Past Events

Past Events




Distinguished Global Lecture: "The Taiwan Straits Crisis and its Influence on Japanese National Security"

Tomohisa Takei, Admiral (retired) and the 32nd Chief of Staff Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, Special advisor to the CEO of SAMPA KOGYO K.K.
- | 419 Fischer-Bennet Hall | 3340 Walnut Street

Ever since Chiang Kai-shek led Kuomintang forces across the Taiwan Strait in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party has aimed for Taiwan's unification with the Chinese mainland. By contrast, Japan has never articulated a…




Japanese Language Program: Pikachu Bon-Dance

- | College Green




Korean Studies Colloquium: "Korean Ginseng and Ecological Linkages in Early Modern East Asian Trade"

Wenjiao Cai, University of Pennsylvania
- | 3600 Market Street, Suite 310




CSCC 10th Annual Conference: "US, China, and the Global South"

- | Penn Law School | Silverman 147




Penn Climate Week: "Book Talk: 'Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima's Gray Zone'"

Ryo Morimoto, Princeton University
- | Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics 200 | 133 S. 36th Street

"There is a nuclear ghost in Minamisōma." This is how one resident describes a mysterious experience following the 2011 nuclear fallout in coastal Fukushima. Investigating the nuclear ghost among the graying…




Penn Climate Week: "The Lost Green Games: The Environmental Legacy of a Radically Reimagined Tokyo 2020 Olympics"

Robin Ketlinski, LaGuardia Community College of the City University of New York
- | Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics 200 | 133 S. 36th Street

Environmental sustainability was a central component to planning Tokyo’s 2020 Summer Olympics. The organizing committee’s sustainability concept of “Be better, together: For the planet and the people” encompassed…




Korean Studies Colloquium: "New Directions for Development: A Latecomer"s Guide to Navigating the Regulatory Thicket"

Su Yeone Jeon, University of Pennsylvania
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| 3600 Market Street, Suite 310




CEAS Dialogue: "CEAS on AI: Digital Learning in the East Asia Classroom"

- | Cherpack Lounge | 543 Williams Hall

Echoing the recent excitement/anxiety over digital learning, the Center for East Asian Studies begins our 2023-24 programming with an in-house discussion of AI and the digital humanities in the East Asia classroom.…




Issues in Contemporary East Asia: "The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Affirmative Action: Evidence form Imperial China"

Melanie Meng Xue, London School of Economics
- | Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics 200 | 133 S. 36th Street

We study the short- and long-term effects of affirmative action policies in the context of China. During imperial China, official positions were awarded to the most academically talented individuals through a multi-…




CSCC Event: "Global Development: A Useful Notion?"

Zha Daojiong, Professor of International Studies, Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development, Peking University
- | CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418 | 133 S. 36th Street