Past Events

Past Events




East-Southeast Asia Colloquium: "BRI (Yi dai yi lu) as Method: Forging Theoretical Agendas and Implications for Area Studies"

- | Online, via Zoom REGISTER HERE
James D. Sidaway, Professor of Political Geography, National University of Singapore

Taking stock of earlier and current case studies this paper focuses on theoretical implications of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, as it edges closer to its second decade in 2023. Amongst the questions considered…




CEAS on RACE: Toward an Anti-Racist Examination of East Asia, Part II

- | Online via Zoom. REGISTER HERE

 

Toward an Anti-Racist Examination of East Asia, Part 2: Lessons from the Language Classroom

Center for East Asian Studies Dialogue




Korean Studies Colloquium: "A Parallel World?: Notes on Alternative Academia in South Korea"

- | Nuri Kim, University Lecturer, University of Cambridge

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Penn in China Faculty Speaker Series "The Future of Food in China"

- | ONLINE, Visit Event Page for connection information
Thomas Parsons, Penn School of Veterinary Medicine
Zhengxia Dou, Penn School of Veterinary Medicine
Anne M. Greenhalgh, Wharton

Virtual event cosponsored by Penn Global, Penn Alumni, and the Penn Wharton China Center

China’s agriculture industry and food system has undergone dramatic changes in recent years thanks to growing…




EALC Speaker Series "Migration, Identity and Colonial Fantasies in a 5th Century Story Collection"

- | ONLINE via ZOOM. LINK HERE Meeting ID: 913 3855 6574 Passcode: 242242
Xiaofei Tian, Harvard University
 
 

The fourth-century southward migration of the northern Chinese was a traumatic event. The migrants were refugees fleeing from non-Han invaders; they were also settler colonialists forcefully asserting sovereignty…




RELS Book Celebration: Jolyon Thomas, Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan

- | ONLINE via ZOOM

Penn's Department of Religious Studies will be hosting a book celebration with Jolyon Thomas highlighting his new book Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan.

The event will…




FPRI Webinar: US Policy toward Taiwan: Toward a Stronger US-Taiwan Relationship

- | ONLINE, Registration required
Foreign Policy Research Institute

Please register for the Webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PCfRyTstSzuPTRBFKD-FKg




CSCC: "U.S. Policy toward Taiwan: Toward a Stronger U.S.-Taiwan Relationship"

- | Bonnie S. Glaser, Senior Adviser for Asia and Director, China Power Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and co-chair of the Task Force on U.S. Taiwan Policy
Rupert Hammond-Chambers, President, U.S.-Taiwan Business Council, and Managing Director, BrowerGroupAsia
 

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Korean Studies Co-sponsored Event: "Second Sunday Culture Film: The Wandering Chef"

- | Dahye Kim, Moon Family Postdoctoral Fellow, James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies

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CEAS Humanities Colloquium "Not Dreaming and Other Techniques of the Body: Trains, Technology and Nation in Socialist Cinema"

- | Nathaniel Isaacson, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Cultural Studies, North Carolina State University
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This paper examines filmic representations of trains in the PRC from 1949 to 1976, as a figure for modernization and the formation of a national body. Within these narratives, I examine how PRC cultural production…