East Asia Program

In 2025, the East Asia Program (EAP) celebrates our 75th year as Cornell’s hub for research, teaching, and engagement with East Asia. EAP serves as a forum for the interdisciplinary study of historical and contemporary East Asia, with over 45 core faculty and numerous affiliated faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students from schools and colleges across Cornell.

Highlights

World in Focus: Global Responses to Trump

Join us on Jan. 27 to talk about the Trump administration's imperial actions and what they mean for the rest of the world.

EAP Events Spring 2026

Spring 2026 lectures and events

News

All news in this program

Funding for Faculty

Apply now for Einaudi research support!

January 20, 2026

Campana Wins MLA's Scaglione Prize for Book on Japanese Poetry

Andrew Campana, EAP

December 8, 2025

Xi Risks Global Blowback If China Cuts Off Rare Earths for Japan

Allen Carlson, EAP/SAP

November 20, 2025

Events

All events in this program

World in Focus: Global Responses to Trump

Jan 27

4:00 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Entangled Ecologies: Memory, Place, and the Camellia Forests of Jeju Island, South Korea

Feb 03

12:00 pm

Rockefeller Hall, 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)

Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium with Tingting Xu

Feb 06

3:30 pm

Rockefeller Hall, 374

Information Session: Graduate Student Opportunities at the Einaudi Center

Feb 09

4:30 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Publications

All publications in this program

Island Ablaze and Other Stories: The US Empire in North and South Korean Literatures

Ruth Barraclough, Jae-Yong Kim, Jin-kyung Lee, and Sang-Kyung Lee, eds.

East Asia Program

By the Waters of Babylon

Mori Arimasa, translated by J. Thomas Rimer

East Asia Program

The Kitchen God and His Wives: A Modern Chinese Folk Epic

Wilt L. Idema

East Asia Program