Entangled Ecologies: Memory, Place, and the Camellia Forests of Jeju Island, South Korea

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026 | 12-1pm | Rockefeller Hall 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)

Speaker: Jeongsu Shin, Cornell University 

Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium with Tingting Xu

Friday, February 6th, 2026 | 3:30-6:00pm | Rockefeller Hall 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)

Speaker: Tingting Xu, University of Rochester

The Current Governance: Distributed Chinese Television and Hydropower in the 1980s

Wednesday, February 11th, 2026 | 12-1pm | Uris Hall G-08

Speaker: Weixian Pan, Queen’s University 

Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium with Rania Huntington

Friday, February 20th, 2026 | 3:30-4:30pm | Rockefeller Hall 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)

Speaker: Rania Huntington, University of Wisconsin-Madison 

Translucent Atmospherics: Media as Utility in China

Friday, February 27th, 2026 | 4:30-5:30pm | Uris Hall G-08

Speaker: Angela Xiao Wu, New York University 

Korean Studies Speaker Series: Broadcasting Intimacy: Women’s Letters, Patriarchy, and Postwar Reconstruction in South Korea 

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026 | 4:45-5:45pm | Physical Sciences Building 120

Speaker: Jina Kim, University of Oregon 

Programmer as Translator, AI as Poet

Monday, March 9th, 2026 | 4:30-5:30pm | Uris Hall, G-08

Speaker: Joanna Krenz, Institute of Oriental Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University 

From War Waste to Cultural Legacy: The Role of Chinese Poetry in WWI Trench Art

Tuesday, March 17, 2026 | 4:30-5:30pm | Rockefeller Hall 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)

Speaker: Ding Xiang Warner, Cornell University

Invisible Anatomy: Meridians and Math in Chinese Medicine

Monday, April 6th, 2026 | 4:30-5:30pm | Uris Hall G-08

Speaker: Lan Li, John Hopkins University 

Film Screening: Invisible Nation (2023)

Tuesday, April 7th, 2026 | 6:00pm | Ives Hall 115

Book Talk: Convict Politics: Innocent Convicts and Unlawful Commoners in Early Chinese Empires (221 BCE-23 CE)

Thursday, April 9th, 2026 | 4:30-5:30pm | Rockefeller Hall 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)

Speaker: Liang Cai, University of Notre Dame 

Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium with Quan Gan

Friday, April 10th, 2026 | 3:30-4:30pm | Rockefeller Hall 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)

Speaker: Quan Gan, Rice University 

A History of Timelessness: Constructing Authenticity at the Ise Shrines

Monday, April 13th, 2026 | 4:30-5:30pm | Uris Hall, G-08

Speaker: Jordan Sand, Georgetown University

Emperor Qianlong’s Peepshow Boxes: A Case of 18th-century Global Interaction in Art and Visual Culture

Thursday, April 23rd, 2026 | 4:30-5:30pm | Johnson Museum Robinson Lecture Hall

Speaker: Wu Hung, University of Chicago 

Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium with Wu Hung

Friday, April 24th, 2026 | 3:30-4:30pm | Rockefeller Hall 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)

Speaker: Wu Hung, University of Chicago

Localizing Surrealism: A Cross-Cultural Study of Modern Taiwanese Poetry 超現實主義的在地化：台灣現代詩的跨文化研究

Thursday, August 28, 2025 | 5pm to 6pm | Uris Hall, G08

Speaker: Cheng-Chung Liu, National Taiwan University

Poetry by Tang Juan: A Community Translation of Ah, Conan

Friday, August 29, 2025 | 5pm to 6pm | Buffalo Streets Books

Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium: “Rhubarb under Embargo: Medicine and Diplomacy in the Qing”

Friday, September 19, 2025 | 3:30pm - 5:30pm | Rockefeller Hall, Room 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)

Speaker: Chang Xu, Rice University

Unification, Threat, and Security: Public Views Across the Strait

Friday, October 3, 2025 | 2pm- 4pm | A.D. White House

Speaker: Chih-Jou Chen, Academia Sinica

Mobilizing Ghosts for the Chinese Communist Revolution

Thursday, October 9, 2025 | 5:00pm - 6:15pm | Goldwin Smith Hall G64

Speaker: Xiaofei Kang, George Washington University

Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium: Female Spirit Mediums in Late Imperial China

Friday, October 10, 2025 | 3:30pm - 5:30pm | Rockefeller Hall, Room 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)

Speaker: Xiaofei Kang, George Washington University

Global Chinese Theatre: A Transnational Perspective

Thursday, October 16, 2025 | 4:30pm - 5:30pm | Uris Hall, G08

Speaker: Wah Guan Lim, National Chung Hsing University

The Division of Feelings: Affect and Gender Politics in Cold War Literature of Taiwan and South Korea

Tuesday, October 21, 2025 | 4:30pm - 5:30pm | Rockefeller Hall, Room 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)

Speaker: Eno Pei-Jean Chen, National Chengchi University

Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium: "Across Waters and Borders - Shuilu fahui 水陸法會 (Water-Land Dharma Assembly) Beyond China"

Friday, November 7 | 3:30pm - 5:30pm | Rockefeller Hall, Room 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)

Speaker: Jingyu Liu, Rollins College

Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium: “Peach Spring Grotto: Vernacular Rituals of the Plum Mountain Region, Hunan”

Friday, November 21 | 3:30pm - 5:30pm | Rockefeller Hall, Room 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)

Speaker: Mark Meulenbeld, Hong Kong University

Protecting the Past, Present, and Future: Uyghur Culture and History in Swedish Archives and Museums

Wednesday, December 3 | 4:30pm | Uris Hall, G-08

Speaker: Patrick Hällzon, Uppsala University

Book Talk: Seeing China's Belt Road Initiative

Speaker: Rachel Silvey, University of Toronto

The Political Thought of Xi Jinping

Speaker: Steve Tsang, University of London

Recording: Youtube—The Political Thought of Xi Jinping

Studying China in the Absence of Access: Relearning a Lost Art

Speaker: Andrew Mertha, John Hopkins University

Recording: YouTube—Studying China in the Absence of Access: Relearning a Lost Art

The Rule of Law in Political Conflicts: How Taiwanese Courts Respond to Disobedience in Political Polarization

Speaker: Jimmy Chia-Hsin Hsu, Academia Sinica

Walls-as-Media: Between Cheng (Wall-City) and Ping (Wall-Screen)

Speaker: Jinying Li, Brown University

Japan’s “New Pre-War”: On the Repetition of a Capitalist Form

Speaker: Ken Kawashima, University of Toronto

The Social Movement to Legalize Same-sex Marriage in Taiwan

Speaker: Hsiao-Wei Kuan, National Taipei University

Fighting Uyghur Forced Labor: Government, Researchers, Industry, and Civil Society

Speaker: Laura Murphy, Department of Homeland Security

Recording: YouTube—Fighting Uyghur Forced Labor: Government, Researchers, Industry, and Civil Society

Weighty Futures: The changing place of sumo in neo-liberal Japan

Speaker: Kenji Tierney, SUNY New Paltz

Formosan (Austronesian) Language Endangerment and Revitalization in Taiwan

Speaker: Edith Aldridge, Academia Sinica

Unmasking the CCP Lecture Series, "China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed"

Speaker: Andrew Walder, Stanford University

Hideo Kojima and Progressive Game Design

Speaker: Bryan Hikari Hartzheim, Waseda University

Book talk: Sustainable Peace in Northeast Asia

Speaker: Steve Lee, Cornell Law School

Author talk: "Negotiating Legality: Chinese Companies in the U.S. Legal System"

Speaker: Ji Li, UC Irvine

Stormy Seas: Taiwan's Democracy under the Shadow of China

Speaker: Thunghong Lin, Academia Sinica

Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China’s Communist Revolution

Speaker: Karl Gerth, UC San Diego

Unleashing the Power of Feminist Activism in China

Speaker:Churan Zheng, Cornell University

The Stealth Activist Japanese Supreme Court

Speaker: Masahiko Kinoshita, University of Kobe, Japan

Uyghur Children in China’s Genocide: A Symposium

How Long is a Contemporary Chinese Poem?

Speaker: Pu Wang, Brandeis University

The Qing Conquest as "Just War": Manchu Arguments and European Reception

Speaker:Nicola Di Cosmo, Institute of Advanced Study

Ainu as an Indigenous Language of Japan: History, Controversy, Implication

Speaker: Anna Bugaeva,Tokyo University of Science