The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC) is pleased to welcome Stephen Teiser, of Princeton University to lead our final CCCC text reading of the semester. HYBRID

He will present one or two Chinese Buddhist liturgical texts (zhaiwen 齋文) composed largely in parallel prose (pianliwen 駢儷文 or siliuwen 四六文…

This event is canceled due to a change in the House voting schedule. The Congressman must be on the floor of the Capitol to vote.

We welcome Rep. Ami Bera to discuss China and nonproliferation moderated by Rep. Steve Israel and Vice Provost Wendy Wolford.

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Rep. Ami Bera, M.D., U.S.…

Come to our annual Showcase event and join us congratulating these 5 students who will receive Achievement Award! Shimtah and E.Motion will perform for us and students from 6 different courses will present their projects. Also, enjoy trivia and Korean snack! Invite your friends and let's celebrate the end of…

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC) is pleased to welcome Tristan Brown, of MIT to lead our next CCCC text reading titled, "Fengshui in Texts from Qing China."

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

Forging Lasting Peace: Movements for Justice in a Pluralist World (Bartels World Affairs Lecture)

In our ethnically, racially, linguistically, and religiously diverse world, how do we find common ground? Amid ongoing conflict and violence, how do we foster lasting peace? In our world full of inequalities,…

Please join us for a talk by Eugene Wang (Harvard).

A Buddhist cave decorated with scenes of meditation at once makes perfect sense and no sense at all. It makes sense in view of the centrality of meditation in Buddhist imagination and practice. It makes no sense in that nowhere in Buddhist discourse do we…

This talk by Mey-Yen Moriuchi (LaSalle University) explores the history of Chinese migration to Cuba, which began with the coolie trade in the mid-nineteenth century. Between 1847 and 1874, approximately 150,000 Chinese were brought to Cuba under termed contracts to fulfill a labor shortage on the sugarcane…

Lecture and panel with Qiufan Chen.

The greatest value of science fiction is not providing answers, but rather raising questions.

Can AI help humans prevent the next global pandemic by eliminating it at the very root? How can we deal with future job challenges? How can we maintain cultural diversity…

CCCI welcomes Tani Barlow, the George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University to speak on, "Instinct and Society."

When Li Zehou burst onto the scene during the 1980s ‘culture fever’ he dragged back in altered form a much earlier foundational debate over…

Co-sponsored by the East Asia Program

The speaker has changed her title and abstract (4/21/22). Below is the new abstract for the title above:

In 1905, as the Russo-Japanese War deepened and the rise of the Meiji Empire began to take hold including Japan’s annexation of the Korean peninsula, a…