Past Events

Past Events




February Japanese Film series “Tradition and Modernism in Japanese Cinema”

- | Cohen Hall 402 (Note: Claudia Cohen Hall is locked 24/7. People without Penn affiliations should arrive early to be let into the building.) 

Film of the day: Kinugasa Teinosuke, Page of Madness, 1926




4th Annual Penn China Research Symposium

- | Perry World House

The Penn China Research Symposium highlights China-related research from across the University. This year will address topics including the Future of U.S. – China Relations, urban design and sustainability, and…




CEAS Lunar New Year Celebration

- | Williams Hall 642 

Join CEAS director and staff for an informal celebration of the Lunar New Year. We'll have dumplings and spring rolls!




Daedalus Quartet: Migration through Music featuring Tan Dun's Ghost Opera

- | Harold Prince Theatre (3680 Walnut St, Philadelphia)
 

World Premiere

The Daedalus Quartet, Penn’s quartet-in-residence, explores migration through music, illustrating how centuries of cultural cross-pollination has enriched our artistic and…




Penn Economic History Forum: From State Resource Allocation to A ‘Low Level Equilibrium Trap’: Re-thinking Economic Performance in Mao’s China, 1949-78

- | Kent Deng, Professor, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)College Hall 209

Kent Deng, Professor of Economic History, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
Jim Huangnan Shen, University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)




CSCC: Roundtable on Taiwan Elections and Implications for Cross-Strait and U.S.-Taiwan Relations

- | Annenberg School of Communication, Rm 111, 3620 Walnut St.

Vincent Wang, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Political Science, Adelphi University; Margaret Lewis, Professor of Law, Seton Hall University;…




Korean Studies Colloquium "Korexit From Chinese Neo-Confucianism: Korean Empiricism and Epistemological Change in the Eighteenth Century"

- | Sang-ho Ro, Assistant Professor, Department of Korean Studies, Ewha Womans University
623 Williams Hall 

Neo-Confucianism is one of South Korea’s most important and long-lasting philosophical legacies from the past. In the Yi dynasty, Korean ways of thinking underwent significant changes when the ruling elites actively…




Japan’s Indo-Pacific Strategy amidst Growing US-China Rivalry

- | Yuichi Hosoya, Professor of International Politics, Keio University
Perry World House, Global Policy Lab

Japan has promoted the Open and Free Indo-Pacific Strategy (FOIP) at a time of growing US-China rivalry. While the US is Japan’s indispensable ally sharing core values and strategic interests, China has been…




Annenberg Seminar in History: Eiichiro Azuma and Amy Offner

- | College Hall 209

This event will be a celebration of CEAS faculty Prof. Eiichiro Azuma’s new book, In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan’s Borderless Empire
and…




Film Screening of "Inland Sea (Minatomachi) with Q & A by Director Kazuhiro Soda

- | Lightbox Cinema (3701 Chestnut St.)

Synopsis

Wai-chan is one of the last remaining fishermen in Ushimado, a small village in Seto Inland Sea, Japan. At the age of 86, he still fishes alone on a small boat to make his…