East Asia Program Lecture Series
The East Asia Program Lecture Series brings scholars from around the world to speak on a wide range of topics in East Asian studies. Recordings of many past lectures are available on the Global Cornell YouTube channel.
Spring 2026 Lectures & Events:
More events will be announced throughout the semester.
Entangled Ecologies: Memory, Place, and the Camellia Forests of Jeju Island, South Korea
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026 | 12-1pm | Rockefeller Hall 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)
Speaker: Jeongsu Shin, Cornell University
Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium with Tingting Xu
Friday, February 6th, 2026 | 3:30-6:00pm | Rockefeller Hall 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)
Speaker: Tingting Xu, University of Rochester
The Current Governance: Distributed Chinese Television and Hydropower in the 1980s
Wednesday, February 11th, 2026 | 12-1pm | Uris Hall G-08
Speaker: Weixian Pan, Queen’s University
Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium with Rania Huntington
Friday, February 20th, 2026 | 3:30-4:30pm | Rockefeller Hall 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)
Speaker: Rania Huntington, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Translucent Atmospherics: Media as Utility in China
Friday, February 27th, 2026 | 4:30-5:30pm | Uris Hall G-08
Speaker: Angela Xiao Wu, New York University
Korean Studies Speaker Series: Broadcasting Intimacy: Women’s Letters, Patriarchy, and Postwar Reconstruction in South Korea
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026 | 4:45-5:45pm | Physical Sciences Building 120
Speaker: Jina Kim, University of Oregon
Programmer as Translator, AI as Poet
Monday, March 9th, 2026 | 4:30-5:30pm | Uris Hall, G-08
Speaker: Joanna Krenz, Institute of Oriental Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University
Invisible Anatomy: Meridians and Math in Chinese Medicine
Monday, April 6th, 2026 | 4:30-5:30pm | Uris Hall G-08
Speaker: Lan Li, John Hopkins University
Book Talk: Convict Politics: Innocent Convicts and Unlawful Commoners in Early Chinese Empires (221 BCE-23 CE)
Thursday, April 9th, 2026 | 4:30-5:30pm | Rockefeller Hall 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)
Speaker: Liang Cai, University of Notre Dame
Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium with Quan Gan
Friday, April 10th, 2026 | 3:30-4:30pm | Rockefeller Hall 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)
Speaker: Quan Gan, Rice University
Emperor Qianlong’s Peep Boxes: A Case of 18th-century Global Interaction in Art and Visual Culture
Thursday, April 23rd, 2026 | 4:30-5:30pm | Johnson Museum Robinson Lecture Hall
Speaker: Wu Hung, University of Chicago
Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium with Wu Hung
Friday, April 24th, 2026 | 3:30-4:30pm | Location
Speaker: Wu Hung, University of Chicago
Past Lectures:
Fall 2025
Localizing Surrealism: A Cross-Cultural Study of Modern Taiwanese Poetry 超現實主義的在地化：台灣現代詩的跨文化研究
Thursday, August 28, 2025 | 5pm to 6pm | Uris Hall, G08
Speaker: Cheng-Chung Liu, National Taiwan University
Poetry by Tang Juan: A Community Translation of Ah, Conan
Friday, August 29, 2025 | 5pm to 6pm | Buffalo Streets Books
Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium: “Rhubarb under Embargo: Medicine and Diplomacy in the Qing”
Friday, September 19 | 3:30pm - 5:30pm | Rockefeller Hall, Room 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)
Speaker: Chang Xu, Rice University
Unification, Threat, and Security: Public Views Across the Strait
Friday, October 3, 2025 | 2pm- 4pm | A.D. White House
Speaker: Chih-Jou Chen, Academia Sinica
Mobilizing Ghosts for the Chinese Communist Revolution
Thursday, October 9, 2025 | 5:00pm - 6:15pm | Goldwin Smith Hall G64
Speaker: Xiaofei Kang, George Washington University
Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium: Female Spirit Mediums in Late Imperial China
Friday, October 10 | 3:30pm - 5:30pm | Rockefeller Hall, Room 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)
Speaker: Xiaofei Kang, George Washington University
Global Chinese Theatre: A Transnational Perspective
Thursday, October 16, 2025 | 4:30pm - 5:30pm | Uris Hall, G08
Speaker: Wah Guan Lim, National Chung Hsing University
The Division of Feelings: Affect and Gender Politics in Cold War Literature of Taiwan and South Korea
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 | 4:30pm - 5:30pm | Rockefeller Hall, Room 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)
Speaker: Eno Pei-Jean Chen, National Chengchi University
Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium: "Across Waters and Borders - Shuilu fahui 水陸法會 (Water-Land Dharma Assembly) Beyond China"
Friday, November 7 | 3:30pm - 5:30pm | Rockefeller Hall, Room 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)
Speaker: Jingyu Liu, Rollins College
Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium: “Peach Spring Grotto: Vernacular Rituals of the Plum Mountain Region, Hunan”
Friday, November 21 | 3:30pm - 5:30pm | Rockefeller Hall, Room 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)
Speaker: Mark Meulenbeld, Hong Kong University
Protecting the Past, Present, and Future: Uyghur Culture and History in Swedish Archives and Museums
Wednesday, December 3 | 4:30pm | Uris Hall, G-08
Speaker: Patrick Hällzon, Uppsala University
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