Climate and environmental changes profoundly influence the movement of people, birds, and other species across the globe. The news is replete with stories of human migration, often portraying it as a crisis. Yet despite changes in movement patterns over recent decades, migration has been a natural phenomenon for…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Chie Ikeya, Associate Professor of History, Director of the Institute for Research on Women, and Co-Director of Global Asias at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, who will discuss the marriage laws in Southeast Asia.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at…

This talk will describe the articles Gessen has written since the start of the war and try to summarize some of what he's learned. The articles cover the effects of the war in Western Ukraine; the political science debates over "war termination"; the political science and historical debates over…

Examines a broad range of critical concerns in contemporary Africa including food production, human resource development, migration, urbanization, environmental resource management, economic growth, and policy guidance. The weekly presentations are made by invited specialists. Students write weekly memos about the…

The Global Blackness initiative aims to chart a possible future for a network of students, faculty, and staff that relationally engage the topic of Global Blackness.

Building on the momentum of Cornell’s 2023 Global Blackness Town Hall, this year, the Global Blackness initiative is organizing events guided…

Learn about study abroad in Chile from the Resident Director of the CASA Santiago program. Through CASA, undergraduates with advanced Spanish (one class beyond SPAN 2095) study at Chilean universities. CASA also offers a special Chilean history and culture course where you meet local experts and travel to the north…

Come learn more about our winter study abroad in Cambodia, lunch provided. In collaboration with the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS), Cornell's Southeast Asia (SEAP, Einaudi) Study Abroad program in Cambodia will provide an in-depth focus on the cultural heritage of Cambodia both past and present. This highly…

The Cornell China Center, through Global Cornell and its Global Hubs initiative, is offering faculty research grants for collaboration with Zhejiang University (ZJU).

Global Hubs collaborative research seed grants bring together Cornell and partner institution faculty to develop joint projects with the…

Go global in summer 2025! Global Internships give you valuable international work experience in fields spanning global development, climate and sustainability, international relations, communication, business, governance, and more.

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The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies hosts info…

Meet with representative from the International Sustainable Development Institute (ISDSI) that provides field-based environmental study abroad program for undergraduates. Study sustainable agriculture in the lowlands, forest ecology in the uplands, and coastal ecology in the south. Great for many CALS majors.…

Talk by Ayse Polat (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell Society for the Humanities Cambridge University, PhD)

How do the circulation and distribution of arms shape social relations, conflicts, and hierarchies? Is arms trafficking a means of contesting the established order of things, or cementing it? This…

Talk by Townsend Middleton (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

What happens after colonial industries have run their course? When the factory closes and the fields go fallow, how do laboring communities continue to live and fight amid all that remains? In this talk, anthropologist (and Cornell SAP…

Upstate New York has welcomed a significant number of Afghan families in recent years. This virtual workshop provides approaches and tools for elementary school educators to introduce Afghanistan into their curriculum and provide a nuanced view of the people and culture.

Participating educators will receive…

Please join us for the Cornell Brooks School Center on Global Democracy's inaugural event:

Fostering Global Democracy: Freedom and Responsibility

REGISTER HERE

9:00 am – 9:30 am Coffee Reception - Willard Straight Hall

9:30 am – 11:00 am Welcome and Keynote Conversation - Willard…

Master calligrapher and contemporary artist Hakim Karimzada will discuss his work, on view in the exhibition "Herat and Me," in conversation with Dr. Seema Golestaneh, associate professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies.

Born in Afghanistan in 1972, Karimzada is known for bold and daring…

The lecture offers an overview of the radical right's interactions with mainstream parties and the effect they have on setting political agendas in the region. The focus is on sensitive policy areas such as minority policies and asylum regulations. Based on a study of shifts in major parties’ policy positions…

Learn more about the “thin country” with “crazy geography.” The England of South America. A South American exception. The Republic of Poetry. Birthplace of neoliberal shock therapy. The descriptions for and of Chile abound. This spring 2025 program simultaneously reveals from whence such descriptions arose as well…

The Civil-Military Rift in Contemporary Israel

The era of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, has been characterized by unprecedented civil-military tensions. Netanyahu’s carefully cultivated self-image as Israel’s “Mr. Security” has long been rejected by the Israeli national…

The IAD seminar series examines a broad range of critical concerns in contemporary Africa including food production, human resource development, migration, urbanization, environmental resource management, economic growth, and policy guidance. The weekly presentations are made by invited specialists.

Rebecca…

The Cornell China Center, through Global Cornell and its Global Hubs initiative, is offering faculty research grants for collaboration with Zhejiang University (ZJU).

Global Hubs collaborative research seed grants bring together Cornell and partner institution faculty to develop joint projects with the…

Turkish culture is a vibrant and diverse mosaic shaped by centuries of history, blending influences from the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Mediterranean. This presentation will present a general overview concerning the rich culinary traditions of Turkish culture, the beauty of the Turkish language, and the…

Migration, Imprisonment and "Race": Toward a Comparative Study between the US and Europe

By Dario Melossi

(University of Bologna)

The number of migrants in prison is very high in most European penal systems today whereas it is quite low in the United States, and it has been that way…

Come learn more about this spring opportunity with spring break travel, developed in partnership with Universidad San Francisco de Quito and as part of the Jeb E. Brooks School’s Global Policy Exchange Lab. This 3-credit collaborative online international learning (COIL) and community-based global learning (CBGL)…

Talk by Swati Chattopadhyay (History of Art & Architecture, University of California-Santa Barbara )

The diffusion of printed books in India in the late eighteenth century, beyond the confines of royal courts, European factories, and missions, changed the spaces of reading, publishing, and literary…

Celebrate the start of the semester with the Latino Living Center, along with various other LatinX Cornell student organizations! We will be hosting our annual Welcome Week event which serves as a club fair with LatinX resources but also as an opportunity to connect with one another. Come enjoy music, delicious…

Global Cornell is offering competitive faculty grants in collaboration with Global Hubs partners.

Apply for funding to explore potential research collaborations with colleagues at Hubs universities. 

Global Hubs collaborative research seed grants bring together Cornell and partner institution faculty…

Come learn more about our winter study abroad in Cambodia, lunch provided. In collaboration with the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS), Cornell's Southeast Asia (SEAP, Einaudi) Study Abroad program in Cambodia will provide an in-depth focus on the cultural heritage of Cambodia both past and present. This highly…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Shaoling Ma, Associate Professor of Asian Studies at Cornell University, who will discuss the computerization of Southeast Asia.

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

Insights from the Research of the Citizen Lab

In this presentation, Ronald J. Deibert, University of Toronto, will provide an overview of the Citizen Lab’s research with a special focus on case studies around mercenary surveillance and digital transnational repression. In particular, he will discuss the real…

The IAD seminar series examines a broad range of critical concerns in contemporary Africa including food production, human resource development, migration, urbanization, environmental resource management, economic growth, and policy guidance. The weekly presentations are made by invited specialists.

Pierre…