The East Asia Program (EAP) offers several categories of fellowships and grants to support student and faculty research and study related to East Asia:

EAP Graduate Area Studies Fellowships East Asian Language Study Grants EAP Research Travel GrantsCan’t attend? Contact eap@cornell.edu.

Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn more than you might think. Conversation Hours are open to any learner, including the public.

Come learn more about this spring opportunity with spring break travel, developed in partnership with Universidad San Francisco de Quito and as part of the Jeb E. Brooks School’s Global Policy Exchange Lab. This 3-credit collaborative online international learning (COIL) and community-based global learning (CBGL) course allows a unique bilateral exchange as highlighted in our overview of the Spring 2024 program. The program invites Cornell students to explore the complexities of education policy and practice in the United States and Ecuador with students and faculty from Universidad San Francisco de Quito as well as with teachers, administrators, and policy makers in both contexts.

In the mid-nineteenth century, decades after independence in Latin America, borderlands presented existential challenges to consolidating nation-states. This talk examines how and why these spaces became challenging to governments and what their meaningfulness is for our understanding of the development of a global world by examining one of those spaces: the Trans-Andean, an Argentine-Chilean borderland connected by the Andes mountains and centered on the Argentine region of Cuyo. It answers these questions by interweaving three narratives: Chilean migration to western Argentina; mountain-crossing Argentine rebels; and the formation of plans for railroads to cross the mountains.

Out of these narratives emerges a twofold argument that, on the one hand, locates the causes and stakes of foundational national conflicts in Argentina in a Pacific-facing Trans-Andean and, on the other hand, sees the Trans-Andean as part of mid-nineteenth-century globalization, thus connecting national conflicts, non-national geographies, and globalization. As a result, this history challenges dominant narratives about social and political conflicts at this formative moment in Argentine and Latin American history while opening up discussion on the methodologies and meaningfulness of transnational, borderlands, and global histories.

Kyle E. Harvey is an Assistant Professor of History at Western Carolina University. He is a social historian whose current research focuses on spatial histories of Argentina and Chile. His research engages with broad questions of historical geography, human mobility, capitalism, technology and expertise, and materialist interpretations of history. He received his BA in History from the University of Michigan and his MA and PhD from Cornell University. His research has been published in the Journal of Latin American Studies and Historia Crítica. His book, In Place of Mobility: Railroads, Rebels, and Migrants in an Argentine-Chilean Borderland, was published in 2024 by the University of North Carolina Press as part of its David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History.

POSSIBLE LANDSCAPES PROJECT

Mario Lewis, an artist and agriculturalist practicing in Trinidad and Berlin, is one of several Trinidadian collaborators in the documentary film project making its debut at Cornell Cinema on Wednesday, September 25. On Wednesday September 25, just before the debut screening at Cornell Cinema, Mario Lewis will give an artist talk at Toboggan Lodge, with a micro exhibit of selected works connected to his talk.

More details about Possible Landscapes screening:

https://events.cornell.edu/event/possible-landscapes-world-premiere-scr…

More details about Possible Landscapes project:

https://as.cornell.edu/news/professors-feature-length-documentary-film-…

POSSIBLE LANDSCAPES PROJECT

Dr. Deborah Villarroel-Lamb is one of several Trinidadian collaborators in the documentary film project making its debut at Cornell Cinema on Wednesday, September 25.

On Tuesday, September 24, Dr. Villarroel-Lamb will speak about her research at the Environmental Fluid Mechanics Teaching Lab, B52 Hollister Hall.

Abstract

Caribbean coastal communities are confronted by diverse hazards whose adverse impacts will be exacerbated with anticipated future climate changes. Hurricanes and storms are examples of frequent events that destroy social, ecological and economic assets in coastal regions, but these vulnerable areas are susceptible to other natural and anthropogenic threats like earthquakes and tsunamis. However, with limited data and inadequate resources, proactive risk mitigation and disaster management strategies are not widespread throughout the region. In fact, there is a growth of valuable and critical assets in these at-risk areas driven by historical context and developmental goals. As the Caribbean region seeks to achieve genuine coastal resilience, mandated by a need to protect present and future generations, it is important to engage in meaningful transdisciplinary discourse on what necessary actions can be effectively achieved while seeking to optimize use of the region’s limited resources.

More details about Possible Landscapes screening:

https://events.cornell.edu/event/possible-landscapes-world-premiere-scr…

More details about Possible Landscapes project:

https://as.cornell.edu/news/professors-feature-length-documentary-film-…

The 2024 MexicanEast conference, held at Cornell University from September 20-21, 2024, brings scholars together to discuss transit through the lens of Mexican cultural studies. We welcome discussion about migration, movement, transition, trade, and trans and queer issues, as well as any other meaningful engagement with the topic of transit.