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Ruth Mostern, "Levees and Levies: Approaching Yellow River History With Spatial and Historical Datasets”

- | Stiteler Hall, B21

This presentation describes an in-progress digital atlas of the Yellow River, a project in Chinese and environmental history at the scale of the entire Holocene era.  The spatial and historical data that I am…




Cheng Chen, "The Return of Ideology: The Search for Regime Identities in Post-Communist Russia and China"

- | Stiteler Hall B26

CSCC Speaker Series

Film Screening, "A Drop of Life: The Global Water Crisis and It’s Unique Impact on Women"

- | International House, 3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Filmmaker and eco-activist Shalini Kantayya will present her award-winning sci-fi short film about the global water crisis, A Drop of Life, and discuss the borderless global water crisis’…




Penn Humanities Forum Film Series, Windtalkers

- | International House Philadelphia

Translation Trouble 

A Film Series presented by Penn Humanities Forum in collaboration with Cinema Studies and International House Philadelphia with Cinema Studies and…




Symposium on Gender, Embodiment, and Asian Religions

- | Van Pelt Library, Room 241 (Class of 1955 Conference Room)

 

Angela Zito (New York University), author of Of Body and Brush: Grand Sacrifice as Text/Performance in 18th Century China; DV-Made China: Digital Subjects and Social…




February Japanese Film Series: Tokyo Family

- | Cohen Hall, 402

親子映画：日本の家族ドラマ

Yamada Yōji, Tokyo no kazoku (Tokyo Family), 2013

In this update of Yasujiro Ozu’s “Tokyo Story”, a retired schoolteacher and his wife visit their three…




Justine Guichard, "A Korean Murder Case at the Intersection of Migration and Crime in Late 1950s Philadelphia"

- | Claudia Cohen Hall, Room 402

Korean Studies Colloquium—"A Korean Murder Case at the Intersection of Migration and Crime in Late 1950s Philadelphia"

CSCC Policy Roundtables, "China-Taiwan Relations in the Tsai Ing-wen Era"

- | Perry World House, 3803 Locust Walk

China-Taiwan Relations in the Tsai Ing-wen Era 

Richard von Glahn, "The Transformation of the East Asian Maritime World in the 16th-17th Centuries"

- | Stiteler Hall, B26

Penn Humanities Colloquium

Marcus Bingenheimer, Buddhist Pilgrimage in the Late Qing - Itinerary networks in "Knowing the Paths of Pilgrimage" (c.1827) and "Records of Travels to Famous mountains" (c.1918)

- | Williams Hall 844

In the early 19th century Ruhai Xiancheng 如海顯承 (fl. 1800-1826) wrote a route book describing itineraries to China's most popular pilgrimage sites for the use of his fellow monks: "Knowing the Paths of Pilgrimage"…