OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

Center for East Asian Studies


  • Screening of: Kurosawa, Rash?mon, 1950 (9/12/2007)
  • "Problems in the Study of Chinese Architectural History" - A lecture by Sun Hua, Professor at Sichuan University, Excavator of Sanxingdui (9/17/2007)
  • Screening of: Mizoguchi, The Life of Oharu (Saikaku ichidai onna), 1952 (9/19/2007)
  • "Astrology, Material Culture and International Relations in Early China: A Case from Niya" - a lecture by Lillian Lan-ying Tseng, Yale University (9/20/2007)
  • Screening of: Mizoguchi, Ugetsu (Ugetsu monogatari), 1953 (9/26/2007)
  • World Culture Family Day: Celebrate Japan! at the University of Pennsylvania Museum (9/29/2007)
  • Screening of: Ozu, Late Spring (Banshun), 1949 (10/3/2007)
  • "Future Prospects for Japanese ODA: An Institutional Perspective" - a lecture by Maria Toyoda, Villanova University (10/4/2007)
  • "The Authentication of Chinese Handwriting and the Discrimination of Forgeries in Bronze Inscriptions" - a lecture by Cheung Kwong-yue, Chinese University of Hong Kong (10/8/2007)
  • Student Career and Internship Opportunities in Japan - an interactive Panel Presentation and Discussion (10/8/2007)
  • Screening of: Ozu, Tokyo Story (Tokyo monogatari), 1953 (10/10/2007)
  • "Beyond the Silk Roads: Cultural Interaction and Exchange along Tang China's Northern Borderlands" - a lecture by Jonathan Skaff, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania (10/11/2007)
  • International Student Reception (10/12/2007)
  • Musical performance by IIIZ+ (10/12/2007)
  • "Alliances unwound? US Policy in Korea and Asia After Roh Moo Hyun" - a lecture by Victor Cha, Georgetown University (10/18/2007)
  • "Numinous Peaks and Moving Mountains: Some Issues and Themes in the Study of Chinese Sacred Geography" - a lecture by James Robson, The University of Michigan (10/19/2007)
  • Screening of: Kurosawa, Stray Dog (Nora inu), 1949 (10/24/2007)
  • "Like Donkeys Killed after Grinding the Wheat: War Veterans and the Politics of Martial Citizenship and Patriotism in China, 1949-2006" - a lecture by Neil Diamant, Dickinson College (10/25/2007)
  • FORGOTTEN CRISIS: The Plight of North Korean Refugees A conference (10/25/2007)
  • Screening of: Kurosawa, To Live (Ikiru), 1952 (10/31/2007)
  • "Hunger and History: Mencius, Malthus, and Mao in China" - a lecture by Lillian M. Li, Swarthmore College (11/1/2007)
  • "Chinese Economy" - a presentation by Yuhui Zheng for the East Asia in the Schools Program (11/5/2007)
  • International Visitors Council trip to UPenn (11/6/2007)
  • Screening of: Kurosawa, Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai), 1954 (11/7/2007)
  • The History and Music of the Japanese Chikuzen Biwa - a performance and lecture by Yoko Hiraoka (11/7/2007)
  • "Unfolding Beauty and Beyond: Korean Screen Paintings of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910" - Hyunsoo Woo, Associate Curator of Korean Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art (11/8/2007)
  • Screening of: Kurosawa, Itami, Tampopo, 1985 (11/14/2007)
  • "Circulated Originality: Reconsidering Literary Connections Between Tao Qian, Ying Qu and the Wei-Jin Tradition of the Recluse" - a lecture by Pauline Lin, Bryn Mawr College (11/15/2007)
  • "The Welfare State or Faith? Explaining Weak Islamist Mobilization in Malaysia" - a lecture by Kikue Hamayotsu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University (11/28/2007)
  • Screening of: Miyazaki, Princess Mononoke (Mononokehime), 1997 (11/28/2007)
  • The Ancient Asian Harp Reborn - An Illustrated Lecture and Musical Demonstration by Professor Emeritus Bo Lawergren with Tomoko Sugawara, Harpist and Kugo Player (11/28/2007)
  • Screening of: Kitano, Fire-works (Hana-bi), 1997 (12/5/2007)
  • "Demonology in Inner and East Asian Contexts" - a lecture by David White, Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of California- Santa Barbara (12/7/2007)
  • Penn Museum Family Workshop : Chinese Paper Cutting: Craft and Culture (12/8/2007)
  • "Shinto and Buddhism: Religious Contrasts in Japan" - a lecture by Professor Frank Chance for the East Asia in the Schools program (12/12/2007)
  • Chinese Language Teaching Workshop (1/20/2008)
  • "The Concept of Ritual in the Excavated Texts from Chu: Are They a Direct Source of the Theory of Ritual and Social Norms in Xunzi?" - a lecture by Dr. Masayuki Sato, Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University (1/22/2008)
  • Screening of The Sing-song girls of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien) (1/22/2008)
  • Screening of Godzilla (Honda Ishir, 1954) (1/23/2008)
  • "Culture of Remembrance and the Northern Region in Korea: Bringing an Unknown War Hero Back into History" - a lecture by Sun Joo Kim, Harvard (1/24/2008)
  • "Japan, America, and the Realities of Liberty City: Regulation and the Politics of Narrative in the Grand Theft Auto Games" - a lecture by David Leheny, Princeton (1/24/2008)
  • Screening of New Year's Sacrifice (Cui Wei) (1/29/2008)
  • Screening of Mothra (Honda Ishir, 1961) (1/30/2008)
  • "The Allocation of Talent Under National Health Insurance: The Case of Japanese Cosmetic Surgery" - a lecture by Mark Ramseyer, Harvard Law (2/5/2008)
  • Screening of Shadow Magic (Ann Hu) (2/5/2008)
  • Screening of Gidrah the Three-Headed Monster (Honda Ishir, 1964) (2/6/2008)
  • "The "Middle People" (Chungin) and Genealogy Compilation in Modern Korea" - a lecture by Eugene Park, University of California, Irvine (2/7/2008)
  • Screening of Onmyji (Takata Yjir, 2001) - with an introduction to the film by Professor Frank L. Chance, UPenn (2/7/2008)
  • "China Rising: Chinas Military Modernization and its Implication for the US" - a lecture by Dr. Thomas Bickford, Senior research analyst at the Center for Naval Analysis Corporation in Alexandria, Virginia (2/12/2008)
  • Screening of New Woman (Cai Chusheng) (2/12/2008)
  • Screening of Godzilla vs The Smog Monster (Banno Yoshimitsu, 1971) (2/13/2008)
  • "Colonial Subjectivity and the Problem of Desire: The Choson Industrial Exhibition, 1915" - a lecture by Se-Mi Oh, Columbia University (2/14/2008)
  • Screening of Conflagration (Ichikawa Kon, 1958) - Introduction by Professor Frank L. Chance, UPenn (2/14/2008)
  • "The Plight of North Korean Women in China" - a lecture by Peter Beck, Executive Director, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (2/19/2008)
  • Screening of A Woman for Two (Ling Zifeng) (2/19/2008)
  • Screening of Terror of Mechagodzilla (Honda Ishir?, 1975) (2/20/2008)
  • "Chinese-Muslim Memory and Historiography in China" - a lecture by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Department of History, New York University (2/21/2008)
  • Japan's Strategic Challenges: A Trip Report - a lecture by Prof. Arthur Waldron, Lauder Professor of International Relations, UPenn (2/21/2008)
  • Screening of Rikyu (Teshigahara Hiroshi, 1989) - Introduction by Professor Stephanie Feldman, Department of Architecture, UPenn (2/21/2008)
  • "The Economics and Political Economy of Japanese Stagnation" - a lecture by Robert Feldman, Morgan Stanley Japan Securities Co., Ltd. (2/26/2008)
  • Nausica of the Valley of the Winds (Miyazaki Hayao, 1994) (2/27/2008)
  • Asia Day (2/28/2008)
  • Screening of Spirited Away (Miyazaki Hayao, 2001) - Introduction by Professor Julie Nelson Davis (2/28/2008)
  • "Contemporary Japanese popular culture" - a lecture by Dr. Lewis Harrington, UPenn (3/1/2008)
  • "Japanese Law and Culture" - a lecture by Eric Feldman (3/1/2008)
  • "Japan's Experience with the GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement System" - a lecture by Akio Shimizu, Associate Dean, Waseda Law School (3/4/2008)
  • Screening of Lust, Caution (Ang Lee) (3/4/2008)
  • Screening of Godzilla 1985 (Hashimoto K?ji, 1984) (3/5/2008)
  • "Limiting Birth: Birth Control Before Family Planning in Colonial Korea" - a lecture by Sonja Kim, UCLA (3/6/2008)
  • CEAS Distinguished Lecture - "History Took a Calligraphic Turn: The Art of Tai Jingnongs Writing" - by David Der-wei Wang, Edward C.Henderson Professor of Chinese Literatureat Harvard University and Director of CCK Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinological Studies (3/6/2008)
  • "East Asia and the Middle East: What Can We Learn from Comparative Approaches to Global History?" - a lecture by Cemil Aydin, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Princeton University, Near Eastern Studies Department and Assistant Professor of History, University of North Carolina-Charlotte (3/17/2008)
  • "Myth, Memory and the Mongol Invasions of Japan" - a lecture by Tom Conlan, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, Bowdoin (3/18/2008)
  • Screening of A Better Tomorrow (John Woo) (3/18/2008)
  • Screening of Godzilla vs. Mothra (Okawara Takao, 1992) (3/19/2008)
  • "Japans Answer to Harry Potter: The Abe no Seimei Boom" - a lecture by Laura Miller, Professor of Anthropology at Loyola University Chicago (3/20/2008)
  • "Veneration and Imagery of Buddhist "Saints" in Japan from 1700-Present" - a lecture by Patricia J. Graham (3/25/2008)
  • Screening of Rouge (Stanley Kwan) (3/25/2008)
  • Screening of Godzilla vs. Destroyah (Okawara Takao, 1995) (3/26/2008)
  • Screening of: I Just Didnt Do It (3/27/2008)
  • "Sino-Japanese relations in the 17th and 18th Centuries: Some New Perspectives" - Angela Schottenhammer, Professor of Chinese and East Asian History at the Department for Asian Studies, Munich University, Germany (3/31/2008)
  • "Constructing Culture: Three Japanese Architects Struggle with Shinto" - a lecture by Dana Buntrock, UC Berkeley (4/1/2008)
  • Screening of Fists of Fury (Luo Wei) (4/1/2008)
  • "Heaven and Man: From a Cross-Cultural Perspective" - a lecture by Zhang Longxi, City University of Hong Kong (4/2/2008)
  • Screening of Pokemon 2000 The Movie (Yuyama Kunihiko, 1999) (4/2/2008)
  • Screening of King of Children (Chen Kaige) (4/8/2008)
  • "Does Japan Still Matter?" - Lecture and Discussion Session with Mitsuru Kitano, Minister of Public Affairs, Embassy of Japan in Washington D.C. (4/9/2008)
  • Godzilla Millenium (Okawara Takao, 1999) (4/9/2008)
  • "Making an Impression: The History and Process of Japanese Woodblock Print Making" - lecture and demonstration by Shirley Luber, Luber Gallery Julie Davis, Assistant Professor of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania (4/10/2008)
  • Christian Missions and National Identities: Comparative Studies of Cultural Conversions in the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, and East Asia - Conference to be held at the University of Pennsylvania (4/10/2008 - 4/11/2008)
  • Conference: Concepts of Change and Transformation: inter-cultural and inter-disciplinary approaches First in the Annual Series: Comparative Cultural Foundations and Development (4/11/2008 - 4/13/2008)
  • Screening of Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou) (4/15/2008)
  • Screening of Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: All Monsters Attack (Kaneko Shusuke, 2001) (4/16/2008)
  • "Prostitution in Postwar Japan, 1945-1960" - a lecture by Holly Sanders, Villanova (4/17/2008)
  • China Town Hall (4/17/2008)
  • Screening of A Chinese Odyssey (Stephen Chow) (4/22/2008)
  • Screening of Godzilla: Final Wars (Kitamura Ry?hei, 2004) (4/23/2008)
  • "Multiculturalism and Education in South Korea" - a lecture by Youngdal Cho, Dean, College of Education, Seoul National University (4/30/2008)
  • The state of Education in East Asia Conference (5/2/2008 - 5/3/2008)
  • "Japanese Tea: Aesthetic Ritual" - a lecture by Professor Frank Chance for the East Asia in the Schools program (5/5/2008)
  • "Materials and Monuments, Patrons and Places: Studies in the Creation of Buddhist Images in China" - a lecture by Roderick Whitfield (5/9/2008)
  • "Neo-Confucian Impact on the Art of the Choson Dynasty" - a lecture by Youngsook Pak, Korea Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor, Yale University (5/9/2008)
  • Internationalizing K-12 Education: A Forum for Teachers and Teacher Educators (5/10/2008)
  • "Daoism in Ancient Japan: Still-born or Aborted?" - a lecture by Herman Ooms, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles (5/14/2008)
  • K-12 Teachers Summer Institute (6/23/2008 - 6/27/2008)
  • Lecture - Hedging Their Bets Asian Security Responses to the Rise of China by John Ciorciari, 2008-09 National Fellow at the Hoover Institution Stanford University (9/4/2008)
  • Using your Advanced Degrees in Public Service and Policymaking - Former U.S. Dept of the Treasury Official John Ciorciari shares from his rich experience working inside Washington on US policy vis-a-vis Asia and beyond, in an informal discussion. (9/4/2008)
  • Lecture - The Korean Family in Colonial Space--Caught between Modernity and Assimilation by Clark W. Sorensen, Associate Professor, University of Washington (9/11/2008)
  • City Year Orientation (9/23/2008)
  • Lecture - The Five Buddhas in Gandhara and theirRelation with Binglingsi and Yungang in Fifth Century China by Marilyn Rhie, Jessie Wells Post Prof. of Art and Prof. of East Asian Studies, Smith College (9/23/2008)
  • Chinese tutoring for Drexel Students (9/26/2008)
  • East Asia in the Schools - Outreach Lecture (10/4/2008)
  • Lecture - Love and Passion in Chinese Film by Ban Wang, William Hass Professor of Chinese Studies, Stanford University (10/6/2008)
  • Asian Pacific American Heritage Week at Penn (10/10/2008)
  • East Asia in the Schools - Outreach lecture (10/14/2008)
  • A Discussion with Karl Friday - Karl Friday, Professor of Japanese History, University of Georgia (10/15/2008)
  • 2nd Annual Student Career and Internship in Japan Panel (10/16/2008)
  • Meeting for Study Abroad Programs in Japan (10/28/2008)
  • Lecture - The Shoguns Menagerie The VOC and the diplomacy of Gift-giving in Early Modern Japan by Michael Laver, Assistant Professor of History, Rochester Institute of Technology (10/31/2008)
  • Lecture - Whats Wrong with Korean History? An Examination of Peace and War by Mark Peterson, Associate Professor of Korean, BYU (11/6/2008)
  • CEAS-Lauder Distinguished Lecture - Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics by Yasheng Huang, Professor of Political Economy and Management, Sloan School of Management, MIT (11/11/2008)
  • Lecture - Two Court Scenes, with Poems, from the Reign of Tang Xuanzong by Paul Kroll, Institute for Advanced Study (11/12/2008)
  • Lecture - South-North Korean Relations and the North Korean Nuclear Question by Manhak Kwon, Visiting Scholar, Center for East Asian Studies and Professor, Kyunghee International College (11/13/2008)
  • Lecture - The Moral Fool. A Case for Amorality by Hans-Georg Moeller, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Brock University (11/13/2008)
  • Getting to Normal A Six-Party Talks Simulation (11/14/2008)
  • E. Dale Saunders Memorial Lecture on Buddhism in Japan - Seeing and Believing The Modernist Vision of Miyazawa Kenji by Dr. Gregory Golley (12/2/2008)
  • Lecture - The Making of Myths Legends of the Building of Old Peking by Hok-lam Chan, Department of Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington (12/2/2008)
  • Using your Business Korean (12/2/2008)
  • Information Session for K-12 Educators (12/4/2008)
  • Peace Around the World (12/7/2008)
  • East Asia in the Schools - Outreach lecture (12/17/2008)
  • East Asia in the schools - Outreach lecture (1/26/2009)
  • Outreach Lecture - Philadelphia Museum of Art (1/26/2009)
  • Causes and Consequences of Homelessness around the World (1/28/2009)
  • Lecture - The Cultural Politics of Artistic Expression China and Europe by Martin Powers, University of Michigan (1/29/2009)
  • More Lawlessness in International Commercial Arbitration The Dissenting Opinion (1/29/2009)
  • Lecture - Competing with China Entrepreneurship from the Inside by Simon J. MacKinnon, PAST PRESIDENT, CORNING of GREATER CHINA, CHAIRMAN, GLOBAL GREEN POWER, LLC (1/30/2009)
  • East Asia in the Schools Outreach Lecture (2/2/2009)
  • CEAS Distinguished Lecturer - The Sex Education of a Sinologist - Susan Mann, Professor of History, University of California, Davis (2/4/2009)
  • Outreach Lecture - Ursinus College (2/5/2009)
  • Pop Icons of Japan Film SeriesScreening of Godzilla Introduction by Linda Chance, Associate Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Pennsylvania (2/5/2009)
  • Outreach Lecture - Horticulture Society (2/7/2009)
  • Lecture - Social Status Influence on Womems Childbirth Age on in a Rural Korea / Influences of Social Status on Korean Womens Childbirth Age in Rural Area by Sangkuk Lee, Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania (2/12/2009)
  • Pop Icons of Japan Film SeriesScreening of Happiness of the Katakuris Introduction by Lewis Harrington, University of Pennsylvania (2/12/2009)
  • Lecture - Elite Politics and Monetary Swings in China Then and Now by Victor Shih, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University (2/18/2009)
  • Working Paper Seminar - Getting Ahead in the Communist Party Explaining the Advancement of Central Committee Members in China with Victor Shih (2/18/2009)
  • Lecture - Kano Sansetsu and The Song of Everlasting Sorrow by Matthew McKelway, Atsumi Associate Professor of Japanese Art, Columbia University (2/19/2009)
  • Lecture - Young Korean students study abroad toEnglish-speaking countries and its impact on national language policy by Kathleen Lee and Jiyoon Lee, Graduate Students in the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania (2/19/2009)
  • Pop Icons of Japan Film Series - Screening of Ultraman Mebius and the Ultraman Brothers Introduction by Frank Chance, Associate Director, Center for East Asian Studies (2/19/2009)
  • Lecture - Jews in China legends, history, and perspectives by Prof. Guang PAN, Walter and Seena Fair Professor of Jewish Studies, Dean of Center of Jewish Studies Shanghai (2/20/2009)
  • FROM MAO TO DENG The Fall and Rise of China in the 2nd Half of the 20th Century - collaboration with Camden County College (2/25/2009 - 3/25/2009)
  • Asia Day (2/26/2009)
  • Pop Icons of Japan Film Series - Screening of Kamikaze Girls - Introduction by Fred Dickinson, Associate Professor of Japanese History, University of Pennsylvania (2/26/2009)
  • Outreach lecture (3/1/2009)
  • Lecture - East Asian Security Prospects and Perspectives by Noboru YAMAGUCHI, Lieutenant General JGSDF Ret. (3/2/2009)
  • WEST PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL - JAPANESE SEMINAR 2009 (3/4/2009)
  • Asian Studies Development Program - Fifteenth Annual National Conference, March 5-7, 2009 (3/5/2009 - 3/7/2009)
  • Lecture - Three types of poor in Korea - Tae Kim, Graduate Student in the School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania (3/5/2009)
  • Chinese Language Teaching Workshop (3/8/2009)
  • East Asia in the Schools (3/10/2009)
  • Performance - Isaburo Hanayagi, followed by a detailed explanation of kabuki makeup and costume (3/18/2009)
  • Lecture - Fitting into the Global Meritocracy The Multigenerational Project of Kirogi Families in the U.S. by Seung-kyung Kim, Associate Professor of Womens Studies, University of Maryland (3/19/2009)
  • Lecture - Kay Seok, Human Rights Watch Researcher for Asia (3/19/2009)
  • Teachers Workshop - Konnichiwa Japan! (3/21/2009)
  • Bucks County Intermediate Unit - Asian Studies Collaborative (3/24/2009)
  • Screening of To Live - Introduction by Prof. Xiaojue Wang (3/24/2009)
  • Working in Korea (3/24/2009)
  • Lecture - From To Live to Brothers On Literature and Reality by Yu Hua (3/25/2009)
  • Lecture - The Varieties of Health Care in Eleventh-century China by Nathan Sivin, Professor Emeritus of Chinese Culture and of the History of Science (3/25/2009)
  • Asia Orientation (3/27/2009)
  • Performance by Isaburo Hanayagi, followed by interview with Ayako Kano (3/31/2009)
  • Understanding the Chinese Student - Outreach lecture to St. Josephs University (4/3/2009)
  • Conference - Wives, Concubines, Courtesans, Nuns Early Modern Japanese Women (4/4/2009)
  • Lecture - Imperial Koreas New Capital Pyongyang on the Eve of the Russo-Japanese War - Eugene Park, University of Pennsylvania (4/7/2009)
  • Global Distinguished Lecture - Trafficking with the Organs Traffickers Global Justice and the Traffic in Humans for Transplant - Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Chancellors Professor, Anthropology, UC Berkeley (4/9/2009)
  • Lecture - The Trouble with Anthologies The Case of the Poems of Ying Qu by David R. Knechtges, University of Washington (4/13/2009)
  • Lecture - Intellectual Containment The Muting of Students in Semidemocratic Southeast Asia by Meredith L. Weiss, University at Albany, SUNY (4/14/2009)
  • Philip Jaisohn Distinguished Lecturer - Korean Buddhist Journeys to Lands Worldly and Otherworldly by Robert Buswell, Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies, Department of Asian Languages and CivilizationFounding Director, Center for Buddhist Studies, UCLA, President, Association for Asian Studies 2008-09 (4/16/2009)
  • Japan Festival - Outreach lectures at Westtown School (4/18/2009)
  • Conference - Transnational Pasts 1500-1800 - A One-Day Symposium (4/20/2009)
  • Lecture - Migration, Immigration and the Myth of Korean Uniqueness by Timothy Lim, Professor of Political Science, CSU,LA (4/23/2009)
  • Lecture - Anxieties of Interpretation Reading, Hermeneutics, and Knowledge in Early China - Michael Puett, Harvard University (5/5/2009)
  • What Happened to Democracy in China? - A Panel Discussion with Leading Chinese Experts on Electoral and Political Reform (5/6/2009)
  • Conference - Uygur Archaeology (5/9/2009)
  • Global Education Institute (5/9/2009)
  • East Asia in the Schools - Outreach Lecture (5/11/2009)
  • Lecture - How to translate Sanskrit into Chinese An observation of the translation method described in the Fozutongji 43 by Toru Funayama, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University (5/11/2009)
  • Pennsylvania Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Celebration (5/30/2009)
  • Japanese Arts and Culture Teacher Workshop (7/7/2009)
  • East Asia in the Schools Outreach Lecture (7/9/2009)
  • Kyo Daiko Drummers Performance (7/29/2009)
  • Becoming Modern Hong Kongs Road to Democracy (9/15/2009)
  • Screening of Rashomon (9/16/2009)
  • Screening of The Life of Oharu (9/23/2009)
  • Ancient Chinese Texts (9/24/2009)
  • Naturalism in Decadence Decadence in Naturalism The Early Perverse Literature of Tanizaki Junichiro (9/30/2009)
  • Screening of Ugetsu (9/30/2009)
  • Impossible Labor The Domestication of Early Study Abroad (10/1/2009)
  • The Shanghai Jiao Tong University Symphony Orchestra with the Penn Symphony Orchestra (10/2/2009)
  • Ensemble NJP and Gene Coleman (10/7/2009)
  • Screening of Late Spring (10/7/2009)
  • International Student and Scholar Reception (10/9/2009)
  • Screening of Fireworks (10/9/2009)
  • 3rd Annual Student Career and Internship Opportunities in Japan (10/14/2009)
  • Screening of Early Summer (10/14/2009)
  • Representations and Uses of Yue Identify Along the Southern Frontier of the Han (10/15/2009)
  • The Art of Organizational War Culture as Contests over Meanings and Values (10/20/2009)
  • Screening of Tokyo Story (10/21/2009)
  • Global Education Lab (10/24/2009)
  • Autumn Gem A Documentary on Chinas First Feminist (10/28/2009)
  • Screening of Stray Dog (10/28/2009)
  • On the Strange Convergence of Fears Money and the Body in East Asian and Western Medicine (10/29/2009)
  • Screening of To Live (11/4/2009)
  • Screening of Seven Samurai (11/16/2009)
  • Cultural Heritage and Identity Comparing Mainland China and Hong Kong (11/17/2009)
  • A Sino-Southeast Asian Circuit Ethno-histories of the Marine Goods Trade between China and Southeast Asia (11/23/2009)
  • Behavior Which Offends Japanese Images of Incivility (12/2/2009)
  • Screening of Tampopo (12/2/2009)
  • How Much Equality and What Kind in Korea? Some Cases (1/28/2010)
  • Screening of Akira (2/4/2010)
  • Noreaum Machi (2/5/2010)
  • Institutions, Families, Communities Towards a social history of the Ming military in Southeast China (2/10/2010)
  • Screening of Grave of the Fireflies (2/11/2010)
  • Connecting to Home in Todays Globalized World (2/16/2010)
  • Silent Film Screening with Katsudo Benshi Performance by Sawato Midori (2/16/2010)
  • Screening of My Neighbor Totoro (2/18/2010)
  • Strait Talk US-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis with China (2/18/2010)
  • Asia Day Celebration for High Schools (2/23/2010)
  • Screening of Ghost in the Shell (2/25/2010)
  • Between Empire and Kingdom (3/4/2010)
  • International Womens Day (3/8/2010)
  • Sacralizing Time-Space Koreans in the 1940 Celebrations of Japans Wartime Empire (3/15/2010)
  • Waging a Living in China (3/18/2010)
  • Charting New Partnerships to Support Japanese Studies in Global Information Society (3/22/2010)
  • Exemplary Everymen Confucian Commoners in Early Medieval China (3/24/2010)
  • Kyogen Performance by the Yamamoto Kyogen Company of Tokyo, Japan (3/24/2010)
  • One Alliance, Two Lenese US-Korea Relations in a New Era (3/25/2010)
  • Reconstructing the Past to Legitimize the Future (3/25/2010)
  • American Teachers of Japanese Conference (3/26/2010)
  • Korea Foundation-Center for Korean Studies joint reception (3/26/2010)
  • Center for East Asian Studies and South Asia Center AAS Reception (3/27/2010)
  • Workshop Sources on Vietnam (3/29/2010)
  • From the Sky to the Garden Gender, Space and Fantasy in the Films of Hayao Miyazaki (3/31/2010)
  • Women and the Empire in Modern Japanese Literature (4/1/2010)
  • Chinas Strategic Approach to Aid in Africa (4/5/2010)
  • The East Asian National Identity Syndrome Comparisons of China, Japan, and South Korea (4/8/2010)
  • Chambishi Rising The Labor Question of Chinese Capitalism in Africa (4/9/2010)
  • The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power (4/14/2010)
  • Japan as Samurai Nation (4/15/2010)
  • Morris Arboretum Trip (4/17/2010)
  • Playing our Game Why Chinas Industrial Rise Doesnt Threaten the West (4/17/2010)
  • East Asia in the Schools (5/24/2010)
  • Phila-Nipponica (6/24/2010 - 7/15/2010)
  • Korean-American Student Conference (7/23/2010 - 7/24/2010)
  • Introduction to the Vocal Music of 20th Century Japan with Mika Kimula (9/13/2010)
  • One and Not the Same The Naisen ittai discourse and Problems of Identity in Late Colonial Korea, 1937-1945 (9/14/2010)
  • Screening of Godzilla 1954 (9/14/2010)
  • Screening of Mothra (9/21/2010)
  • Screening of Gidrah the Three-Headed Monster (9/28/2010)
  • Screening of Gamera (10/5/2010)
  • I Did it My Way Perspectives on East Asian History (10/7/2010)
  • Public Activities for Silk Road Exhibit (10/8/2010)
  • Screening of Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster (10/12/2010)
  • Soldiers, Smugglers, and Draft-Dodgers on Chinas Southeast Coast Social Histories of the Ming Military (10/13/2010)
  • Revolutioaries, Nursery Rhymes, and Edison Wax Cyclinders The Remarkable Tale of the Earliest Sound Recordings of Korean Music (10/14/2010)
  • Son Preference in Asia Causes and Consequences (10/14/2010)
  • 4th Annual Panel on Student Career and Internship Opportunities in Japan (10/15/2010)
  • National Committee on U.S.-China Relations presents China Town Hall Local Connections, National Reflections (10/18/2010)
  • Screening of Godzilla 1985 (10/19/2010)
  • The Last Days of Old Beijing An Illustrated Book Talk by author Michael Meyer (10/19/2010)
  • International Student and Scholar Reception (10/22/2010)
  • Art and Politics in North Korea (10/28/2010)
  • Public lectures for Silk Road exhibit at University Museum (11/2/2010)
  • Screening of Nausic or the Valley of the Winds (11/2/2010)
  • Conservation and Preservation practices for East Asian Paintings in Western Collections (11/3/2010)
  • Screening of Gamera, Guardian of the Universe (11/9/2010)
  • Celebrate Japan! (11/14/2010)
  • Monstrous Media in Kon Satoshis Paranoia (11/16/2010)
  • Screening of The Great Yokai War (11/16/2010)
  • Kenny Endos Taiko Drumming and Dance (11/19/2010)
  • Medieval Architecture in China through Modern Technology Region, Style, and Patterns of Change (11/22/2010)
  • Screening of Godzilla Millenium (11/23/2010)
  • Screening of Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah All Monsters Attack (11/30/2010)
  • Race to Judge, Rush to Act The Sinking of the Cheonan and the Politics of National Insecurity (12/2/2010)
  • Chopsticks--Bridges of Culture in Asia (12/7/2010)
  • Screening of Godzilla Final Wars (12/7/2010)
  • Taiwan Panel with FPRI (12/8/2010)
  • Strangers in a Strange Land The Third Annual Center for Ancient Studies Graduate Student Conference (12/10/2010)
  • Screening of The Host (12/14/2010)
  • Globalize your Summer Teacher Workshop (2/15/2011)
  • 1428 a Feature-length documentary film by Du Haibin (2/16/2011)
  • Criminal Justice in Japan Beyond Retribution? (2/17/2011)
  • Putting Maos China in Context (2/23/2011)
  • Martyrs and Historical Memory Monuments, Memorial Parks, and Museums for Dead Heroes in China and Taiwan (2/25/2011)
  • On Experimentalism and Modern Chinese Printmaking (2/28/2011)
  • Panel on the Legacy of Colonialism (2/28/2011)
  • Asia Day Celebration for High Schools (3/2/2011)
  • An Exploration of Contemporary Religious Practices in Japan Shugendo Now (3/3/2011)
  • Pursuing the Dream of Government Accountability Notes from the Japan Experience (3/3/2011)
  • Recipes for Exchange Translating Bodies in Early Modern China (3/14/2011)
  • Culture Cuisine (3/16/2011)
  • Women, Water, and the World (3/16/2011)
  • East Asia Before the West was it an International System? (3/17/2011)
  • Panel of Japan Disasters (3/17/2011)
  • History Institute for Teachers - China and India (3/19/2011 - 3/20/2011)
  • Panel on Japan disasters at Philadelphia Community College (3/25/2011)
  • Sanjo Festival Musicians (3/25/2011)
  • International Conference on Pinyin (4/2/2011)
  • Resistible Force Meets Object The Story of the Introductionof Norms of Gender Equality Into Japanese Employment Practice (4/5/2011)
  • Speaker for Advanced language class (4/5/2011)
  • 6th Annual Greater Philadelphia Asian Studies Consortium Undergraduate Research Conference (4/9/2011)
  • National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (4/9/2011)
  • Will Chinas Political System Derail its Peaceful Rise? (4/12/2011)
  • International Law and the Rule of Law in China A Global Governance Perspective (4/13/2011)
  • Hidden Transcripts Bao Shichens Advice to the Prince (4/14/2011)
  • Japanese Musicians (4/14/2011)
  • Koreas journey from an Aid Recipient to a Donor Country Strategies, Challenges, and Lessons (4/14/2011)
  • Conference on Cities in Global Perspective (4/15/2011)
  • Infusing Global Education into Math and Science Curriculum- A Philadelphia Science Festival Educators Workshop (4/20/2011)
  • Monumental Construction and Creative Destruction Spatial Reconfigurations of Beijing in Architecture, Art, and Cinema (4/20/2011)
  • Using Authentic Discourse in the Teaching of and Research on Korea (4/21/2011)
  • Responding to Humanitarian Emergencies Doctors without Borders (4/25/2011)
  • Candlelight Protests and South Korean Democracy (4/28/2011)
  • Infinity Charter School Visit (5/19/2011)
  • Expanding Horizons Project (6/1/2011)
  • STARTALK Penn Chinese High School Academy (7/5/2011)
  • New Global Citizens Summer Program (7/21/2011)
  • Summer Institute - Ibn Battuta Lessons Learned across Land and through Time (7/25/2011 - 7/29/2011)

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