Past Events

Past Events




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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Humanities Colloquium: “Rocks and Bugs: Developmentalism and the Environment in Early Twentieth Century China”

- | Stephen R. Halsey, University of Miami
Fisher-Bennett Hall 231 (3340 Walnut Street)
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For much of the twentieth century, Chinese governments pursued two distinct forms of developmentalism. A “globalist” paradigm emphasized machine technologies, fossil fuels, technocratic knowledge, and capital…




Korean Studies Colloquium: "Shamanic Chant and Contemporary Korean Elegy: Kim Hyesoon's 'Autobiography of Death'"

- | Ivanna Sang Een Yi, Cornell University 
623 Willliams Hall (255 S. 36th Street) 
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Perry World House Event: “Japan’s New Geopolitics in a Post-Abe World”

- | Mikio Mori, Consul-General of the Consulate General of Japan in New York; Nobukatsu Kanehara, Former Chief Cabinet Secretary to Prime Minister Abe; Frederick Dickinson, University of Pennsylvania 
World Forum and Zoom 
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Japan has taken on a greater leadership role in not only the Indo-Pacific but also throughout the globe. One key figure in this political development was Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who worked to salvage a regional…