Past Events
East Asia Program
8:00 pm
Virtual
Virtual event. Seven students in the Korean Language Program will compete in a Korean singing contest for prizes! The audience will vote. Pre-recorded performances by Cornell's dance groups, LOKO and E.Motion will be played as well. Open to the public.
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
4:30 pm
Virtual
"When They Come For Your Identity: The Ongoing Destruction of Living and Historical Heritage in the Uyghur Region, China"
Since 2017, a cultural genocide is unfolding in Western China. This illustrated lecture reveals the staggering scope: The living, historical, and archaeological heritage of the…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
6:30 pm
Virtual
Protests against racism and police violence crescendoed in the United States and around the world in 2020. In the United States and internationally, how can we balance social justice, accountability, and personal freedom with demands for order and security?
This Lund Critical Debate brings together the…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
4:30 pm
Virtual
Speaker: Miki Kaneda, Music, Musicology, Boston University
What can graphic musical scores tell us about sounds yet to be heard, as well as the stories that may be told about their creators and their worlds? This talk examines two exhibitions of graphic scores, both held in Tokyo in 1962. Miki Kaneda offers…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
5:00 pm
Virtual
A Webinar Sponsored by The Levinson China & Asia-Pacific Studies Program
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
3:30 pm
Virtual
Reading Adultery in the Criminal Records of Late Chosŏn Korea
Jisoo Kim, George Washington University
This presentation introduces the records of criminal cases in the Simnirok (Records of Royal Reviews), a collection compiled during the reign of Chŏngjo (r. 1776-1800). This collection includes 1,112…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
4:30 pm
Virtual
An online panel discussion considering relations between modern mapping, as a configuration of spatial difference, and modern figurations of race and ethnicity in Japanese Studies.
Hosted by Brett de Bary, Professor Emerita, Asian Studies and Comparative Literature
Participants:
Discussant –…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
12:00 pm
Virtual
In Search for a Cure: Trust and Social Inequality in Contemporary China
Presenter: Xisai Song, Ph.D. candidate, Anthropology
This paper unpacks how social inequality shapes patients’ trust in medicine in contemporary China. In particular, I examine how rural low-income patients struggle with chronic…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
11:00 am
Virtual
Celebrate International Education Week #IEW2020 with Global Cornell!
Join DJ Daniel Bass of WRFI's Monsoon Radio for world music of 2020—from coronavirus and mass incarceration, to migration, love, dancing, and beyond. Jonathan Miller of Homelands Productions cohosts.
For semi-finals: It's a…
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
South Asia Program
4:00 pm
Virtual
Please join us for a virtual talk by Jonathan C. Gold, Associate Professor of Religion at Princeton University.
Buddhist thought provides a meta-identity theory. Doctrines such as dependent origination, emptiness, and karma can be used to theorize the ethics of adopting and ascribing socio-cultural…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
3:30 pm
Virtual
"Bones, Brains, and Meridians: Animated Anatomy and Image-Text Analysis"is the title of this Classical Chinese text-reading with Lan Li of Rice University.
"Bones, Brains, and Meridians: Animated Anatomy and Image-Text Analysis"
This discussion interrogates the representation of…
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
6:00 pm
Cornell Tech, Tata 123
Cornell University Emerging Markets Institute (EMI) and partners — Northeastern University Center for Emerging Markets (CEM), The Simon Fraser University Jack Austin Centre For Asia Pacific Business Studies, and The University of Texas at Dallas Center for Global Business (CGB) — are pleased to announce the fifth…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
9:00 am
Virtual
Cornell EMI Case Competition 2020
Along with the conference, the Fourth Cornell Emerging Markets Institute Annual Case Competition will be held on November 7th. The theme is ‘Ten years that changed Emerging Markets’. The competition will focus on identifying and answering questions that real businesses and…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
12:00 am
Virtual
The Emerging Markets Institute (EMI) annual conference to be held on November 6-7.
The decade that has changed Emerging Markets
The last 10 years has been transformational for Emerging markets; their economies have grown, poverty levels have gone down and, in some cases, extreme poverty has been…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
12:00 am
Online
The EMI will celebrate the 10th anniversary at the EMI conference.
Please join us: https://bit.ly/EMIConference2020
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
12:00 pm
Virtual
Presenter: Tinakrit Sireerat, Ph.D. candidate, Asian Studies, Cornell
This paper is a reassessment of the claim that the natural environment of Hokkaido is ideal for livestock production.
ROUGH WORK: Discussing research in progress, hence the term, rough work. This rough work session is hosted by the…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
South Asia Program
5:00 pm
Virtual
The Lingua Mater competition invites alumni to translate Cornell's Alma Mater into a different language and submit a video of the performed translation. The inaugural Lingua Mater alumni competition took place in 2018 as part of Cornell's Global Grand Challenges Symposium. Winners included the Cornell…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
South Asia Program
5:00 pm
Virtual
The Lingua Mater competition invites students to translate Cornell's Alma Mater into a different language and submit a video of the performed translation. The inaugural Lingua Mater student competition took place in 2018 as part of Cornell's Global Grand Challenges Symposium. The top three videos received…
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
South Asia Program
4:00 pm
Virtual
Please join us for a virtual talk by Jane Marie Law, Associate Professor of Asian Studies here at Cornell University.
Professor Law's research explores the interface between living communities and religious ideologies and praxis, with fieldwork as a core methodology. Her early work focused on the ritual…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
12:01 am
Virtual
Ithaca Premiere
1979 > Taiwan/Hong Kong > Directed by King Hu
With Feng Hsu, Yueh Sun, Chun Shih
Buddhist spirituality suffuses this restored wuxia (martial arts) masterpiece from King Hu. Rival gangs compete to steal a priceless scroll from a monastery in "a remarkably photographed…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
4:30 pm
Virtual
Speaker: Bin Xu, Associate Professor, Sociology, Emory University
Chairman Mao’s Children: Politics, Generation, and China’s Difficult Memory
In the 1960s and 1970s, about 17 million Chinese youths were mobilized or forced by the state to migrate to the rural areas and the frontiers. In his…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
12:01 am
Virtual
Ithaca Premiere> 2019 > China/Italy > Directed by Rita Andreetti
With Hu Jie
The observer of this documentary's title is China's Hu Jie, maker of films, woodcuts and paintings who courageously documents the years of the Great Famine and the Cultural Revolution. None of his films have…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
12:30 pm
Virtual
Shuang Shen is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Chinese, Penn State University
This paper situates Cantonese literature in the context of several key programmatic changes of language in the twentieth-century Sinosphere, including language reforms, language movements, or language policies…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
4:30 pm
Virtual
Speaker: Emily T. Yeh is Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder
Abstract: Although infrastructure is conventionally thought of in reference to human-designed systems such as railroads, pipelines, tunnels, and ports, landscapes, and nature itself are also increasingly being understood as…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
10:00 am
Virtual
Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium with Meir Shahar, Tel Aviv University
Description of Texts for the Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium
Written materials from late-imperial rural China are relatively rare. I have chosen two specimens for the Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium. The first is…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
12:00 pm
Virtual
The Annual Hu Shih Distinguished Lecture with Meir Shahar, History, Tel Aviv University
Chinese Animal Gods
Abstract: Our ancestors depended upon beasts of burden for a living. In the Chinese case this dependence was reflected in the religious sphere. Chinese religion featured deities responsible…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
9:00 am
Virtual
Rescheduled from April, Dr. Daisy Wang will present this year's annual Stoikov Lecture, "Who is Lai Fong? New Perspectives on 19th-Century Photography in China" as a free webinar.
Daisy Wang is deputy director of the Hong Kong Palace Museum, which will open its doors in 2022. She was…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
12:01 am
Virtual
Ithaca Premiere
2019 > South Korea > Directed by Bora Kim
With Ji-hu Park, Sae-byuk Kim, Seung-yeon Lee
Fourteen-year-old Eun-hee moves through life like a hummingbird searching for a taste of sweetness wherever she may find it. Ignored by her parents and abused by her brother, she finds…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
3:00 pm
Virtual
The food industry has a long history of driving and shaping low wage labor migration regimes, and around the world agriculture is often a site for large undocumented workforces, exploitative visa arrangements, and a disproportionate share of human trafficking as compared with other industries. Agricultural labor…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
4:30 pm
Virtual
The transformation of family patterns in advanced capitalist societies has received much attention in academic and popular writing. While “modern families” are widely accepted in Europe, alarm and anxiety characterize the tenor around the changes in East Asian family structures. South Korea serves as a case study…