Spring '24 Events
Korean Media, Democracy, and Pandemic Archives
Welcome to Spring 2024! EAP invites you to join stimulating talks, conversations, and workshops.
This semester, we are excited to welcome Michelle Cho (U of Toronto) to speak on "Transmedia Ecologies of Korean 'New Retro'", and Youngju Ryu (U of Michigan) for a talk titled, "President by Day, President by Night: Media and Democracy in Contemporary South Korea" amongst others.
February
2/2 The Emergence of the Yuan non-Han Ancestry in Late Qing North China
Tomoyasu Iiyama, Waseda University
3:30 p.m. | virtual | Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium
2/9 Indigenous (Austronesian) Language Endangerment and Revitalization in Taiwan
Edith Aldridge, Linguistics, Academia Sinica
1:00 p.m. | 110 White Hall
2/17 Cornell Concert Series: DoosTrio with Kayhan Kalhor, Wu Man, and Sandeep Das
7:30 p.m. | Bailey Hall
March
3/4 The Dangerous Politics of State-Business Relations in Contemporary China
Meg Rithmire, Harvard Business School | Cornell Contemporary China Initiative
3/7 Transmedia Ecologies of Korean “New Retro”
Michelle Cho, East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
5:00 p.m. | A.D. White House, Guerlac Room | EastAsia+ Initiative
3/8 Animating Forces: Late-Ming and Early-Qing Conceptions of “Plucking Life” (caisheng 採生)
Andrew Schonebaum, Chinese Studies, University of Maryland
3:30 p.m. | Rockefeller Hall 374 | Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium
3/11 Hideo Kojima and Progressive Game Design
Bryan Hikari Harzheim, Waseda University
EAP Graduate Student Steering Committee
4:45 p.m. | Goldwin Smith Hall 64
3/22 Epitaphs Made Widely Available in the Northern Song (960-1127)
Man Xu, History, Tufts University
3:30 p.m. | Rockefeller Hall 374 | Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium
3/25 Book Talk: Sustainable Peace in Northeast Asia
Y.S. Lee, Cornell Law School
Noon to 1:30 p.m. | Uris Hall 204 | RSVP requested
April
4/8 Negotiating Legality: Chinese Companies in the U.S. Legal Systems
Ji Li, University of California, Irvine School of Law
4:45 p.m. | Myron Taylor Hall Room 182 Cornell Law School
4/12 Su-Yeon Seo, Asian Studies, Cornell
3:30 p.m. | Rockefeller Hall 374 | Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium
4/15 President by Day, President by Night: Media and Democracy in Contemporary South Korea
Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan
4:45 p.m. | Goldwin Smith Hall 64
4/29 Stormy Seas: Taiwan’s Democracy under the Shadow of China
Thung-Hong Lin, Sociology, Academia Sinica
4:45 p.m. | Goldwin Smith Hall 64
May
5/3 Pandemic Archives: Media, Geopolitics, and Temporalities of Crisis (Day 1)
Book Talk: SARS Stories: Affect and Archive of the 2003 Pandemic
Belinda Kong, Asian Studies and English, Bowdoin College
5/4 Pandemic Archives: Media, Geopolitics, and Temporalities of Crisis (Day 2)
10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. | hybrid workshop | Physical Sciences Building 401