This semester, we are excited to welcome Michelle Cho (U of Toronto) to speak on "Transmedia Ecologies of Korean 'New Retro'", and Youngju Ryu (U of Michigan) for a talk titled, "President by Day, President by Night: Media and Democracy in Contemporary South Korea" amongst others.

February

2/2 The Emergence of the Yuan non-Han Ancestry in Late Qing North China

    Tomoyasu Iiyama, Waseda University

    3:30 p.m. | virtual | Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium

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2/9 Indigenous (Austronesian) Language Endangerment and Revitalization in Taiwan

    Edith Aldridge, Linguistics, Academia Sinica

    1:00 p.m. | 110 White Hall

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2/17 Cornell Concert Series: DoosTrio with Kayhan Kalhor, Wu Man, and Sandeep Das

     7:30 p.m. | Bailey Hall

March

3/4 The Dangerous Politics of State-Business Relations in Contemporary China

    Meg Rithmire, Harvard Business School | Cornell Contemporary China Initiative

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3/7 Transmedia Ecologies of Korean “New Retro”

    Michelle Cho, East Asian Studies, University of Toronto

    5:00 p.m. | A.D. White House, Guerlac Room | EastAsia+ Initiative

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3/8 Animating Forces: Late-Ming and Early-Qing Conceptions of “Plucking Life” (caisheng 採生)

    Andrew Schonebaum, Chinese Studies, University of Maryland

    3:30 p.m. | Rockefeller Hall 374 | Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium

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3/11 Hideo Kojima and Progressive Game Design

     Bryan Hikari Harzheim, Waseda University

     EAP Graduate Student Steering Committee

     4:45 p.m. | Goldwin Smith Hall 64

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3/22 Epitaphs Made Widely Available in the Northern Song (960-1127)

      Man Xu, History, Tufts University

      3:30 p.m. | Rockefeller Hall 374 | Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium

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3/25 Book Talk: Sustainable Peace in Northeast Asia

         Y.S. Lee, Cornell Law School

         Noon to 1:30 p.m. | Uris Hall 204 | RSVP requested

April

4/8 Negotiating Legality: Chinese Companies in the U.S. Legal Systems

    Ji Li, University of California, Irvine School of Law

    4:45 p.m. | Myron Taylor Hall Room 182 Cornell Law School

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4/12 Su-Yeon Seo, Asian Studies, Cornell

     3:30 p.m. | Rockefeller Hall 374 | Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium

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4/15 President by Day, President by Night: Media and Democracy in Contemporary South Korea 

     Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan

     4:45 p.m. | Goldwin Smith Hall 64

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4/29 Stormy Seas: Taiwan’s Democracy under the Shadow of China

      Thung-Hong Lin, Sociology, Academia Sinica

      4:45 p.m. | Goldwin Smith Hall 64

May

5/3 Pandemic Archives: Media, Geopolitics, and Temporalities of Crisis (Day 1)

      Book Talk: SARS Stories: Affect and Archive of the 2003 Pandemic     

      Belinda Kong, Asian Studies and English, Bowdoin College

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5/4 Pandemic Archives: Media, Geopolitics, and Temporalities of Crisis (Day 2)

      10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. | hybrid workshop | Physical Sciences Building 401