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The department is the home for instruction in the languages, literatures, religions, cultures, and intellectual histories of Asian societies and is one of the few departments in America that offers instruction in social sciences, the humanities and languages across all three regions of Asia: East Asia (China, Japan and Korea), Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, The Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore), and South Asia (India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh). The Department is committed to the examination of social, political, and cultural formations that transcend traditional national and areal boundaries.
The Asian Studies Department of Cornell University is pleased to announce the Kyoko Selden Translation Prize for 2022 in this, our final year of the prize. As always, we were both educated and inspired by the range of work we received: texts that spanned Japanese writings produced from the 13th to ...
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Are Filipino and Tagalog the same? Twitter users revived the debate on language after Filipino-American comedian Nico Santos shared a conversation that spawned searches on Google.
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When Thitirat Boonyanuphong isn’t on her housekeeping rounds at the Statler Hotel or teaching conversational Thai at Cornell’s Language Resource Center, the 43-year-old can be found in a classroom on campus earning college credits.
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September 10, 2022 9:30am-6:00pm Kahin Center Cornell University 640 Stewart Avenue Ithaca, NY 14850 This conference focuses on Kashmiri literature through extensive discussions of forms, genres, ecologies, and poetics that inhabit literary landscapes in Kashmir. By exploring multiple f...
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Klarman Fellows pursue research in any discipline in the College, including natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and the creative arts as well as cross-disciplinary fields. The application deadline is October 14.
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Each year, the Center invites the Cornell teaching community to propose projects that explore new strategies, emerging technologies, and approaches to facilitate vibrant, challenging, and reflective learning experiences. The 2021-2022 grant recipients developed unique, creative ways to bring new lea...
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Stephanie Naing is working with sixth and seventh graders this summer who want to gain entrance into New York City's independent schools.
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A group of students, including some Nexus Scholars, is learning practical skills related to sustainability and connecting them to community behaviors.
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The Asian Studies Department of Cornell University is pleased to announce the Kyoko Selden Translation Prize for 2022 in this, our final year of the prize.
In the category of previously published translators, the 2022 award went to Matthew Fraleigh, Honorable Mention in this category was awarded to Shi-Lin Loh, and the award in the previously unpublished category was given to Yi Deng.
For more information, view our announcement.
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