Over the last decade, record numbers of displaced people have been caught in the middle of an intensifying tug-of-war between Western liberal democracies and Eastern autocrats. With little chance of returning to their homes in Syria or Central America, these people crossed borders to seek political, religious, or…

Perspectives in Global Development Seminar Speaker: Ashish Bajracharya, deputy director at Population Council Location: Emerson 135 and Zoom. In recent years, the garment industries of countries in South and Southeast Asia, including Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Vietnam have grown to provide economic opportunities to…

Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008) is the inspiring account of a group of ordinary women—Muslim and Christian, rich and poor, urban and rural—who came together to bring peace to their beloved but war-torn Liberia. The story of their protest's historic achievement is suspenseful and ultimately incredibly…

CCCI welcomes Tani Barlow, the George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University to speak on, "Instinct and Society."

When Li Zehou burst onto the scene during the 1980s ‘culture fever’ he dragged back in altered form a much earlier foundational debate over…

The human story in the Americas began nearly 33,000 years ago, its chapters filled with thousands of years of place-based knowledge possessed by its inhabitants, until colonialism brought with it dispossession and genocide. Now, an interdisciplinary research team at Cornell University is exploring the arts of the…

Co-sponsored by the East Asia Program

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In 1905, as the Russo-Japanese War deepened and the rise of the Meiji Empire began to take hold including Japan’s annexation of the Korean peninsula, a…

Talk by Syed Jaleel Hussain

The ethnic, linguistic and religious diversity has been an essential feature of life in Kashmir for centuries. The majority of the muslim population is Sunni along with sizeable pockets of Shia minority. Shias have played a critical role in the socio-political and cultural life of…

The recent arrests and detentions of Sri Lankan writers, bloggers and poets form part of a long history of extrajudicial detention which elucidates the ever-present stakes of writing about Sri Lanka, or simply Writing Sri Lanka. This graduate student conference aims to collectively reflect on how these stakes…

2021 > Denmark > Directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen
With Daniel Karimyar, Farhan Karimyar, Fardin Mijdzadeh
Amin arrived in Copenhagen as a teenage refugee from Afghanistan under the Taliban. Now, 20 years later, he relates his story to director Rasumussen as he struggles with secrets from his past…

Robo-Sexism: Gendering AI and Robots in Japan and the United States (and Elsewhere) HYBRID event. The in-person location is Goldwin Smith Hall GS64.

Jennifer Robertson, Professor Emerita, Anthropology and History of Art, University of Michigan

In humans, gender constitutes an array of learned…

By Cheran

In this lecture and reading, Cheran will reflect on the important but ambiguous relationship with the sea from both personal and communal perspectives. Drawing on and reading from his various poems about the sea and other water bodies, he will chart an alternative imagination for Tamil identities…

Join Wendy Wolford and Jason W. Moore for a critical conversation on our contemporary planetary predicament and how different ways of conceptualizing it might entail different strategies for transformative change.

A presentation of the Polson Institute for Global Development

Wendy Wolford is the…

Registration Link: https://cglink.me/2cm/r1538417

Subrina Shen is an assistant professor at the Department of Management at the McCombs School of Business, the University of Texas at Austin.

When having a higher-status follower promotes exploration:…

What worlds take root in war? This talk takes us to the southern border of Lebanon where resistant ecologies thrive amid gusts of perennial war. In frontline villages, armed invasions, indiscriminate bombings, and scattered landmines have become the conditions within which everyday life is waged. Here, multi-…

The Lower Tapajós River is a multiethnic territory located in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon Forest, in the Pará state. This region is the dwelling place of 13 indigenous peoples, hundreds of traditional riverside communities, and dozens of quilombos (formerly enslaved communities with a background of anti-…

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Dr. Kathryn Fiorella is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health at Cornell University. She leads the Food Systems and Health Concentration area of the Master of Public Health Program. She is also a faculty fellow of the Atkinson Center for Sustainable Future and the Center for Health…

Chicana artist Sandy Rodriguez’s Codex Rodriguez Mondragón (2017—) records the ecological and political crises of our time by engaging contemporary realities of BIPOC and migrant peoples. Several of her maps and illustrations mark, record, & illuminate the farmworker communities of the U.S. and Mexico border…

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This academic year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of the first major interdisciplinary research project undertaken by the then newly established Peace Studies Program, now the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies --…

What can be done to solve America’s crisis of democracy? Fifteen months after a literal assault on a central institution of U.S. democracy, one might imagine that Americans would welcome earnest efforts to strengthen the democratic foundations of the republic. Unnervingly, though, extreme polarization and…

Graduating soon?

Cornell is offering a virtual International Career Fair for international undergraduate and graduate degree students graduating before September 2022. Employers attending the fair are seeking students for opportunities in their international offices and locations.

Eligible students…

Please join the Cornell French Studies for a Webinar with:

Mabel Berezin (Cornell)
Laurent Ferri (Cornell)
Rick McArthur (Harper's)
Mame Fatou Niang (Carnegie Mellon)
Chair: Laurent Dubreuil (Cornell)

This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for European Studies

What are we learning when we play video games from Japan? Rachael Hutchinson (University of Delaware) examines the cultural content of Japanese videogames through character design, background setting and environment, aesthetic style, thematic content, and game dynamics. We will consider how mid-1990s games…

Arturo Escobar Location: Warren B74 and Zoom This talk examines emerging narratives of life that differ significantly from dominant anthropocentric perspectives of the world and their associated extractive modes of global development. Based on the notion of radical interdependence, these narratives propose a new…

Idrissou Mora-Kpai is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Arts, Sciences and Studies at Ithaca College and an award winning filmmaker whose films have been screened world-wide at numerous prestigious festivals, such as Berlin, Rotterdam, Vienna, Milano, Busan, Sheffield, and garnered many international…

Talk by Elora Shehabuddin

This paper analyzes the relationship between women’s rights advocates in East and West Pakistan in 1947–71, in an effort to contribute to the small but growing body of scholarship complicating Bangladesh’s linear nationalist narrative as well as recent scholarship on the history of…

2021 > India > Directed by P.S. Vinothraj
With Chellapandi, Karuthadaiyaan, Philip Arulodss
"India's nominee for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars is P. S. Vinothraj's first feature, set in a remote Tamil Nadu village, where a rage-filled man uses his young son as a pawn…

Direct from the San Francisco/Bay Area, Cambodian American vocalist Bochan Huy and Filipina American hip hop artist Ruby Ibarra take the Kip Theatre stage in this live concert celebrating Southeast Asian American sisterhood. Join us in this season of springtime renewal and New Years for much of Southeast Asia.…

Herding in the Wake: Afterlives and Material Ethics Within Unsettled Moral Ecologies

Herding was still a vibrant aspect of life in the Langtang Valley at the moment the Gorkha Earthquake struck Nepal on April 25, 2015, triggering a series of co-seismic avalanches and landslides that killed nearly half of the…

Please join us for the media studies colloquium on Friday, April 15, 1:30-3:00pm, in Uris Library 311. If you need remote access, please pre-register for the Zoom link here.

Iftikhar Dadi (History of Art and Visual Studies) will be discussing an exhibition and writing project on “Pop Art and South Asia:…