Penn’s Center for the Study of Contemporary China is pleased to have the opportunity to host a talk by Professor He Weifang, one of China’s most prominent public intellectuals and a frequent commentator in various…
Based on ethnographic research in South Korea, this talk will comparatively examine Filipina migrant women in two sectors of the labor market – manufacturing and club hostessing – to investigate the gendered process…
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| Van Pelt Library, Room 241 (Class of 1955 Multimedia Conference Room)
The disaster in northeastern Japan has exposed the reality of liberal democratic secularism. Liberal democratic society is dependent on exclusion to maintain harmonious order within its borders. Through post-secular…
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| Penn Museum Rainey Auditorium, 3620 South Street, Philadelphia
After the recent grand economic bust in Japan, the homeless population has grown. This short film introduces you to the lives of men who live on the outskirts of the city, and of Japanese society, while…
China’s contemporary rural migration has brought to Chinese cities over 200 million adults and more than fifty percent of these adults’ children by 2011. What are the educational opportunities for children of rural…
This talk analyzes the role of Buddhist maps in the construction and contestation of worldviews in medieval and early modern Japan. By attending to the ideological implications of objects of visual and material…
