(Note: this event was rescheduled from Tues. 1/18)

The Humanities Scholars Program, an undergraduate research initiative in the College of Arts & Sciences, invites applications from Cornell PhD candidates and recent Cornell PhDs for one-year postdoctoral associate positions beginning August 1, 2022. HSP…

Join us for an information session to learn more about the Cornell Migrations initiative’s Community College Fellowships on Racism, Dispossession, and Migration (RDM) for faculty of any discipline at two-year institutions in upstate New York.

With support from the Mellon Foundation Just Futures Initiative…

The Museum will be closed beginning Tuesday, December 14. Visit museum.cornell.edu/faq for information.

“(Re)collecting” signifies the active process of remembering and draws attention to the power of collections to elicit memories and histories and to act as participants in social and political change. This…

Join us for an information session to learn more about the new cycle of Migrations grants, open to all PI-eligible faculty (including tenured, tenure-track, professors of practice, senior research associates, and clinical-track faculty), irrespective of their college or school. Faculty-led programs and centers…

The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, in partnership with the Society for the Humanities, presents this symposium featuring five cutting-edge researchers whose work crosses disciplinary lines to tackle some of the world’s most pressing problems.

Join postdoctoral fellows Mohamed Abdou, Eman…

In 2001, the Global War on Terror (GWOT) was inaugurated under U.S. leadership. Since then, U.S. Armed Forces have conducted significant operations in at least ten countries and been implicated in military operations and incarceration in dozens more. Several other countries have also waged their own GWOT security-…

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium welcomes Nathan Vieal, University of Toronto to lead the final text reading for the semester. He will present on Fan Zongshi's "Jiang shouju yuanchi ji" and the Reception of an Impossible Text

Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium 古文品讀

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 African…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture Series.

Hanisah Sani, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore

Hanisah Abdullah Sani is a comparative-historical sociologist of empire and state-formation, modernization, and development. Her research lies in the intersection of…

"Arise! Ye Who Refuse to be Bond Slaves:" Paul Robeson, "The Black King of Songs, " and China

Professor Gao Yunxiang, History, Ryerson University

This lecture is adapted from a chapter in Gao Yunxiang’s new book Arise, Africa! Roar, China! Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in…

Learn about the Laidlaw Undergraduate Leadership and Research Program. Open to first- and second-year students, this 2-year program provides generous support to carry out internationally-focused research, develop leadership skills, engage with community projects overseas, and join a global network of like-minded…

In 2001, the Global War on Terror (GWOT) was inaugurated under U.S. leadership. Since then, U.S. Armed Forces have conducted significant operations in at least ten countries and been implicated in military operations and incarceration in dozens more. Several other countries have also waged their own GWOT security-…

Many scholars and practitioners do not necessarily know that the United States occupied Haiti for nineteen years, between 1915 and 1934. It is also not common knowledge that the monies taken from the National Bank of Haiti helped to boost the U.S. economy in the context of the great depression. With the recent…

Elephants roam in about 60% of the land area in Sri Lanka, and in about 70% of that, the rural communities also live and cultivate, creating the perfect grounds for a deadly conflict. A total of 407 elephants and 121 farmers died because of human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka in 2019 recording the world’s highest…

Join us for a presentation by Anh V. Vu, Lydia Wilson, Yi Ting Chua, Ilia Shumailov, Ross Anderson of Cambridge University as they discuss their extensive data set on extremism and misogyny, compiled by scraping the web looking for cyber criminals. Paper available here: …

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We welcome Cornell's international community, all Cornellians, and friends in the local community for the 34th Annual Celebration of Gratitude Dinner on Thanksgiving Day at Robert Purcell Marketplace Eatery.

Seatings are at 11:30 am and 1:30 pm.

What does it take to challenge entrenched judicial dysfunction? In this talk, Janice Gallagher previews the central argument from her forthcoming book, "Bootstrap Justice: The Search for Mexico's Disappeared." She shows how the sustained mobilization of families of the disappeared widens cracks in…

This talk charts out an oceanic microhistory, grounded in the voyages of a dhow from the port of Kuwait, captained by the nakhoda ‘Abdulmajeed Al-Failakawi. It anchors itself in Al-Failakawi’s logbook, and looks out from the deck of the dhow onto a world of texts, letters, accounts, and other writings by nakhodas.…

1977 > West Germany > Directed by Wim Wenders

With Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz

Wim Wenders's adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel Ripley's Game, starring Dennis Hopper as Tom Ripley, who cajoles a terminally ill man into committing murder. In German, English & French. Subtitled…

Tells the story of a migrant who found himself in the deadly stretch of desert known as "the corridor of death" and shows how one life becomes testimony to the tragic results of the U.S. war on immigration.

A Conversation with Timothy Mitchell, William B. Ransford Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University and Kaushik Basu, Professor of Economics and Carl Marks Professor of International Studies at Cornell University.

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…

Lindsay P. Cohn, Associate Professor in National Security Affairs, US Naval War College in Newport, RI. She presents on this topic, based on research that appears in her forthcoming book, "Posse: Domestic Use of Federal Forces and U.S. Civil-Military Relations."

This seminar is part of a series…

Take a break from your studies to swing by Duffield Hall Atrium for this European-focused information fair. Play a game, win prizes, and find out about the various opportunities to explore Europe as a Cornell student!

This event is presented by the Institute for European Studies as part of Global Cornell…

The Institute for African Development (IAD) Summer Africa Internship program provides sophomores, juniors and rising senior undergraduate students with challenging practical fieldwork in Africa. Application deadline is February 28th. Internships are available in Ghana and Zambia. Those interested in applying must…

This webinar features two PhD graduates who will discuss their experience in finding alternative career paths and answer your questions about the world of think tanks. All are welcome to attend this free event hosted by Critical Ottoman & Post-Ottoman Studies (CO+POS) and co-sponsored by the Mario Einaudi…

Zifeng Liu, Ph.D. candidate and Diverse Knowledge East Asia Fellow presents an excerpt from his dissertation: “Translating Black Left Feminism: Shirley Graham Du Bois and Mao’s China”

This presentation examines Shirley Graham Du Bois’s engagement with China in the long 1960s. It explores how she cautiously…

Shelley Rigger, Professor, Davidson University

Is China Part of Taiwan?

There is a long-standing debate over whether Taiwan is part of China. Beijing insists that not only is Taiwan part of China, it is part of the People’s Republic of China. Most Taiwanese reject the idea that the island they live on…

lecture with Seema Golestaneh. Rescheduled for November 15.

sponsored by Department of Near Eastern Studies, Iranian Student Association, and NES undergrad lunch series

In this talk, we will present an orthographic and lexical analysis of three of the first printed documents in Papiamentu, a Portuguese-based Creole spoken in Curaçao: Prefecto Apostolico di Curacao na Cristian di su mision and Catecismo Corticu, both by M. J. Niewindt (1833, 1837, respectively), and Kamiena di…