East Asia Program
No More Nagasakis: Interfaith toward a World without Nuclear Weapons
No More Nagasakis is Tomokazu Ihara's speech delivered in Japanese at Cornell University, describing the bombing of his home city of Nagasaki in 1945. Ihara—a union organizer, international peace activist, and atomic bomb survivor—traces his activism against nuclear proliferation and issues an impassioned plea for a world without nuclear weapons.
Book
6.95
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- Book
- Cornell Global Perspectives
Publication Details
Publication Year: 2019
ISBN: 978-1501744389
International Research Travel Grants
Details
Do you need to travel internationally for your graduate research or fieldwork?
The Einaudi Center sponsors international travel for individual Cornell graduate students. If you’re traveling between the United States and a host country for activities directly related to your dissertation or thesis research, Einaudi can help you get there.
Applications Open
Monday, November 17, 2025
Amount
Up to $3,000 to cover international airfare for activities directly related to your dissertation or thesis research.
Einaudi Travel Grants Send Grad Students Abroad
Read about how Einaudi travel grants supported research travel for Seongmin Shin to Kenya and Yoselyn Hernández Chaves to Costa Rica. Last year 83 graduate students found support for their fieldwork at Einaudi!
Eligibility
All applicants must be enrolled in an approved course of study at Cornell University leading to a master's or PhD degree. Graduate students or students enrolled in Cornell’s professional schools are eligible, with the following exceptions:
- Students graduating in May 2026
- Students who have not used 2025 awards
You may only receive two Einaudi travel grants during your time at Cornell. Groups are not eligible to apply, as grants are awarded on an individual basis.
Travel must occur between May 1, 2026 and August 31, 2027.
Requirements
- Awards are based on the proposal submitted at the time of application. You may change your travel dates within the travel date parameters, but you cannot change your proposal.
- To receive the award and travel approval, you are required to participate in a short online international travel predeparture orientation.
- You must submit photos of your boarding passes as proof of travel within 30 days of the end of your funded travel. (We will not accept tickets or travel itineraries.)
Travel Requirements
- Travel must take place between May 1, 2026, and August 31, 2027, and cannot be funded retroactively. The minimum stay abroad is 14 days.
- Travel must originate and end in the United States. You must depart and return to a major international airport.
- Cornell travelers are required to comply with the Fly America Act. Please choose American Airlines when possible.
- Awardees must register their Einaudi-supported travel in the Cornell Travel Registry no earlier than eight weeks and no later than four weeks prior to travel. You must follow all university travel policies and have ITART approval if you travel to an elevated risk destination.
International Travel Guidance
Travel to Elevated Risk Destinations
Travel to level 4 countries must be approved by the International Travel Advisory and Response Team (ITART). Graduate and professional students do not need to petition for travel to level 1, 2, or 3 level countries. Approval may be withdrawn if there is a change in the risk level of your destination or if you violate any contingencies of approval given. In such instances, you will be required to refund the award.
For International Students
Be aware that U.S. federal travel restrictions are evolving and could impact some international citizens' ability to reenter the country. We encourage all international students to check International Services' Current Travel Advisory frequently for new guidance. If you have problems or concerns about reentering the United States after your research, consult this webpage for urgent advice or reach out to an International Services advisor.
Questions?
Email the Einaudi Center at travelgrants@einaudi.cornell.edu.
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- Travel Grant
Role
- Student
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Einaudi Dissertation Proposal Development Program
Details
Develop your dissertation on global issues with a toolkit of resources. Over the course of the year, you’ll participate in seminars, workshops, and mentoring sessions and receive up to $5,000 for summer research.
DPD supports 12 PhD students annually. Applicants’ research projects must focus on global issues, but the proposed research setting may be international or domestic.
Funding for Summer 2025
This DPD cycle will begin immediately, with seminars during the spring 2025 semester and funding for research in summer 2025. In addition to six weeks of summer research, the program includes these community-building and mentoring events:
- Seminars: Up to three sessions on topics including proposal writing, research methods, and interdisciplinary international studies.
- Spring workshop: Three-day workshop in May to help you refine your proposal and plan your summer pre-dissertation research.
- Fall workshop: Three-day workshop in September to support you as you finalize your dissertation proposal.
Applicants must commit to attending the entire spring and fall workshops and agree to conduct at least six weeks of summer research away from Cornell between the workshops.
Amount
Up to $5,000 for summer research. The award can cover the following research expenses:
- International travel (economy airfare, visa fees)
- Local travel
- Accommodation and living expenses
- Research expenses (permits, translation costs, internet, archive access, etc.)
We encourage you to apply for other Cornell grants and external grants to complement your DPD funding. You must apply for the Graduate School's research travel grants; you are not eligible to apply for Einaudi's travel grants.
Please note that you may only bill for a research expense once. If an expense is already covered by your DPD award or Graduate School travel grant, you may not use other Cornell or external grants to pay the same expense.
Eligibility
- Students who are currently enrolled full-time in PhD programs at Cornell University are eligible.
- Both U.S. citizens and noncitizens are eligible.
- Progress within graduate program:
- Applicants must have completed at least two full years of graduate study (MA and/or PhD) by the end of the spring workshop. First-year graduate students who have completed master’s degrees and fourth-year students who have not yet undertaken dissertation research may be eligible.
- Applicants must be on track to obtain approval of their dissertation proposals after the fall workshop but before the end of the upcoming academic year.
- Students who have already submitted dissertation research proposals to their departments for approval or to funding agencies for dissertation research support are not eligible to apply.
Questions?
Please email our academic programming staff if you have questions about the program.
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- Fellowship
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- Student
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CCCI: Governing the Airpocalypse-Insights from China's 'War on Smog'
March 9, 2020
4:30 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, 64 Kaufman Auditorium
Governing the Airpocalypse–Insights from China’s ‘War on Smog’. Anna L. Ahlers–Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
For about a decade now air pollution is probably the most hotly debated environmental problem in Chinese society. The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and the huge winter smog events of 2012/13 in Northeastern cities marked a watershed in communication about this problem. Concern about the health effects of heavy air pollution has become a fact of life for Chinese urbanites and sparked demands for political solutions.
In 2013 the government issued a first action plan for air pollution control and declared a high-profile “war on pollution” a year later, introducing some harsh new regulatory measures. China’s newfound “authoritarian environmentalism” in fact seems to have yielded significant results already, even Greenpeace admits, and average annual urban air pollution has been on the decline in recent years. How has this turnaround in Chinese environmental politics been possible and what are its main features?
In my talk, I will draw some preliminary conclusions concerning the political impact of China’s “airpocalypse”, based on more than five years of research in an international and interdisciplinary project team. I argue that the smog experience was a trigger for overall changes in environmental governance in China, and I will present some examples of the related–sometimes rather surprising–new governance mechanisms, their background, and effects. Last but not least, as the apparent return of extreme smog events over the last two winters calls into question the government’s preferred narrative, I will also point to some of the many questions that warrant further research.
This talk is co-sponsored by the Polson Institute for Global Development and the East Asia Program.
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East Asia Program
The Circular Ruins: Isolation and Afterlife in Japanese VR with Paul Roquet
February 28, 2020
3:30 pm
Rockefeller Hall, Room 374 Asian Studies Lounge
Paul Roquet | MIT The Circular Ruins: Isolation and Afterlife in Japanese VR Abstract: In the first couple of years of their existence, Japan's virtual reality visual novels have frequently staged encounters with depopulated digital environments isolated from the rest of society. This talk examines how the genre reworks broader Japanese trends in young adult storytelling focused on battle royales and 'other world' fantasies, at the same time as it leverages the visual enclosure and aesthetic limitations of the VR headset to confront users with a more fully isolated perceptual space. These works imagine the other world in VR as a spherical realm of the dead, an air-tight vacuum containing a small group of people severed from broader social contexts. This space apart can become a place of healing, or a place of exile. Often it wavers between the two. I show how this new wave of VR narratives merges contemporary anxieties over small group communication, awareness of a vanishing population, and larger concerns over how to survive in a world increasingly governed by computational surveillance. The East Asia Program Graduate Student Steering Committee (GSSC) thanks co-sponsors: The Asian Studies Department, Performing and Media Arts and faculty host, Professor Andrew Campana for their generous support.
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East Asia Program
East Asia Program
In 2025, the East Asia Program (EAP) celebrates our 75th year as Cornell’s hub for research, teaching, and engagement with East Asia. EAP serves as a forum for the interdisciplinary study of historical and contemporary East Asia, with over 54 core faculty and numerous affiliated faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students from schools and colleges across Cornell.