The LACS summer research grant provides funding for in-country research costs for graduate pre-dissertation work in Latin America or the Caribbean. (The grant does not cover international airfare; students should also apply for an Einaudi Center Travel Grant for airfare.) LACS will offer up to three research grants…

The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has strained the world's healthcare systems and compounded challenges for governments and NGOs dealing with global waves of forced and voluntary migration. These movements of peoples across borders have magnified pressing issues ranging from social and economic inequalities…

"Inquiry-Based Language Learning"
Christina Rocha
ACS Athens

This talk will focus on inquiry-based learning within the language classroom, more specifically WHY it is important as well as HOW we can successfully engage our students to ask more questions, sparking their curiosity and…

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Is pluralism possible in Europe? Are far-right parties like the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) and the Front National (FN) fringe movements, or do they say something unsettling about the general state of democracy in Europe, today? The Post-World War II era in Europe was characterized by…

Have you considered summer study abroad and are interested in studying Public Policy? Nestled between the Alps and the Mediterranean in the magnificent Piedmont region of northern Italy, the city of Turin provides an inspiring background to explore the causes and consequences of population change, the debates…

Co-Sponsor: Jewish Studies Program

This presentation will explore various ways in which second generation Holocaust survivors in Argentina have witnessed the wound transmitted by their parents. This talk will consider issues of representation and agency while citing instances where second generation…

In this webcast, Cornell experts will examine how migrant stereotypes, discrimination, and xenophobia drive the militarization of borders and the ways in which migrant rights are — or are not — allowed and respected. Using insights from the first global Migrants’ Rights Database, the panel will explore how…

Talk by Juned Shaikh (History, University of California, Santa Cruz)

Revolution and Slums were keywords in twentieth century Bombay: they are interpretive categories to capture the relationships of power in the city and the visions for transforming the relationships as well as the city itself. Revolution…

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC) is pleased to start spring '22 with a text reading led by Jingya Guo, Ph.D. graduate in the Department of History at Cornell.

The text is titled, “Xinke zengbu Gujin yijian,” 新刻增補古今醫鑑(1576)(1576)

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC) 古文品讀…

Friday February 11th, 2022 at 10:00am (EST) / 3:00pm – 5:00pm (GMT). Simultaneous French translation. Zoom registration link here

Introduction of the Series - N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba is the Director of the Institute for African Development (IAD) and Professor of African and African Diaspora education,…

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 African…

The turbulence of the Trump administration and a chaotic 2020 presidential election revealed vulnerabilities in American democracy, and raised the possibility that it could be threatened directly. Many observers imagined that the election’s outcome might restore some sense of stability to a democratic system under…

Since 2005, Jonathan Padwe has studied the changing landscape of highland Cambodia as it is perceived by, and managed by, the Jarai people of the border region where Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam meet. His 2020 book Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories: Jarai and Other Lives in the Cambodian Highlands charts the…

Dr. Christine Leuenberger will discuss her book, The Politics of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of Israel/Palestine, published by the Oxford University Press. This book explores map war in Israel/Palestine - how the geographical sciences become entangled with politics, territorial claim making, and nation-state…

The Latin American Studies Minor is an undergraduate minor across disciplines that will allow students to explore the history, culture, government, politics, economy and languages of Latin America and the Caribbean. Qualifying courses can be found in almost every college. LACS is happy to offer engaged and/or…

Want to learn a language this summer? Learn about Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships and Critical Language Scholarships, which provide fully funded opportunities for Cornell undergraduate and graduate students to study South and Southeast Asian languages in the summer, and even in the academic year.

In this virtual talk, Professor Gilly Leshed will present the Xenophobia Meter Project (XMP), a cross-institutional collaboration that is responding to the rise of radical, racist, and nationalist politics. This global phenomenon has incited an unwitting habituation of the public toward hate-mongering against…

Talk by Kelsey Jane Utne

This talk explores the disrupted burial of convicted murderer Abdul Rashid in 1927 in order to understand how urban expansion altered and constrained commemorative praxis in late colonial India. Because of the subsequent criminal prosecutions for corpse theft and official inquiry, we…

Ithaca Premiere

1962 > France > Directed by James Blue

With Pierre Prothon, Jean Pélégri, Marie Decaître

Influential American documentarian James Blue's only narrative feature, drawn from Jean Jean Pélégri’s autobiographical novel, was shot in Algiers during the Algerian War. The…

1998 > Taiwan > Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien

With Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Michiko Hada, Carina Lau

Set in the world of 19th century courtesans, Flowers of Shanghai boasts a cast of Taiwanese stars and a remarkable long-take style that gives the impression of suspended time. Shown in a new…

Ithaca Premiere

2021 > Japan > Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi

With Kotone Furukawa, Ayumu Nakajima, Hyunri

Hamaguchi (Drive My Car) spins three tales of chance meetings and the mysteries of desire in a film which is "Elegant and amusing, with a delicacy of touch and real imaginative…

*Note: This Gatty Lecture will be entirely virtual, with no hybrid presence at the Kahin Center as usual. It will be held at 8pm instead of the usual 12:15pm.

Harriman Samuel Saragih is an Assistant Professor in Business Innovation, Monash University Indonesia. He currently teaches the course of Theory and…

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 African…

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Hate crimes. Misinformation and conspiracy theories. Foiled white-supremacist plots. The signs of growing far-right extremism are all around us, and communities around the globe are struggling to understand how so many people are being radicalized and why they are increasingly…

Prof. Nicholas Mulder provides a history of the interwar origins of economic sanctions, showing how they reconfigured international affairs by enabling distant coercion against civilian societies in peacetime. Based on wartime blockade practices, the instrument of sanctions offered a novel way to prevent war.

Talk by Naomi Hosoda

The Arab Gulf region, composed of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), have attracted the attention of international labor migration studies, as all these countries have among the highest ratio of migrant workers to local workers in the world.…

Talk by Ravinder Kaur (South Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen)

In this talk, I unpack the affective-material entanglements of the moment of “opening up” of the Indian economy. The great transformation of the nation-form into commodity-form – Brand India – entailed more than structural adjustments and…

In this exhibition, graduate student curators Lynda May Xepoleas '23 and Emily Hayflick '25 explore the different ways international students helped to foster cross-cultural understandings of dress on Cornell's campus in the mid-twentieth century.

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 African…

**Due to unforeseen circumstances, Arnika Fuhrmann will no longer be presenting. The speaker and title of this Gatty Lecture have changed.**

Magnus Fiskesjö's research concerns ethnic relations and political anthropology in China and Southeast Asia. His research and teaching interests include historical…