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Spring '24 Events

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January 23, 2024

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

Additional Information

Andrea Bachner

photo of 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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Role

  • Faculty
  • EAP Core Faculty
    • SEAP Faculty Associate

Contact

Phone: 607-255-6795

"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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Program

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

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