On the banana plantations of Mindanao, the Philippines’ southernmost region, activists involved in an anti-chemical campaign decry their exposure to pesticide drift as an infringement on both their person and their personhood. Such forms of plantation-driven dehumanization draw the Pacific and the Atlantic worlds…

This panel brings together scholars of political theory, history, and anthropology to examine how different political actors and groups proposed visions of "worldmaking" in the colonial and imperial contexts of Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and beyond. These visions went beyond the nation-state…

Given the intertwined history of industrial capitalism, extraction and colonialism, this symposium will explore the pending reparations to their victims from a multidisciplinary perspective. Acknowledging the accountability of the first industrializing countries of the Global North to the previously colonized…

FRINGE: New Centers for Architecture and Urbanism - 2023 Preston H. Thomas Memorial Symposium

Beijing Panel — Thursday, March 2 (Ithaca) | Friday, March 3 (Beijing)

In-Person & Livestream Webinar

Cornell China Center | 1208 Beijing IFC Tower B

8 p.m. (Ithaca) | 9 a.m. (Beijing)…

In his new book Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor, Isaac examines how contracted service labor performed by Filipinos in the Philippines, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States generates vital affects, multiple networks, and other life-worlds as much as it disrupts and dislocates human…

Gary Wilder is a Professor in the Ph.D. Program of Anthropology, with cross-appointments in History and French, at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he is also Director of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change.

Professor Wilder is the author of Concrete Utopianism: The…

In this seminar, we will explore promising avenues to improve the science policy interface in Africa. The seminar will cover multiple themes under this broad umbrella, including (a) reviews of productive modes of interfacing science and policy, (b) detailed explorations of the policy-making process in the region,…

Talk by Seulgie Lim

From veiling to polygamy, Islam has been and remains connected to the oppression of women's rights across cultures and regions. What the media and superficial observations often miss however is that Islam, like any other religion, is not time-less or space-less, and especially for…

In this seminar, we will explore promising avenues to improve the science policy interface in Africa. The seminar will cover multiple themes under this broad umbrella, including (a) reviews of productive modes of interfacing science and policy, (b) detailed explorations of the policy-making process in the region,…

Infrastructure is at the heart of China’s growing, controversial presence in global development. In addition to economic considerations, observers see infrastructure projects as important cogs in China’s pursuit of international influence. However, debates on Chinese global infrastructure are remarkably devoid of…

We invite the Cornell community to participate in the Special Seminar and Poster Session Scaling-up Nature-based Solutions in Latin America to bring together Cornell faculty, scientists and students, international fellows, experts from Latin America, and finance specialists to find joint solutions for challenges on…

Discourse around Muslims and Islam all too often lapses into a false dichotomy of Orientalist and fundamentalist tropes. A popular reimagining of Islam is urgently needed. Yet it is a perhaps unexpected political philosophical tradition that has the most to offer in this pursuit: anarchism. To better understand…

Meet the director of Cornell’s study abroad program in Paris and hear from returned students from Cornell's program in Paris, EDUCO. Learn about what EDUCO offers French majors, minors, and students of all disciplines. EDUCO helps you immerse yourself in France through university study in French alongside…

Karl Offen's presentation explores a multigenerational family letter collection to illustrate the relationship between family biography and Atlantic geographies from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. Among the 300 documents in the letter collection that he and a colleague tracked down from…

Over 500 Cornellians have crossed the globe with the Fulbright U.S. Student Program since the 1940s. You could be the next!

The program, administered by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, supports college graduates conducting research or teaching English in more than 150 countries. The…

Talk by Noor Ahmad Akhundzadah (South Asia Program & Natural Resources and the Environment, Cornell University)

Climate change and insecurity are the main threats to Afghanistan's water resources and socioeconomic sustainability. Afghanistan's contribution to Greenhouse Gases emissions is…

The Turkish Student Association invites you to join a vigil to memorialize the earthquake's victims will be held on Monday, Feb. 20, starting at noon on Ho Plaza.

After gathering in front of the Cornell Store, we will walk together to Ezra Cornell's statue on the Arts Quad for reflections shared…

Join us for a night of celebrating Syrian and Turkish culture through food, performances, and a silent auction.

On February 6, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Syria and Turkey. With a 7.5 magnitude aftershock. There have been more than 38,000, making this the deadliest earthquake worldwide since 2010.…

Saturday, February 18th, 2023 -- 9:00am-4:30pm (breakfast available at 8:30am) FULL SCHEDULE HERE

Physical Sciences Building (PSB) 401

A territory, understood as a site to be defended, is anchored by parameters of exclusivity and control. Territory is often associated with physical land mass,…

Friday, February 17th -- 4:30pm-7:30pm & Saturday, February 18th, 2023 -- 9:00am-4:30pm (breakfast available at 8:30am)

Physical Sciences Building (PSB) 401 FULL SCHEDULE HERE

A territory, understood as a site to be defended, is anchored by parameters of exclusivity and control. Territory is…

Casey Stevens (Ph.d. student, Asian Studies, Cornell) will launch the Classical Chinese Colloquium Spring '23 with Content and Form: Dunhuang Anthologies of Tang Poetry.

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC) 古文品讀 is a reading group for scholars interested in premodern Sinographic (古文) text.…

The Global University, Addressing New Subjects of Knowledge is Panel 1 of a 4 panel series which is part of Working in the Traces of Area Studies hosted by faculty emerita Brett DeBary (Asian Studies, Cornell) and Naoki Sakai (Asian Studies, Cornell).

We propose that the disciplines called “Area Studies,”…

Join Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program
for our Faculty Work Luncheon with
Durba Ghosh, Professor of History

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17
12PM-1PM
190 Rockefeller Hall

My teaching and research focus on the history of British colonialism on the Indian subcontinent. I am…

"Private Academies and the Public Good: A Cold War History of Religion and Education in Japan and the US" lecture with Jolyon Thomas, University of Pennsylvania, on Thursday, February 16, at 5:00 p.m. in A.D. White House.

Thomas researches religion in Japan and the United States at the University…

What do you do when the site where you planned to do your research has a major disruption making your research infeasible? What do you do when a loved one gets sick and you need to find more time for caregiving in the last semester of your program? What do you do when you get a job—a year earlier than you…

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In this seminar, we will explore promising avenues to improve the science policy interface in Africa. The seminar will cover multiple themes under this broad umbrella, including (a) reviews of productive modes of interfacing science and policy, (b) detailed explorations of the policy-making process…

This lecture coincides with the publication of A History of Photography in Indonesia: From the Colonial Era to the Digital Age (Afterhours/Amsterdam University Press 2022). The book is a selection of essays compiled by Brian Arnold that collectively piece together the development of photography in Indonesia, from…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by MK Long (PhD Candidate, Cornell University), which explores the rhetorical force of relationships in biographies of Buddhist nuns in Burma.

This Gatty Lecture will take place on Zoom only. For questions, contact …

Shannon Philip explores the gendering of everyday urban spaces and the social production of gendered violence. Through ethnographic data collected by ‘hanging out’ with young Indian men in New Delhi, he discusses the ways masculinities are constructed and performed, and how these in turn produce hostility, fear,…

Please join Cornell faculty for a gathering to share personal experiences and feelings about the two devastating Earthquakes that hit Southern Turkey and Northern Syria last week.

We believe it is important to get together in difficult times like this and support each other. We will have Turkish snacks and…