2007 > Japan > Directed by Satoshi Kon
With Megumi Hayashibara, T™ru Furuya, K™ichi Yamadera, Satomi Koorogi
In this masterly example of Japanese anime that looks at the connection between movies and dreams, our heroine is a genius scientist by day, and an eighteen-year-old dream warrior named…

Spring 2022 Medieval Studies Graduate Student Roundtable

Please join us at the Medieval Studies Graduate Student Roundtable this semester! The Roundtable is a community space where everyone's voice and presence are valued whether or not they have expertise on the topic being presented. It is both a…

Registration Link: https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/overview/K031822/

According to Chainanalysis’ 2021 Global Crypto Adoption Index, global adoption of cryptocurrency has grown 881% in the last year and more than 2300% since 2019.…

Over two days, scholars, writers, practitioners, activists, and students across institutions are coming together virtually to explores the relationship between borders, captivity, and memory, and how it shapes the racialization of migration and the construction of national identity.

The first day of the…

Experts, Experiences, and Discussion

Hosted by Global Cornell, this virtual forum gives Cornell faculty, staff, and students a time to come together, learn more about the unprovoked invasion—and stand with the Ukrainian people.

Join scholars based in Ukraine, and Cornell faculty and students, as they…

The Wa people, who live between Burma and China, undercut many stereotypes about primitive mountain-folks. They are often labelled headhunters, but Magnus Fiskesjö’s new book, Stories from an Ancient Land: Perspectives on Wa History and Culture (Berghahn Books, 2021), confirms that taking head trophies is actually…

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.

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The United States is not the only country where democracy is vulnerable. The forces of polarization, populism, and autocracy have provoked deep conflict and democratic backsliding across the globe in recent years. Countries such as Venezuela, Turkey, Hungary, and Russia that once seemed to be on the road to…

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Dr. Henry Maar argues for the significance of the often-overlooked Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign to the arms control talks at the end of the Cold War. Launched in 1979 based on the ideas of Randall Forsberg, the Freeze campaign rallied the public…

2021 > Ethiopia > Directed by Jessica Beshir
Ethiopian legend has it that khat, a stimulant leaf, was found by Sufi Imams in search of eternity. Inspired by this myth, Faya Dayi is a spiritual journey into the highlands of Harar immersed in the rituals of khat, a leaf that Sufi Muslims chewed for…

This presentation explores how female representations encountered in Western prints, Persian painting, and South Asian sculpture were re-contextualized in Mughal environments of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries and re-imagined in Mughal paintings. Mughal patrons and artists negotiated elements…

Ato Kwamena Onoma is a program officer at the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa. He is the author of Anti-Refugee Violence and African Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and The Politics of Property Rights Institutions in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

This…

Join the staff and students from the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement for a conversation with Dr. Agustín Cano Menoni, professor, extensionist and researcher at the Universidad de la República de Uruguay.

Dr. Menoni is visiting Cornell so we can learn from and with one another about Extension…

"Bilingual Community-Based Language Pedagogy: An Arab-Jewish Language Café in Jerusalem"
Yarden Kedar
Israel Institute Visiting Faculty, Department of Psychology, Cornell University

The Good Neighbors – Abu Tor/Al-Thuri project is a grassroots, volunteer-based initiative that started…

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Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine was largely informed by his notion of a shared Russian-Ukrainian history, which allegedly does not give Ukraine the right to a sovereign state. The current conflict in Ukraine is, in this sense, also a dispute about history. This panel brings together two…

HYBRID event: CCCI welcomes Lawrence Chua, of Syracuse University, to speak on "Provincializing China: Race and Architecture in Colonial-era Penang."

This presentation examines the role of architecture in racialization in 19th and 20th-century Penang. It uses three case studies: the Khoo Kongsi (…

Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India

The ethos of innovation and entrepreneurship, honed in high-technology firms, has colonized philanthropy, development projects, government policies, and even thinking about international diplomacy. Innovation competitions, hackathons, and…

Since 9/11, the U.S. has used armed drones to combat terrorists. Bush initiated the use of strikes; Obama accelerated the practice, especially in Pakistan; and, Trump institutionalized it further. Biden’s “over-the-horizon” counterterrorism strategy suggests he will also continue to rely on strikes. At the same…

The European university extension tradition started in the decade of 1870 in Cambridge and Oxford universities, and rapidly spread through Europe in the form of conferences of cultural diffusion and “Popular University”. In its origin, university extension is the result of two interconnected processes: the European…

Talk by Sharif Hozoori

Analyzing the situation of Afghanistan, its past struggle and instability, war and displacement, peace and conflict, scholars would argue that the external forces and power politics are influential and effective in articulation of events but the current research highlights a different…

How do we construct, deconstruct, and maintain Southeast Asia? Who is doing this labor and why? The sinews by which we entangle Southeast Asia take many forms: from the epic to the quotidian and every shade in between and beyond; as connective strands; as resonating sounds; as adjoining bridges; as shared images;…

Este seminario tiene como ambito de mejor entender como funciona el programa de la Tarjeta del Trabajador Fronterizo (TTF) en Mexico, su desarollo y sus efectos sobre los trabajadores, la industria y la sociedad.

Los apresentadores incluyen Dra. Martha Rojas Wiesner (El Colegio de la Frontera Sur), Dra.…

Polson Institute for Global Development Seminar
A lecture by Agustín Cano Menoni

What is the relationship between universities and extension programs? How has this relationship, and the types of knowledge and practice traditionally conveyed by them, shifted under the pressures of globalization? Drawing…

This webinar, hosted by the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, features experts in finance, international policy, and labor economics discussing the unprecedented sanctions being levied at Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine.

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…

This is a hybrid event. Registration information is below.

Professor Amy Rutenberg will discuss the idea that debates over U.S. manpower policy -because they rest on questions of personal liberty, collective responsibility, and competing visions of national security – end up substituting for much larger…

The Biden Administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan on August 31, 2021 focused attention on the plight of Afghans who supported U.S. and allied forces. In December 2001, shortly after the 9/11 attacks, Farid was hired by the U.S. Army to work as an interpreter/translator. He received a special immigration visa…

Talk by Michele Friedner (Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago)

The Indian state relates to the category of disability through the distribution of aids and appliances such as hearing aids, canes, and wheelchairs that are ‘make in India,’ as examples. In 2014, the state modernized its…

The migration studies minor is a university-wide, interdisciplinary undergraduate minor that prepares students to understand the historical and contemporary contexts and factors that drive international migration and shape migrant experiences around the globe. This minor draws on the rich course offerings found…

Are you interested in the intersection of mental health and culture, global health, and community engagement? Do you want to gain field research skills and learn about indigenous communities in South India’s beautiful and fragile Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve? If so, the Cornell-Keystone Nilgiris Field Learning…