Piece about “local protectionism” in China, mentions research by Panle Jia Barwick about priority given locally made cars to access express lanes.

Einaudi's regional programs hosted more than 30 teachers from across central New York for professional development on the Cornell campus. 

There is ongoing confusion about whether “genocide” or “cultural genocide” best describes what is happening in China’s Uyghur region today. Some say there is no genocide, only cultural genocide. "In my view, it is both genocide and cultural genocide," explains Magnus Fiskesjö (Anthropology, Cornell and core EAP faculty).

Allen Carlson, director of Cornell University’s China and Asia-Pacific Studies program, comments on U.S.-China relations.

The greatest value of science fiction is not in providing answers, but rather in raising questions. Can AI help humans prevent the next global pandemic by eliminating it at the very root? How can we deal with future job challenges? How can we maintain cultural diversity in a world dominated by machines? How can we teach our children to live in a society where humans and machines coexist? Welcome to 2041! Qiufan Chen (Stanley Chan) is an award-winning Chinese speculative fiction author, translator, and curator. His major works include Waste Tide (Locus Best New Novel Finalist), as well as short story collections Future Diseases and Algorithms for Life, which have won him three Chinese Galaxy Awards and fifteen Chinese Nebula Awards. His recent works include AI 2041 (with Dr. Kai-Fu Lee), in which he imagines our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. This event was recorded on April 28, 2022, and included participation from Professor Anindita Banerjee, Comparative Literature, Cornell University

Tani Barlow, the George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University speaks on, "Instinct and Society." When Li Zehou burst onto the scene during the 1980s ‘culture fever’ he dragged back in altered form a much earlier foundational debate over evolution and instinct theory launched in the new social theory and human science movement during the May Fourth era.  Barlow's general research question now is how society got ontologized a century ago. This lecture was recorded on April 25, 2022.

What are we learning when we play video games from Japan? Rachael Hutchinson (University of Delaware) examines the cultural content of Japanese videogames through character design, background setting and environment, aesthetic style, thematic content, and game dynamics. We will consider how mid-1990s games converged around ideas of nuclear power and bioethics, making works like Final Fantasy VII and Metal Gear Solid valuable windows into social anxieties expressed in the Japanese arts. This lecture was recorded on April 18, 2022.