Please join us for a talk by James Robson 羅柏松 (James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University).

It has become increasingly well-known that religious statues throughout Asia have hidden cavities that are filled with various objects inserted during a…

"Arise! Ye Who Refuse to be Bond Slaves:" Paul Robeson, "The Black King of Songs, " and China

Professor Gao Yunxiang, History, Ryerson University

This lecture is adapted from a chapter in Gao Yunxiang’s new book Arise, Africa! Roar, China! Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in…

Learn about the Laidlaw Undergraduate Leadership and Research Program. Open to first- and second-year students, this 2-year program provides generous support to carry out internationally-focused research, develop leadership skills, engage with community projects overseas, and join a global network of like-minded…

The Institute for African Development (IAD) Summer Africa Internship program provides sophomores, juniors and rising senior undergraduate students with challenging practical fieldwork in Africa. Application deadline is February 28th. Internships are available in Ghana and Zambia. Those interested in applying must…

Zifeng Liu, Ph.D. candidate and Diverse Knowledge East Asia Fellow presents an excerpt from his dissertation: “Translating Black Left Feminism: Shirley Graham Du Bois and Mao’s China”

This presentation examines Shirley Graham Du Bois’s engagement with China in the long 1960s. It explores how she cautiously…

Shelley Rigger, Professor, Davidson University

Is China Part of Taiwan?

There is a long-standing debate over whether Taiwan is part of China. Beijing insists that not only is Taiwan part of China, it is part of the People’s Republic of China. Most Taiwanese reject the idea that the island they live on…

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium welcomes He Bian, Princeton University to lead this month's text reading and discussion on “Yuan-Ming Nourishing Life (yangsheng) Texts: the Discourse of Men.” The text will be shared in the meeting. More details to come.

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Please join us for a talk by MK Long (PhD Candidate, Department of Asian Studies).

This paper opens the historical study of initiated female Buddhist devotees (thilashin) in Myanmar through analysis of the 1982 biography of Daw Medawadi (1862-1932), founder of a Buddhist nunnery (chaung) at the turn of the…

Whose America? Our America! --- Ayukawa Nobuo and the (Lost) Origin of Postwar Japanese Poetry is the focus of this Rough Work session with our guest speaker Yoshiaki Mihara (Hitotsubashi U. / Tokyo, Japan)

It is generally acknowledged that post-WWII Japanese poetry commenced with the formation of a coterie…

The Lingua Mater competition invites alumni to translate Cornell's Alma Mater into a different language and submit a video of the performed translation. The inaugural Lingua Mater alumni competition took place in 2018 as part of Cornell's Global Grand Challenges Symposium. Winners included the Cornell…

The Lingua Mater competition invites students to translate Cornell's Alma Mater into a different language and submit a video of the performed translation. The inaugural Lingua Mater student competition took place in 2018 as part of Cornell's Global Grand Challenges Symposium. The top three videos received…

The Cornell Contemporary China Initiative welcomes CK Lee, Professor, Sociology, UCLA speaking on

Hong Kong: Global China’s Restive Frontier

How did Hong Kong transform itself from a “shoppers’ and capitalists’ paradise” into a “city of protests” at the frontline of an anti-China global backlash?…

Legitimating the State: International Orders and Political Imaginations of China,1300-present

This round-table includes Prof. Tim Brook of the University of British Columbia, Professor David Robinson of Colgate University, Professor Jenny Day of Skidmore College, and Mara Yue Du of Cornell University.…

Up to now, we have had little sense of Tibetan lifespans before the 20th century. The Buddhist Digital Resource Center hosts the largest online biographical database on Tibet and includes data on the lifespans of some 2000 famous Tibetan lamas. Working with a research assistant, I have sorted this data by time…

FLAS fellowships at Cornell support undergraduate, graduate, and professional students studying modern South Asian and Southeast Asian languages and related area studies. Funding is offered in collaboration with the Einaudi Center’s South Asia and Southeast Asia Programs.

Cornell East Asia Series (CEAS) book talk welcomes author Roger Thomas to discuss his book, "Counting Dreams" (October 2021)

Counting Dreams tells the story of Nomura Bōtō, a Buddhist nun, writer, poet, and activist who joined the movement to oppose the Tokugawa Shogunate and restore imperial rule…

Will the rise of China lead to conflict with the United States? Or is cooperation still possible in the current political order? Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus and former Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, offers a fresh perspective on the future of U.S.-…

EAP offers substantial funding resources for multi-disciplinary student research and language learning. Come to this session to learn about them and bring your questions! Students who have received funding and grants from EAP will be present along with staff who will offer suggestions for submitting strong…

The Cornell Classcial Chinese Colloquium 古文品讀 warmly welcomes Tim Brook, of the University of British Columbia, to lead a text reading on Qiu Jun's Daxue yanyi bu.

Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium 古文品讀

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC) 古文品讀 is a reading group for scholars…

The Annual Hu Shih Distinguished Lecture welcomes Tim Brook, History, University of British Columbia. He will speak on Government for the People: Troubling Legacies of the Confucian Statecraft Tradition .

Americans are familiar with Lincoln’s “of the people, by the people, for the people,” while Chinese…

James Millward, Professor of Inter-societal History, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Decolonizing Chinese Historiography—with special attention to Xinjiang

This talk focuses on the use of history, and, more broadly, examines how common concepts and vocabulary used by nearly all…

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports college graduates conducting research or teaching English 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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CEAS welcomes author Glynne Walley to talk about his book Eight Dogs, or Hakkenden: Part One—An Ill-Considered Jest, a translation of Kyokutei Bakin's Nansō Satomi hakkenden. This multigenerational samurai saga was one of the most popular and influential Japanese books of the nineteenth century and has been…

Yoshiko Okuyama, a professor of Japanese studies at the University of Hawai’i at Hilo, will discuss Reframing Disability in Manga (University of Hawaii Press 2020), which she wrote after interviewing manga artists, conducting archival research, and visiting events and organizations serving disability communities in…

Seymour Lecture Focuses on Japan’s Olympic History

ITHACA, NY: This summer, Japan hosted the Olympics for the first time since 1964; before that, the country was awarded the 1940 Olympics and intended to use them to promote a jingoistic national identity, until it had to forfeit the games as a result of war…

This session will provide PhD students with information on the Einaudi Dissertation Proposal Development Program. The program offers seminars, workshops, and faculty mentoring to PhD students in the social sciences and humanities who are developing research projects abroad or domestic research projects on topics…

Learn about the Laidlaw Undergraduate Research and Leadership Program. Open to first- and second-year students, this 2-year program provides generous support to carry out internationally-focused research, develop leadership skills, engage with community projects overseas, and join a global network of like-minded…

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium welcomes Joe Dennis, University of Wisconsin. His text reading is: Songs to Encourage the Cessation of Litigation (Xisong ge 息訟歌) in Ming and Qing.

Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium 古文品讀

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC) 古文品讀 is a reading…

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…

In Yiwu, a town in southeast China known as the world’s largest wholesale center for manufactured commodities for daily consumption, thousands of Chinese Muslims (Hui) work as middlemen between Chinese suppliers and foreign traders. Despite their indispensable role in the trade, many of them act more like clerks…