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Film Screening: "Sweet Bean (あん)"

Japan Global Issues: Disability Rights
- | Fisher-Bennet Hall 401 | 3340 Walnut Street

Sweet Bean (あん) is a 2015 Japanese drama film directed by Naomi Kawase. The film was selected to open the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. It was also selected to be screened in the…




CSCC Event: "'Love Happens for a Reason in this World. So does Hatred': Affective Spaces as an Analytical Framework for the Study of Contemporary China"

Shih-Diing Liu, Professor of Communication, University of Macau
- | C Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418




Korean Studies Colloquium: "The Korean DMZ as an Impossible Space: Reflections on Peace Beyond Geopolitics"

Eleana Kim, Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC Irvine
- | Location TBD




CSCC Event: "Viewing History from the Inside: Key Episodes and Crises in US-China Relation, 1985-2020"

John Culver, Former National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, retired CIA analyst, Atlatic Council Senior Fellow
- | CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418 | 133 S. 36th Street

Humanities Colloquium: "Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China"

Shellen Xiao Wu, Lehigh University
- | Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics 200 | 133 S. 36th Street

From the 1850s until the mid-twentieth century, from Asia to Europe and the Americas, countries around the world engaged with new interpretations of…




Korean Studies Colloquium: "Insurgent Kinship and the Terms of Repair: Against State Violence and Disappearance in South Korea

Hosu Kim, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, City University of New York
- | 3600 Market Street, Suite 310

The Work, Impact, and Imprisonment of Uyghur Scholar Rahile Dawut

- | 3539 Locust Walk, 2nd Floor Conference Room

One of the world’s best-known Uyghur scholars and an expert on the folklore and traditions of her native Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Rahile Dawut served as a visiting scholar at Penn in the early 2000s before…




Study Abroad Information Session: Japan

- | Williams Hall 319




Korean Studies Colloquium: "Lone-Death in South Korea: Narratives from Police Reports"

Jaein Lee, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Arkansas State University
- | 3600 Market Street, Suite 310

Japan Global Issues: "The Labor of Cute: Net Idols in Japan's Digital Economy"

Gabriella Lukacs, University of Pittsburgh, Professor of Anthropology
- | Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics 200

| 133 S. 36th Street

This presentation examines what was called the net idol trend in 2000s Japan. It traces how young women developed unique styles of cuteness to build careers as Internet idols and how Internet entrepreneurs harnessed…