Past Events

Past Events




CSCC Event: "The Future of U.S.-China Relations"

- | Gary Locke, Former U.S. Ambassador to China, U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Washington State Governor 
Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics Auditorium (133 S. 36th St.)
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Mongolian Studies Forum: “Contextualizing Numbers: A Study of Grain Prices in the Mongol Yuan Dynasty”

- | Chunyuan Li, Harvard University 
Claudia Cohen Hall 402 (249 South 36th Street)
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Economic history requires the use of numbers and units. Nevertheless, numbers and units themselves as recorded in Chinese historical sources could be problematic, due to misprints and copyists’ errors, variations in…




East-Southeast Asia Colloquium: "Risk Management, Climate Change and Diversity in the Prehistoric Spread of Farming to Southwest China and Southeast Asia"

- | Jade d'Alpoim Guedes, University of California San Diego
Virtual Event
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The lessons from archaeology are critical in allowing us to situate our current climate crisis in context. Using an example from China and Southeast Asia, this talk will illustrate both how our current climate crisis…




Mongolian Studies Colloquium: "Numbering According to their Custom: Population Registration, Mobilization and the Decimal Military Administrative System of the Mongol Empire"

- | Simon Berger, School of Advanced Studies in Social Science (EHESS), Paris
Perelman Center Political Science and Economics 200 (133 S. 36th Street, Philadephia) and online via Zoom
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Many sources report the almost compulsive tendency of the Mongols to count themselves and the enemies they had just defeated and conquered. This constant numbering had to do with the famous decimal…




At the Frontier of God’s Empire: A Missionary Odyssey in Modern China

Humanities Colloquium
Ji Li, Associate Professor of History, University of Hong Kong
- | Claudia Cohen Hall 402 | 249 South 36th Street

To a lively cast of international players that shaped Manchuria during the early twentieth century, At the Frontier of God’s Empire adds a new perspective through the remarkable personal archive of Alfred Marie…




CEAS Humanities Colloqium: "At the Frontier of God's Empire: A Missionary Odyssey in Modern China"

- | Ji Li, University of Hong Kong 
Claudia Cohen Hall 402 (249 South 36th Street) 
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To a lively cast of international players that shaped Manchuria during the early twentieth century, At the Frontier of God’s Empire adds a new perspective through the remarkable personal archive of Alfred Marie…




Japan Global Issues: "In This Corner of the World"

- | In This Corner of the World directed by Sunao Katabuchi 
Claudia Cohen Hall 402 (249 South 36th Street)
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In This Corner of the World (この世界の片隅に) is a 2016 Japanese animated wartime drama film produced by MAPPA, co-written and directed by Sunao Katabuchi




Film screenings of two EA Diaspora food films: Fugetsu-Do & Morkovcha

- | Penn Museum (3260 Spruce St)
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From Penn Museum's website:

The 2022-2023 culture film series Folklife, a joyful celebration of local folkways: writing, storytelling, visual arts, handcrafts, cuisine, and other forms of expression which make…




East-Southeast Asia Colloquium: "Alternative Indigeneities: Human Life in the Multiethnic Vietnamese Empire"

- | Bradley Camp Davis, Eastern Connecticut State University
Perelman Center Political Science and Economics 200 (133 S. 36th Street, Philadephia) and Zoom
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Beginning in the 1820s, the Nguyễn imperial state (1802-1945, including French colonial and protectorate rule) began to pursue an aggressive project to enhance official control over people, animals, and plants in…




Kim Center Event: "Proposals for Peace on the Korean Peninsula (한반도 평화를 위한 제안)

- | Lee Nakyeon, Former Prime Minister of South Korea
Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics Auditorium (133 S. 36th St.) 
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