Past Events
Chih-jen Melvin Lee Dissertation Defense
Please join us for the dissertation defense of Chih-jen Melvin Lee on July 14, 2023 from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM. The defense will be held in Williams Hall, Room 844.
Nikita A. Kuzmin Dissertation Defense
Please join us for the dissertation defense of Nikita A. Kuzmin on June 28, 2023 from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM. The defense will be held in-person at the Van Pelt Library (Candice and Robert Willoughby East Asian Studies …
2023 American Association of Teachers of Korean Annual Conference and Professional Development Workshop
Transformative Language Learning Through Real World Engagement
The Korean Language Program at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) is pleased to announce that the American Association of Teachers of Korean (AATK)’s 28th…
Third Annual Chinese Character Art Exhibition
Come to the Williams Hall Café to tour the Third Annual Chinese Character Art Exhibition. 48 works featuring unique renderings of Chinese characters will be on display. Students from Penn, Harvard, MIT, Boston…
5th Annual GSRC Graduate Student Conference
5th Annual GSRC Graduate Student Conference
"Untold Narratives and Entangled Perspectives in East Asia"
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ruodi Duan, Haverford College
Co-sponsored by the Department of…
Contextualizing Numbers
A Study of Grain Prices in the Mongol Yuan Dynasty
Speaker: Chunyuan Li of Harvard University.
This event will also be streamed live via Zoom. To register, please use the following link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/contextualizing-numbers-grain-…
Numbering According to Their Custom
Population Registration, Mobilization and the Decimal Military Administrative System of the Mongol Empire
Simon Berger
Speaker: Simon Berger of the School of Advanced Studies in Social Science (EHESS), Paris.
This event will also be streamed live via Zoom. To register, please use the following link:
https://www.…
Study Abroad in Japan
Information Session
Are you interested in studying abroad in Japan while at Penn? Please join us and learn about the program options, the application process in this live session! You will also have the…
EALC Graduate Student Colloquium Event
Workshop: How to Write Abstracts
Dr. So-Rim Lee
As announced via Discord, GSRC will be having its third event of the semester with Professor So-Rim Lee! She has graciously agreed to make time to talk to graduate students about how to write abstracts,…
Pikachu Bon Dance
(Bon Odori)
The Japanese Language Program is hosting their first ever dance event! Come practice the Pikachu Bon Dance with us!
Don't know what the Pikachu Bon Dance is? You can practice ahead of time with these…
Decentering Song-dynasty China: The Chanyuan International Order, 1004-1266
Prof. Shinobu Iguro
The Treaty of Chanyuan, signed at the beginning of the eleventh century, established the international order of multiple coexisting states based on alliance pledges that had intermittently emerged…
Game-changing Tricks to Combat Stress in College
Hear from your alumni, what they wish they knew
Dr. Yong-tong Li, Mr. Ryan Komori, W‘07 and Atthena Breitton, W’08
There will be a second session starting at 1:45Pm in David Rittenhouse Lab, Room A2
Dr. Yong-Tong Li, MD
Dr. Yong-Tong Li is a board certified psychiatrist…
Study Intensive Japanese for Sinologists at the University of Pennsylvania this Summer!
Study Intensive Japanese for Sinologists at the University of Pennsylvania this summer!
100% ONLINE Summer 2022…
Make-up Chinese Language Placement Test
A make-up exam will be offered on Friday, September 3. Students who learned the simplified form in school should sign up for the simplified character version of the exam. Students who learned the traditional form…
Fall 2021 Chinese Language Placement Test
For those students who were not able to take the placement exam on 8/14, a make-up exam will be offered on Friday, September 3. Students who learned the simplified form in school should sign up for…
Tales of a Late-Ming Iconoclast: On Li Zhi李贄, His Life, and His Books
Pauline C. Lee
The 16th century iconoclast Li Zhi has been rightly celebrated as a pioneer of individualism, one of history’s great voices of social protest, an original mind powerfully arguing for genuine self-…
Paul Goldin to be on "Against the Grain"
Dr. Goldin was a guest on "Against the Grain" today at 3:00PM EDT. He will discuss The Chinese philosophical text Laozi, also known as the Tao Te Ching, a text debated for over two millenia. A recording of…
The Imperial Network in Ancient China
The Foundation of Sinitic Empire in Southern East Asia
Dr. Maxim Korolkov
Migration, Identity and Colonial Fantasies in a Fifth-Century Story Collection
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…