The Migrations Program is bringing together migration scholars for a conference about migration, sustainability, and belonging in the contemporary moment. Students, scholars, and researchers from the Cornell community will share work that examines human mobility as a sociolegal and political process shaped by…

Come learn more about this spring opportunity with spring break travel, developed in partnership with Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), National University of Singapore (NUS), and as part of the Jeb E. Brooks School’s Global Policy Exchange Lab. This collaborative online international learning (COIL) and…

Find out more about our winter program exploring the Tiputini Biological Station in the Yasuni National Park in the Amazon in Ecuador. Tropical forests have a stunning array of diversity, and adaptations to strong species interactions, while species in alpine ecosystems have highly-specialized adaptations to…

Drop in to learn more and ask questions about the 2027 Global Hubs Faculty Research Seed Grants that Global Cornell and partner universities are offering through the Global Hubs initiative.

Join us on Zoom at any time during the session.

Through these seed grants, Cornell faculty from across the…

In the late 1990s, a new private military company (PMC) from South Africa, Executive Outcomes, intervened in Angola and Sierra Leone, where the company's operations ushered in a ceasefire. Still, when Executive Outcome's CEO, Eeben Barlow, declared his PMC capable of doing "what blue helmets could…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Doreen Lee, Professor of Anthropology, Director of Global Asian Studies, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Northeastern University.

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

Talk by Kali Rubaii (Anthropology, Purdue University)

Taking war as a toxic structure, this talk begins at the belly of war, in Fallujah, Iraq. Rubaii's forensic ethnography between 2014 and 2024 traces weaponized metals from the sand and bodies of people in Fallujah back to their origins at war's…

Insufficient Chill: Apple Cultivation in the End Times

Insufficient Chill begins with a simple question: What work does it take to make a good apple? Apples are the principal cash crop in India’s western Himalayas, where commercial cultivation has sustained livelihoods and transformed landscapes since the…

Speaker: Jaeyoon Song, Professor of History, McMaster University

Title: Names can Kill: Enslavement through Semiotic Stigma in a Neo-Confucian Korea, ca. 1400-1900

Abstract: In this colloquium, we will examine several important documents on premodern Korean slavery. By reading through these documents,…

Part of the two-day symposium Sea-ing Indonesia

Wayang Plastik is a new collaborative work drawing upon Javanese and Balinese traditions of music and shadow puppetry, evoking the Queen of the South Sea, and addressing the scourge of plastic waste. Featured guests Peni Candra Rinivocalist and composer from…

Against the backdrop of post-independence nation-building, especially during the New Order regime, Indonesia has consistently assimilated the ocean to a land-based perspective, and one moreover that focuses -- under the rubric of ‘landscape’-- on its more solid, extractive, and materially driven formations. But…

Part of the two-day symposium Sea-ing Indonesia

Citra Sasmita, Artist, and Wayan Kun Adnyana, Artist & Rector of the Indonesian Institute of the Arts (ISI) will discuss there work and how it addresses issues of gender, activism and the environment on the island of Bali, Indonesia. After brief…

Information & Tickets: https://cinema.cornell.edu/filipinana

Amid stifling heat and pervasive drought, Isabel (Jorrybell Agoto), a 17-year-old Ilokana from the rural north, works at a posh country club outside Manila, lining up golf balls for powerful…

Talk by Nomaan Hasan (Anthropology, Cornell University)

What role can a religion have for those outside its fold? Against a political landscape that frames Islam as an insular and adversarial presence, this talk follows a Muslim civic organization in India as it seeks to establish Islam as an ethical…

Recent research on post-revolutionary struggles to consolidate a sovereign Mexican State and how these legacies laid the foundation for contemporary problems of state-cartel complicity, endemic violence, and the rising numbers of `disappeared' in Mexico. In empirical terms, the research focuses on the…

The John M. Echols Collection on Southeast Asia is the most comprehensive body of material on a global region in the Cornell University Library system and the largest collection of its kind on Southeast Asia in the United States, and in the world.

Southeast Asia Librarians Greg Green (mainland SEA) and Jeff…

For some, India’s single screen cinemas are a legacy to be celebrated and preserved. For others, they remain a place to see movies. Still others remember that it was within those crumbling edifices that they first discovered the magic of the movies, and made deep, lasting connections.

Cinema Pe Cinema, a…

The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

Colonialism is often imagined as an imperial project organized by officials at the highest levels of the state. For the earliest English and French colonies in the Caribbean,…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Suzy Lee, Associate Professor of Human Development at Binghamton University.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at Sage Hall B05 (114 Feeney Way, Ithaca, NY 14853). For questions, contact seap@cornell.edu.

Abstract…

Urbanism, Economy, and Governance at Teotihuacan, Mexico

The early Mexican metropolis of Teotihuacan was the largest city in the Americas of its day (ca. 100 BCE – 600 CE) and is one of the most visited archaeological sites in the hemisphere today. Although it has undergone over a century of investigations,…

Talk by Vidyan Ravinthiran (English, Harvard University)

What overlap is there between political, psychological and philosophical ideas of identity, and what role might poetry play in helping their convergence? Discussing his fusion of life-writing and verse criticism, Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the…

Information: https://cinema.cornell.edu/levitating

Latas Village, a small suburban area, is known for its traditional trance parties, a long-standing ritual and form of entertainment passed down through generations where participants become possessed by the…

Talk by Sharif Hozoori (Visiting Lecturer, Government)

Legitimacy is essential for all political regimes, whether democratic or authoritarian. This has been true for various authoritarian regimes throughout Afghanistan’s modern history and for the current Taliban regime as well. In this study, I focus on…

Everyone has a migration story. Most of us have, at some point in our lives, moved from one place to another, whether across borders or just down the street. In a collaborative effort between the Migrations Program and Cornell University Library, installations located at three campus libraries—Olin Library, Mann…

This presentation examines poetic representations of the city of Lima over the last fifty years, with a particular focus on the city’s transformation under Peru’s neoliberal project since the 1990s. Beginning in the 1970s, Peruvian poetry embraced the city and explored the possibilities of colloquial language to…

A selection of short films screened at the Festival de Cine Libanés 2026 in Mexico City. Q&A with Festival Director Ginger Jabbour and select filmmakers to follow the screening.

The Prison (Syria), Directed by Shaam Joli, 14 minutes

Based on a true story, The Prison follows a young Syrian student…

Speaker: Ben Read, Professor of Politics, UC Santa Cruz

Title: The Struggle for Oversight in Local Government: Mayors vs. Councils in the Heart of Taiwan’s Democracy

Abstract: Having held its eighth straight round of direct elections for the presidency in 2024, Taiwan is widely praised as a model case…

Faculty book chats from the Institute for African Development (IAD) showcase the breadth and depth of research by Cornell faculty on African development. At our inaugural book chat, Wendy Wolford (global development) will share her work that highlights the interconnectedness of land, sustainability, and development…

The Laidlaw Leadership and Research Program promotes ethical leadership and international research around the world—starting with the passionate leaders and learners found on campuses like Cornell. Open to first- and second-year students, the two-year Laidlaw program provides generous support to carry out…

Come learn more about this spring opportunity with spring break travel, developed in partnership with Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), National University of Singapore (NUS), and as part of the Jeb E. Brooks School’s Global Policy Exchange Lab. This collaborative online international learning (COIL) and…