Levinson China & Asia‐Pacific Studies Program Guest Seminar

China and the United States are heading toward a cold war. How should we explain this development? What is likely to happen in the foreseeable future? What needs to be done to avoid a disastrous confrontation? The talk will try to address these questions.

Co-sponsored by the Brittany and Adam J. Levinson China and Asia-Pacific Studies Program (CAPS), the Cornell Government Department, East Asian Studies, and the Cornell China Center.

Jia Qingguo is professor and former dean of the School of International Studies of Peking University,​ a ​longtime partner and host institution for the CAPS-in-Beijing program. Currently, he is a Payne Distinguished Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1988. He is a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. He is vice president of the China American Studies Association, vice president of the China Association for International Studies, and vice president of the China Japanese Studies Association. He has published extensively on China-U.S. relations, relations between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, and Chinese foreign policy.

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How will we meet the most pressing demands of our time?

Join us for a two-day symposium that brings together the Cornell community and international partners to discuss the most urgent challenges around the world and how we can work together to address them.

Building on the first Global Grand Challenge, Migrations, symposium participants will help identify the next university-wide research, teaching, and engagement initiative to harness Cornell's global expertise.

The symposium, hosted by Global Cornell, will focus on five interdisciplinary themes, with panelists bringing their research and perspectives to bear:

Knowledge | Water | Health | Space | International Collaboration

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If you can't attend in person, please join us virtually:

Day 1: Wednesday, Nov. 16Day 2: Thursday, Nov. 17

Wednesday, November 16

Welcome: President Martha Pollack
Panel 1: Knowledge: What Counts, for Whom, and to What Ends?
4:30–6:00 ET, Klarman Hall, Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium

A panel of Cornell faculty and Global Hubs partners discuss innovations in higher education, social media, and legal frameworks; new forms of knowledge production and inequalities in access; and security, privacy, disinformation, and the role of knowledge in democracies.

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Remarks, Provost Michael Kotlikoff
Reception, 6:00 ET, Klarman Hall Atrium

Thursday, November 17

8:00–5:00 ET, Clark Hall, room 700 (7th floor)

Breakfast, 8:00 ET

Panel 2: Water: Worldwide Challenges and Approaches
9:00–10:30 ET

Faculty from Cornell and partner universities explore the most critical challenges related to changing global water conditions, including access to clean drinking water; water governance, norms, and customs; trade-offs between drinking water, irrigation, and hydropower; rising sea levels and water-dependent communities; and new solutions for wastewater, ocean plastics, and pollution.

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Panel 3: Health: An Integrated Global Perspective
11:00–12:30 ET

Faculty from Cornell and partner universities explore vital issues related to health, including equity, nutrition, mental health and well-being, disease, communication, new technologies, sociocultural norms, One Health, sustainable agriculture and ecosystems, elder care, and the business of medicine/health.

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Lunch, 12:30 ET

Panel 4: Space: In a Galaxy Not So Far Away
1:30–3:00 ET

Faculty from Cornell and partner universities explore urgent topics related to our global engagements with outer space, including intergovernmental collaboration and defining a new space policy; private space travel and exploration; historical lessons for colonization; new technologies, materials, and visualizations; intelligent life; resources and extraglobal markets; and access and inequalities.

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Panel 5: International Collaboration:< /b>Taking Action for Our Global Future
3:30–5:00 ET

In this final session, panelists discuss opportunities and challenges for creating truly collaborative and mutually beneficial partnerships in an unequal world. Faculty from partner universities share ideas for collaborating on the four themes introduced earlier in the symposium, and participants explore the tension between respect for local cultures and universalisms implicated in scientific inquiry.

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Register in-person or virtually for one or all sessions!

Please join us for a lunchtime seminar given by our guest Y.S. Lee, Director of the Law and Development Institute.

SEMINAR: Weaponizing International Trade in Political Disputes: Issues Under International Economic Law and Systemic Risks

DATE: Tuesday, November 15th, 2022

TIME: 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. ET

LOCATION: L28 – Zhu Faculty Lounge, Hughes Hall, Cornell Law School

*** Lunch will be provided during the event, so don’t forget to RSVP!

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Please fill out the following short form: https://cornell.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3sMlbOhryJ6y3iu

The Seminar: Weaponizing International Trade in Political Disputes: Issues Under International Economic Law and Systemic Risks

In recent years, the world’s largest economies and traders – the United States, China, and Japan – have chosen to use measures affecting international trade as a means to achieve political objectives in contravention of the rules of international economic law and the practices of international trade established over several decades. Since the end of World War II, the world economy and international trade have rapidly expanded and prospered by achieving a degree of separation between international trade and political struggles under the rule-based international trading system, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and its successor, the World Trade Organization. Thus, the recent misuses of trade measures by the world’s largest traders are alarming, because they undermine the stability of the world trading system, which has been maintained for the past several decades.

Professor Lee accounts politically-motivated trade measures (‘PTMs’) recently invoked by the United States, China, and Japan, assesses their incompatibilities with the rules of international economic law, and also examines the risks that these PTMs pose to the world trading system.

About our Distinguished Guest: Y.S. Lee

Y.S. Lee is a lawyer, economist, and international relations scholar with internationally-recognized authority in law and development and international trade law. He is currently Director and Professorial Fellow of the Law and Development Institute and Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law. He has also taught and conducted academic research at prominent universities throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia for twenty years. He graduated with a degree in economics and academic distinction from the University of California at Berkeley and received law degrees from the University of Cambridge (B.A., M.A., Ph.D). He is licensed to practice law in multiple jurisdictions, including the United States (California and North Carolina) and the United Kingdom.

Can’t make it to our event in-person? You can attend virtually!

We are also livestreaming the event, so you can sign up to attend the Zoom Webinar at this link:

https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AtugJNiIQHW_TLxgyiv4oA

Please feel free to distribute the link to anyone you feel would be interested in the seminar. All are welcome!

A.D. White Professor-at-Large Xu Bing will present the public lecture “What to Make of Art Today?” on Thursday, October 20 at 5pm at the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall.

You may also attend the lecture via Zoom.

This event is part of an A.D. White Professors-at-Large (ADW-PAL) visit and is co-sponsored by the Johnson Museum of Art and the Cornell Council for the Arts.

Xu Bing is an internationally acclaimed Chinese artist whose creative and cultural interventions touch on the fields of public and ecological art, printmaking, new media installations, drawing, and sculpture. Xu Bing operates studios in New York and Beijing where he served as Vice President of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. For the 2022 Cornell Biennial, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art has commissioned his newest Background Story, a lyrical light box in dialogue with an historical Chinese ink painting in the Museum’s collection. His biography charts the path of the international influence of Chinese contemporary art and its complex place in Chinese culture over the last forty years.

Xu Bing will visit Cornell as an ADW-PAL from October 17-21, 2022. He was elected as an ADW-PAL in 2015. His appointment runs through 2023.

Xu Bing's "Background Story" exhibition opens October 8, 2022 and closes January 22, 2023. Located in the Gold Gallery, Floor 2L, in the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.

Xu Bing has created a new work based on a centuries-old Chinese painting, Woodcutter in the Winter Mountains by Yang Xun, in the Johnson Museum’s collection for his series Background Story. Through the manipulation of recycled plastic and miscellaneous trash from daily life, the artist dilutes or intensifies light to “draw” an ink-like image on glass that conveys traditional Chinese reverence for nature while serving as a warning about humans’ ongoing mistreatment of the environment.

2022 Cornell Biennial
Sponsored by the Cornell Council for the Arts and curated by Timothy Murray, the 2022 Cornell Biennial "Futurities, Uncertain" features exhibitions, installations, and performances by 23 international and 17 Cornell-based artists. Free and open-to-the-public events will rotate on the Cornell Ithaca campus and the Cornell Tech campus in New York City from July through December 2022.