Past Events

Past Events




Wayne Patterson, St. Norbert College - Book Talk: " In the Service of His Korean Majesty: William Nelson Lovatt, the Pusan Customs, and Sino-Korean Relations, 1876-1888"

- | Stiteler Hall B26

Wayne Patterson, professor of history, has been a member of the faculty since 1977, specializing in the history of East Asia. His undergraduate degree in History is from Swarthmore College. He holds two masters…




Japanese Monsters Film Series - Gamera the Invincible

- | Claudia Cohen Hall Room 402

A giant, fire-breathing turtle appears in the Arctic after a nuclear missile explodes.

* EALC-055/CINE-016 Monsters of Japan Course




Japanese Monsters Film Series - Gidrah the Three-Headed Monster

- | Claudia Cohen Hall Room 402

After her airplane explodes, a princess reappears as a prophet of doom while a meteorite transforms into a giant monster. Mothra convinces Godzilla and Rodan to repel the invader.

* EALC-055/CINE-016…




Thomas Talhelm, University of Virginia - "The Rice Theory of Culture"

- | Annenberg 111

Cross-cultural psychologists often contrast East Asia with the West, but this study shows large psychological differences within China.




Japanese Monsters Film Series - Mothra

- | Claudia Cohen Hall Room 402

Two tiny natives of a mysterious island survive nuclear fallout only to be exploited by a capitalist taskmaster.  A giant moth destroys Tokyo to save her tiny friends.

* EALC-055/CINE-016 Monsters of…




Japanese Monsters Film Series - Godzilla

- | Claudia Cohen Hall Room 402

* EALC-055/CINE-016 Monsters of Japan Course




Eddy Malesky, Associate Professor of Political Economy at Duke University: "Participation in Legal Drafting and Compliance with Business Regulation:Evidence from Vietnam"

- | Silverstein Forum in Stiteler Hall 1st Floor

International development organizations invest millions of dollars each year into legislative participation campaigns in an effort to foster improved governance. This work has been undergirded theoretically by…




Saadia M. Pekkanen, Job and Gertrud Tamaki Associate Professor, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington

- | CSCC Conference Room

*CEAS Issues in Contemporary East Asia Colloquium Series




Lecture by Mark James Russell, "K-Pop: Where it came from, where it's going, and why it matters"

- | Room 286-7, McNeil Building

Psy's "Gangnam Style" surprised everyone when it became the biggest Youtube hit ever in 2012. But Korean pop music — along with the rest of Korean pop culture — has actually been on the rise for years, gaining fans…




Ursula Brosseder Guest Lecture Dynamics of Interaction and Exchange in Late Iron Age Eurasia and the 'Silk Road'" (4th century BCE to 1st century CE)

- | TBD

* Sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at University of Pennsylvania