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Where next for Palestine’s heritage and cultural scene? In this talk I will combine several strands of my research on these topics extending them into a consideration of future scenarios and potentialities. I will begin with the current moment: the utter destruction of Gaza’s…

Talk by Prashant Kidambi (History, University of Leicester )

Cantonments were a ubiquitous symbol of the military origins and underpinnings of British rule in South Asia. This talk, based on new research, seeks to rethink existing approaches to the study of cantonments. It critiques perspectives that view…

In a world of massive inequalities between nations, and where citizenship at birth is the biggest determining factor of anyone's life chances, migration and international mobility are often seen as dramatic mechanisms of change. Yet strict borders and hierarchies between nations persist. The recently initiated…

In the mid-nineteenth century, decades after independence in Latin America, borderlands presented existential challenges to consolidating nation-states. This talk examines how and why these spaces became challenging to governments and what their meaningfulness is for our understanding of the development of a global…

Film Screening of "From Where We Stand" and discussion with Lucy Kaye and Adrian Favell

Lucy Kaye's one hour documentary and deep dive into the life and times of residents of three post industrial towns in the North of England is at once moving, visually haunting, and (in parts) disturbingly…

CRICKET AND THE IDEA OF INDIA

‘Cricket is an Indian game accidentally discovered by the English’, it has famously been said. Today, the Indian cricket team is a powerful national symbol, a unifying force in a country riven by conflicts. But India was represented by a cricket team long before it became an…

Annette Damayanti Lienau, assistant professor at Harvard University, will give a lecture, "Arabic Across Empires and the Making of Literary Traditions in Asia and Africa," on March 18 at 5pm in White Hall room 106.

Professor Lienau will present from her recently published book "Sacred…

1 Fabric, 4 Continents, 200 Years of History

Wax Print (2018) traces the vast and multi-stranded global history of a fabric that has become an iconic symbol of Africa worldwide. The documentary follows British-born filmmaker and fashion designer Aiwan Obinyan on beautiful, transnational two-year journey, in…

East Asia Program Lecture Series Presents "Studying China in the Absence of Access: Relearning a Lost Art"

Speaker: Andrew Mertha, Director of the SAIS China Research Center, George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Description: As our access to Chinese…

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports U.S. citizens to study, conduct research in any field, or teach English in more than 150 countries. Students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are encouraged to start the process in their junior year. Recent graduates are welcome to apply through…

Join us on Zoom to practice your Thai skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…

The Seminar on Issues in African Development series examines a broad range of critical concerns in contemporary Africa including food production, human resource development, migration, urbanization, environmental resource management, economic growth, and policy guidance. The weekly presentations are made by invited…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Dr. Kristian Saguin from the University of the Philippines Diliman, who will discuss urbanization and resource flows in Metro Manila. Currently, Dr. Saguin serves as Associate Professor of Geography at the University of the Philippines Diliman.

This Gatty…

Join Kim Aris, son of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, for an important discussion on Myanmar's ongoing crisis. This event is an opportunity to come together, hear firsthand about Kim's mission and explore ways we can take action to support the people of Myanmar together.

Topics to be discussed:

The…

Why do we see the country and the city as intrinsically different spaces and ways of being? Almost 50 years after Raymond Williams (1973) argued that this contrast is “one of the major forms in which we become conscious of a central part of our experience and of the crises of our society,” we continue to see…

Join us for a discussion of RIVERINE CITIZENSHIP: A BOSNIAN CITY IN LOVE WITH THE RIVER. Featuring the book's author, Azra Hromadzic (Syracuse University), Kristin Doughty (Rochester University), Saida Hodzic (Cornell University), and the Cornell Proseminar in Anthropology. Lunch will be served and everyone is…

(Re)lating Archaeological Belongings, Colonialist Histories, and Incorporated Peoples among the Onöndowa'ga:' Hodinöhsö:ni'

Settler narratives of Indigenous history tend to produce imaginary geographies across contested landscapes—employing moments of violence, movement, and change to…

Yumeng Zhang, Ph.D. Student, Asian Studies, will lead this Classical Chinese text-reading.

"Sacred Performances and Epigraphic Echoes: Temple Festivals in North China during Late Medieval China"

Zhang writes:

My study examines the intersection of contemporary anthropological…

Talk by Shozab Raza (Anthropology, University of Toronto)

In recent years, we have seen renewed efforts to “decolonize.” From the toppling of statues to the revision of disciplinary canons, much of this effort has focused on overturning colonial residues in our cultural and epistemological landscapes. This…

East Asia Program Lecture Series presents "The Rule of Law in Political Conflicts: How Taiwanese Courts Respond to Disobedience in Political Polarization."

In a severely polarized polity, political actors are sometimes driven to take extra-legal actions to secure their political goals. Such actions…

Spring 2025 Harry ’51 and Joshua ’49 Tsujimoto Perspectives in Global Development Seminar Series

Abstract

The intersection of race, class and gender in the conception and design of the Atlantic Slave system continues to attract multidisciplinary research interest. The Caribbean, and the southern US…

Spring 2025 ICM Events Series

Samera Esmeir will speak on "Territorial Imperatives, Revolutionary Leanings: Thinking with the Palestinian Revolution." Please note that the date for this lecture has been changed to Wednesday, March 26, 2025.

About the Speaker

Samera Esmeir is associate…

Join graduate student writers to share goals and write in community. The writing workshop will begin with group introductions and a moment to share what we're working on. The bulk of the time will then be dedicated to writing in community and end with the opportunity to share what you accomplished with a…

Winston Churchill famously quipped, “There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them.” For generations, the United States has wrestled with the complexities that come with international alliances. Nonetheless, ever since the early days of the Cold War, America's…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Elissa “E” Domingo Badiqué from Cornell University, who will discuss Filipinx mimicry and queer self-fashioning through dance. Elissa is a PhD candidate in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University.

This Gatty Lecture will take place…

Talk by Ali Houissa and Laurent Ferri (Curators of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection)

Our CMS seminar today will be led by the curator of the Middle Eastern Collection in Olin Library, who will be hosting us to see precious objects in the library's collection…

An A.D. White Professors-at-Large keynote public lecture

Thursday, March 27, at 4:45pm, Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall, and via Zoom

Open to all. A reception will follow.

Abstract

The establishment of colonial dispensations on the Caribbean frontier by rival European imperial…

Join us for a screening and discussion of the documentary No Other Land, which recently won the Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary.

The film follows Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, who has been filming and fighting his community’s expulsion by Israeli forces since…

A film screening by Cornell Cinema.

M, a university dropout low on money and luck, volunteers to take care of his terminally ill grandmother, in the hope of pocketing an inheritance. However, winning Grandma's favor is no easy feat. She proves to be a tough nut to crack—demanding, exacting, and…

M, a university dropout low on money and luck, volunteers to take care of his terminally ill grandmother, in the hope of pocketing an inheritance. However, winning Grandma's favor is no easy feat. She proves to be a tough nut to crack—demanding, exacting, and exceedingly difficult to please. To add to the…