Past Events

Past Events




Michael Meyer - "Covering China from the Ground Up"

- | TBD

In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China




Patricia Henwood - Global Distinguished Lecture

- | International House Philadelphia3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19104

Dr. Patricia Henwood, through the lens of working with Ebola in Liberia and Sierra Leone, will address emergent epidemics, and the global response to diseases in our inter-connected world. Dr. Henwood is the Director…




Shirin Nezammafi - "Border-Crossing Literature: A Fascinating Discovery of a Whole New World"

- | Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 141

Shirin Nezammafi is a graduate of Kobe University, where she received her B.S. in Systems Engineering in 2004 and her M.S. in Information Technology in 2006. She currently works for Microsoft Gulf in the United Arab…




Christopher Atwood, Indiana University-Bloomington - "Repackaging Chinggis Khan”

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Time & Location TBD
* American Center for Mongolian Studies, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Center for East Asian Studies




Miriam Kingsberg, University of Colorado - "Japan’s “Malinowski Boom”: Fieldwork, Ethnology, and Empire in Asia"

- | Annenberg School for Communication Room 111

Rooted in indigenous traditions and Western influences, ethnology (minzokugaku) emerged as a social scientific discipline in early twentieth-century Japan. Ethnology developed in tandem with empire: scholars supplied…




Sophie Richardson, Human Rights Watch

- | Fisher-Bennett 345, CSCC Conference Room

Sophie Richardson is the China director at Human Rights Watch. A graduate of the University of Virginia, the Hopkins-Nanjing Program, and Oberlin College, Dr. Richardson is the author of numerous articles on domestic…




History of Music in China Symposium

- | Penn Museum Widener Lecture Room

SCHEDULE

Coffee and Registration, 8:30-9:00 am
Greetings and Opening Remarks, 9:00-9:20 am

MORNING PRESENTATIONS




Thomas Kellogg, Open Society Foundations - "Rights Protections Lawyers in China"

- | Fisher-Bennett 345, CSCC Conference Room

Thomas Kellogg is director of the East Asia Program at the Open Society Foundations. He is also a lecturer-in-law at Columbia Law School. At the Open Society Foundations, Kellogg focuses most closely on civil society…




Federico Marcon, Princeton University- "Money Talks: Arai Hakuseki vs. Ogyū Sorai on the Value of Currency"

- | McNeil Building 285

Federico Marcon studies early modern Japan and is interested in the interaction of social, economic, and intellectual dynamics in the creation of scientific knowledge in the early modern world. Professor Marcon was…