Anand Vivek Taneja is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Anthropology at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of the award-winning Jinnealogy: Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi and the forthcoming The Gabriel of Madness: Islamic Poetry and Ethics in an Age of Hindu…

Speaker: Quan Gan, Lecturer of History, Rice University

Title: Invest the Gods, Praise the Lord: Royal Speeches on Temple Steles in Wuyue

Abstract: Throughout his political career, Qian Liu 錢鏐 (d. 932 CE) repeatedly petitioned the emperors in the north to grant honorific titles to powerful figures—…

This conference explores the interrelationships among political literary, and religious culture in early second-millennium South India and Sri Lanka. Scholars of premodern South Asia and Indian Ocean political culture now recognize that transregional processes fundamentally shaped political environments in this…

Talk by Ateya Khorakiwala (Architecture, Columbia University)

What architectural technologies were deployed in response to colonial famine? A history of food is, at its most radical, a history of the production of poverty as a systematic condition and an institutional discourse. This paper seeks to locate…

Speaker: Jordan Sand, Professor of Japanese History, Georgetown University

Abstract: The Ise shrines stand at the ritual center of Japanese imperial ideology. At the same time, they are admired around the world for their architecture and for the unique practice of periodic reconstruction. Yet the historical…

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. The program is open to graduate students, recent graduates, and young professionals. Undergraduate students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are…

Darkness falls over Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and its 17 million inhabitants. It is just before Christmas and people are struggling to gain access to electric light. Kudi is mobilising the residents of his Kisenso neighbourhood to collect money for a new power cable. On Mount…

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In this talk, Kira Thurman investigates the rise of Black Europeans in popular music since WWII. After the collapse of European empires, European popular music industries turned to the musical labor of former colonial subjects to reinvent themselves in an increasingly global and English-speaking marketplace.…

Microhabitat (Korean title: So-gong-nyeo) is a 2018 Korean black comedy, directed by Jeon Go-woon. The film asks what really matters if we want to remain ourselves—or hold on to our sense of self—while living under harsh economic conditions. Many Cornellians might relate: we inhabit a world in which our cultural…

Any poem, any language! The Language Resource Center celebrates National Poetry Month. Sweet Poetry is an evening event in April named for enjoying tasty treats while sharing poems in different languages.

Join us on Wednesday, April 15, 2026 at 5:30 pm in the Klarman Hall Atrium. During the event, Cornell…

Tickling Giants is a documentary film featuring Bassem Youssef, known as the "Jon Stewart of Egypt. " The film offers a unique lens on political satire in Egypt in a period of political transition following the 2011 revolution.

Discussion moderated by Dina Bishara (Global Labor and Work, Cornell…

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…

Join us for a virtual discussion with Faizah Zakaria, author of The Camphor Tree and the Elephant and winner of the 2025 Benda Prize. This virtual conversation is open to the broader public, and is hosted by GETSEA.

All participants should read the Introduction and Chapter 1.

The Camphor Tree and…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Aurore Candier, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Burma Studies at Northern Illinois University.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at The Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact…

Bartels World Affairs Lecture

In this year’s Bartels lecture, Ambassador Samantha Power examines the causes and consequences of dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). While reductions in United States foreign assistance have inflicted harm on millions of people, the principal…

The Latina/o Studies Program Fridays with Faculty luncheon seminar offers an opportunity for Latina/o and non-Latina/o students of all levels and disciplines to meet faculty and administrators from across the university for informal conversation about their current research/work in progress. All welcome!

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"Controvérsias e Breve História Sobre a Linguagem Inclusiva no Brasil"

by

Brume Dezembro Iazzetti

​Ph.D. Student in Science and Technology Studies (STS)

Cornell University

WHEN: April 17, 2026 at 12:20PM (EST)

WHERE: Uris Hall G08

Lecturer in Portuguese.…

Come learn and practice Mahjong, a game popularized by films such as Crazy Rich Asians and played widely in countries such as Japan (riichi), China (Shanghai), Taiwan, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Learn to play Kla Klouk, Tiến lên, and more!

Asian Game Night is co-sponsored by the East Asia Program, Southeast…

Talk by Rahul Sagar (Political Science, NYU Abu Dhabi)

Letters to an Indian Raja (1891) was the first work of political theory to be published in modern India. It advised Maharajas to introduce liberal values and constitutional government in the self-governing Native States. Such reform would, it argued,…

Come and explore international research from students at the Einaudi Center for International Studies. Our undergraduate Global Scholars will present posters on their international aid projects.

Global Scholars Showcase

Global Scholars will present a showcase of their capstone projects providing…

// Film Screening and Conversation //

The Culture Industry of War
(2013, dir. Hamed Yousefi, 27 min)

In the essay-film The Culture Industry of War, art historian and filmmaker Hamed Yousefi explores the role of images in Iran’s modern political culture. Focusing on the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988…

Take Care of My Cat (2001, Korean title: Go-yang-i-leul boo-tak-hae) is a debut feature from director Jae-eun Jeong and perhaps the best coming-of-age film Korea has ever produced. (Please don't miss the opening scene — its music and imagery are simply fantastic!)

Set in the port city of Incheon, the…

Join us for an online discussion on colonial collections in and on the Philippines, featuring speakers from Yale University.

Dr. Cheryl Beredo, Director of Collections and Chief Curator, Yale University

Surveying several collections that can support the study of U.S. colonial archives of and on the…

"Chunking in the Second Language: Implications for Language Learning and Teaching"
Serene Wang
Language Scientist and Educator

Many second language learners attain substantial vocabulary and grammatical knowledge and perform well on standardized proficiency tests, yet they continue to…

April 23, 2026 401 Warren Hall Register Artificial intelligence (AI) is viewed by some as having great promise, while others view the arrival of this novel technology with skepticism or concern. AI is certainly having a significant impact in many arenas of life. What are the specific implications of AI…

Why do isolated latent proliferators insist on retaining some of their nuclear capabilities in nonproliferation settlements? Prominent scholarship on nuclear proliferation shows that weak states have used latent nuclear capabilities like uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing to draw Western states into…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Thuy Linh Nguyen, Associate Professor of History from Mount Saint Mary College.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at The Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact seapgatty@cornell.edu…

The East Asia Program is honored to have Wu Hung, the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia at the University of Chicago, to give the 2025-2026 Hu Shih Distinguished Lecture: “Emperor Qianlong’s Peepshow Boxes: A Case of 18th-…

Come learn more about our winter study abroad in Cambodia. In collaboration with the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS), Cornell's Southeast Asia (SEAP, Einaudi) Study Abroad program in Cambodia will provide an in-depth focus on the cultural heritage of Cambodia both past and present. This winter course will focus…