Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture Series.

Sandy Chang, Department of History, University of Florida

Sandy F. Chang is an assistant professor in Modern Asian History at the University of Florida. She specializes in Chinese migration, gender, and sexuality studies in Southeast Asia and the British Empire. Her scholarly areas of interest also include global China, inter-Asian connections, modern border regimes, women’s history, and comparative colonialisms. She is currently working on a book project, Across the South Seas: Gender, Intimacy, and Chinese Migration to British Malaya, 1877-1941 that explores the border-crossing journeys of over a million Chinese women and their intimate lives across the Malay Peninsula. She received her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin.

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Gatty Lectures will be held in-person at the Kahin Center, with the option to attend virtually as well. To attend virtually, please register at https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArdOuhrDkpHNx7g2ky3ZfuJ_N1ej….

Beverages will be served outside before the talk, and in accordance with current Cornell guidance we will be wearing masks indoors. Feel free to bring your own brownbag lunch and eat outside with us before the talk.

This session will provide PhD students with information on the Einaudi Dissertation Proposal Development Program. The program offers seminars, workshops, and faculty mentoring to PhD students in the social sciences and humanities who are developing research projects abroad or domestic research projects on topics that connect to global issues. Students receive up to $5,000 for summer research. Workshop and seminar costs are also covered.

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Sites at the Periphery: Making Experimental Art Spaces in Beijing

Nancy P. Lin

Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University

The Pulse of Art History Lecture Series

9.28.21 4:45pm

Location: Goldwin Smith G22

Abstract:

Developing without the official support of state institutions, 1990s experimental art in China has often been described as “underground” or “independent.” In this talk, I suggest that the term “peripheral” is a much more apt description as it simultaneously refers to the actual spaces in which art has flourished at the urban fringes of the city and the spatial dynamics of experimental art’s alternative positioning. Exploring how site-based art activities in Beijing’s urban periphery interfaced with the city’s physical expansion, I show how art practices transformed overlooked urban spaces to connect local sites to global art networks.

Bio:

Nancy P. Lin is a 2021 Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in Art History at Cornell University. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from The University of Chicago. Her research considers modern and contemporary Chinese art and architecture from a transregional perspective. Her current book project focuses on the intersection between art and urbanism in examining locally situated, yet globally oriented site-based art practices in China. Lin’s publications include a forthcoming chapter in the edited volume The Allure of Matter: Materiality Across Chinese Art (2021), an article in the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (Winter 2021), and a chapter in the edited volume Visual Arts, Representations and Interventions in Contemporary China: Urbanized Interface (2018).

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides full funding for graduate and professional students conducting research or teaching in any field 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.

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Is the Einaudi Center's International Relations minor for you? Here's a chance to find out. Graduates go on to successful careers in fields like international law, economics, agriculture, trade, finance, journalism, education, and government service.

Contact: irm@einaudi.cornell.edu

The migration studies minor is a university-wide, interdisciplinary undergraduate minor that prepares students to understand the historical and contemporary contexts and factors that drive international migration and shape migrant experiences around the globe. This minor draws on the rich course offerings found across the humanities and social sciences at Cornell, and is designed to draw students outside of their major fields and to extend their knowledge beyond a single country.

Contact: migration-minor@einaudi.cornell.edu,

Through an interdisciplinary curriculum that you can mold to your interests, the European Studies (ES) Minor provides the opportunity to explore Europe’s past, present, and future. You will cultivate a knowledge of European languages, culture, history, politics, and international relations. The minor offers the chance to take courses across colleges on subjects that shape your understanding of a globalizing world, while also providing you with an area of expertise. You will gain critical thinking skills, language abilities, and helpful frameworks for assessing today’s most pressing issues in Europe and around the world.

Several funding opportunities are available for you to pursue undergraduate research projects focused on Europe. Join the information session to learn about application requirements, deadlines, and how to construct a strong proposal.

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In Yiwu, a town in southeast China known as the world’s largest wholesale center for manufactured commodities for daily consumption, thousands of Chinese Muslims (Hui) work as middlemen between Chinese suppliers and foreign traders. Despite their indispensable role in the trade, many of them act more like clerks than like entrepreneurs: they stick to a couple of foreign clients over years, follow paper trails with suppliers and logistical companies, repeat the same process in every deal, and make no investments and earn from commissions. This “relaxed” working life is attractive, as most middlemen had migrated from northwestern China as Arabic-Chinese translators with little capital and business experiences. More importantly, this business pattern enables large numbers of petty producers and traders across the world, regardless of their cultural backgrounds, to join the global market. This underlies Yiwu’s economic success. This essay explores how Yiwu achieves this through the notions of “channels” and “logistical power”. Traders’ channel making as their main business activity and the local state’s logistical power in turn impact religious life.

The annual International Fair showcases Cornell's global opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. Explore the fair and find out about international majors and minors, language study, fellowships, internships, study abroad, exchanges, service learning, and more.

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