Past Events

Past Events




Freedom Crossing Film Festival 4th weekend: Crossing History and Memory

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CEAS is partnering with the Freedom Crossing Institute on an East Asia religious studies-focused film festival throughout the month of November! Due to this co-sponsorship, University of Pennsylvania students…




[POSTPONED] CEAS and East-Southeast Asia C0-sponsored "Belt and Road Initiative: An Urban Geopolitics"

- | James D. Sidaway, Professor of Political Geography, National University of Singapore
NOTE: This event has been postponed to a later date TBA. [updated 23 Nov 2020]

This presentation first navigates the now sprawling secondary literature on China’s and Road Initiative (BRI). One productive strand of analysis conceptualizes BRI as a moment of “planetary urbanization” (in…




Freedom Crossing Film Festival 3rd weekend: Crossing Life and Death

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CEAS is partnering with the Freedom Crossing Institute on an East Asia religious studies-focused film festival throughout the month of November! Due to this co-sponsorship, University of Pennsylvania students…




Distinguished East Asia Lecture "A Lifetime of Adventures in East Asia"

- | Jerome A. Cohen, Founder and Faculty Director Emeritus at the US-Asia Law Institute of New York University School of Law, and Adjunct Senior Fellow for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations
REGISTER HERE

Please join us for a special online Distinguished East Asia Lecture by Jerome A. Cohen, where he will reflect on "A Lifetime of Adventures in East Asia".




CSCC Speaker Series: Local Citizenship and Economic Development in China

- | Samantha Vortherms, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, Irvine
Virtual talk via Zoom

See CSCC website for more information about this event.

 

 




Korean Studies Colloquium with Dayhe Kim: "Techno-Fiction: Science Fictional Imagination in Post-Industrializing South Korea"

- | Dayhe Kim, Moon Family Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Via Zoom *Registration required: please register via the following link

Have Korean technocrats, who have served as the one of the major driving forces behind the “miraculous” industrialization of South Korea since the 1960s, ever produced a literary form or genre of their own? Written…




EALC Speaker Series with Karl Debreczeny "Lama, Emperor, Icon: Art, Tantra, and the Right to Rule"

- | Dr. Karl Debreczeny, curator at the Rubin Museum in New York City
ONLINE 

Meeting will be held via ZOOM. Click here for that meeting link

Meeting ID: 922 7379 1864




Freedom Crossing Film Festival 2nd weekend: Crossing Faith and Religion

- | ONLINE

CEAS is partnering with the Freedom Crossing Institute on an East Asia religious studies-focused film festival throughout the month of November! Due to this co-sponsorship, University of Pennsylvania students…




CSCC Speaker Series: Translation and the Virus: COVID-19, Cyber Politics and Wuhan Diary

- | Michael Berry, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies, UCLA
Virtual talk via Zoom


See CSCC website for more information about this event.

 




Korean Distinguished Lecture with Ha-Joon Chang: "The Political Economy of Parasite"

- | Ha-Joon Chang, University of Cambridge 
Via Zoom. Register for the event at the Kim Program's event page

In this talk, Ha-Joon Chang will use the first ever non-English-language winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture, Parasite, by Bong Joon-ho, in order to analyse the political economy of inequality in today’s…