Past Events
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
2:40 pm
Uris Hall, G-08
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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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:15 pm
Kahin Center
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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Institute for African Development
11:25 am
Uris Hall, G08
This is a hybrid event. Registration information is below.
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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
12:00 am
Virtual
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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
4:45 pm
Virtual
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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
4:45 pm
115 Ives Hall
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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
1:00 pm
Virtual
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…
South Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
12:25 pm
Emerson Hall, 135
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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
7:00 pm
Willard Straight Theatre
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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
4:45 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, GSH64
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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
1:00 pm
Virtual
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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
1:00 pm
G-01 Stimson Hall
Co-sponsored by the East Asia Program
The speaker has changed her title and abstract (4/21/22). Below is the new abstract for the title above:
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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
9:30 am
Kahin Center
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…
South Asia Program
Einaudi Center for International Studies
7:00 pm
Willard Straight Theatre
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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
4:45 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, 64
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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
4:45 pm
Kahin Center
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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
1:30 pm
Virtual
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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
1:00 pm
Sage Hall, B06
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:…
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
4:45 pm
White Hall, 110
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-…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:30 pm
G-01 Stimson Hall
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-…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
2:40 pm
Uris Hall, G-08
Register
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:15 pm
Kahin Center
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…
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
12:00 pm
Virtual
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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Southeast Asia Program
11:25 am
Uris Hall, G08
This is a hybrid event. Registration information is below.
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 --…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
1:00 pm
Virtual
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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
8:00 am
Virtual
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…
Institute for European Studies
4:45 pm
Virtual
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
Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
4:45 pm
Virtual
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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:30 pm
Warren Hall, B73
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…