Events
Most East Asia Program events are part of the interdisciplinary initiatives that the program has developed over many years through the work of our faculty and students. Be sure to look at past events and activities of these initiatives.
Upcoming Events
3:30 pm
Rockefeller Hall, 374 Asian Studies Lounge
Epitaphs Made Widely Available by Man Xu, History, Tufts University
The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC) 古文品讀 , a reading group for scholars interested in premodern Sinographic text (古文), is welcomes Man Xu, History, Tufts University to lead this month's Classical Chinese text-reading.
…9:00 am
Africana Studies and Research Center
This conference brings together scholars undertaking new research on questions of democratic resistance and sources of resilience in response to global evidence of democratic backsliding.
We will work together to analyze domestic and international factors, including institutions, civil society, political…
12:00 pm
Uris Hall, 204
Y.S. Lee, author of Sustainable Peace in Northeast Asia (Anthem Press, 2023) and Adjunct Professor of Law at Cornell Law School speaks about his book which examines the causes of long-standing and complex tensions in the region and explores possible solutions to build lasting peace there. Introduced by Yun-chien…
4:45 pm
Myron Taylor Hall, 182
Ji Li, of US-China Business and Law at UC Irvine, will discuss his book titled Negotiating Legality: Chinese Companies in the U.S. Legal System (soon to be published in May 2024 by Cambridge University Press). Introduced by Yun-chien Chang, the Jack G. Clarke Professor in East Asian Law.
Book description:…
4:45 pm
Physical Sciences Building, 120
Did the Communists win or the Nationalists lose the Chinese civil war? This talk will reexamine this classic question with new evidence from diaries and memoirs of the period that examine how economic crisis and political disillusionment in the existing regime interacted with a new type of revolutionary identity…
5:00 pm
Rockefeller Hall, Schwartz Auditorium, Room 201
Lund Critical Debate
Climate change has a disproportionate impact on the world’s most vulnerable populations, yet climate crises also impact people across the full spectrum of wealth and power. How do we understand these varied impacts and design climate policy to maximize human well-being and justice on a…
3:00 pm
Cornell ILR School, 281 Ives Faculty Building
Ralf Ruckus will present central arguments from the book The Left in China. A Political Cartography (Pluto Press, 2023):
All over the world, progressive forces debate the nature of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). While some consider them to be socialist, others…
3:30 pm
Rockefeller, 374 Asian Studies Lounge
Su-yeon Seo, (Cornell grad student, Asian Studies) will lead final Classical Chinese text-reading for this semester titled Naming and Knowledge in the East Asian Sea.
The group meets monthly during the semester to explore a variety of classical Chinese texts and styles. Other premodern texts linked to…
4:45 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, 64
Youngju Ryu, Modern Korean Literature, University of Michigan
“President by Night” is the infamous nickname Park Chung Hee once gave to Pang Il-yŏng, the head of Chosun ilbo, South Korea’s largest daily newspaper. The nickname reveals the symbiotic nature of the relationship between the press and political…
5:00 pm
245 Feeney Wy, Ithaca, NY 14853, Physical Sciences Building 120.
U.S. National Security Policymaking and the Future of U.S.-China Relations: A Fireside Chat between Former National Security Advisor Stephen J. Hadley and Professor Jessica Chen Weiss.
10:30 am
Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave
The panels will delve into women’s roles in effecting change across Asia through everyday practices of food production, handling, preparation, and consumption. This interdisciplinary and transregional approach will open new windows on the ways in which women—which we see as a heterogenous category, intersecting…
9:30 am
Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave
The panels will delve into women’s roles in effecting change across Asia through everyday practices of food production, handling, preparation, and consumption. This interdisciplinary and transregional approach will open new windows on the ways in which women—which we see as a heterogenous category, intersecting…
4:45 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, 64
Stormy Seas: Taiwan's Democracy under the Shadow of China by Thunghong Lin, Academia Sinica, Stanford University. Introduced by Eli Friedman (ILR School).
In an era where democratic nations globally face the risk of regression, the question arises: How can a small democratic country survive the…
4:45 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, 64
Day 1: Book Talk – SARS Stories: Affect and Archive of the 2003 Pandemic
Speaker: Belinda Kong (Asian Studies and English, Bowdoin College)
In SARS Stories, Belinda Kong delves into the cultural archive of the 2003 SARS pandemic, examining Chinese-language creative works and social practices at the…
10:00 am
Physical Sciences Building, 401
Day 2: Pandemic Archives: Media, Geopolitics, and Temporalities of Crisis
About this workshop:
As the world enters its fourth year living with the COVID-19 pandemic, this workshop critically examines the conceptual tools that are available to capture the shifting temporalities of this chronic crisis…