East Asia Program
Nuclear Colonialism and Its Discontents

February 6, 2025
12:00 pm
Nuclear weapons and associated technologies have been primarily developed by and for Global North nations, often using the labor and natural resources of indigenous populations around the world, and often doing violence to those populations and their environments. As a result, many scholars analyze the development of nuclear technologies–including uranium mining, the processing and production of fissile materials, nuclear weapons testing, and use–as a form of colonialism. But as a state-centric framework, colonialism does not always capture practices that transcend national boundaries; radioactivity does not respect borders. This panel will elucidate the uses and limitations of the colonial framework for understanding the social and political implications of nuclear technologies. The panel will discuss how nuclear technologies have been developed in ways that are both locally specific and globally-interconnected, and the implications of this history for social and environmental justice.
Virtual panel discussion with-
Vincent Intondi, PACS Domestic Affiliate Scholar
Myrriah Gomez, Associate Professor at University of New Mexico
Mary Mitchell, Assistant Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers Newark
Magdalena Stawkowski, Assistant Professor at University of South Carolina
Hirokazu Miyazaki, Former Director of the Einaudi Center, Professor at Northwestern University
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Host
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
East Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Information Session: Einaudi Center Undergraduate Opportunities

March 11, 2025
5:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Join us to learn about opportunities for undergraduate students with the Einaudi Center for International Studies! This session will discuss how to successfully apply for programs like Global Internships and Laidlaw Scholars, and how to discover or strengthen global interests, including academic minors, weekly seminars, and language study.
Can't attend? Email programs@einaudi.cornell.edu for more information.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Migrations Program
Information Session: IES & PACS Undergrad and Grad Opportunities

February 18, 2025
3:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
This session will describe opportunties for undergraduate and graduate students in the Institute for European Studies and the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.
IES offers a minor in European Studies, Global Summer Internships, a Graduate Fellows Program, and research funding for both undergraduate and graduate students. PACS offers fellowships, funding, and research travel grants for undergraduate and graduate students.
Register for virtual attendance here. Can't attend? Contact ies@cornell.edu or pacs@cornell.edu.
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Program
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Migrations Program
Information Session: Fulbright U.S. Student Program for Undergraduates

March 19, 2025
4:45 pm
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 Cornell.
The Fulbright program at Cornell is administered by the Einaudi Center for International studies. Applicants are supported through all stages of the application and are encouraged to start early by contacting fulbright@einaudi.cornell.edu.
Register here. Can't attend? Contact fulbright@einaudi.cornell.edu.
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Program
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Migrations Program
Information Session: Fulbright Opportunities for Graduate Students

March 5, 2025
4:45 pm
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 Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program supports doctoral students conducting research in modern languages or area studies for six to 12 months.
Open to U.S. citizens and permanent residents of the United States. Travel to Western European countries is not eligible.
Register here. Can’t attend? Contact fulbright@einaudi.cornell.edu.
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Program
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Migrations Program
Craft and learn: Chinese guardian figures

January 24, 2025
12:00 pm
Johnson Museum of Art
Come learn about Cornell-China art connections and play with clay. You're invited to learn about the museum's connection to China via artwork and scholarship, view guardian figures in the museum, and create your own guardian figure from clay. Much of this time will be hands-on in the art studio. Facilitated by art museum staff: Saraphina Masters (Coordinator of Student Engagement and Public Programs), Wendy Kenigsberg (Assistant for School Programs), and Andrea Murray (Lead Educator and Pre-K–12 Curriculum Development Specialist). Co-organized by the Johnson Museum of Art, the Cornell China Center, and the Einaudi Center for International Studies' East Asia Program. Limited to 18 participants; registration required. Registrants should meet in the museum lobby.
Registration has reached full capacity. Please email chinacenter@cornell.edu to be added to the waitlist.
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Program
Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
Book Talk: Seeing China’s Belt and Road

February 3, 2025
4:30 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, 142
East Asia Program Lecture Series presents "Book Talk: Seeing China’s Belt and Road."
Speaker: Rachel Silvey, Professor, Department of Geography & Planning, University of Toronto
Description: Launched in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is China's signature trillion-dollar global policy. Based on infrastructure development assistance and financing, the BRI quickly set in motion a possible restructuring of the global economy and indeed the world order. In Seeing China's Belt and Road, Edward Schatz and Rachel Silvey assemble leading field researchers to consider the BRI from different "downstream" contexts, ranging from Central and Southeast Asia to Europe and Africa. By uncovering perspectives on the BRI from Chinese authorities, local businesses, state bureaucrats, expatriated migrants, ordinary citizens, and environmental activists, Seeing China's Belt and Road shows the BRI's dynamic, multidimensional character as it manifests in specific sites. A timely analysis of the BRI, this book moves beyond polarized debates about China's rise and offers a grounded assessment of the dynamic complexity of changes to the world order.
About East Asia Program
As Cornell’s hub for research, teaching, and engagement with East Asia, the East Asia Program (EAP) serves as a forum for the interdisciplinary study of historical and contemporary East Asia. The program draws its membership of over 45 core faculty and numerous affiliated faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students from eight of Cornell’s 12 schools and colleges.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Migrations Program
EAP Events Spring 2025

Additional events will be updated throughout the semester.
Craft and Learn: Chinese Guardian Figures
Friday, January 24, 2025 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm | Johnson Museum of Art
Facilitated by art museum staff
Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium: “Biographies of Exemplary Women” in 19th century Vietnam
Friday, January 31, 2025 | 3:30pm - 5:30pm | Rockefeller Hall 374, Asian Studies Lounge
Speaker: Kathlene Baldanza, Penn State University
Book Talk: Seeing China’s Belt and Road
Monday, February 3, 2025 | 4:30pm - 6:00pm | Goldwin Smith Hall 142
Speaker: Rachel Silvey, University of Toronto
The Political Thought of Xi Jinping
Thursday, February 13, 2025 | 3pm - 4pm | Virtual
Speaker: Steve Tsang, University of London
Friday, February 28, 2025 | 3:30pm - 5:30pm | Rockefeller Hall 374, Asian Studies Lounge
Speaker: Eric Lee, Cornell University
Film Screening: Lilting (2014, dir. Hong Khaou)
Wednesday, March 5, 2025 | 6:00pm | Willard Straight Theatre (Cornell Cinema)
Studying China in the Absence of Access: Relearning a Lost Art
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 | 12pm to 1:30pm | Uris Hall, G-08
Speaker: Andrew Mertha, Johns Hopkins University
Friday, March 21, 2025 | 3:30pm - 5:30pm, Rockefeller Hall 374, Asian Studies Lounge
Speaker: Yumeng Zhang, Cornell University
Monday, March 24, 2025 | 5pm - 6pm | Goldwin Smith Hall 64, Kaufmann Auditorium
Speaker: Jimmy Chia-Shin Hsu, Academia Sinica
Wong Chai Lok Calligraphy Fellowship
Artist's Visit with Wang Tiande
Thursday, April 10, 2025 | 5:15pm | Johnson Museum of Art
Speaker: Wang Tiande
Read more about the Wong Chai Lok Calligraphy Fellowship here
Calligraphy Demonstration with Wang Tiande
Friday, April 11, 2025 | 2:30pm | Johnson Museum of Art
Artist: Wang Tiande
Walls-as-Media: Between Cheng (Wall-City) and Ping (Wall-Screen)
Thursday, April 17, 2025 | 4:45pm - 6:15pm | Goldwin Smith Hall 64, Kaufmann Auditorium
Speaker: Jinying Li, Brown University
Friday, April 18, 2025 | 3:30pm - 5:30pm | Rockefeller Hall 374, Asian Studies Lounge
Speaker: Thomas P. Kelly, Harvard University
Japan's “New Pre-War”: On the Repetition of a Capitalist Form
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 | 12:00pm - 1:30pm | Uris Hall, G-08
Speaker: Ken Kawashima, University of Toronto
Among Women across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 | 4:45pm - 6:15pm | Goldwin Smith Hall 64, Kaufmann Auditorium
Speaker: Suzy Kim, Rutgers University
Cornell Botanic Gardens Tour of Chinese and Asian Plants
Thursday, May 8, 2025 | 12:00pm to 1:00pm | Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center
Guided by Cornell Botanic Gardens Staff
Upcoming in Summer 2025:
32nd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
June 13 - 15, 2025 | Ithaca, NY
Organized by the Center for Korean Studies at Binghamton University and the Department of Linguistics at Cornell University
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The Rule of Law in Political Conflicts: How Taiwanese Courts Respond to Disobedience in Political Polarization

March 24, 2025
5:00 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, 64
East Asia Program Lecture Series presents "The Rule of Law in Political Conflicts: How Taiwanese Courts Respond to Disobedience in Political Polarization."
In a severely polarized polity, political actors are sometimes driven to take extra-legal actions to secure their political goals. Such actions, often self-proclaimed as “civil disobedience”, pose serious challenge to the rule of law. How should the courts respond? What does the rule of law mean in such circumstances? Taiwan’s experience in the past two decades offer precious lessons.
Taiwan experienced a surge of social and civic movements since 2008, which culminated in the Sunflower Movement in 2014. It resulted in a series of judicial decisions showcasing the courts’ dynamic interactions with the civil society. Based upon comprehensive study of judicial decisions in Taiwan for over a decade, Hsu identifies evolving patterns of judicial response to disobedience. He argues that the rule of law plays an important role in maintaining fair political competition and facilitating political reconciliation.
Jimmy Chia-Shin Hsu is Research Professor at the Institute of Law, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He received LL.B. from National Taiwan University, LL.M. and J.S.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. He was Harvard Yenching Scholar 2016-2017. His research includes legal philosophy, comparative constitutional law, civil disobedience, and transitional justice. He has published widely in international journals and books. He is the President of IVR (International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy) Taiwan Section. He recently published edited volumes such as Human Dignity in Asia: Dialogue between Law and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and The Ethics of Historical Memory: From Transitional Justice to Overcoming the Past (National Taiwan University Press, 2024, in Chinese). He is currently working on comparative judicial responses to civil disobedience, theories of human dignity in East Asian contexts, and post-transition justice and ethics of historical memory.
About the East Asia Program
As Cornell’s hub for research, teaching, and engagement with East Asia, the East Asia Program (EAP) is a forum for the interdisciplinary study of historical and contemporary East Asia. Part of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, the program draws its membership of over 45 core faculty and numerous affiliated faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students from across Cornell's colleges and schools.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program