Speaker: Quan Gan, Lecturer of History, Rice University

Title: Invest the Gods, Praise the Lord: Royal Speeches on Temple Steles in Wuyue

Abstract: Throughout his political career, Qian Liu 錢鏐 (d. 932 CE) repeatedly petitioned the emperors in the north to grant honorific titles to powerful figures—…

East Asia Program Lecture Series presents "Convict Politics: Innocent Convicts and Unlawful Commoners in Early Chinese Empires (221 BCE-23 CE)"

Speaker: Liang Cai, Ruth and Paul Idzik Associate Professor in Digital Scholarship of History, University of Notre Dame

Description:

This…

Please join us a for a screening of the documentary Invisible Nation (2023), hosted by the East Asia Program. The film tells the story of Taiwan's first female president, Tsai Ing-Wen.

Film synopsis: Unprecedented access to Taiwan’s first female president, Tsai Ing-wen, centers this portrait of the…

East Asia Program Lecture Series presents “Invisible Anatomy: Meridians and Math in Chinese Medicine"

Speaker: Lan Li, Assistant Professor of The History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

Description:

This talk is based on Body Maps: Improvising Meridians and Nerves in Global Chinese…

Nebula and Ursula K. Le Guin Award winning author Vajra Chandrasekera discusses his writing with Anindita Banerjee, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, and Suman Seth, Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and Marie Underhill Noll Professor of the History of Science.

Vajra Chandrasekera is from…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Taomo Zhou, Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at The Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact seapgatty@…

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports U.S. citizens to study, conduct research in any field, or teach English in more than 150 countries. The program is open to graduate students, recent graduates, and young professionals. Undergraduate students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are…

Speaker: Ding Xiang Warner, Professor of Chinese Literature, Cornell University

Abstract: The usual procedures of the scholar of Chinese poetry, when asking the question “What is the meaning of this Chinese poem?,” are familiar and generally reliable. Whether we ask the question about a poem’s “original…

A workshop with Joanna Krenz to discuss two papers she authored:

Programmer as Translator: The LHC of Chinese Artificial Intelligence Poetry

Virtual Conciliation: (Un-)Coding the Split between Tradition and Modernity in Chinese Artificial Intelligence Poetry

The workshop will focus on…

Speaker: Jina Kim, Associate Professor of Korean Literature & Culture, University of Oregon

Description: This presentation examines how a 1950s South Korean radio docudrama contributed to post-war reconstruction of national identity, shaped cultural narratives, and participated in collective healing. In…

East Asia Program Lecture Series presents Translucent Atmospherics: Media as Utility in China

Speaker: Angela Xiao Wu, Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University

Abstract
Utilities provide essential services like water, electricity, railroads…

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports U.S. citizens to study, conduct research in any field, or teach English in more than 150 countries. The program is open to graduate students, recent graduates, and young professionals. Undergraduate students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are…

Speaker: Rania Huntington, Professor of Chinese Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title: The Grieving Father and the Baleful Spirits: Qian Xiyan’s Ting lan zhi (Record of Listening to Falsehood)

To join virtually:…

Join us for the final evening recital of guest composer Makiko Nishikaze’s visit to Cornell. A wide array of chamber works from throughout Nishikaze’s eclectic career will be performed by members of the Cornell community, as well as by the composer herself. From four-hands arrangements of J.S. Bach to forays in 9-…

Composer, pianist, performance, and video artist Makiko Nishikaze joins Cornell’s composers' forum to present on her music. Born in Wakayama, Japan and residing in Berlin, Germany, Nishikaze’s highly varied work comfortably spans mediums and practices, with a particular emphasis on spatial performance, early…

As part of guest composer Makiko Nishikaze’s visit to Cornell, pianist Jack Yarbrough presents a lecture-recital on her vast output of piano music. Selections from over 30 years of creative engagement with the instrument will be performed with extensive commentary. The evening will conclude with the world premiere…

Speaker: Weixian Pan, Assistant Professor of Film & Media, Queen's University

Description:
How might the history of television and the history of energy development cross paths, inform, and complicate each other? This work revisits the formative decade of China’s economic reform, the 1980s, as…

Join Einaudi Center experts for World in Focus Talks on global events in the news and on your mind. Our faculty's research and policy insights put the world in focus.

This year we’re hosting informal campus discussions on many Tuesday afternoons. This week’s topic:

In the United States and…

Join us to learn about opportunities for graduate students with the Einaudi Center for International Studies. This session will discuss how to discover or strengthen global interests, including research and travel grants, guest lectures, fellowships, and more!

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Speaker: Tingting Xu, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Rochester

Title: Prince Chun, Photography, and Poetry: Visual and Textual Accounts of the Naval Drill of 1886

Abstract: The poem Singing while Sailing (Hanghai fangge) was written by Prince Chun Yihuan (1840~1891) on the 15th days…

Speaker: Jeongsu Shin, LB Korean Studies Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University

Description:

This talk explores how memory, ecology, and place intertwine in the Giving Forest of Jeju Island, South Korea. Once a site of violence during the April 3rd Uprising and mid-twentieth-century state…

Join Einaudi Center experts for World in Focus Talks on global events in the news and on your mind. Our faculty's research and policy insights put the world in focus.

This year we’re hosting informal campus discussions on many Tuesday afternoons. This week’s topic:

The United States helped…

The Laidlaw Scholars Leadership and Research Program promotes ethical leadership and international research around the world—starting with the passionate leaders and learners found on campuses like Cornell. Open to first- and second-year students, the two-year Laidlaw program provides generous support to carry out…

The Laidlaw Scholars Leadership and Research Program promotes ethical leadership and international research around the world—starting with the passionate leaders and learners found on campuses like Cornell. Open to first- and second-year students, the two-year Laidlaw program provides generous support to carry out…

Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…

This multi-disciplinary panel brings together scholars studying Chinese migration to 20th century Malaya and contemporary Singapore. The overarching concern is to assess how geopolitics and class differentiation have shaped the experiences of Chinese migrants to the region as well as their local reception. The…

Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…

Come to the LRC or join us on Zoom to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language…

Go global in summer 2026! Global Internships give you valuable international work experience in fields spanning global development, climate and sustainability, international relations, communication, business, governance, and more.

Applications are open now.

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Speaker: Dr. Patrick Hällzon, Postdoctoral, Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics

Talk Description: Swedish archives host some of the world’s largest collections of early-20th-century Uyghur material culture and written sources. This consists of manuscripts, printed books, photographs, as well as…