancient trade networks between China and Africa"

- | Chapurukha M. Kusimba, Professor, American University 
Penn Museum, Classroom L1 (3260 South St)

Complex and intricate human networks have crisscrossed the Indian Ocean and surrounding lands, and linked Africa to East Asia. The first expansion of humans – Homo erectus- began 2.4 – 1.8 million ago…




Word Lab: Amy Catalinac (NYU)

- | Derk Bodde East Asian Studies Seminar Romm (526)
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

Prof. Amy Catalinac from NYU will visit WORD LAB to talk about using computational text analysis in her research on political science in Japan.…




PFJ Third Thursdays: Stephen Poland

- | Stephen Poland, Lecturer, EALC, University of Pennsylvania
Location: East Asian Seminar Room (5th Floor, Van Pelt)

Penn Forum on Japan Third Thursday lecture.

 

 




CSCC Speaker Series "China's Urban Champions: The Politics of Spatial Development"

- | Kyle Jaros, Associate Professor, University of Oxford
Room 101, Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics, 133 S. 36th St.

Please see CSCC website for more details. 




CSCC Speaker Series "Disenfranchised: The Rise and Fall of Industrial Citizenship in China"

- | Joel Andreas, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Room 200, Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics, 133 S. 36th St

In this book talk, Professor Andreas recounts the tumultuous events that have shaped and reshaped authority relations in Chinese factories over the past seven decades. He introduces a general…




Distinguished East Asia Lecture "Gendering AI and Robots: Robo-Sexism vs. 'Womenomics' in Japan

- | Jennifer Robertson, Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
 Huntsman Hall, G60

In humans and humanoid robots alike, gender—femininity, masculinity—constitutes an array of learned behaviors that are cosmetically enabled and enhanced. In humans, these behaviors are both socially and historically…




Daedalus Quartet: Migration through Music

- | The Arts Cafe, Kelly Writer's House (3805 Locust Walk)

The Daedalus Quartet, Penn’s quartet-in-residence, explores migration through music, illustrating how centuries of cultural cross-pollination has enriched our artistic and spiritual life. Music truly has no borders,…




Korean Studies Colloquium "Gangnam, the Dreamland of South Korea's Global/polarization in Literary and Audiovisual Narratives"

- | Pil Ho Kim, Assistant Professor, Ohio State University
Williams Hall 623

Please check Korean Studies' website for more details. 




Penn Global China Policy Dialogue with John Pomfret (time change)

- | John Pomfret, Journalist, author of The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present

"US-China Tensions in Historical Perspective"

Note that this event has changed time from 4:30pm to 9:30am. A light breakfast will be served.




Technology Issues in US-China Relations

- | Hanhua Zhou, Professor, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences;
Samm Sacks, Council on Foreign Relations; Mark Cohen, UC Berkeley School of Law
Room 200, Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics, 133 S. 36th St.

Please see CSCC website for more details