Past Events
"Gendering AI and Robots: Robo-Sexism vs. 'Womenomics' in Japan"
Distinguished East Asia Lecture: Jennifer Robertson
In humans and humanoid robots alike, gender—femininity, masculinity—constitutes an array of learned behaviors that are cosmetically enabled and enhanced. In humans, these behaviors are both socially and historically…
Gangnam, the Dreamland of South Korea's Global/polarization in Literary and Audiovisual Narratives
Korean Studies Colloquium
Pil Ho Kim, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures The Ohio State University
"Families Together and Apart: Divorce, Child Custody, and Contested Disconnection in Contemporary Japan"
ICEA Colloquium Series
Allison Alexy
In contemporary Japan, police and law enforcement are often reluctant to assist in family conflicts. Law enforcement representatives instead push family members to settle problems on their own. Given such a context,…
Elusive Belonging: Marriage Immigrants and “Multiculturalism” in Rural South Korea
Korean Studies Colloquium
Minjeong Kim, San Diego State University
Based on ethnographic fieldwork, Minjeong Kimexamines Filipinas who married rural South Korean bachelors in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Against a backdrop of the South Korean government’s…
The Handmaiden
Korean Cinema Film Screening
Moderated by Dr. So-Rim Lee
From PARK Chan-wook, the celebrated director of OLDBOY, LADY VENGEANCE and STOKER, comes a ravishing crime drama. A gripping and sensual tale of two women - a young Japanese Lady living on a secluded estate, and a…
"Literacy and Bondage in a Qing-dynasty Native Domain, Southwest China"
CEAS Humanities Colloquium
Erik Mueggler
How can we excavate the experiences of enslaved people from archives that systematically exclude enslaved voices, while negotiating the demands of a liberal sensibility that requires subjects to speak for themselves…
Axes and Nukes: An Arms Race and Cuban Missile Crisis à la Korea
Korean Studies Colloquium
Ria Chae
While the US and China were starting the process of normalizing their relations in the early 1970s, the two Koreas engaged in their very first dialogue since the Korean War. Behind the façade of the peaceful talks,…
Korea: Politics, Culture, and K-Pop
Korea-Related Events Around Philadelphia
Join students and faculty from the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia’s flagship partner school, the William W. Bodine
High School for International Affairs, and visiting exchange students from Michuhol…
Classical Chinese Philosophical Texts
“What are we reading when we read a Chinese philosophical text, and how do we interpret it?”
"Japan's Monarchy and the New Emperor in Historical Perspective"
Ken Ruoff
The constitutional position of Japan’s monarchy was fundamentally redefined after the war, and initially conservatives rejected that the emperor should be “no more than a symbol.” But by the 1970s, the political…
“Toward a Global History of International Relations: A Perspective from Asia”
Tomoko Akami
ICEA Series
"From Shore to Shore: Maritime Transport and Commerce in Japan’s Late Medieval Period"
Michelle Damian
The Seto Inland Sea region was the center for much of the late medieval (14 th – 16 th c) period’s commercial activity. With growing local economic development came the rise of smaller markets throughout the…
A Colonial Muslim History of Qing Central Asia: Revisiting Sayrāmī's Tārīkh-i Ḥamīdī
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Professor Eric Schluessel, University of Montana
The Tārīkh-i Ḥamīdī of Mullah Mūsa Sayrāmī (1836-1917) is celebrated as a monument of Uyghur literature and the preeminent Muslim history of nineteenth-century Xinjiang (East Turkestan). Sayrāmī's work is also…
Myth, Management and Materiality in East Asia
East Asian Languages and Civilizations Graduate Conference
Keynote Speaker: Glenda Chao (Ursinus College, History) - 5PM
The Graduate Student Research Colloquium of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania presents its third annual graduate student conference: Myth…
Murky Waters: Family Abandonment in Quanzhen Daoism
Dr. Jinping Wang, Assistant Professor of History at the National University of Singapore
Quanzhen Daoism was the most influential religion in north China in the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It was also the first Daoist movement that rejected family life completely and…
A Conversation with Duncan Ryūken Williams
Professor Duncan Ryūken Williams, University of Southern California
The conversation will be focused on "American Sutra: Buddhism and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans in World War II"
Between English and Nihongo: The Poetics of Living and Writing between Languages
Professor Jeffrey Angles, Western Michigan University
Since going to a small city in western Japan for the first time at age fifteen, Jeffrey Angles has spent his life back and forth between Japan and the United States, reading Japanese literature, translating, and…
"Sinicization" and Chinese Supremacism in Southern Song Historiography on the Northern Dynasties
Professor Shao-yun Yang, Denison University
The study of historical thought and history-writing in Song China has flourished in recent years, but some areas remain inadequately understood. One of these has to do with the treatment of the early medieval…
Ingrained Habits: The (Bio) politics of American Wheat Promotion and the Transformation of Japan Diet and Identity, 1956-1960
Professor Nathan Hopson, Nagoya University
This presentation explores the history and politics of US-funded food demonstration buses (“kitchen cars”) in postwar Japan, 1954-1960. The kitchen cars’ express mission was to transform the Japanese national diet by…