Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Jangai Jap, Assistant Professor from the Department of International Affairs at the University of Georgia.
This Gatty Lecture will take place at the The Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact…

Come and explore the wide range of international work being done at Cornell! This annual showcase features a concurrent student poster session and speed talks by Einaudi Center graduate students and visiting scholars. Refreshments will be served.

Student Experience Poster Session

Over 70…

Join PMA for PMA 1183 Guest Performer and Speaker: DJ Rhettmatic, presented by PMA 1183 FWS: Hip-Hop’s Global Vibrations (NYC, LA, Southeast Asia). This event will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, November 19, from 8:40am - 9:55am. Join on Zoom: https://bit.ly/pma1183

DJ…

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 teach-in on how the political legacies of war continue to shape governance, identity, and everyday life in Southeast Asia. The session focuses on Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, and the Philippines, and will be led by student presenters from the collaborating organizations and CDM law professor and human…

Join SEAP and GETSEA for a simulcast film screening of Vietnamerica.

We will watch the film on the Cornell campus, then join an online discussion with audiences at universities across the US for a Q&A with the filmmakers.

Following the wars in Vietnam, over two million people fled to country…

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…

Title: Indebted Sisterhood: Sex Work and Social Reproduction Across Kenya, Vietnam, and China

Abstract: The heightened China’s presence in Kenya has provoked rampant rumors around Chinese women working in local brothels or Vietnamese women being trafficked to Chinese sham entertainment business. While the…

Fall 2025

ICM New Conversations

The Institute for Comparative Modernities is pleased to host Prof. Shaoling Ma (Department of Asian Studies; Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University) for a new conversation about her current research, "Integrated Rural Circuits: A Scalar History of…

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 are open now.

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Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Marlie Lukach, PhD student in Plant Breeding and Genetics, who will discuss lagenaria siceraria, the bottle gourd.

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

The Dorothea S. Clarke Program in Feminist Jurisprudence Presents: Women and Democratic Change in Myanmar

About the Talk

Women in Myanmar are driving social justice, criminal justice, and political parity, especially since the 2021 military coup. Social norms and cultural barriers hinder women'…

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:

The Gaza–Israel conflict…

Septian Hario Seto (Executive Secretary of National Economic Council, Republic of Indonesia) will be joined on November 10, by moderator Jenny Goldstein (Global Development) and faculty respondents Vibha Kalra (Chemical + Biomolecular Engineering), James Rogers (Brooks School/Tech Policy Institute), and Esteban…

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For the summer 2026 Leadership in Action experience, students will be placed with the Pachaysana Foundation exploring what it means to be an intercultural leader in today’s complex, fractured world. Please attend this Q+A webinar with Pachaysana Foundation to learn more about their work and how the Laidlaw Scholars…

Join us for a talk by Ashley Thompson, Hiram W Woodward Chair of Southeast Asian Art at SOAS University of London.

This lecture will take place at The Physical Sciences Building 120 with light reception to follow in Baker Portico. For questions, contact seap@cornell.edu…

For the summer 2026 Leadership in Action experience, students will be placed with the Pachaysana Foundation exploring what it means to be an intercultural leader in today’s complex, fractured world. Please attend this Q+A webinar with Pachaysana Foundation to learn more about their work and how the Laidlaw Scholars…

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 are open now.

Register here. Can’t attend? Contact…

Thasnai Sethaseree will discuss his work in conversation with Dr. Tamara Loos in conjunction with the exhibition Cold War: The Mysterious.

An artist and professor of media arts and design at Chiang Mai University, Sethaseree holds a master’s degree in visual arts from the University of Chicago and a PhD in…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Analyn Salvador-Amores from the University of the Philippines Baguio.

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

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…

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:

Hostile drone activity has…

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 are open now.

Can’t attend? Contact…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Anocha Suwichakornpong, Associate Professor of Film from Columbia University.

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

Lund Critical Debate

Since January 2025, the United States has slashed billions in international aid—and effectively dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), responsible for administering U.S. development and humanitarian aid around the world. In what has become the largest…

The State as Surrogate Tourist: Tourism Competitions and State Recognition in Indonesia

ABSTRACT: In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Indonesia’s Ministry of Tourism launched the Tourism Village Award (ADWI), which expanded from 1,200 villages in 2021 to over 6,000 in 2024. Drawing on fieldwork in Lombok…

Speaker: Wah Guan LIM Associate Professor of Transcultural Theatre National Chung Hsing University

Description:

The 1980s was a most important decade for global Chinese theatre. In large part prompted by changes in regional geopolitics, the search for a local identity peaked among the Chinese…

Join us for a virtual discussion with Adam Bobbette, author of The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java 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 Preface and Chapter 1. Those interested in…

Update: This lecture has been canceled.

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Maria Hwang, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies from McGill University.

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