Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili presents evidence from Afghanistan to illustrate how failure to break from Soviet-era centralized public administration undermined the massive state-building project and perpetuated a wedge between Afghan civil society and a state that failed to deliver on its promise.

Liberal…

Do you want to understand how human migration shapes our world on the move? In the Einaudi Center’s migration studies minor, you explore the factors that influence migrants’ decisions to migrate and drive their departure, arrival, and integration into new societies.

The minor is open to all Cornell…

There is a strong tendency in social and political sciences to simplify the academic use of the concept of populism. This is what populists do when they dichotomise reality into friends and enemies. The goal of this talk is to highlight and discuss why scholars have to develop an adaptive and multifaceted…

Talk by Qamar Adamjee

This talk, a research project in its early stages, takes three 18th century Qing-period enameled vessels in the Denver Art Museum collection as a starting point for exploring their function, meaning, and context of use within a Chinese Muslim community. The copper vase, covered box,…

Robtel Neajai Pailey is an IAD guest speaker who will speak to this question and more at a lecture based around her work in Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia.

Pailey is an assistant professor in international social and public policy…

2021 > Italy > Directed by Michelangelo Frammartino
With Paolo Cossi, Jacopo Elia, Denise Trombin, Nicola Lanza
The extraordinary adventure of the young members of the Piedmont Speleological Group who, having already explored all the caves of Northern Italy, changed course and went South to…

Join the Johnson Museum of Art and Precious Okoyomon—Nigerian American poet, sculptor, and avant-garde chef—for a participatory talk exploring themes of migration, dispossession, and redress. Okoyomon’s large-scale, immersive artworks are especially concerned with the entangled fate of humans, plants, and animal…

The Issues in African Development Seminar Series examines critical concerns in contemporary Africa using a different theme each semester. The seminars provide a forum for participants to explore alternative perspectives and exchange ideas. They are also a focal activity for students and faculty interested in…

Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi

Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

What does it mean to think Southeast Asia archipelagically? What points of connection and convergence does an archipelagic method enable? In this talk, Dr. Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi offers notes…

Emma Belcher, president of Ploughshares Fund, joins a national panel of experts for a vital look at the future of nuclear security policy at a time when the United States, Russia, and other nations continue to maintain enough nuclear weapons to destroy life on earth.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine…

The annual International Fair showcases Cornell's global opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. Explore the fair and find out about international majors and minors, language study, study abroad, funding opportunities, global internships, and more.

The International Fair is sponsored by…

"Black Feminist Poetics and Language Teaching"
Luana Reis
Ph.D. Candidate and Portuguese Instructor, University of Pittsburgh

This talk discusses the inclusion of Black feminist poetic texts in language teaching. The objective is to rethink the roles of students and teachers in the…

One year ago, on August 15, 2021, the Taliban entered the Arg (Presidential palace) in Kabul, completing their astonishingly rapid takeover of Afghanistan. At the end of that same month, US forces completed withdrawal from Afghanistan – marking an end to the longest war in American history. One year later, our…

Digitalization in Africa: Pace, Challenges, Possibilities and Accomplishments

Hybrid link

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) impact has increased dramatically since the second half of the 20th century with accelerated pace since the beginning of the 21st century. The functioning of…

Charnvit Kasetsiri

Professor Emeritus, Pridi Banomyong International College, Thammasat University, Bangkok

A comparative studies of the two longest reigns of King Chulalongkorn of Siam and King Bhumibol of Thailand.

Charnvit Kasetsiri is a Professor Emeritus of Thammasat University, Bangkok,…

Welcome, opening, and requirementd for the course LATA 4000/6000 the Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) Program Weekly Seminar Series

Immigrants have set down roots and continue to arrive in local communities across the United States. If we want to know where immigrant families and residents are thriving (or falling behind), then quantitative analyses offer many opportunities to compare and contrast where immigrants make the most of local…

Recovering and propagating family histories can be a strategy to identify and dismantle how U.S. immigration policies have institutionalized the racial exclusion of targeted groups, even as they mask the selective inclusion of legal immigrants. Madeline Y. Hsu will discuss the family history origins of her two…

For decades, numbers and narratives about ethnoracial demographic change have flooded U.S. public life. Yet, to date, scholarly attention has been more concerned with the sources and consequences of projected trends than with the political struggles and meaning-making processes through we have come to envision and…

Law scholars Bernadette Atuahene (Illinois Institute of Technology) and Mishuana Goeman (UCLA) will present this lecture at the annual Migrations summer institute. The talk highlights the institutes themes of dispossession and its ongoing effects in Africa and the Americas.

Bernadette Atuahene is a professor…

This talk from Kyle T. Mays explores the meaning and importance of Indigenous creatives using expressive culture in the fight for Indigenous autonomy and sovereignty. Using contemporary examples of Indigenous Hip Hop, or what he calls "Indigenous Creative Critique," this talk argues for the possibilities…

Filmmaker Ginew Benton is a Native American filmmaker local to the Hamptons, NY. Benton wrote, starred, and directed in the 2018 film Looking Glass about a Native man who creates a time machine using modern science and ancient knowledge to stop his fathers murder and ultimately discovers his true purpose in…

Stemming from the rediscovery of Carl Schmitt, the recent work on political theology emphasizes the irreducibility of the theological in modern politics. Dating from the 1980s, a decade bookended by the Iranian Revolution and the Rushdie Affair, this work has attended to the persistence of religion and the crisis…

The 2022 International Studies Summer Institute (ISSI), a professional development workshop for practicing and pre-service K–12 teachers hosted annually by the Cornell University Einaudi Center for International Studies in collaboration with the Syracuse University South Asia Center, will be exploring inequalities…

From North America to Latin America, the Caribbean to Europe, and beyond, new politics of the left, center, and right have emerged, each experimenting with how they talk about class divides and economic identities.

Right-wing politicians, like Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, have been described as “…

A reversal of Roe vs. Wade by the United States Supreme Court has implications for individual and population health, health equity, and norms of democracy and law in the United States and globally. Protection of reproductive rights is a key indicator of health outcomes and health equity for women and children…

This two-day workshop aims to center analysis of the people, organizations and work that ultimately make and break cybersecurity. However, it aims to do so in a way that bridges the gap between two very different kinds of methods and theoretical perspectives: science and technology studies, which tends to adopt a…

This is a two-day symposium occurring on June 10th & 11th

The 2022 “Decolonizing Futurities” symposium will be hosted by the inaugural cohort of Global Racial Justice Fellows of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University. Through this symposium, we seek to critically analyze…

Global Cornell is offering International Cornell Curriculum grants of between $20,000 and $30,000 to create, develop, or improve curricula that provide students with international experiences, preferably with linkages to Cornell’s Global Hubs strategic partners or locations. ICC grants will support the planning,…