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Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

4:45 pm

Goldwin Smith Hall, GSH64 Kaufman Auditorium

Her Voice: Recounting Japanese Military Sexual Slavery in Chinese Literature and Film

Xian Wang (East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Notre Dame)

During World War II, hundreds of thousands of young women across Asia were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military as so-called “…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

8:00 pm

Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium

FRINGE: New Centers for Architecture & Urbanism
The FRINGE is an ambiguous and ubiquitous patchwork of zones forming a wide range of territorial landscapes that can be characterized as neither distinctly urban nor distinctly rural. Imbued with narratives driven by unrelenting and perpetual urbanization,…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

8:00 pm

Virtual

FRINGE: New Centers for Architecture and Urbanism - 2023 Preston H. Thomas Memorial Symposium

Beijing Panel — Thursday, March 2 (Ithaca) | Friday, March 3 (Beijing)

In-Person & Livestream Webinar

Cornell China Center | 1208 Beijing IFC Tower B

8 p.m. (Ithaca) | 9 a.m. (Beijing)…

East Asia Program

1:00 pm

Rockefeller Hall, 374

This talk formulates an approach to Trans-Asia Critical Humanities by showing how trans-local theory emerges and travels from situated ordinary experience to bring Asia in dialogue with the world. With a focus on how media forms are interconnected to tell stories of our contemporary time, I dive into Chinese…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

East Asia Program

11:25 am

Virtual

Infrastructure is at the heart of China’s growing, controversial presence in global development. In addition to economic considerations, observers see infrastructure projects as important cogs in China’s pursuit of international influence. However, debates on Chinese global infrastructure are remarkably devoid of…

East Asia Program

4:30 pm

Rockefeller Hall, 374

An interpretation of Trans-Asia Critical Humanities based on generalizable notions of hybridity, interconnected flows, and horizontality evokes the principle of nested, generative feedback functions, which increasingly undergird finance capital, machine learning, and data governance today. A diagram of loops easily…

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

4:45 pm

Virtual

Over 500 Cornellians have crossed the globe with the Fulbright U.S. Student Program since the 1940s. You could be the next!

The program, administered by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, supports college graduates conducting research or teaching English in more than 150 countries. The…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

3:30 pm

Rockefeller Hall, 374 Asian Studies Lounge

Casey Stevens (Ph.d. student, Asian Studies, Cornell) will launch the Classical Chinese Colloquium Spring '23 with Content and Form: Dunhuang Anthologies of Tang Poetry.

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC) 古文品讀 is a reading group for scholars interested in premodern Sinographic (古文) text.…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

3:00 pm

Virtual

The Global University, Addressing New Subjects of Knowledge is Panel 1 of a 4 panel series which is part of Working in the Traces of Area Studies hosted by faculty emerita Brett DeBary (Asian Studies, Cornell) and Naoki Sakai (Asian Studies, Cornell).

We propose that the disciplines called “Area Studies,”…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

5:00 pm

A. D. White House, Guerlac Room

"Private Academies and the Public Good: A Cold War History of Religion and Education in Japan and the US" lecture with Jolyon Thomas, University of Pennsylvania, on Thursday, February 16, at 5:00 p.m. in A.D. White House.

Thomas researches religion in Japan and the United States at the University…

Mario Einaudi Center for International 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

4:30 pm

Uris Hall, G-02

What do you do when the site where you planned to do your research has a major disruption making your research infeasible? What do you do when a loved one gets sick and you need to find more time for caregiving in the last semester of your program? What do you do when you get a job—a year earlier than you…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

4:45 pm

Goldwin Smith Hall, GSH 64 Kaufman Auditorium

Ling Ma (History, SUNY, Geneseo) kicks off this semester's Cornell Contemporary China Initiative (CCCI) lecture series with a talk on "Men, Masculinity, and Childbirth in Early Twentieth-Century China."

What roles did ordinary men historically play in events such as childbirth and abortion?…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

South Asia Program

10:45 am

Virtual

The Institute for Comparative Modernities' second Global South Translation Symposium, featuring presentations by the 2022-2023 cohort of translators (see below). Moderated by ICM member Natalie Melas, with remarks by Jan Steyn (Translation Studies, University of Iowa) and others.

With presentations…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Comparative Muslim Societies Program

East Asia Program

4:30 pm

Virtual

A distinctive Chinese Islamic intellectual tradition emerged during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). This talk by Kristian Petersen (Old Dominian University) traces the contours of this Sino-Islamic intellectual tradition and key Han Kitab authors.

Chinese Muslims established an…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

7:30 am

Virtual

Come hear Christopher Marquis discuss his new book Mao and Markets (Yale University Press, 2023) that charts how Mao’s ideological principles, mass campaigns, and socialist institutions have enduringly influenced Chinese entrepreneurs, listed companies and provincial and city politicians.

As China opened up…

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

4:30 pm

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies , G-08 Uris Hall

Get involved with the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and the Language Resource Center to enhance your language skills!

Through resources on campus, students of all levels can improve global language skills, apply for funding to practice language abroad, and more.

Opportunities include…

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

4:45 pm

Virtual

Learn more about Fulbright opportunities for graduate students that fund your international research or teaching from a Fulbright advisor at Cornell.

Fulbright at Cornell is administered by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. The Einaudi Center's Fulbright advisor works with you to…

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

2:30 pm

Willard Straight Hall, Memorial Room

Open up a whole new world by studying abroad!

Cornellians who have studied abroad are sharing their experiences at the Office of Global Learning's study abroad fair. You'll learn about where in the world you can study, what programs work for you and your major, and how study abroad can enhance…

East Asia Program

2:45 pm

Olin Hall, 155

Abstract: Without action from China, the world will not be able to contain the climate emergency. China produced nearly 30% of global carbon emissions in 2020, making Xi Jinping’s declaration that year that his country would be carbon neutral by 2060 one of epic significance. Will China be able to meet or exceed…

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

4:30 pm

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, 163 Uris Hall

Stop by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies' Minors Open House to learn about adding an international minor to your degree.

The Einaudi Center offers minors in migration studies, international relations, European studies, and Latin American and Caribbean studies. The Department of Asian…

East Asia Program

4:30 pm

Rockefeller Hall, 374

Scholars of eighth-century Japanese literary works such as Kojiki, Nihon shoki, and Man’yōshū are conventionally assigned the subfield of “ancient literature.” This subfield emerged in the late nineteenth century, when two paradigms vied to define the character of Japanese antiquity and, by extension, the nature of…

East Asia Program

1:00 pm

Rockefeller Hall, 374

During the so-called “Age of Discovery,” Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and Japanese ships crisscrossed the Pacific in search of islands rich in precious metals. One of these fabled imaginaries materialized on the cartographic plane as the “Gold and Silver Isles.” They were often depicted in the northern seas off the…

East Asia Program

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

7:00 pm

Virtual

Cornell University and the Cornell China Center invite you to the Cornell-China 2022 Online Forum featuring 30 speakers highlighting collaboration, research, and innovation!

Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022, 7:00 p.m.–2:00 a.m. EST (Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022, 8:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. in Beijing)

Welcome by Cornell…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

Institute for African Development

12:00 pm

Uris Hall, Einaudi Conference Room 153

In this talk, Amanda Kaminsky will present a paper that untangles the supply chain of Kenya's crayfish industry, to explore how multispecies landscapes come to manifest and shape our social and cultural norms. Amanda draws from one year of ethnographic fieldwork to analyze the historical political ecology of…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

4:45 pm

McGraw Hall, 165

This panel discussion will bring together four speakers to discuss various aspects of the recent protests in China that are without recent precedent. We will aim to provide social and political context for the protests as well as historical analysis. Our panelists include both students and faculty who will present…

East Asia Program

7:30 pm

Goldwin Smith Hall, HEC auditorium

Are you interested in Korean Music, Dance, and Snacks? Come join the Noraebang (singing) Contest and enjoy all of these things! The Contest stars the Korean Language Program students that you can vote for, performances by Korean dance groups E.Motion and LOKO, trivia prizes for the audience, and bakery goods from…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

3:30 pm

Rockefeller Hall, Asian Studies Lounge third floor

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC) 古文品讀 is pleased to have Lucas Bender (East Asian Languages, Yale) lead this text reading.

Bender's text-reading is on "What Troubles the World is Inequality": Politics Before Metaphysics in Guo Xiang's 郭象 (252-312) Zhuangzi 莊子 Commentary…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

5:00 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Jihyun Han (Ph.D. Candidate, History, Cornell University) leads this workshop.

This paper examines two layers of local history: Northeast China’s colonial experience in the 1930-the 1940s and local historians’ writing of it in the 1950-60s. In analyzing various forms of historical writings about Japanese…

East Asia Program

7:00 pm

Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell Cinema

Mr. Zhou Qing, the Berlin-based Chinese movie director and writer, generously granted permission to Professor Peidong Sun to show it to her classes for teaching purposes only.

It is about the history and memory of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and some tragedies in a prominent middle school in Xi…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

East Asia Program

11:25 am

Uris Hall, G08

Professor Ryan Brutger explains that one of the central challenges in China-US relations is the risk of a security dilemma between China and the United States, as each side carries out actions for what it perceives to be defensively-motivated reasons, failing to realize how it is perceived by the other side. Yet…