The Laidlaw Scholars 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…

Presented by Gopalaya & Gopal Yonjan Foundation

Dedicated to Peace, Unity & Harmony in Nepal

At a time when Nepal’s wounds are still raw and much remains to be rebuilt, the program turns to the enduring power of Gopal Yonjan’s songs through stories and compositions presented by his wife…

Learn more about this spring break opportunity that includes travel to Kigali, Rwanda, where students will deepen their knowledge of studio production techniques while engaging in vibrant cross-cultural musical collaboration. Open to songwriters, performers, producers, and audio engineers, the course centers around…

Join Einaudi Center experts for World in Focus Talks on global events in the news and on your mind. Our faculty's research and policy insights put the world in focus.

This year we’re hosting informal campus discussions on many Tuesday afternoons. This week’s topic:

Following a military buildup…

This talk explores an unconventional form in which knowledge on Mexico's "war on drug trafficking" is produced and circulates, and the kind of symptomatic reading that it performs. By analyzing two such instances—a journalist's testimony on her experience of drug-war violence before a federal…

"Implementing Undergraduate TAs in the Language Curriculum"
Mijeong Mimi Kim
Teaching Professor of Korean Language and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Washington University in St. Louis

This presentation examines the strategic integration of Undergraduate Teaching Assistants (UTAs…

Discussion with Sarah Thompson (Government, Cornell University), Sadia Mahmood (South Asia Program, Cornell University) and author Natasha Raheja (Anthropology and Performing & Media Arts, Cornell University)

Selective Welcome: Pakistani Hindus in India (Forthcoming, University of Chicago Press) explores…

Towards A Cosmopolitics of Chemical Exposure

Chemicals can be hard to see. Same with gods, spirits and saints. Both kinds of entities are lively and ambiguous forces, more-than-human others. In this talk, I reflect on over a decade of ethnographic and collaborative research with exposure scientists and…

Speaker:

Chih-Jou Jay Chen, Director of Institute of Sociology, Research Fellow, Academia SinicaPanelists:

Victor Nee, Frank and Rosha Rhodes Professor of Economic Sociology, and Director of the Center for the Study of Economy and SocietyPeter J. Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of…

Chih-Jou Jay Chen will present the lecture outlined below.

After CJ Chen's lecture, there will be a panel discussion.

Panelists: Peter Katzenstein (Government), Victor Nee (Sociology), and Naoki Sakia (Asian Studies)

Light lunchtime refreshments will be served at 12:00pm the post-…

Go global in summer 2026! Global Internships give you valuable international work experience in fields spanning global development, climate and sustainability, international relations, communication, business, governance, and more.

Applications will open in the fall.

Can’t attend? Contact…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Caitlyn Sears, an incoming postdoctoral associate at Cornell University's Southeast Asia Program.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at Warren Hall, B75. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact seapgatty@…

For close to a decade, the U.S. government has been preoccupied with the threat of China, fearing that the country will “eat our lunch,” in the words of President Joe Biden. The United States has crafted its foreign and domestic policy to help constrain China’s military power and economic growth. This talk will…

Join this info session to learn about 2026 Global Hubs Faculty Research Seed Grants offered by Global Cornell as part of our Global Hubs initiative. Info session attendees will learn about the grant opportunity and application tips through a short presentation and Q&A.

Through these seed grants, Cornell…

"Catholic and Buddhist Ecologies in Tibetan Wine Production in Southwest China"

Brendan A. Galipeau
Lecturer
Environmental Studies Program
Binghamton University

Drawing from material in my recently published book, Crafting a Tibetan Terroir, this talk discusses the…

The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program provides fully funded immersive summer programs for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to learn languages of strategic importance to the United States’ national security, economic prosperity, and engagement with the world. Each summer, over 500 American students…

Purnima Menon, an expert on food and nutrition policy, will deliver a lecture at Cornell University on Tuesday, September 30, at 12:20 p.m. ET in Mann Library 102. The lecture is entitled “Nudging People (and Policy) Towards Better Diets and Nutrition: Insights from South Asia.” The event is part of the Tata-…

Department of History of Art & Visual Studies Visual Colloquium Series.

Join us for a talk by Michael Chagnon, (Curator, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto).

This VCC Lecture will take place in Goldwin Smith Hall G22.

"Topographies of the Unseen: Illustrating Hafiz in Seventeenth-Century Iran…

Last Public Issues Forum

This film series has been created to celebrate the new minor in Caribbean Studies. It invites viewers to reflect on the Caribbean as a space of media creation, as well as to consider social issues of global concern from the perspective of the Caribbean. With films from Colombia, Cuba…

Lecture by Jessica Mayberry, Founding Director, Video Volunteers

Across the world, people feel their voices no longer matter in public life. In the United States as in India, institutions are losing legitimacy, debates feel hollow, and digital platforms reward outrage more than understanding. But there are…

Talk by Ahona Panda (History, Claremont McKenna College)

The talk explores the entwined political and literary lives of the Bengali politician and writer, Abul Mansur Ahmed (1898-1979), and studies him as a person who lived through the political articulations of three nationalisms: Indian, Pakistani, and…

An extraordinary account of the Soviet dissident movement, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement shows how dissidents spearheaded the struggle to break free of the USSR’s totalitarian past, a struggle that continues in Putin’s Russia—and that illuminates other…

This talk examines how to ensure Indigenous Peoples are meaningfully involved in jurisdictional REDD+ initiatives, with their rights safeguarded and their perspectives actively shaping decisions. It highlights practical approaches for designing benefit-sharing systems, implementing safeguards, and establishing…

Learn more about this spring break opportunity that includes travel to Kigali, Rwanda, where students will deepen their knowledge of studio production techniques while engaging in vibrant cross-cultural musical collaboration. Open to songwriters, performers, producers, and audio engineers, the course centers around…

Talk by Margaret Graves (History of Art and Architecture, Brown University)

Historical ceramics from the Islamic world are now held in elite collections worldwide. Many migrated westward during the turn-of-the-twentieth-century heyday of Islamic art collecting, a time when craft skills in the Middle East…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Aditya Bhattacharjee, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow from Asian Studies at Cornell University.

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

In this 80th year of the atomic age, the catastrophic risks posed by nuclear weapons are growing. The US and Russia are developing new nuclear bombs and missiles and upgrading weapons delivery systems. China is rapidly expanding its nuclear weapons capabilities.

In the history of the atomic age, progress…

Undergraduates interested in spending a semester or year at Oxford or Cambridge must attend an information and group advising session before applying to the program. Learn more about eligibility criteria, the admissions process, and the student experience to determine whether this will be a good fit for you.…

FALL 2025

Monday, September 22, 2025

Klarman KG42

ICM NEW BOOKS SERIES

Moorings: Voyages of Capital Across the Indian Ocean

NIDHI MAHAJAN (Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz)

The Institute for Comparative Modernities is thrilled to…

Talk by Daisy Rockwell (Artist, writer, and Hindi-Urdu translator)

Translators love to use metaphors to capture the nature of their work, yet every metaphor seems to fall short, resulting in a great, unusable tangle of mixed metaphors. In this lecture, Daisy Rockwell will share some of her own handcrafted…