Past Events

Past Events




[Cancelled] Penn Forum on Japan with Miriam Chusid

- | Miriam Chusid, Visiting Assistant Professor, Haverford University
TBD

Bio and talk abstract coming soon




CSCC Virtual Conference: "China and COVID-19: A CSCC Roundtable Discussion"

- | (If you are interested in joining the virtual roundtable and have not received a link via one of our email lists, please email cscc-contact@sas.upenn.edu to request the link & password.

The COVID-19 pandemic that has transformed life around the world began in Wuhan, China in late 2019. What does the public health crisis’s emergence in China, and the Chinese regime’s response to it reveal about…




CSCC Virtual Roundtable: The World Today: Will COVID-19 Infect the U.S.-China Relationship?

- | Please Register Here! 

As both the Chinese Communist Party and the U.S. government have bungled their responses to the outbreak and blamed each other for the growing pandemic, what will COVID-19 mean for U.S.-China relations and what…




[Cancelled] Barbara Finamore "Will China Save the Planet?"

- | Perry World House

[Please be advised this event has been cancelled]




[Cancelled] CSCC Speaker Series: "Mosaic Familism: Women Providing for the Elderly and Reinstitutionalization of Chinese Family"

- | Yingchun Ji, Professor of Sociology and Political Science, Shanghai University
CSCC Conference Room, Perelman 418, 133 S. 36th St.

This is a theoretically and empirically balanced study regarding new family dynamics in contemporary China. Drawing insights from the empirical investigation of the modern practice and emerging norm of daughters…




CSCC Virtual Book Talk with Frank Langfitt

- | Zoom Link: https://pennlaw.zoom.us/j/171418926
**Please sign into Zoom before 12:00.  There is often a lag with multiple log-ins.  The link will be open by 11:50.**
 

The world’s two superpowers are locked in an intensifying rivalry and the people of both nations appear increasingly disillusioned with the government of the other. Many Chinese see the election of Donald Trump…




[Cancelled] Discussion on Japan's Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace

- | Stiteler Hall B6
Oleg Benesch, Senior Lecturer in East Asian History at the University of York Ran Zwigenberg, Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State University Nathan Hopson, Associate Professor of Japanese and East Asian history at Nagoya University

[Please be advised this event has been cancelled and postponed to a later date TBD]

Japan's Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace




CSCC Speaker Series with Eric Harwit

- | Eric Harwit, Professor of Asian Studies, University of Hawaii
CSCC Conference Room, Perelman 418, 133 S. 36th St.

Bio and talk abstract coming soon. 




12th Annual Center for Ancient Studies Graduate Conference: "Movement, Mobility, and the Journey: Ancient Actions and Perspectives"

- | Penn Museum - Widener Lecture Hall

Presentations will include "The Origin and Influence of Tang Dynasty Buddhist sculptures around Chengdu", and "Adventurous Buddhist Pilgrims: Biographies of 7th-century Chinese monks losing their lives on…




CEAS Humanities Series "Material and Technological Characteristics of Major Traditional Korean Ceramic Production Sites"

- | Carolyn Kyongshin Koh ChooProfessor Emeritus, Department of Chemistry;Graduate Program in Science of Cultural Heritage,Chung-Ang University
Annenberg 111

Jade color bisaek celadon is often said to draw the onlooker’s eye deep into the ceramic body, while moon jars of Joseon are associated with the feeling of warmth and generous spirit. Can a scientific analysis of…