The Language Resource Center offers grants for effective and innovative projects that enhance language instruction at Cornell. We welcome proposals from all languages and all levels of instruction. Lecturers, senior lecturers, and professors who are involved with language teaching and do not have visiting status…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture series

Alexandra Dalferro, PhD Candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology, Cornell University

Silk textiles woven in Surin Province are recognized across Thailand for the complex matmi, or ikat, patterns they bear. Matmi patterns are achieved by tying hundreds…

Laura Stone '90 is Deputy Assistant Secretary for South Asia, overseeing U.S. policy towards and relations with India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Maldives, and Bhutan. She will discuss her wide-ranging career in the U.S. Foreign Service, as well as her perspective on diplomatic statecraft in the 21st…

Please join us for an invited talk by Prof. Ann Gleig, generously co-sponsored by the Departments of Asian Studies, History and Philosophy; the South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia and Religious Studies Programs; the Society for the Humanities; and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly. The event is open…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture series

Mai Van Tran, Ph.D., Department of Government, Cornell University

What accounts for the survival and long-term commitment of activists to social movements under repression? I argue for the role of an important yet oft-neglected player: civilian…

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports college graduates conducting research or teaching in any field in more than 150 countries. Applications are due in the fall; students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are encouraged to start the process in their junior year.

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Please join us for an invited talk by Prof. Peter Skilling, generously co-sponsored by the Departments of Asian Studies, History and Philosophy; the South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia and Religious Studies Programs; and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly. The event is open to all interested, and…

Is the Einaudi Center's International Relations minor for you? Here's a chance to find out. Graduates go on to successful careers in fields like international law, economics, agriculture, trade, finance, journalism, education, and government service.

Contact:…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture series

John Burgess, independent author and journalist, former Washington Post journalist and author of Angkor's Temples in the Modern Era: War, Pride, and Tourist Dollars

Angkor, capital of the Khmer Empire for close to six centuries, has had a rich…

Asia is central to global Islam’s development as a religious, social, and political reality, according to Chiara Formichi, associate professor in the Department of Asian Studies.

In a live, virtual Chats in the Stacks talk, Formichi discusses Islam and Asia: A History (Cambridge University Press, 2020), her…

"Food, Plants, and Transoceanic Trade: The Making of the Filipino Identity"

Using the quintessential Philippine garden described in the folk song, "Bahay Kubo," this presentation emphasizes how Filipinos’ ideas of food is based on an active regional interaction and a regional maritime…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture series

Cherubim Quizon, Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Social Work and Criminal Justice, Seton Hall University

The magical and spiritual power of red cloth has a long and complex story in the Philippines…

Want to learn a language this summer? Learn about Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships and Critical Language Scholarships, which provide fully funded opportunities for Cornell undergraduate and graduate students to study South and Southeast Asian languages in the summer, and even in the academic year.

"Addressing Speech Comprehensibility in the Second Language Classroom: What 25 Years of Research Might Tell Us About Classroom Pedagogy"
Dustin Crowther
Assistant Professor of Second Language Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

In his 2005 publication, John Levis highlighted the…

Take an auditory journey through tropical oceans and islands with the Cornell Lab’s Center for Conservation Bioacoustics as we combine science and music for an hour of entertainment, information, and audience Q&A. Our researchers show you how they study the magnificent animals of the area by capturing their…

Please join us for an invited talk by Prof. Eviatar Shulman, generously co-sponsored by the Departments of Asian Studies, History and Philosophy; the South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia and Religious Studies Programs; and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly. The event is open to all interested, and…

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides full funding for graduate and professional students conducting research or teaching in any field in more than 150 countries. Open to U.S. citizens only.

The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program supports doctoral students conducting research…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture series

Pittayawat (Joe) Pittayaporn, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics; head of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Research Unit, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University

The linguistic landscape of central Thailand prior to the 13th century was…

The Migration Studies minor is a university-wide, interdisciplinary undergraduate minor that prepares students to understand the historical and contemporary contexts and factors that drive international migration and shape migrant experiences around the globe. This minor draws on the rich course offerings found…

The Einaudi Center International Research Travel Grants provide travel support for Cornell graduate students conducting short-term research and/or fieldwork outside the United States. They also provide travel support for professional students engaged in various academic experiences in the international arena.…

In need of some inspiration for another semester in the virtual classroom? Just A Minute! The LRC has your back with the JAM, our winter video series investigating quick ways to spruce up the online language teaching and learning experience.

Short videos drop twice a week on YouTube and our live jam sessions…

The workshop aims to offer an understanding of race, racism, and the particular racial formations embedded in the classroom and a discussion on ways to apply anti-racist pedagogy to courses in Asian studies. With scholars of Asian culture, history, and language participating, this workshop opens discussions on the…

Please join us for a virtual talk by Matthew D. Milligan, Visiting Assistant Professor at Trinity University. Professor Milligan researches Indian and Sri Lankan religious history, focusing on the social and economic history of religions in these regions. A specialist in epigraphy and material culture, Milligan…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty series

Roger Nelson, Curator, National Gallery Singapore

Image credit: Maung Tha Din. Not Titled (Seated Woman Smoking a Cheroot). c. 1920s-1930s. Bronze on wooden base. Collection of National Gallery Singapore.

A seated woman smoking a cheroot; a man…

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…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty series

Anissa Rahadiningtyas, PhD candidate, History of Art and Visual Studies Department, Cornell University

On a scattered typed up notes for an article or a talk in English, Ahmad Sadali (1924-1987) expressed his observation on the conditions that hindered the…

Silky Bodies: Nation-Making and Historical and Contemporary Practices of Caring for Silkworms in Thailand

Alexandra Dalferro is a PhD student in Sociocultural Anthropology. Her research focuses on the politics, practices, and history of silk production in Thailand, particularly among Khmer communities in…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty series

Sittithep Eaksittipong, Lecturer, Department of History, Chiang Mai University

In this talk, I propose the exploration of the social and political lives of G. William Skinner and his classic, Chinese Society in Thailand, in American, Thai and Chinese…

Since September, approximately thirty graduate students working inside and outside the university around the world met every other week to read and think critically and politically about translation and movement in language in and in opposition to Southeast Asian Studies. How do the colonial, imperial and Cold War…

Join us on Zoom throughout the fall for LRC Happy Hour. Every third Tuesday of the month. We'd love to hear how it’s going! All of it.

Bring your (language instruction) stories whether they be good, bad, amazing, or unusual. It takes all kinds of stories to make a Happy Hour great!Bring your own coffee…