Past Events

Past Events




Film Screening of "AKIRA"

- | Annenberg 111

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Jing Wang - "Digital Technologies and Financial Governance in China's Fin-tech Development"

- | Perelman 418

Leading the global fin-tech market, Chinese fin-tech companies, such as Ant Financial and Tencent Finance are setting paradigms for business innovation and economic development. In the meantime, there has been…




CSCC Speaker Series: Susan Shirk "Overreach and Overreaction: The Crisis in US-China Relations"

- | Lower Level Auditorium, Perelman Center for Political Science & Economics, 133 South 36th St.

Relations between the United States and China today have become more competitive and tense than they have been during the past forty years since the 1979 normalization of diplomatic relations.   The…




WORDLAB: Penn Libraries Text Analysis Learning Community meeting with Jeffrey Tharsen - "Digital Humanities approaches to phonetic, semantic and syntactic pattern detection in premodern texts"

- | 526 Van Pelt (East Asian Seminar Room)

Dr. Tharsen of University of Chicago will be Skyping in to talk about text mining premodern Chinese documents. The title of the talk is "Digital Humanities approaches to phonetic, semantic and syntactic pattern…




Tansen Sen - "Temple Heritage of a Chinese Migrant Community: Movement, Connectivity, and Identity in the Maritime World"

- | 241 Van Pelt Library

This presentation examines the spread of Chinese temples associated with the veneration of Ruan and Liang buddhas from Sihui County in Guangdong Province, China, through Southeast Asia to the Chinatown in Kolkata,…




Walter Douglas-"Roundtable Discussion on US Foreign Policy and the Indo-Pacific Strategy"

- | CSCC Conference Room, Perelman 418, 133 S. 36th Street 

Walter Douglas is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C.…




CSCC Speaker Series: Deborah Seligsohn - "Corporate Concentration and Air Pollution Governance in China"

- | CSCC Conference Room, Perelman 418, 133 S. 36th St.

Talk synopsis TBA

Deborah Seligsohn, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Villanova University

Sponsored by the Center for the Contemporary Study of China




CSCC Speaker Series: Kaiser Kuo - "Technology Tensions in the U.S.-China Relationship"

- | CSCC Conference Room (Perelman 418, 133 S. 36th St.)

One of China's top tech company executives is dramatically detained in Canada at the request of the Trump Administration. Hackers traced to China compromise the customer database of one of the U.S.'s largest hotel…




Humanities Colloquium with Bryan Van Norden "How Not to Rectify Names"

- | 826 Williams Hall

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Japanese Monster Movies Series: Godzilla Resurgence

- | Williams Hall 220

Film screening of Anno Hideaki's 2016 film -- Bureaucrats deal with a monster that suddenly appears in Tokyo Bay