A Conversation with Rep. Tom Malinowski & Consul General of Poland Adrian Kubicki

Join the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs as we welcome Rep. Tom Malinowski and Consul General Kubicki to discuss the Ukrainian refugee crisis in Poland, moderated by Rep. Steve Israel.

Speakers

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The Mellon Central New York Humanities Corridor Working Group on Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) invites you to attend a panel discussion on starting or growing a CLAC program. Dr. Stephen Straight and Dr. Suronda Gonzalez will discuss administrative, logistical, and cultural challenges and…

Come to our annual Showcase event and join us congratulating these 5 students who will receive Achievement Award! Shimtah and E.Motion will perform for us and students from 6 different courses will present their projects. Also, enjoy trivia and Korean snack! Invite your friends and let's celebrate the end of…

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC) is pleased to welcome Tristan Brown, of MIT to lead our next CCCC text reading titled, "Fengshui in Texts from Qing China."

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC) 古文品讀 is a reading group for scholars interested in premodern Sinographic (古文)…

Performing and Media Arts Presentation Series

PMAPS Colloquium

Friday, May 6, 2022 3:00 P.M.

Brian V. Sengdala, PhD Student, Performing and Media Arts, Cornell University

Cambodian American Listening as Memory Work

Join us virtually this spring to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills…

Kale Bantigue Fajardo is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Fajardo completed his undergraduate studies Cornell (Developmental Psychology/Feminist Studies/Southeast Asian Studies) and his MA and PhD in cultural anthropology at the…

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Lancet Citizens’ Commission
Pathways to Universal HealthCare for India’s 1.3 billion

The Lancet Citizens’ Commission on Reimagining India’s Health System is a cross- sectoral research endeavor to lay…

Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…

Forging Lasting Peace: Movements for Justice in a Pluralist World (Bartels World Affairs Lecture)

In our ethnically, racially, linguistically, and religiously diverse world, how do we find common ground? Amid ongoing conflict and violence, how do we foster lasting peace? In our world full of inequalities,…

Join the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs as we welcome Jens David Ohlin and Neta Crawford to discuss Russian war crimes in Ukraine. The event is moderated by Rep. Steve Israel and Prof. Doug Kriner. Speakers Neta Crawford, Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science, Boston University Prof.…

Please join us for a talk by Eugene Wang (Harvard).

A Buddhist cave decorated with scenes of meditation at once makes perfect sense and no sense at all. It makes sense in view of the centrality of meditation in Buddhist imagination and practice. It makes no sense in that nowhere in Buddhist discourse do we…

Book talk with Andrew Simon (Ph.D. '17).

"Media of the Masses" investigates the social life of an everyday technology—the cassette tape—to offer a multisensory history of modern Egypt. Over the 1970s and 1980s, cassettes became a ubiquitous presence in Egyptian homes and stores. Audiocassette…

Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…

This talk by Mey-Yen Moriuchi (LaSalle University) explores the history of Chinese migration to Cuba, which began with the coolie trade in the mid-nineteenth century. Between 1847 and 1874, approximately 150,000 Chinese were brought to Cuba under termed contracts to fulfill a labor shortage on the sugarcane…

Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…

Talk by Anna Stirr

Gokul Joshi (1930-1961) was a radical progressive poet and singer who was born in poverty and lived an itinerant life in Nepal and India in the 1940s and 50s, performing his songs and poetry and organizing workers and peasants against their exploiters wherever he went. He was an…

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Julia Zhu is a PhD candidate in Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University.

On the move: How comparative immigration policies shape migration decisions in a globalized world

How high-…

All societies, and especially diverse ones like the US, are multilingual; translingual communication mediates life and professions and makes knowledge grow and work. Yet, myths about language set up barriers, inhibiting free exchange and application of knowledge. These myths include the ideas that knowledge must…

IAD Global Africa Monthly Webinar Series

Friday, April 29, 2022
@10:00am - 12:00pm EST/2:00pm - 4:00pm GMT

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Introduction of the Series
N’Dri Assie-Lumumba
Professor, Africana Studies
Director, Institute for African Development

Discussant: Dr. Kouame…

Lecture and panel with Qiufan Chen.

The greatest value of science fiction is not providing answers, but rather raising questions.

Can AI help humans prevent the next global pandemic by eliminating it at the very root? How can we deal with future job challenges? How can we maintain cultural diversity…

Open to members of the Cornell community only.

In the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Sergio (Sergio Corrieri), an affluent writer, chooses to stay behind in Cuba while his wife and family escape to neighboring Miami. Sergio is pessimistic about the revolution's promise to bring sweeping change…

The Spring 2022 Barbara & David Zalaznick Creative Writing Reading Series closes with a reading by Vietnamese American multigenre writer Bao Phi.

Bao Phi is a two-time Minnesota Grand Slam champion and a National Poetry Slam finalist, whose poetry is included in the 2006 Best American Poetry anthology…

All Cornell graduate students, undergraduates, and postdocs conducting academic research in collaboration with researchers, enterprises, and institutions in China are invited to register and join the virtual 2022 Cornell Student China Collaboration Research Symposium on 28 April 2022 from 4:30-6:00 pm EDT via Zoom…

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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…

Co-sponsored by SAAGA and Performing and Media Arts

In 1934, a U.S. production company released a film set in the southern Philippines called Brides of Sulu, about a pair of star-crossed lovers (one Muslim, one not) risking their lives to elope. In 2011, two Filipino film archivists began investigating…

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This talk sheds light on what various actors engaged with the United Nations trusteeship system wanted decolonization to mean, what they thought, or hoped, it should mean, and their contests of power over normalizing its meaning. The speaker will…

Guest Speaker:

Fatema Sumar, Vice President of Compact Operations, Millennium

Leveraging her expertise in international development, foreign policy, diplomacy, and advocacy, Fatema Z. Sumarleads efforts to fight poverty by transforming global systems in reaching vulnerable populations. As Vice…

This presentation builds on material in the book, Muslim Environmentalisms (Columbia University Press, 2019), which explains how the idea of "the environment" is an ethical idea. Anthropogenic ecological change considered as a matter of environmental justice (EJ) means developing new scales and…

By Bharat Patankar

Bharat Patankar is an intellectual-activist based in India. A recent New York Times obituary of his life-partner Gail Omvedt, noted that Patankar has led Shramik Mukti Dal (toilers' liberation league), "an organization credited with launching some of the largest organized mass…