Past Events

Past Events




Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University -"Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China"

- | Claudia Cohen Hall 402

Ezra F. Vogel is the author of the new biography of Deng Xiaoping. In his book, “Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China”, he discusses the differing views of Deng during his rule and now and the differences…




Amy Gadsden, Associate Dean and Executive Director of International Programs at Penn Law School - “Forces for Political-Legal Reform in China: Top-Down, Bottom-Up, and Outside-In.”

- | Silverman Hall Room 240B

Amy Gadsden is associate dean and executive director for international programs at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. From 2006 to 2008, she served as resident country director for China at the International…




Film Screening- "Japan Sinks" (presented in Japanese with English subtitles)

- | McNeil Hall Room 309

Classic film of a classic novel about what happens to the Japanese people during evacuation

* CEAS Earthquake and Tsunami Film Series: Four Japanese Films Commemorating the March 11 Disasters




Jae-Jung Suh, Johns Hopkins University, "Regional Public Sphere? Historical Contentions and Dialogues in Northeast Asia"

- | Stiteler B26

Northeast Asian countries have been engaged in disputes over history.  While their historical contentions have caused suspicions and frictions among them, I argue that they have also served as a medium of…




Bob Fu, President and Founder of China Aid Association

- | Silverman Hall, Room 240B in the Penn Law School

Bob (Xiqiu) Fu and a group of Chinese human rights lawyers and scholars will be speaking as part of the China and International Human Rights Seminar and Colloquium Series. Bob and his delegation will address…




Stephan Haggard, Krause Professor of Korea-Pacific Studies; Director of the Korea-Pacific Program, University of California at San Diego - "North Korea: Quo Vadis?"

- | Stiteler Hall B26

North Korea is now experiencing a leadership transition. But since the great famine of the mid-1990s, North Korea has been undergoing a broader social transformation as well. Drawing on an analysis of the famine and…




Phila-Nipponica 2012: Preparing Philadelphia Area Educators to Teach about Japan as It Responds to the Disasters of 2011 - Information Session

- | Ben Franklin Room, Houston Hall

Middle-school and high school teachers are invited to an information session in which they will see a slide show highlighting earlier years' activities, learn what the project will offer them, meet with project…




Nancy Abelmann, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research -- Humanities, Arts, and Related Fields; Harry E. Preble Professor Anthropology, Asian American Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "The American

- | Annenberg 111

In the context of the rapid internationalization of the American undergraduate student body – in which South Koreans figure largely -- Abelmann will discuss intra-ethnic othering practices, both among Korean…




Film Screening, "Pushy Women"

- | Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum

Women sumo wrestlers in Japan. A glimpse of life in an atypical profession, the physical difficulties and triumphs. Speaker: Dr. Ayako Kano, University of Pennsylvania East Asian studies. Sponsorship thanks…




Lena Edlund, Associate Professor of Economics - Columbia University - "The Kindness of Strangers: Adopted in China"

- | McNeil 103

Sex ratios at birth are abnormally male in China, leaving millions of Chinese families with sons who will find it difficult to marry. Son preference and sex selection is of long standing in Chinese society, and so is…