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Einaudi Center for International Studies

South Asia Program

Institute for European Studies

10:00 am

A.D. White House

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…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

8:00 pm

Virtual

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)…

Southeast Asia Program

Einaudi Center for International Studies

6:00 pm

Goldwin Smith Hall, Kaufmann Auditorium (G64)

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…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

5:00 pm

Uris Hall, G08

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…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Institute for African Development

2:40 pm

Uris Hall, G-08

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,…

East Asia Program

1:00 pm

Rockefeller Hall, 374

This talk formulates an approach to Trans-Asia Critical Humanities by showing how trans-local theory emerges and travels from situated ordinary experience to bring Asia in dialogue with the world. With a focus on how media forms are interconnected to tell stories of our contemporary time, I dive into Chinese…

South Asia Program

4:45 pm

Goldwin Smith Hall, G22

A new conversation with Iftikhar Dadi about his recently published book, Lahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fable (U of Washington P, 2022)

Commercial cinema has been among the most powerful vectors of social and aesthetic modernization in South Asia. So argues Iftikhar Dadi in his provocative examination of…

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

1:00 pm

Virtual

Celebrating Teatrotaller’s 30th Anniversary!

Douglas Oviedo, Honduran born activist, youth pastor, rapper, and writer came to the United States with one of the 2018 caravans. Join us via zoom for a conversation about his migrant trajectory and his play, “Caravaneros” on March 1 at 1:00 pm.

Register…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

4:30 pm

Olin Library, 106G

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…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Institute for African Development

2:40 pm

Uris Hall, G-02

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,…

Southeast Asia Program

1:00 pm

Rockefeller Hall, 374

In the heyday of colonialism and empire, global connections conspired to produce a singular industrial and ‘civilized’ world on the ruins of many others. But another form of connectivity facilitated the survival of worlds of an entirely different kind. One example can be found in the late 19th century, in day-to-…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

East Asia Program

11:25 am

Virtual

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…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

9:00 am

Willard Straight Hall, Memorial Room

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…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

5:00 pm

Uris Hall, G-08

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…

South Asia Program

1:30 pm

Mann Library, 102

Digvijay Negi, Cornell University

Deadweight Losses or Gains from In-kind Transfers? Experimental Evidence from India

Abstract:

Are in-kind transfers associated with deadweight losses? To answer this, we conducted an incentivized field experiment in India, which offered low-income households…

Institute for European Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

12:00 pm

Weill Hall, 224

This talk discusses the geopolitics of the Single Market in financial services in the European Union (EU) by examining three crucial case studies: (1) the post-2008 crisis transatlantic tug of war, whereby the EU leveraged its Single Market vis-à-vis the US, seeking to set the rules for global finance; (2) the…

East Asia Program

4:30 pm

Rockefeller Hall, 374

An interpretation of Trans-Asia Critical Humanities based on generalizable notions of hybridity, interconnected flows, and horizontality evokes the principle of nested, generative feedback functions, which increasingly undergird finance capital, machine learning, and data governance today. A diagram of loops easily…

Institute for European Studies

Einaudi Center for International Studies

4:30 pm

164 Klarman, Romance Studies Dept. Lounge

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…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

12:25 pm

Uris Hall, G08

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…

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

4:45 pm

Goldwin Smith Hall, G22

The Institute for Comparative Modernities (ICM) hosts Department of History faculty member and Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) Ernesto Bassi for a lecture on his current research.

Abstract

During the late eighteenth century, Santa Marta (located in South America’s…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Institute for African Development

Institute for European Studies

South Asia Program

4:45 pm

Virtual

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…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

South Asia Program

12:15 pm

Uris Hall, G08

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…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

12:00 pm

Ho Plaza

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…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

6:00 pm

Klarman Hall

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.…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

9:00 am

Physical Sciences Building, 401

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,…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

4:30 pm

Physical Sciences Building, 401

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…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

3:30 pm

Rockefeller Hall, 374 Asian Studies Lounge

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.…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

3:00 pm

Virtual

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,”…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

South Asia Program

12:00 pm

Rockefeller Hall, 190

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…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

5:00 pm

A. D. White House, Guerlac Room

"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…