2021 > India > Directed by S.S. Rajmouli
With N.T. Rama Rao Jr (Jr NTR), Ram Charan, Ajay Devgn
An action-packed spectacular that mythologizes two real-life freedom fighters who helped lead India's fight for independence from the British Raj: Komaram Bheem (Jr NTR) and Alluri Sitarama Raju (…

The Lingua Mater competition invites alumni to translate Cornell's Alma Mater into a different language and submit a video of the performed translation. The inaugural Lingua Mater alumni competition took place in 2018 as part of Cornell's Global Grand Challenges Symposium. Winners included the Cornell…

Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) in collaboration with the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs, the Gender and the Security Sector Lab, Department of Government, and the Brooks School of Public Policy will be hosting a two-day meeting at Cornell…

2020 > France > Directed by David Dufresne
As anger and resentment grow in the face of social inequalities, many citizen-led protests are being repressed with an ever-increasing violence. In The Monopoly of Violence, David Dufresne gathers a panel of citizens to question, exchange and confront their…

"Antiracist Critical Literacy: Methodologies of the Oppressed for Language Education"
Claudia Holguín Mendoza
Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics, University of California, Riverside

In this presentation, Dr. Holguín Mendoza describes the design and implementation of a…

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloqium (CCCC) 古文品讀 is pleased to have Jeffrey Moser (History of Art and Architecture, Brown University) to lead this text reading titled, "The Record of the Relocation of the Stone Classics to the Prefectural School of Jingzhao Prefecture." Composed by Lü Dazhong in 1090,…

Please join the Society for Buddhist Studies for a talk by Juhn Ahn (University of Michigan).

In Goryeo and Joseon Korea, the restoration of Buddhist monasteries became the subject of heated debate. Although the Buddhist establishment in Korea had continued to restore monasteries at regular intervals for…

The European Studies Minor invites you to Pizza on the Patio, on Friday October 28 from 12:00 to 2:00 PM on the Uris Hall Terrace.

Bring any questions you have about the European Studies minor, upcoming courses, and summer opportunities. Be ready to try your hand at European trivia!

This event is…

Hybrid mode / in-person at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (USA)

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The conference will focus on the digital era as an entrepreneurial transformative prototype in Africa. Other aspects of the conference will focus on the channels utilized by Africans while navigating digital instruments,…

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…

Eddy Malesky

Professor of Political Economy, Duke University

Are the poor ambivalent about globalization? Do they fail to understand the new economic opportunities and constraints associated with greater market integration? Despite the effects of trade liberalization on job opportunities and losses,…

The Cornell Contemporary China Initiative (CCCI) of the East Asia Program welcomes Deborah Davis (Sociology, Yale University)
as part of our semester-long theme of Fashion and Politics in Twentieth-Century China with faculty host, Peidong Sun (History, Cornell)

Some of the questions that guest…

Event Language: Chinese

Event Time: Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 10:00 - 11:30 Beijing Time /
Tuesday, October 25, 2022 22:00 - 23:30 EDT

The number and percentage of overseas students returning to China for employment and entrepreneurship after graduation is increasing year by year. The Cornell…

Please join us for a lunchtime seminar given by our guest Tawab Danish, a Visiting Scholar here at Cornell Law School.

SEMINAR: Circling Back to Zero after 20 years of Achievements: How the Legal System of Afghanistan has Been Affected More than Any Other Institution under the Taliban Regime

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For decades now, efforts to understand Venezuela’s mutating crises have often reflected rather than risen above the same polarization that has turned the country’s politics into a winner-take-all conflict between Chavistas and anti-Chavistas. In turn, polarized accounts have often rested on incomplete pictures of…

Talk by Kalyani Devaki Menon

In today’s India where we see the ascendance of Hindu supremacy, the increasing hegemony of upper-caste Hindu norms, escalating violence against religious minorities, and rising authoritarianism, the place for Muslims is shrinking. However, while these forces marginalize Muslims…

1976 > France > Directed by Joseph Losey
With Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Michel Lonsdale, Francine Berge
A political thriller, an existential nightmare, and an indictment of French collaboration under Nazi Occupation, Losey's masterful film stars Alain Delon as Mr. Klein, a Catholic art…

1972 > Angola > Directed by Sarah Maldoror
With Domingos Oliveira, Elisa Andrade
A revolutionary bombshell by one of Africa's first female directors, Sarah Maldoror's electrifying chronicle of Angola's awakening independence movement is a stirring hymn to those who risked everything…

Aunty Aesthetics, or More Ways to be an Aunty, a talk Dr. Kareem Khubchandani
Friday, October 21st, 3:00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m. , Film Forum and on Zoom

Description:
Aunties are known to be terrifying figures, domineering and difficult, overbearing to younger generations. They are especially known for…

Come learn about important Chinese historic materials, including cultural relics, old photo albums, and significant manuscripts from the Cornell Library’s vault. Take this rare opportunity to view these precious treasures and learn how you can engage with them through your learning, teaching, and research. Curator…

Christina Kiaer of Northwestern University will speak on Racial Solidarity at the Kyiv Film Festival: Black Skin, 1931. Request a copy of the paper: cf476@cornell.edu

“De Lo Mio" --Two “ride or die” sisters raised in NYC reunite with their estranged brother in Dominican Republic to clean out their late father’s childhood home. The siblings laugh, brawl, and face their demons as they come to terms with letting go of their last connection to their motherland.

Schwartz…

Come enjoy Korean games (hardboard battle from Squid Game, playing jackstones, hacky sack, Korean board game, origami, etc.) and baked food from Paris Baguette. Open to the public and kids-friendly.

A.D. White Professor-at-Large Xu Bing will present the public lecture “What to Make of Art Today?” on Thursday, October 20 at 5pm at the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall.

You may also attend the lecture via Zoom.

This event is part of an A.D. White Professors-at-Large (ADW-PAL) visit…

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…

Hitomi Fujimura

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at York Centre for Asian Research, York University in Toronto

In this talk, Hitomi will lecture on how the Karen Baptists who later established the KNA nurtured the idea of claiming national identity through multi-layered settings. The analysis entails a…

Many contemporary theorists and practitioners of disobedience have questioned whether civility and nonviolence ought to be requisite components of legitimate dissent. While sharing their skepticism of overly narrow, prescriptive formulations of a moral or legal right to disobedience, Professor Karuna Mantena…

Cornell faculty and staff are invited to join this online conversation with the Cornell International Education Network (CIEN) about Global Learning Assessment and Program Evaluation organized by Amy Kuo Somchanhmavong from the Einhorn Center. Come learn insights from current assessments at Cornell, and then split…

Crossing the World to Sleep with You: Chinese Crip Poetry and its Cross-Cultural Translatability is the title of this talk to be given by Hangping Xu, (East Asian Languages and Culture, UC, Santa Barbara).

Yu Xiuhua rose to her celebrity status when her poem “Crossing China to Sleep with You” went viral in…

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides full funding for graduate and professional students conducting research or teaching in any field in more than 150 countries. (Open to U.S. citizens only.)

The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program supports doctoral students conducting…