Do you want to understand how human migration shapes our world on the move? In the Einaudi Center’s migration studies minor, you explore the factors that influence migrants’ decisions to migrate and drive their departure, arrival, and integration into new societies.

The minor is open to all Cornell undergraduates and includes courses from across the university.

Join this Einaudi Center Student Info Session to find out more!

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Contact: migration-minor@einaudi.cornell.edu

Is the Einaudi Center's international relations minor for you? Join this Einaudi Center Student Info Session to find out.

In the international relations minor, you study the politics, economics, history, languages, and cultures of the world and gain a fresh perspective on your major field of study. Graduates go on to successful careers in fields like international law, economics, agriculture, trade, finance, journalism, education, and government service.

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Contact: irm@einaudi.cornell.edu

The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) offers an interdisciplinary minor, summer internships, and other funding opportunities. Join this Einaudi Center Student Info Session to find out what LACS has in store for you!

The Latin American studies minor is an undergraduate minor across disciplines that allow you to explore the history, culture, government, politics, economy and languages of Latin America and the Caribbean. Qualifying courses can be found in almost every college.

Our summer internships sent several students to Ecuador in 2022!

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Contact: lacs@cornell.edu

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC) 古文品讀 is pleased to have Lucas Bender (East Asian Languages, Yale) lead this text reading.

Bender's text-reading is on "What Troubles the World is Inequality": Politics Before Metaphysics in Guo Xiang's 郭象 (252-312) Zhuangzi 莊子 Commentary

Faculty hosts: TJ Hinrichs (History, Cornell) and Suyoung Son (Asian Studies, Cornell). Sponsored by the East Asia Program. The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC) 古文品讀 is a reading group for scholars interested in premodern Sinographic (古文) text. The group typically meets monthly during the semester to explore a variety of classical Chinese texts and styles. Other premodern texts linked to classical Chinese in Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese have been explored. Presentations include works from the earliest times to the 20th century. Workshop sessions are led by local, national, and international scholars.

All are welcome with any level of experience with classical Chinese. At each session, a participant presents a classical Chinese text. Attendees discuss historical, literary, linguistic, and other aspects of the text, working together to resolve difficulties in comprehension and translation. No preparation is required. All texts will be distributed at the meeting.

If you are unable to attend in person, you may register in advance here.

Nobuko Yamasaki, Assistant Professor, Department of Languages and Literatures, Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Lehigh University speaks about her book titled, Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire.

Analyzing materials from literature and film, this book considers the fates of women who did not or could not buy into the Japanese imperial ideology of “good wives, wise mothers” in support of male-empire building. Although many feminist critics have articulated women’s active roles as dutiful collaborators in the project of empire, their attention has focused principally on male-dominated narratives of empire building. In contrast, the roles of marginalized women such as sex workers, women entertainers, and hibakusha have rarely been analyzed. This book addresses this intellectual lacuna by closely examining memories of, (semi-)autobiographical short stories, and newspaper articles, grounded in and inspired by lived experiences not only in Japan but also in Shanghai, Manchukuo, colonial Korea, and the Pacific.

Co-sponsored by the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and the Department of Performing and Media Arts.

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloqium (CCCC) 古文品讀 is pleased to have Jeffrey Moser (History of Art and Architecture, Brown University) to lead this text reading titled, "The Record of the Relocation of the Stone Classics to the Prefectural School of Jingzhao Prefecture." Composed by Lü Dazhong in 1090, the stele records the founding of what would eventually come to be known as the Forest of Steles (Beilin) in Xian.

Faculty hosts: TJ Hinrichs (History, Cornell) and Suyoung Son (Asian Studies, Cornell). Sponsored by the East Asia Program. The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC) 古文品讀 is a reading group for scholars interested in premodern Sinographic (古文) text. The group typically meets monthly during the semester to explore a variety of classical Chinese texts and styles. Other premodern texts linked to classical Chinese in Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese have been explored. Presentations include works from the earliest times to the 20th century. Workshop sessions are led by local, national, and international scholars.

All are welcome, with any level of experience with classical Chinese. At each session, a participant presents a classical Chinese text. Attendees discuss historical, literary, linguistic, and other aspects of the text, working together to resolve difficulties in comprehension and translation. No preparation is required, all texts will be distributed at the meeting.

This text reading is hybrid. If you are unable to attend in person, you may register in advance here.

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloqium (CCCC) 古文品讀 is pleased to have Yue (Mara) Du (History, Cornell University) lead the text reading titled, A Taiping General’s Poem in the Anti-Qing Revolution.

Faculty hosts: TJ Hinrichs (History, Cornell) and Suyoung Son (Asian Studies, Cornell). Sponsored by the East Asia Program. The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC) 古文品讀 is a reading group for scholars interested in premodern Sinographic (古文) text. The group typically meets monthly during the semester to explore a variety of classical Chinese texts and styles. Other premodern texts linked to classical Chinese in Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese have been explored. Presentations include works from the earliest times to the 20th century. Workshop sessions are led by local, national, and international scholars.

All are welcome, with any level of experience with classical Chinese. At each session, a participant presents a classical Chinese text. Attendees discuss historical, literary, linguistic, and other aspects of the text, working together to resolve difficulties in comprehension and translation. No preparation is required, all texts will be distributed at the meeting.

This text-reading is hybrid. If you are unable to attend in person, you may register in advance here.

Crossing the World to Sleep with You: Chinese Crip Poetry and its Cross-Cultural Translatability is the title of this talk to be given by Hangping Xu, (East Asian Languages and Culture, UC, Santa Barbara).

Yu Xiuhua rose to her celebrity status when her poem “Crossing China to Sleep with You” went viral in 2014 on Chinese social media platforms, causing what can be called a cultural event, which director Fan Jian documents in his 2016 film Still Tomorrow. As a female poet who lives with cerebral palsy in rural China, Yu was often labeled by media representations as a “brain-paralyzed peasant poet.” Such a sensationalist labeling strategy exploits her various minority identities. Focusing on the rise of Yu as a “crip” trickster figure, the talk advances a critical account of Chinese internet poetry as transmedial performance.

Hangping Xu specializes in modern and contemporary Chinese literary, cultural, and visual studies, comparative literature, and Taiwan Studies. Situating China in the world and destabilizing the notion of “Chineseness,” his research also pays attention to the history of diaspora, dispersion, immigration, and globalization. His interdisciplinary research engages two significant turns in literary and cultural studies—namely, the affective and the ethical —by foregrounding disability as a mode of critique. It particularly examines “disability aesthetics,” that is, how the disabled body in our cultural imaginaries evokes affective responses, or what can be called “aesthetic nervousness.” It explores the ways in which disability opens up new ethical horizons because its excessively corporeal and often spectacularized embodiment conceptually and aesthetically challenges how a culture defines what it means to be human.

The East Asia Program's Graduate Student Steering Committee (GSSC) welcomes Professor Xu. We invite graduate students to contact us if you are interested in participating in a grad student workshop with him on October 20th at noon. email: eap-gssc@cornell.edu for details.

“The Cyborgs Have Always Been Zombies: South Korean Body Politics and Lee Bul’s Body Art” a Pulse of Art History lecture

This presentation revisits the early body art of Korean artist Lee Bul before she became internationally renowned for her Cyborg series (1991-present) and dystopia-themed sculpture series (2002-present). I read Lee’s early art as not only having a formative effect on her later works, but also a response to South Korean government’s control over women’s reproductive rights: its decades-long abortion bans and family planning campaigns to curb female fertility. I argue that zombie, a figure that often indicates the status of social death in critical theories, helps locate Lee’s artistic critique against the modernizing South Korea’s developmentalist and masculine visions.

Soyi Kim is the inaugural LB Korean Studies Research Scholar for the East Asia Program, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Dr. Kim's work creatively brings together urgent questions about the ethics and politics of epidemiology and a critical humanities approach to aesthetic problems in art and digital cultures. Dr. Kim’s work, while situated in visual studies, is truly interdisciplinary, and seeks to place Korean art and visual culture in historical and cultural context. While her work is not history of medicine per se, it engages with biopolitics as Koreans encountered first Japanese, and then American imperial occupation, and a diverse series of medical and bureaucratic interventions which have directly affected the bodies and health of Koreans.