Events
Einaudi Center events feature lectures, workshops, and global discussions on international studies and research topics.
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
11:45 am
Bill and Melinda Gates Hall, G01
Over the past several decades, hacking and journalism have increasingly intersected, changing how both fields work. This talk uses that relationship as a way into hacking itself: its different cultures, histories, and politics. Hacking has never been one thing—phreaks, free software developers, the underground,…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
Migrations Program
4:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Join us on for an informative and engaging info session to learn more about the Institute for African Development and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies programs. This session will provide an overview of academic offerings, events, faculty expertise, research opportunities, and other student support services.…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
1:15 pm
Kahin Center
Gatty Lecture Series
*Please note this Gatty Lecture takes place on Friday at 1:15pm, not Thursday at 12:15pm*
Join us for a talk by Micah R. Fisher, Assistant Professor, Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, School of Communication & Information at the University of Hawai'i…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
4:30 pm
Rockefeller Hall, 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)
This event has been canceled.
Speaker: Sandra So Hee Chi Kim, Assistant Professor of Asian and Asian American Studies, Stony Brook University
Title: The Ante-Colonial: A Grassroots Discourse of Korean Diasporic Trans-indigenous Relationality
Abstract: This presentation explores a Korean…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:00 am
Kahin Center
The 29th SEAP Graduate Student Conference will be held on October 23-24, 2026 at Cornell University’s Kahin Center for Advanced Research on Southeast Asia in Ithaca, New York, and on Zoom.
Full schedule and abstracts available here.
Please direct any questions to…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
10:00 am
Arts Quad
Cornell World Languages Day is a free annual event highlighting the importance of language learning, cultural awareness, and global literacy. WLD invites middle and high school students from the greater community to campus, showcasing the opportunities for language learning and international studies at Cornell.
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South Asia Program
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Nikhit Agrawal
Since 2015, when the Paris Agreement was adopted, agriculture has gained prominence in global climate negotiations, both as a source of greenhouse gas emissions and as a potential contributor to reducing them through carbon storage and sequestration. In the past decade, hundreds of…
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:45 pm
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Film Forum
The Terror and the Time and In the Sky's Wild Noise I Victor Jara Collective
Film Screening and Discussion
In the mid-1970s, a group of students, staff, and professors at Cornell University united by an urgency to make revolutionary art formed the Victor Jara Collective, named after the Chilean…
East Asia Program
6:30 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, G76
Performer: Peaceful Forest
The Northeast Council of Teachers of Japanese presents Peaceful Forest! After their well-received performance at the Northeast Council of Teachers of Japanese (NECTJ) Cultural Festival, Peaceful Forest, a family taiko ensemble led by award-winning taiko artist Takumi Kato, will be…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
12:20 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Sebastián Kraljevich, former Secretary for the Strengthening of Democracy at the Organization of American States and a political strategist with more than 25 years of experience across 13 presidential campaigns in Latin America, examines the mounting challenges facing democratic forces as authoritarian projects…
East Asia Program
4:45 pm
Rockefeller Hall, 201 - Schwartz Auditorium
Cornell University Lecture
The 12th Lecture | “Unmasking the CCP: History, Politics, and Society in Post-1949 China” Lecture Series
Title: Red Dawn over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity
Speaker: Professor Frank Dikötter (Stanford University)
About the Lecture
…Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Migrations Program
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
4:30 pm
Physical Sciences Building, Baker Portico & Atrium
Meet Cornell's Laidlaw scholars and Global Interns at our fall showcase. They'll present their undergraduate international summer experiences, including hands-on research and leadership-in-action.
The International Research Showcase is hosted by the Einaudi Center for International Studies and…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
6:00 pm
Cornell Cinema
Most people dream of a better future. Pedro, an aspiring social worker, is no different. But as a blind, undocumented immigrant, Pedro faces political restrictions to obtain his college degree, secure a job in his field, and support his family. As he finally graduates, uncertainty looms over Pedro. What starts as a…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Migrations Program
6:00 pm
Willard Straight Theatre
Most people dream of a better future. Pedro, an aspiring social worker, is no different. But as a blind, undocumented immigrant, Pedro faces political restrictions to obtain his college degree, secure a job in his field, and support his family. As he finally graduates, uncertainty looms over Pedro. What starts as a…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
12:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Around 2019 signs first emerged that China had embarked on its most significant nuclear modernization program since it became a nuclear power in 1964, but Western scholars disagree on China’s motivations for doing so. This paper offers a framework to explain major changes in China’s nuclear policy that highlights…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:15 pm
Kahin Center
Gatty Lecture Series
Join us for a talk by Mary-Collier Wilks, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
This Gatty Lecture will take place at the Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact seap…
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
4:45 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, G22
ICM Lecture Series
Fall 2026
FADI A. BARDAWIL (Duke University)
The Institute for Comparative Modernities is pleased to welcome Fadi A. Bardawil back to campus as we host a lecture about his current research:
Difference and Power: Thinking with Edward Said and Talal Asad
Abstract…
South Asia Program
7:30 pm
Willard Straight Hall, Memorial Room
Join us for an evening of Carnatic music featuring renowned guest artist and Indian Classical violinist Sumanth Manjunath, here for his first-ever American tour, in collaboration with violinist Ariana Kim. Co-sponsored by the South Asia Program.
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Migrations Program
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
12:00 pm
Virtual
Go global in summer 2027! Global Internships give you valuable international work experience in fields spanning global development, climate and sustainability, international relations, communication, business, governance, and more.
Applications are open now.
Can’t attend? Contact…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Anaar Desai-Stephens (Music, CUNY)
In this talk, I explore how Bollywood songs have become a powerful medium for dreaming, striving, and self-making in twenty-first-century India. Once dismissed as escapist fantasy, Bollywood’s emotionally charged songs now serve as tools for self-transformation in…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
5:00 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, G64, Kaufmann Auditorium
Speaker: Xiao Hai
Title: Adrift in the South: Life and Art in China's Factories
Abstract: Forthcoming
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
12:20 pm
Virtual
Uris Hall G-08
Why is Bukele-style punitivism gaining traction in Latin America’s least likely democracies? This talk examines Chile and Uruguay, two countries long treated as regional exceptions because of their stable party systems, stronger states, and comparatively low levels of violence. Both now face…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Migrations Program
4:30 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Take your learning to the next level with minors from the Einaudi Center for International Studies and our programs. In this session, you'll learn about three international minors that can help you expand your global knowledge. View a full list of minors.
European Studies
Explore Europe’s past,…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
2:00 pm
Uris Hall, G-08
Medicines That Feed Us examines the relationship between toxicity and remedy in the face of the intertwined health and environmental crises that are shaping life in the twenty-first century. Through ethnographic work with organizations that use plant-based healing and sustainable farming practices in Tanzania,…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
12:00 pm
Hughes Hall, L28 (Zhu Room)
Speaker: Ming-Sung Kuo, University of Warwick School of Law
Title: "Justices Must Be Seen to Be Legitimate”: The (Post-Reform) Legitimacy Challenge of the Taiwan Constitutional Court, 2019-2025
Abstract: In this presentation, I take up one unasked question in the discussion of the legitimacy of…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Institute for European Studies
12:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
How can political actors generate geopolitical power, deterrence, and resilience without concentrating authority in a sovereign hierarchy? Dominant approaches in international relations tend to locate strategic capacity in actors and their material resources, treating relations primarily as channels for cooperation…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:15 pm
Kahin Center
Gatty Lecture Series
Join us for a talk by Christina Firpo, Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University.
This Gatty Lecture will take place at the Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact seap@cornell.edu.
…Einaudi Center for International Studies
12:00 am
Virtual
Kickstart your international career at Global Careers Week!
This week of events is an opportunity for Cornell students of all levels and nationalities to meet employers from around the globe, hear from alumni working abroad, and learn about the process of finding job and internship opportunities outside of…
South Asia Program
12:00 pm
Uris Library, 311
Please join us for the Media Studies Colloquium in Uris Library 311. Lunch provided. Graduate students welcome.
Pre-circulated reading will be available at https://cornell.box.com/v/MSColloquiumReadings.
The film cut and visual bond as anti…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Meghna Chaudhuri (History, Davidson College)
In this talk, I will present research that clues us into reframing the agrarian in colonial, and early post-colonial South Asia - as not merely a space where material production of grain and food occurs but as a key site of experiments with finance capital…
Past Events
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
4:45 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Marc Herman (Humanities, York University)
In this book talk, Marc Herman discusses his new book, After Revelation: The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World. This book demonstrates that medieval Jewish legal thought was forged in dialogue with various and competing schools of Islamic law.…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Southeast Asia Program
4:00 pm
Kahin Center
Discussion Format
The session will combine a keynote address, concise case presentations, and a moderated academic discussion. Professor Janet Hoskins will provide a keynote frame connecting the Southwest Sumba material with wider Indonesian and Southeast Asian scholarship. The Spatial Ethnography team will…
Institute for African Development
Einaudi Center for International Studies
12:00 pm
Uris hall, G-08
Wednesday, October 21, 2026 12:00pm Uris Hall, G-08
Moderator: Lois Matthew, Ph.D. candidate, Government
Enduring Impact of French Colonialism in Francophone West Africa - Carmine Couloute, Ph.D. student, Government
From gold mines to gardens: Assessing Mercury Contamination in Crop Biomass…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Migrations Program
5:00 pm
Virtual
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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
12:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Since January 2026, Venezuela has become the model of the new “successful” imperialist intervention. Indeed, the Chavista authoritarian government has been reenforced by the support of the US intervention while transforming itself to accommodate this new situation. In this context, social mobilization has been…