East Asia Program Lecture Series
The East Asia Program Lecture Series brings scholars from around the world to speak on a wide range of topics in East Asian studies. Recordings of many past lectures are available on the Global Cornell YouTube channel.
Spring 2026 Lectures & Events:
More events will be announced throughout the semester.
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
Title (To Be Announced)
Thursday, February 26th, 2026 | 4:30-5:30pm | Uris Hall G-08
Speaker: Angela Xiao Wu, New York University
Korean Studies Speaker Series - Title (To Be Announced)
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026 | 4:45-5:45pm | Uris Hall G-08
Speaker: Jina Kim, University of Oregon
Title (To Be Announced)
Monday, April 6th, 2026 | 4:30-5:30pm | Uris Hall G-08
Speaker: Lan Li, John Hopkins University
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
Friday, April 10th, 2026 | 3:30-4:30pm | Rockefeller Hall 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)
Speaker: Quan Gan, Rice University
Emperor Qianlong’s Peep 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
Friday, April 24th, 2026 | 3:30-4:30pm | Location
Speaker: Wu Hung, University of Chicago
Past Lectures: