Laidlaw Scholars at Cornell will share their summer research and leadership-in-action experiences at this annual symposium.

Beginning in the Klarman Hall Auditorium, a panel of scholars will share their work and experiences. The presentation will be followed by poster presentations throughout the Groos Family Atrium.

The Laidlaw Undergraduate Leadership and Research Scholarship Program provides generous funding to first- and second-year undergraduates over two years as they pursue internationally focused research, engage in leadership training and a leadership-in-action experience, and join a global network of like-minded peers.

Learn more about the program, which is administered by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies with leadership training support from the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.

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 into an empire. In her lecture on November 2, Kim will highlight the case study of Korean War “orphans” who crisscrossed the Pacific with World Vision Inc. in the 1960s. Their stories reveal how the migration of religion and race shaped the reconstruction of modern US evangelical empire.

Helen Jin Kim is Associate Professor of American Religious History at Emory University. She completed her PhD in the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University and her BA in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University.

This lecture is part of the 'Religions on the Move' lecture series sponsored by the Religious Studies Program and is supported by a grant from Cornell University’s Migrations Global Grand Challenge and the Mellon Foundation’s Just Futures Initiative. Co-sponsored by East Asia Program, and Asian American Studies Program.

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 historical ties. This outdoor walking tour will happen rain or shine except in case of hazardous weather, in which case, registrants will emailed at least 1 hour in advance if the tour will shift to the next day at the same time. Limited to 15 participants. Co-hosted by the Cornell China Center and tour leader Liren Zheng from the Cornell Library's Wason Collection. Register here.

At this daylong symposium, speakers and artists will discuss topics related to the exhibition at the Johnson Museum.

Registration is free; please email Elizabeth Saggese at eas8@cornell.edu by November 9.

Symposium schedule (subject to change):

9:30AM
Continental breakfast

10:00AM
Opening remarks from exhibition cocurators Nancy P. Lin, Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University, and Ellen Avril, chief curator and the Judith H. Stoikov Curator of Asian Art at the Johnson Museum

10:30AM–12:30PM
“Performance in the Expanded Field”
With artist Lin Yilin; Ellen Larson, University of Chicago; Madeline Eschenburg, Washburn University; and Jessie Taieun Yoon, Cornell University; moderated by Christopher Phillips, NYU Tisch School of the Arts

12:30–2:00PM
Lunch break and time for viewing of the exhibition

2:00–4:00PM
“Speaking of Art: Artists Roundtable Discussion”
With exhibition artists Xing Danwen, Pixy Liao, Tao Hui, Miao Ying, and Song Dong, moderated by Nancy P. Lin

4:00–4:20PM
Closing remarks from Timothy Murray, Cornell University

This symposium has been supported by the Stoikov Asian Art Lecture Fund at the Johnson Museum, which was funded by a generous gift from Judith Stoikov, Class of 1963.

Between Performance and Documentation: Contemporary Photography and Video from China brings together works from the Johnson Museum collection and archival video footage from Cornell Library’s Wen Pulin Archive of Chinese Avant-garde Art with loans from artists, private collectors, and other institutions. Featuring a wide range of works, the exhibition reveals the multifaceted history of contemporary performance, photography, and video in China, while showcasing emerging artists who continue to push the boundaries of performance and mediation in radically new ways.

The exhibition was curated by Nancy P. Lin, Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History of Art and Visual Studies, and Ellen Avril, chief curator and the Judith H. Stoikov Curator of Asian Art at the Johnson Museum, and supported by a gift endowed in memory of Elizabeth Miller Francis ’47, the Richard Sukenik ’59 Endowment for Photography, the Ames Exhibition Endowment, the Russell ’77 and Diana Hawkins Exhibition Fund, and the Jan Abrams Exhibition Endowment.

This special event is free and open to the public, held in conjunction with the Johnson Museum exhibition Between Performance and Documentation: Contemporary Photography and Video from China.

A live performance event by artist Lin Yilin will begin at 5:00 PM, followed by a reception and time to visit the exhibition. Images and video documentation of Lin Yilin’s 1995 performance Safely Maneuvering Across Linhe Road in Guangzhou, China, are on view in the exhibition.

At 7:00 PM, Wu Hung will give the Stoikov Lecture on Asian Art as the keynote of the Between Performance and Documentation: Contemporary Photography and Video from China symposium. The lecture portion of the event will be live streamed.

Wu Hung is the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago and an adjunct curator at the Smart Museum of Art.

The annual Stoikov Lecture on Asian Art at the Johnson Museum is funded by a generous gift from Judith Stoikov, Class of 1963.

PACS Distinguished Lecture

Dmitri Alperovitch, a leading national security expert, will explain why he believes that China's Xi Jinping is preparing to conquer Taiwan in the coming years—and the dire stakes for the world if he is not deterred. Alperovitch makes the case that we are already in the midst of a second Cold War with Taiwan as the perilous strategic flashpoint of this new conflict. The conflict risks triggering a devastating war between major nuclear powers in a similar role that West Berlin nearly played during the first Cold War.

Laying out a comprehensive strategy to deter war and maintain the United States' status as the world's leading superpower in the face of rising China, Alperovitch breaks down the significant weaknesses that can prevent China from surpassing the U.S. and the key policies that will enable America to maintain primacy even as China ramps up its efforts. As Alperovitch explains, we must play to our strengths and address our weaknesses, using our leverage as the strongest nation on the planet to tactfully navigate the next Cold War.

About the Speaker

Dmitri Alperovitch is an internationally recognized thought leader on geopolitics and national security. He is co-founder and executive chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator, a think-tank focused on policy solutions in national security, trade and industrial security, and ecological and economic security. He is also the co-founder of the leading cybersecurity company CrowdStrike Inc.

Alperovitch serves on the Homeland Security Advisory Council of the Department of Homeland Security and as a founding board member of the U.S. government's Cyber Safety Review Board. He has previously served as a special advisor to the Department of Defense. He is the host of Silverado's "Geopolitics Decanted" podcast and author of an upcoming book, World On the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century.

Event Host

Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, part of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

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.

Allan Goodman, chief executive officer of the Institute of International Education, joins Vice Provost for International Affairs Wendy Wolford to discuss:

How can universities like Cornell provide a safe haven for scholars whose right to free expression is threatened?How can universities act to promote scholarship, free expression, and global collaboration?Cornell has worked with the Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) for over a decade to provide yearlong fellowships for displaced academics and human rights defenders. IIE also supports the Humphrey Fellows Program in the Department of Global Development and Fulbright fellowships for undergraduate students from across the university.

Goodman and Wolford will be joined by these panelists:

Sharif Hozoori (Afghanistan) | IIE-SRF fellow in the Einaudi Center’s South Asia ProgramPeidong Sun (China) | Einaudi Center’s East Asia Program and Associate Professor of History, A&SAzat Gündoğan (Turkey) | Florida State University, former IIE-SRF fellow in the Einaudi Center’s Institute for European Studies***

If you can't attend in person, register for a Zoom link to join the livestream here.

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About Allan Goodman

IIE’s CEO Allan E. Goodman is a Council on Foreign Relations member and serves on the selection committees for the Rhodes and Schwarzman Scholars and the Yidan Prize. He also serves on the Council for Higher Education Accreditation International Quality Group advisory council and the Education Above All Foundation board of trustees. Goodman has a PhD in government from Harvard, MPA from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and BS from Northwestern University.

About the Institute of International Education

For more than 100 years, the Institute of International Education has promoted the exchange of scholars and researchers and rescued scholars, students, and artists from persecution, displacement, and crises. IIE conducts research on international academic mobility and administers the U.S. Department of State’s Fulbright Program.

Supporting Scholars Under Threat

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