Past Events

Past Events




First Korean Congress Centennial Celebration: College Education Program

- | Arch building 108 & 109

Seok Lee (Associate Director of the James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies) & Sinwoo Lee (Moon Family Postdoctoral Fellow)




CSCC Speaker Series: Margaret Roberts- "Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall"

- | CSCC COnference Room, Perelman 418, 133 S. 36th St

As authoritarian governments around the world develop sophisticated technologies for controlling information, many observers have predicted that these controls would be ineffective because they are easily thwarted…




CSCC Speaker Series with Margaret Roberts - "Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall"

- | CSCC Conference Room, Perelman 418, 133 S. 36th St.

As authoritarian governments around the world develop sophisticated technologies for controlling information, many observers have predicted that these controls would be ineffective because they are easily…




Korean Studies Colloquium - Sinwoo Lee "Unequal Subjects in Extraterritorial Seoul During the Open-Ports Period (1876-1910)"

- | Williams Hall 844

Sinwoo Lee is Moon Family Postdoctoral Fellow in Korean Studies




Film Screening-Kiseki (奇跡, I Wish) by Kore’eda Hirokazu

- | Annenberg Room 111 (3620 Walnut St)

This is part of the 2019 Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival series




A Conversation with Duncan Ryūken Williams - "American Sutra: Buddhism and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans in World War II"

- | Cohen Hall 402
*Note: Claudia Cohen Hall is locked 24/7. People without Penn affiliations should arrive early to be let into the building. 

"American Sutra: Buddhism and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans in World War II"




Jeffrey Angles-"Between English and Nihongo: The Poetics of Living and Writing between Languages"

- | Annenberg 111

Since going to a small city in western Japan for the first time at age fifteen, Jeffrey Angles has spent his life back and forth between Japan and the United States, reading Japanese literature,…




CSCC Speaker Series: Joanna Lewis-"Understanding China's Increasing Role in Global Clean Energy Innovation"

- | CSCC Conference Room, Perelman 418, 133 S. 36th St.

China’s rapid rise to become the largest investor in and user of clean energy technologies in the world has simultaneously cast it as both an international climate leader and an unfair competitor. How is China…




Center for Asian Law conference: "Courts, Law, and Politics in the United States and Asia"

- | Law School--Silverman Hall 240A, (3501 Sansom Street)
 

Scholars, jurists, and policy-makers in every major jurisdiction in Asia are debating, and sometimes reforming, the selection and appointment of judges, the role of specialized courts, the autonomy and accountability…




Shao-yun Yang - 'Sinicization' and Chinese Supremacism in Southern Song Historiography on the Northern Dynasties

- | Stiteler Hall, Room: B26 (208 South 37th Street)

The study of historical thought and history-writing in Song China has flourished in recent years, but some areas remain inadequately understood. One of these has to do with the treatment of the early medieval…