Past Events

Past Events




A Conversation with Kanji Yamanouchi, Ambassador and Consul General of Japan

- | Kanji Yamanouchi, Ambassador and Consul General of Japan in New York
Huntsman Hall, Room G60

 Based on his long experience on the front lines of US-Japan relations, the ambassador will speak about the past, present, and future of bilateral ties




CEAS ICEA Series "Families Together and Apart: Divorce, Child Custody, and Contested Disconnection in Contemporary Japan"

- | Allison Alexy, Assistant professor, University of Michigan
Stiteler Hall, Room B26

In contemporary Japan, police and law enforcement are often reluctant to assist in family conflicts. Law enforcement representatives instead push family members to settle problems on their own. Given such a…




Religious Studies Lecture "Toward a “Pacific Era”: Peace and Empire in the Pan-Pacific Young Buddhists’ Associations Conferences of the 1930s"

- | Justin B. Stein, Postdoctoral Fellow, Bukkyo University (Kyoto)Cohen 204

In recent years, research into the links between Japanese Buddhism and Japanese colonialism has become a distinct subfield. At the same time, Japanese American studies has begun to look at Japanese migration to…




CSCC Speaker Series "Avoiding A Thucydides Trap in Sino-American Relations (…and Eight Reasons Why That Might Be Difficult)"

- | Gregory Moore, Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China
CSCC Conference Room, Perelman 418, 133 S. 36th St.

In 2015 Harvard’s Graham Allison wrote an evocative article discussing the “Thucydides Trap” in relations…




Kim Program Kimbap Workshop

- | Williams Hall 623

Let's roll! 




Korean Studies Colloquium "Elusive Belonging: Marriage Immigrants and “Multiculturalism” in Rural South Korea"

- | Minjeong Kim, Associate Professor, San Diego State University
William Hall 623

Based on ethnographic fieldwork, Minjeong Kimexamines Filipinas who married rural South Korean bachelors in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Against a backdrop of the South Korean government’s…




Library Talk about Digital Humanities Topics and Developing Future Research Methods Courses

- | Class of 1955 Conference Room, 2nd Floor VPDLC
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

Dr. Molly Des Jardin (Japanese Studies Librarian) will speak about teaching digital humanities concepts and methods to East Asian studies faculty and graduate students and designing future research methods…




Middle-Period Mongolian Archaeology Conference

- | Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum

This conference presents the most current information about the most important excavations of 7th-14th-Century Mongolia.  Four archaeologists with a combined experience of more than 100 years at more than 100…




12th Annual student Panel: Career and Internship Opportunities in Japan

- | Annenberg 111

Are you interested in an internship and/or a job opportunity in Japan? Join us at the panel where we learn from our fellow students and experts on job hunting for Japanese-English bilinguals. The talk will include…




Kim Program Film Screening

- | Williams Hall 440

NOTE: Film changed to The Housemaid (1960)