Past Events

Past Events




What Do We Mean by "China"? A Transnational and Shared History Perspective

Humanities Colloquium
Guoqi Xu, Hong Kong University
- | Wolf Humanities Center, Williams Hall 623 | 255 S. 36th Street

When Chinese and non-Chinese mention “China,” what do they mean? How China becomes…




Dialogues of Conflict in Mengzi and Vimalakirti

EALC Speakers' Colloquium
Kenneth Holloway
- | Williams Hall 623 | 255 S. 36th Street




WeChat, Diaspora, and a New Chinese Transnationalism

Center for the Study of Contemporary China
Wanning Sun, Professor of Media and Cultural Anthropology, University of Technology, Sydney
- | CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418 | 133 S. 36th Street




Planning the Chungju Fertilizer Plant: Development Cooperation and Cold War Engineering Networks Across the US and East Asia

Korean Studies Colloquium
Juyoung Lee, Moon Family Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
- | 3600 Market Street, Suite 310




CEAS Fall Open House

Mooncakes, musical instruments, origami
- | Williams Hall 642

Come celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival at CEAS and learn about upcoming events, opportunities. Try your hand at making your own mooncakes and do some paper folding. There will also be demonstrations with traditional…




"Engineered for Action: Movable Books in Early 19th Century Japan"

Penn Library Workshop in the History of Material Texts
Laura Moretti (University of Cambridge)
- | Class of 1978 Pavilion (6th floor of Van Pelt-Deitrich Library)

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Symposium: Communities of Images

Japanese Motion Image Artists in the 1960s-1970s and the Asian American Independent Film Movement
Ann Adachi-Tasch (Collaborative Cataloguing Japan), Rob Buscher (University of Pennsylvania), E. Samantha Cheng (Independent Producer), Peter X. Feng (University of Delaware), Go Hirasawa (Meiji-Gakuin University), Nina Horisaki-Christens (Getty Research Institute), Julian Ross (Leiden University)
- | Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt Library | 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA, 19104

As part of the opening events for the Community of Images exhibition, JASGP and CCJ are hosting a one-day symposium at University of Pennsylvania that is…




Transnational Korea in Eurasian Context

Kim Center for Korean Studies
- | Kim Center for Korean Studies | 3600 Market Street, Suite 310

May 10-11, 2024

The “Transnational Korea in Eurasian Context” conference serves as a unique platform for sharing cutting-edge research, fostering collaboration, and engaging in thought-provoking discussions…




Understanding Japanese Material Texts: Metadata and Digital Humanities Impacts

Tress Collection Workshop
Paula Curtis, UCLA, Amaury A. García Rodríguez, Collegio de Mexico, Kyoko Kinoshita, Tama Art University, Ann Sherif, Oberlin College, Julie Nelson Davis, University of Pennsylvania, Linda H. Chance, University of Pennsylvania
- | In the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, 627 Van Pelt Library. [Admission with RSVP ONLY by 3pm on May 7th] | 3420 Walnut St, Room 627

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Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State

Center for the Study of Contemporary China
Yingyao Wang, Assistant Professor of Socioloy, University of Virginia
- | CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418 | 133 S. 36th Street