East Asia Program
Spring '24 Events
Korean Media, Democracy, and Pandemic Archives
Welcome to Spring 2024! EAP invites you to join stimulating talks, conversations, and workshops.
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
2/9 Indigenous (Austronesian) Language Endangerment and Revitalization in Taiwan
Edith Aldridge, Linguistics, Academia Sinica
1:00 p.m. | 110 White Hall
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
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
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
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
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
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
4/12 Su-Yeon Seo, Asian Studies, Cornell
3:30 p.m. | Rockefeller Hall 374 | Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium
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
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
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
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Program
Andrea Bachner
Professor, Comparative Literature
Andrea Bachner is a professor of comparative literature. She was the director of the East Asia Program for the term 2019-22 and a member of the East Asia Program steering committee and the CEAS editorial board.
She holds an MA from Munich University, Germany, and a PhD from Harvard University. Her research explores comparative intersections between Sinophone, Latin American, and European cultural productions in dialogue with theories of interculturality, sexuality, and mediality.
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Program
Role
- Faculty
- EAP Core Faculty
- SEAP Faculty Associate
Contact
Email: asb76@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-6795
Poet-Monks:The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China
Author: Thomas J. MazanecAuthor: Thomas J. Mazanec
Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry.
Wa History: Agency and Victimization
Magnus Fiskesjö, PACS/EAP/SEAP
Magnus Fiskesjö has published a chapter on the Wa ethnic group in a new volume, Chasing Traces: History and Ethnography in the Uplands of Socialist Asia, edited by Pierre Petit and Jean Michaud.
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Topic
- Inequalities, Identities, and Justice
- World in Focus
Program
Seed Grants Grow International Collaborations
Announcing 2024 Faculty Seed Awards
Read about results from last year's awards and new awards supporting internationally engaged faculty from six colleges and schools.
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Topic
- Global Public Voices
- Inequalities, Identities, and Justice
- Migrations
Program
"Food and Asia: A Student-led Exhibition" in the Kroch Asia Library
May 7, 2024
1:30 pm
Kroch Library
The student curators from the course, ASIAN2272 Food and Asia, will present their selection of Asian cookbooks to the public.
Learn about Asian food cultures and themes, and get a taste of the rich selection of cookbooks in Cornell University Library's collections.
The tour begins at the cases in the Kroch Asia Library corridor.
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East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
South Asia Program
International Studies Summer Institute: Plant and Animal Migration
July 9, 2024
9:00 am
Stocking Hall
Join the Cornell University Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and the South Asia Center at Syracuse University for the 2024 International Studies Summer Institute (ISSI)! This year, we will explore plant and animal migration around the world and at home. ISSI is a professional development workshop for practicing and pre-service K–12 educators.
Participants will explore the patterns and causes of plant and animal migration in a global context, as well as how they affect and are affected by human society. Scholars from Cornell University and Syracuse University will share their research and expertise from across different regions of the world, including Africa, East Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
Object-based learning will be a specific focus. Sessions will include an introduction to the Einaudi Center’s culture kits and how they can support hands-on learning about plant and animal migration in different countries. Culture kits are a collection of cultural artifacts from around the world, tailored for use in K-12 classrooms. We will also feature an overview of Latin American and East Asian artwork on these topics at the Johnson Museum of Art and an introduction to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird kits.
Who Can Participate
We welcome practicing and pre-service K–12 educators of all subjects and grade levels who work in New York State. While this year's institute will have more of a scientific focus than in past years, we believe this year’s theme will benefit educators of all subject areas, especially in developing cross-disciplinary, project-based activities with a global focus.
Benefits
As a participant, you will...
gain tools and knowledge to apply in your classroom around issues of plant and animal migration internationally and in our backyards.
connect issues affecting yourself and your students here in the U.S. with other parts of the world.
“recharge” intellectual batteries and deepen your own understanding and appreciation for plant and animal migration.
have the option to complete a lesson plan for additional CTLE hours that incorporates content from the workshop, with the support of our outreach staff.
receive a free eBird kit from the Lab of Ornithology, targeted for the grade band of choice ($70-$110 value).
Enrollment is open now!
Questions? Contact outreach coordinator Sarah Plotkin.
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Program
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
2024 Korean Language Program Showcase
May 6, 2024
7:30 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, HEC auditorium (132)
The Korean Language Program is proud to present its 15th annual Korean showcase. The representatives from each Korean class will present their respective final projects of the semester. For the general audience, their presentation will be in English, but through their various demonstrations, you will be able to get a glimpse of the level of Korean proficiency taught at each class level. Korean hip hop dance, K-pop dance, and percussion groups will perform too. Come and learn about Korean language and culture! Doors will open at 7:15pm and free baked goods from Paris Baguette will be available on a first come first served basis.
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East Asia Program
Election Season Will Destabilize U.S.-China Relations
Allen Carlson, CMSP/EAP/SAP
In an op-ed in The Hill, Allen Carlson (EAP) describes how U.S. electoral math could undermine already delicate relations with China: "Biden and Trump will be viewing China ... via the looking glass of how to win the White House."
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Topic
- Democratic Threats and Resilience
- World in Focus
Program
Blinken Goes to China With Potential Trouble on Horizon
Allen Carlson, CMSP/EAP/SAP
“There are already so many irritants and issues of mistrust within the relationship. If you have a pot which is already close to boiling, it only takes adding a degree or two to push things over the edge,” says Allen Carlson, associate professor of government.