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Department News
2024 Booklaunch award for Nancy Steinhardt
Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt's book, Yuan: Chinese Architecture in a Mongol Empire, has won the Booklaunch award for Best Architectural History Book of 2024.2025 Student Prize Recipients
For Spring 2025, the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations is proud to announce the following students as prize recipients:Penn Student wins First Place at the Mid-Atlantic Korean Speech Contest
Three students from the Penn Korean Language Program participated in the fourth Mid-Atlantic Korean Speech Contest, virtually held at George Washington University on Friday, April 11th:AY2023-2024 Newsletter is Here!
Here is what we've been up to! Enjoy! We loved hearing from some of our alums. It's never too soon to send us an entry for next year's newsletter!EALC alum Chunhao Luo wins second place for his MA thesis in Hong Kong competition
2024 EALC MA alumnus Chunhao Luo wrote his Master's thesis, Environmental Etiology and Imperial Expansion: Miasma in Lingnan from the Twelfth to the Seventeenth Centuries, in fulfillment of his research requirement at Penn. ItEALC PhD student Marina de Melo do Nascimento named a finalist in 2025 Penn Grad Talks
Marina de Melo do Nascimento, a third-year PhD student in EALC focusing on Japanese Studies, was selected as a finalist for Penn Grad Talks.
Events
EALC Speakers' Colloquium: Jordan Christopher (LMU)
*4:15-4:45 pm: Coffee and cookies in Cohen Hall 2nd Floor Lounge. All are welcome.
Jordan Christopher
Speaker:
Jordan Christopher, Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Archaeology, Loyola Marymount…
