Past Events

Past Events




Kiyoteru Tsutsui - Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan

- | Silverman Hall S-147 l (you can enter on 34th Street, just near the corner of 34th and Chestnut)

Since the late 1970s, the three most salient minority groups in Japan - the politically dormant Ainu, the active but unsuccessful Koreans, and the former outcaste group of Burakumin - have all expanded their…




Tsagaan Sar Lunar New Year Celebration

- | Rodin House Rooftop Lounge, University of Pennsylvania (3901 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104)

 Join us to celebrate Tsagaan Sar, the “White Month,” the Mongolian Lunar New Year!

 Enjoy Mongolian-style milk tea, dumplings, and other snacks. Take in performances of Mongolian singing, folk…




2019 Penn China Research Symposium

- | Perry World House 

Penn Global is pleased to announce that we will hold the 2019 Penn China Research Symposium on Friday, February 8, 2019 at Perry World HouseThe goal…




Christopher Rea - "What can the Ming dynasty Book of Swindles tell us about the world we live in?"

- | 844 Williams Hall (EALC Conference Room)

Why do tales about swindlers flourish at certain times and places? In China, the swindle story has experienced bursts of popularity during the late Ming, the early Republican era, the early Mao era, and during…




Film Screening of "AKIRA"

- | Annenberg 111

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Jing Wang - "Digital Technologies and Financial Governance in China's Fin-tech Development"

- | Perelman 418

Leading the global fin-tech market, Chinese fin-tech companies, such as Ant Financial and Tencent Finance are setting paradigms for business innovation and economic development. In the meantime, there has been…




CSCC Speaker Series: Susan Shirk "Overreach and Overreaction: The Crisis in US-China Relations"

- | Lower Level Auditorium, Perelman Center for Political Science & Economics, 133 South 36th St.

Relations between the United States and China today have become more competitive and tense than they have been during the past forty years since the 1979 normalization of diplomatic relations.   The…




WORDLAB: Penn Libraries Text Analysis Learning Community meeting with Jeffrey Tharsen - "Digital Humanities approaches to phonetic, semantic and syntactic pattern detection in premodern texts"

- | 526 Van Pelt (East Asian Seminar Room)

Dr. Tharsen of University of Chicago will be Skyping in to talk about text mining premodern Chinese documents. The title of the talk is "Digital Humanities approaches to phonetic, semantic and syntactic pattern…




Tansen Sen - "Temple Heritage of a Chinese Migrant Community: Movement, Connectivity, and Identity in the Maritime World"

- | 241 Van Pelt Library

This presentation examines the spread of Chinese temples associated with the veneration of Ruan and Liang buddhas from Sihui County in Guangdong Province, China, through Southeast Asia to the Chinatown in Kolkata,…




Walter Douglas-"Roundtable Discussion on US Foreign Policy and the Indo-Pacific Strategy"

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

Walter Douglas is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C.…