Helen Jin Kim's book "Race for Revival" argues that the rise of American evangelical empire depended on America’s religious Cold War in Asia. With the outbreak of the Korean War, the first “hot war” of the Cold War, Koreans were indispensable to the transpacific networks that made evangelical America…

Learn more about the Laidlaw Leadership and Research Program for undergraduates, tips for connecting with faculty research mentors, and advice for writing a successful application.

Laidlaw promotes ethical leadership and international research around the world—starting with the passionate leaders and…

Learn more about the migration studies minor and international relations minor—offered by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. Both minors are open to all Cornell undergraduates and include courses from across the university.

With a focus on global migration experiences, the migration studies…

As part of the Threads of History exhibition series, Kroch Asia presents Textiles of Asia: Patterns & Processes.

There is a rich history of textiles in Asia. From the animal-skin clothing of the Ainu to the intricate weaving of silk, Asian cultures have showcased their artistry through their textiles for…

Part of Cornell’s yearlong exploration of freedom of expression, this event from Global Cornell brings together the campus community to discuss how Cornell can protect academic freedom while collaborating with institutions and scholars in places with different political realities and views on free speech.

…

Pu Wang, Professor of Chinese, Russian and Asian Languages and Literature, at Brandeis University, traces the outburst of the writing of long poems by mainland Chinese poets since the turn of the century. These longer experimental texts, together with the debates revolving around them, have formed a key yet…

Hundreds of thousands of ethnic minority children have been seized by the Chinese government, detained, and beaten if they speak their native language, according to numerous human rights groups.

These reported violations of children’s rights will be explored in a symposium entitled “Uyghur Children in China’…

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. Students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are encouraged to start the process in their junior year. Recent graduates are welcome to apply through…

The East Asia Program (EAP) offers one-semester fellowships for doctoral students working on East Asia-related projects, travel grants for graduate students conducting field research in China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, and a small number of East Asian language study grants.

At this info session, EAP…

Join this walking tour around central campus to visit important sites that showcase the deep history between Cornell and China. Learn more about how modern Chinese language resulted from an overturned canoe in Beebe Lake, visit buildings of historical importance, and hear stories showcasing vibrant Cornell-China…

The Einaudi Dissertation Proposal Development Program (DPD) supports 12 PhD students annually by offering seminars, workshops, mentoring sessions, and up to $5,000 for summer research. Applicants’ research projects must focus on global issues, but the proposed research setting may be international or domestic.…

The Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) gives students multiple ways to engage with Southeast Asia. Undergraduates who minor in Southeast Asian Studies are advised by SEAP faculty advisors who collaborate with them to construct a course of study based upon their area of interest. SEAP also runs the CU in Cambodia program…

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium welcomes Xin Wen, Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton to lead this month's text-reading.

For much of China’s early and medieval imperial history, including the Zhou, the Qin, the Han, the Sui, and the Tang dynasties, Chang’an and the surrounding area…

This year the Korean Language Program at Cornell will host a community event "Korean Game Night" on 10/19 (Thursday) 6:30-8:00pm in PSB Atrium (245 Feeney Way) on Cornell campus. Open to the public and kids friendly!

There will be 5 stations of Korean games (hardboard battle from Squid Game,…

In this info session for graduate students, learn about Fulbright at Cornell.

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides full funding for graduate and professional students conducting research in any field or teaching in more than 150 countries. Open to U.S. citizens only.

The Fulbright-Hays…

Whose Tianxia? Imagining the Great Qing in Post-Imperial China

Fei-Hsien Wang, History, Indiana University Bloomington

Cornell Contemporary China Initiative (CCCI) lecture series

How should the geographical and ethnic boundary of “China” be defined after the fall of the Qing Empire? Did China…

Veeraporn Nitiprapha, one of Thailand’s most famous contemporary authors, speaks about her novel Memories of the Memories of the Black Rose Cat (published in translation in 2022).
Memories tells an entirely new story of Chinese migration to and personhood in Southeast Asia as it chronicles the history of a…

Bartels World Affairs Lecture

Fantasy author N. K. Jemisin discusses how she learned to build unreal worlds by studying our own—and how we might in turn imagine a better future for our world, and reshape it to fit that dream.

Jemisin's lecture kicks off The Future—a new Global Grand Challenge at…

The Supreme Court of Japan (SCJ) has been described as the most conservative and passive constitutional court in the world. The small number of times the Japanese Supreme Court has struck down statutes as unconstitutional is an argument for such a statement. However, the SCJ has provided important decisions to…

A conversation with Assistant Professor of Music Joe Lerangis and Tamir Khargana, lead singer of Tuvergen Band. Tamir will discuss musical styles from Tuva and Mongolia, as well as his own creative processes in blending those styles into a more contemporary sound, drawing inspiration from American blues, bluegrass…

A native of Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, throat-singer and multi-instrumentalist Tamir Hargana will perform songs from Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and Tuva, highlighting diasporic crossover of Mongolian singing, sounding, and playing styles. His band, Tuvergen, aims to create a "modern nomadic music,"…

Presentation and workshop with Jon Solomon (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3), moderated by Gavin Walker (Cornell University), around Prof. Solomon’s new book The Taiwan Consensus and the Ethos of Area Studies in Pax Americana: Spectral Transitions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), prefaced by Naoki Sakai (Cornell…

Timothy Cheek, History, University of British Columbia kicks off this semester's CCCI lecture series with the theme of "China, the Central State and All Under Heaven."

How is China governed? It is a question on our minds today as the rule of Xi Jinping in China challenges American hopes and…

A Conference Sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies and the Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University, Ithaca

Friday, September 22 | Saturday, September 23, 2023

DAY 2 –– Saturday, September 23, 2023 | Physical Sciences Building 401

10:00 – 11:30 a.m. PANEL TWO –…

Artistic freedom is a fundamental democratic right.

Creative expression, from poetry to street art, theater, and literature, is often at the vanguard of political resistance and change, and so artists are some of the first to be silenced. In this panel, speakers discuss their own experiences as artists in…

Our semester's first Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium text-reading will be led by Megan Bryson, Department of Religious Studies, University of Tennessee.

The Dali kingdom (937–1253), centered in what is now southwest China’s Yunnan province, left behind several ritual texts that have not been found…

A Conference Sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies and the Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University, Ithaca

Friday, September 22 | Saturday, September 23, 2023

DAY 1 –– Friday, September 22, 2023 | Goldwin Smith Hall 64, Kaufmann Auditorium

3:00 – 3:15 p.m. Welcome…

In the past decade, China's grassroots feminist movement, primarily led by young women, has brought about transformative changes to various gender-discriminatory policies in the country. Through activist endeavors, this movement has initiated a ground-up understanding of feminism among the general public.…

Register

The seminar series for fall 2023 explores the future of African land, agriculture and food, digging into the contestations, conflicting and converging visions from a wide range of perspectives. How might land be used, valued and lived in, across cities, rural communities, forests, deserts and…

Karl Gerth, History, UC San Diego

What forces shaped the twentieth-century world? Capitalism and communism are usually seen as engaged in a fight-to-the-death during the Cold War. With the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party aimed to end capitalism.

…