Past Events

Past Events




Penn Museum Asia Seminar: Death and Buddhism in 6th c. North China

Co-sponser with Penn Museum
- | Penn Museum

Please join us at the Penn Museum on Saturday April 13th at 1pm, Widener Lecture Hall, to hear Prof. Xu Jin 徐津(Columbia) and Ma Xiaoyang 馬曉陽…




Pedagogy Workshop for Korean Language Teachers in Philadelphia: Innovative Approaches to Korean Language Education: Empowering Students with Generative AI and Immersive VR

Co-sponsor with EALC, Organized by Korean Language Program
- | Williams Hall 844

The Korean Language Program is pleased to announce the first Pedagogy Workshop for Korean Teachers in Philadelphia with support from EALC and CEAS. The theme of this year’s workshop is “Innovative Approaches to…




Education Fever and Low Birth Rates in Korea

Korean Studies Colloquium
Seongeun Kim, Associate Professor of Economics, Sejong University
- | 3600 Market Street, Suite #310

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Alternative Hygienic Modernity: Chinese Medical Therapy Project for Industrial Pollution in Cold War Taiwan

Humanities Colloquium
Po-Hsun Chen, PhD candidate, Centre for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Manchester
- | David Rittenhouse Lab 2C6 | 209 S 33rd Street

The concept of Hygienic Modernity has been proposed for about 20 years. This talk takes the Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) poisoning event in Taiwan in the Cold War period as an example to revisit this well-known…




Japanese Calligraphy Demonstration with Ebihara Rogen

Co-sponsor with the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia
- | Penn Museum

Step into a timeless realm of visual artistry with Japanese calligraphy master Ebihara Rogen, celebrated worldwide for his dramatic…




CHINA Town Hall: National Reflections, Local Connections

Center for the Study of Contemporary China
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Talk-Story Leadership: On Global Asias And Taboo Subjects

Distinguished East Asia Lecture, Co-sponser with Asian American Studies
Christine Yano, Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawaii
- | Claudia Cohen Hall 402 | 249 South 36th Street

In this talk, I suggest ways in which Global Asias as a framework pushes us out of historical practices of Asian Studies, and into conversation with Asian American studies, Asian diasporic studies, and more.…




The Logic of Technology Transfer Policy Rising in China

Center for the Study of Contemporary China
John Minnich, Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program, Columbia University
- | CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418 | 133 S. 36th St




Beyond Ethnic Studies: Re-thinking Japanese Migration to Brazil

Humanities Colloquium
Sidney Lu, Rice University
- | Annenberg School for Communication 111 | 3620 Walnut Street

The bulk of existing scholarship on Japanese communities in Brazil has been written through the lens of ethnography and generally falls into the domain of ethnic studies in Latin America. My research, on the other…




Film Screening: Coming to You

Co-sponsor with Kim Center, Cinema and Media Studies, and EALC
- | Fisher-Bennett Hall 401

Offering a rare, years-long look at two supportive mothers alongside their queer kids, Coming to You celebrates the strength of each family's supportive bonds even amid an often hostile cultural climate. As…