Events

Dear Affiliates and Friends of CSCC:

We are holding almost all of our programming onsite. We will continue to conduct some of our events in online or hybrid form. See individual event notices for details. Please join us, in person or online, for our speaker series (including academic papers and book talks by leading established and rising scholars), policy roundtables, thematic conferences, and distinguished annual lectures, all addressing important topics in the study of contemporary China. If you are interested in joining us for onsite or online events, and do not receive our notices, please email cscc-contact@sas.upenn.edu to get on our email list or to inquire about specific events, or check our website regularly as we add events throughout the year.

Best regards,

Jacques deLisle, Director

Guobin Yang, Deputy Director

Yuanyuan Zeng, Associate Director

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In addition to the events and programs it hosts, the Center for the Study of Contemporary China provides support for activities sponsored by others at Penn when their activities are directly relevant to the CSCC’s mission to advance our understanding of the political, legal, economic, and social factors shaping China and its role in the world today. In the list of upcoming events, the appearance of CSCC logo indicates CSCC-sponsored events.

Requests for co-sponsorship or other types of support should be sent to cscc-contact@sas.upenn.edu and include a clear statement of the activity for which support is sought, its relevance to the CSCC’s mission, and the specific type of support requested.  As an academic research unit, the CSCC does not provide support for programs whose purpose is to advance a particular political agenda.

Upcoming Events



2023

Making China Policy in Washington

Ryan Hass, Senior Fellow, Director, China Center; Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies, Brookings Institution
- CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418, 133 S. 36th St


2023

Law & Political Economy in China's New Era

Tamar Groswald,  Assistant Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418, 133 S. 36th St


2023

National Committee on US-China Relations CHINA Town Hall 2023: Onsite Panel & National Live Webcast Watch Party

Nicholas Burns, U.S. Ambassador to China (webinar) & Naima Green-Riley, Junyi Lv, & Weirong Guo (onsite at Penn)
- 2nd Floor Forum, Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics, 133 S. 36th St


2023

The 20th Party Congress: Toward Personalistic Autarky?

Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University
- CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418, 133 S. 36th St


2023

Energotopia: Re-turn Communication in Energy Transition

Junyi Lv, CSCC Postdoctoral Fellow
- CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418, 133 S. 36th St


2023

Avoiding Economic Democracy: Parallel Legal Trajectories in the United States and China

Jedidiah Kroncke, J.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Law, The University of Hong Kong
- CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418, 133 S. 36th St


2023

The Art of Useless: Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China

Calvin Hui, Class of 1952 Distinguished Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, College of William & Mary
- CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418, 133 S. 36th St


2023

Viewing History from the Inside: Key Episodes and Crises in US-China Relation, 1985-2020

John Culver, Former National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, retired CIA analyst. Atlantic Council Senior Fellow.
- CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418, 133 S. 36th St


2023

‘Love Happens for a Reason in This World. So Does Hatred’: Affective Spaces as an Analytical Framework for the Study of Contemporary China

Shih-Diing Liu, Professor of Communication, University of Macau
- CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418, 133 S. 36th St


2024

Critical Reflections on Thirty Years of the Internet in China

Panel Discussion
- CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418, 133 S. 36th St


2024

Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State

Yingyao Wang, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia
- CSCC Conference Room, PCPSE Room 418, 133 S. 36th St