Between May 15-16, 2025, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) hosted the XV edition of the Conference on East-West Cross-Cultural Relations, an international meeting dedicated to dialogues and exchanges between the Luso-Hispanic world, Middle East, and Asia. This version—held in tribute to Peruvian writer Julia Wong—featured academics from different latitudes, including representatives from Millennium Nucleus ICLAC: alternate director Carol Chan and associate researchers María Elvira Ríos and José Miguel Vidal, who presented research on Asia and its connection with Latin America from different cultural, historical, and religious approaches.
Carol Chan (Universidad Diego Portales / ICLAC), co-authored with María Montt (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile / ICLAC), presented the paper "Chinese Communities in Chile: Contemporary Regional Experiences", in the panel Asians and Orientalism in Chile.
María Elvira Ríos (Fundación Dharma Gaia / ICLAC) participated in the panel Religion and Culture in the Hispanic World with the presentation "What was not seen and is seen: Buddhism in Chile".
José Miguel Vidal (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile / ICLAC) was part of the panel Spanish-Language Filipino Writing and the Colonial Philippines, with the presentation "Between Utopia and Cacotopia: Peru's Image in Early Sino-Jesuit and Sino-Protestant Texts (1584–c.1860)"..
The conference was organized by the Center for Oriental Studies (CEO-PUCP), the Academic Department of Humanities at PUCP, and the University of California, Merced, and brought together researchers from various disciplines to reflect on the historical and contemporary links between Asia, Latin America, and other regions of the world.