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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…




CSCC Event: "The Art of Useless: Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China"

Calvin Hui, Class of 1952 Distinguished Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, College of William and Mary
- | CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418 | 133 S. 36th Street

Korean Studies Colloquium: "Brush Talk and the Opening of Korea, 1876"

Sean (Song Yeol) Han, University of Alabama, Assistsant Professor of History
- | 3600 Market Street, Suite 310

Kim Center Event: "The US Role in Korea's Prosperity"

Euywhan Kim, Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in New York
- | 3600 Market Street, Suite 310

Korean Studies Colloquium: "Vanguards of New Gender and Family Norms: Evidence from South Korea"

Dr. Eunsil Oh, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Asian Languages and Cultures
- | 3600 Market Street, Suite 310

EALC Colloquium: "Rethinking the Circuits of Cold War Culture: International Dance Exchanges in Mao-Era China

Emily Wilcox, Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, William & Mary
- | DRLB Room A4 | 209 S. 33rd Street

East South-East Asia Colloquium: "Figural Shadows: On Being Inside when Outside on the Streets of Saigon"

Erik Harms, Yale University, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Anthropology, Chair of the Council on Southeast Asian Studies
- | Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics 200 | 133 S. 36th Street

This talk offers a peek into an aspirational but still shadowy larger project on the anthropology of shadows and shade. Building from recent research in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), as well as retrospective…