Past Events
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
Migrations Program
9:30 am
A. D. White House, Guerlac Room
Join this year's cohort of Fellows at the Society for the Humanities for presentations on work-in-progress on the 2024-25 focal theme of Silence. Each presentation will be followed by a Q&A. Open to the public.
Friday, April 25
Coffee and light refreshments: 9:30am
10:00am-11:30pm…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
4:30 pm
White Hall, 106
The historical trajectories of ethnic cleansing in the 19th and early 20th centuries will be explored in this year’s Annual Armenian Genocide Commemoration lecture, given by Dr. Khatchig Mouradian. The lecture, “Ethnic Cleansing in the Long 19th Century: The Native American, Circassian, and Armenian Cases,” will be…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
4:30 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Alan Mikhail (Chace Family Professor of History, Yale University)
At the turn of the seventeenth century, a Dutch privateer is captured by Muslim pirates and taken to Morocco. To win his freedom, he converts to Islam and begins plying the waters off the Atlantic coast for prizes and booty. He marries…
Southeast Asia Program
3:15 pm
Stimson Hall, G25
Come to the LRC to practice your language 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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:15 pm
Kahin Center
Gatty Lecture Series
Join us for a talk by Dr. Andrew Mertha from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, who will discuss Khmer Rouge, revolution, and leadership struggles. Dr. Andrew Mertha is the George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Migrations Program
12:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
One of the key challenges stemming from climate change will be climate displacement, as sudden and gradual events disrupt livelihoods and force millions to leave their homes. Despite the existing scholarship’s focus on cross-border movement, the majority of climate displaced people will move internally instead of…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
11:15 am
Sibley Hall, 115
IAD Spring 2025 Seminar Series:
In the 1960s and 1970s, in response to holdouts of colonial power in southern and Portuguese Africa, self-described African national liberation movements took form. These organizations engaged in military and diplomatic efforts to achieve independence, usually with the goal of…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
4:30 pm
Warren Hall B25
The 2025 David J. BenDaniel Lecture in Ethics will feature a multilayered conversation with Sanda Ojiambo, Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Director, and CEO of the UN Global Compact, Andrew Karolyi, Charles Field Knight Dean, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, and Colleen Barry, Inaugural Dean, Cornell…
Migrations Program
3:30 pm
Virtual
Students with vulnerable immigration status are increasingly facing distinct obstacles as a result of a shifting immigration landscape. These developments present unique challenges to all aspects of students’ experience as well as their futures.
This virtual webinar will discuss new and emerging immigration…
Southeast Asia Program
12:00 pm
429 Rockefeller Hall
Join us for our BeComing Lunch Series with Joaquin Rivera. BeComing is a space for discussion about personal experiences, successes, challenges, and growth – inside and outside of academic settings. Enjoy a catered lunch, free and open to all! Joaquin is a senior in the ILR School who minors in Classics and…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
12:00 pm
Uris Hall, G-08
East Asia Program Lecture Series presents "Japan’s 'New Pre-War': On the Repetition of a Capitalist Form"
Ken Kawashima (Associate Professor, University of Toronto) will give a talk and lead a seminar on his current research, which explores the complex interrelationships between repeated…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
6:00 pm
Virtual
Presented by GETSEA and AIFIS
Are you a graduate student planning your first research trip to Indonesia? Join our event to learn about research permits, visas, and preparing for fieldwork.
Hear from experienced researchers sharing tips, insights, and lessons learned from conducting research across…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
5:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Maritime movement has been essential to the current moment of capitalism, marked by the optimization of supply chains. As seaports continue to scale up tremendously, however, blockages, delays, and congestion persist and even multiply, complicating popular accounts of private capital unleashing an increasingly…
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:45 pm
Statler Hall, STL165
Tuesday, April 22, 2025, at 4:45pm, 165 Statler Hall
A.D. White Professor-at-Large Martín Caparrós will be joined by Department of Global Labor and Work Professors Santiago Anria and Candelaria Garay for a discussion in Spanish that examines Argentine President Javier Milei through the lens of emerging Latin…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Migrations Program
Southeast Asia Program
4:30 pm
Mann Library, 160
Join us for a conversation discussing the historical and contemporary relationship between the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, beginning with their acquisition in 1898 following the Spanish-American War. As sites of U.S. territorial expansion, both were governed through military rule and colonial…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Migrations Program
5:00 pm
Mann Library, 160
Join us for a conversation on the role of migrant workers in the U.S. economy. Bringing together scholars and activists, the panel will examine how immigration laws and border enforcement function as tools of labor control, shape markets, and produce systemic vulnerability. The discussion will trace how these…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for European Studies
5:00 pm
Physical Sciences Building, 120
IES Luigi Einaudi Distinguished Lecture
Building on her recent book Seeing Others, on her recent work on the urban/rural divide across EU countries, and on the non-college educated young workers (18-30) in Manchester New Hampshire, and Manchester UK, Michèle Lamont discusses the challenges of addressing…
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:45 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, G22
ICM NEW BOOKS SERIES
IRINA TROCONIS (Associate Professor, Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University)
The Necromantic State: Spectral Remains in the Afterglow of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution
A conversation with Cornell faculty member Irina Troconis about her new…
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:45 pm
Uris Hall, G08
The talk will address the main contents of my recent book “Latin America: the vision of its leaders” (Planeta, June 2024), which is the result of an intense and dedicated analyses on the region's main present and future challenges in six thematic areas: poverty and inequality, growth and productivity,…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Amanda Lanzillo, (Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago)
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, laborers across northern India found themselves negotiating rapid industrial change, emerging technologies, and class hierarchies. In response to these…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
3:30 pm
Klarman Hall, G70
New Year is a major cultural event celebrated across South Asia, and this campus-wide celebration highlights the rich languages and traditions associated with this festival. The event will serve as an opportunity for students of all backgrounds to engage through music, dance, food, and language-focused activities…
East Asia Program
3:30 pm
Rockefeller Hall, Room 374, Asian Studies Lounge
Speaker: Thomas P. Kelly, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Description: My talk reconsiders the significance of self-inflicted book burning as a cultural phenomenon during the Ming-Qing transition by examining one of the most notorious fires of the period: Zhou…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for European Studies
12:15 pm
White Hall, 106
Why did Denmark develop mass education for all in 1814, while Britain created a public-school system only in 1870 that primarily educated academic achievers? Cathie Jo Martin argues that fiction writers and their literary narratives inspired education campaigns throughout the nineteenth-century. Danish writers…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Migrations Program
10:00 am
A.D. White House, Guerlac Room
In this event, we will be officially launching the archive Todosomos, a collection of handwritten testimonies by Venezuelan migrants who crossed the border from Venezuela to Colombia between 2019 and 2021. The event will have several panels and include interventions by the founders of Todosomos, the library team in…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
5:00 pm
Virtual
Where next for Palestine’s heritage and cultural scene? In this talk I will combine several strands of my research on these topics extending them into a consideration of future scenarios and potentialities. I will begin with the current moment: the utter destruction of Gaza’s heritage in the context of genocide. I…
East Asia Program
Einaudi Center for International Studies
4:45 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, Room 64, Kaufman Auditorium
East Asia Program Lecture Series presents “Walls-as-Media: Between Cheng (Wall-City) and Ping (Wall-Screen)"
Speaker: Jinying Li, Assistant Professor, Modern Culture and Media, Brown University
Description:
As global networks promise boundless access, we are facing increasing layers of…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:30 pm
Stimson Hall, G25
"Dyslexia, ADHD, Autism: Encouraging and Supporting All L2 Learners"
Sara Lee
Associate Teaching Professor of German, Arizona State University
Up to 20% of people in the U.S. have dyslexia, which means that about 4-6 students in every classroom struggle with reading and writing,…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:15 pm
Kahin Center
Gatty Lecture Series
Join us for a talk by Michael Kirkpatrick Miller from Cornell University, who will discuss Ambonese masculinity and colonialism. Michael Kirkpatrick Miller is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Cornell University.
This Gatty Lecture will take place at the The Kahin…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Institute for European Studies
12:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
From Local Voices to Global Impact: The Power of Civic Engagement in Peacebuilding
This lecture will examine the role of youth, women, and community-based movements in advancing peace and reconciliation, focusing on deliberative processes, alternative conflict resolution tools, and civic-led initiatives that…
Southeast Asia Program
6:00 pm
Virtual
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…