Cosponsored with East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Manduhai Buyandelger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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| Williams 421| 255 S. 36th St.
In Mongolia, elections run the country instead of the country running its elections. Electoral campaigns are not just a prelude to governing: they are the de facto governing; they reshape Mongolian social…
Peter Zinoman, UC Berkeley, Tuong Vu, University of Oregon, Justin McDaniel, University of Pennsylvania
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| Stiteler Hall 261| 208 S. 37th St. Rm. 261
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, two scholars of Vietnamese studies will reflect on the history and politics of the conflict.
In the late-imperial era circa World War II, Japanese touted themselves as a “mixed blood” people with a world-historical gift for assimilating diverse races. The konketusji or “mixed blood child” was widely…
Exploring the History of Chinese-American Women Nightclub Performers
Luka Yuanyuan Yang, Director, Lynette Shen, film scholar
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| Public Trust| 4017 Walnut St
Join us at the Public Trust for Chinatown Cha-Cha, a film screening exploring the history of Chinese-American women nightclub performers and their lasting cultural legacy, on Tuesday…
Meet best-selling South Korean author Sang Young Park as he discusses his booker prize-longlisted novel, Love in the Big City -- a funny, surprising, and poignant tale of a…
