Poets in Japan experiment at the edge of media
During the past century, experimental poets in Japan have been stretching the conventional definition of the genre by creating poems in unexpected places, according to a Cornell researcher.
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What's Up with the Indian Economy?
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Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media
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A Subaltern Crematorium of India? Bombay, 1918 – 1953
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Asian Studies News
Events celebrate Chinese composer who also transformed language
Chao Yuen-Ren 1914, composer of the first Chinese keyboard music, was also a ground-breaking linguist who transformed the Chinese language through his scholarship on Chinese grammar and phonology.
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Global experts look abroad for lessons in super election year 
Voters in more than 60 countries are heading to the polls to elect new leaders in this record-breaking “super election” year. In many of those countries, democracy itself is on the ballot.
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A&S announces membership in MLA Strategic Partnership Network
“We felt this is an important resource that should be available to our humanists at all levels, whether they have the resources to pay for membership or not,” said Peter John Loewen, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences.
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Cornell expert reflects on Sri Lanka election
Scholar Daniel Bass comments on this week's presidential election in Sri Lanka, the first since a 2022 economic meltdown that forced the resignation of Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
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Language ‘Sustainability through Collaboration’ Conference at Cornell
Cornell, the only institution offering regular multilevel instruction in all six of the major Southeast Asian languages – Burmese, Indonesian, Khmer, Filipino (Tagalog), Thai and Vietnamese – will host a conference on the teaching of these languages on Sept. 19-21.
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From portfolios to pizza, fall A&S career events explore diverse fields
"Cornell alumni are generous with their time and efforts to assist students, to answer questions from students, or connect them to people and places."
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Exploring games’ influence at archives in Beijing
Cornell’s graduate students may be based in Ithaca, but every summer they make discoveries in unique study sites around the globe. Asian literature, religion and culture Ph.D. student Yuanxue Jing did research at the Youyan Archives in Beijing.
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Asian Studies Resources
Wondering what time a language class listed as TBA will meet? Need to go to an Organizational Meeting first! Check out our schedule of organizational meetings at the start of the semester!
Check out our new courses for Spring 2025!
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian Studies for 2025-2027 now available. Applications are being accepted, deadline for applications is November 15, 2024.
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