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Film Screening, "A Drop of Life: The Global Water Crisis and It’s Unique Impact on Women"

- | International House, 3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Filmmaker and eco-activist Shalini Kantayya will present her award-winning sci-fi short film about the global water crisis, A Drop of Life, and discuss the borderless global water crisis’…




Penn Humanities Forum Film Series, Windtalkers

- | International House Philadelphia

Translation Trouble 

A Film Series presented by Penn Humanities Forum in collaboration with Cinema Studies and International House Philadelphia with Cinema Studies and…




Symposium on Gender, Embodiment, and Asian Religions

- | Van Pelt Library, Room 241 (Class of 1955 Conference Room)

 

Angela Zito (New York University), author of Of Body and Brush: Grand Sacrifice as Text/Performance in 18th Century China; DV-Made China: Digital Subjects and Social…




February Japanese Film Series: Tokyo Family

- | Cohen Hall, 402

親子映画：日本の家族ドラマ

Yamada Yōji, Tokyo no kazoku (Tokyo Family), 2013

In this update of Yasujiro Ozu’s “Tokyo Story”, a retired schoolteacher and his wife visit their three…




Justine Guichard, "A Korean Murder Case at the Intersection of Migration and Crime in Late 1950s Philadelphia"

- | Claudia Cohen Hall, Room 402

Korean Studies Colloquium—"A Korean Murder Case at the Intersection of Migration and Crime in Late 1950s Philadelphia"

CSCC Policy Roundtables, "China-Taiwan Relations in the Tsai Ing-wen Era"

- | Perry World House, 3803 Locust Walk

China-Taiwan Relations in the Tsai Ing-wen Era 

Richard von Glahn, "The Transformation of the East Asian Maritime World in the 16th-17th Centuries"

- | Stiteler Hall, B26

Penn Humanities Colloquium

Marcus Bingenheimer, Buddhist Pilgrimage in the Late Qing - Itinerary networks in "Knowing the Paths of Pilgrimage" (c.1827) and "Records of Travels to Famous mountains" (c.1918)

- | Williams Hall 844

In the early 19th century Ruhai Xiancheng 如海顯承 (fl. 1800-1826) wrote a route book describing itineraries to China's most popular pilgrimage sites for the use of his fellow monks: "Knowing the Paths of Pilgrimage"…




February Japanese Film Series: Wolf Children

- | Cohen Hall, 402

親子映画：日本の家族ドラマ

Hosoda Mamoru Ookami kodomo no Ame to Yuki (Wolf Children),  2012

College student Hana falls in love with another student who turns out to be a…




Ayako Kano, "Japanese Feminist Debates: A Century of Contention on Sex, Love, and Labor"

- | 209 College Hall, Lunch will be served

This talk will introduce Kano’s recently published volume, Japanese Feminist Debates: A Century of Contention on Sex, Love, and Labor (University of Hawai’i Press, 2016). This book argues for the importance…