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…

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…

As part of the day-long Refugee Pathways Symposium, organized as part of the community-engaged course, PUBPOL 3050/5050: Refugee Pathways and Resettlement Policy, in collaboration with Cornell Law School and the Migrations Program, Dr. Elizabeth Campbell, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees…

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…

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…

As part of the day-long Refugee Pathways Symposium, organized as part of the community-engaged course, PUBPOL 3050/5050: Refugee Pathways and Resettlement Policy, in collaboration with Cornell Law School and the Migrations Program, representatives from RISE and Interfaith Works (Syracuse), The Center (Utica), and…

Dr. Heba Gowayed will join us virtually to discuss her recent book, Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential (2022) as part of the day-long Refugee Pathways Symposium, organized as part of the community-engaged course, PUBPOL 3050/5050: Refugee Pathways and Resettlement Policy course in collaboration with…

Join us on Zoom to practice your Thai 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…

IES Graduate Fellows will be presenting their work in conference style presentations followed by time for discussions. Presenters will be:

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Alican Taylan- Architecture Art Planning- "Disentangling Modernity and Colonialism: The St. Joseph Mission School in Ngasobil, Senegal"

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Talk by Zehra Hashmi (History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania )

This talk examines how and why Pakistan’s national biometric-based identification regime came to use an individual’s blood relations to construct and track uniquely identified individuals. Through the concept of datafied…

Go global in summer 2025! Global Internships give you valuable international work experience in fields spanning global development, climate and sustainability, international relations, communication, business, governance, and more.

Register for this virtual session.

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The Mario Einaudi Center…

Talk by Bhavani Raman (History, University of Toronto)

The laws that authorize modern state impunity, such as martial law, sedition, disturbed areas, and preventive detention, were first given statutory authority by a colonial corporation, the East India Company consolidating its conquest of India. Why was…

The Latina/o Studies Program Fridays with Faculty luncheon seminar offers an opportunity for Latina/o and non-Latina/o students of all levels and disciplines to meet faculty and administrators from across the university for informal conversation about their current research/work in progress. All are welcome!

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Nielson Sophann Hul, PhD Candidate in the Department of Linguistics at Cornell University, who will discuss the implosives in Khmer.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at the The Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact…

Since the end of colonialism in Africa, the continent has become a strategic battleground for influence among global superpowers. Russia, China, and the United States have each pursued distinct approaches that have shaped African nations in vastly different ways. An experienced diplomat in US-Africa relations,…

The recent U.S. election is likely to have significant impacts on immigration policy and practices. Based on experience with the previous Trump administration and standing efforts among Republicans in Congress, these changes may impact Cornell students, staff, and faculty. Join Cornell’s Migrations Program in a…

Rukundo Kambarami Benedict is a highly experienced nutrition researcher currently serving as the Lead Nutrition Research Associate at The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program since August 2017. In this role, Rukundo analyzes national datasets and authors reports to guide nutrition policy and programs. Prior…

A SEADL webinar featuring Amrina Rosyada and I Gde Agus Darma Putra, hosted by Emily Zinger, Southeast Asia Digital Librarian, Kroch Asia Collections Cornell University Library.

How can we use archives to build a narrative about behind-the-scene actors in research?

From the US to Indonesia, local…

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…

Join Grad student writers weekly to share goals and write in community. Sessions will begin with brief goal-settings. Then, the bulk of the time will be dedicated to independent writing in community. You’ll have the opportunity to share what you accomplished with a supportive group of peers.

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Emerging Global Cities: Origin and Significance

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Certain cities—most famously New York, London, and Tokyo-- have been identified as 'global cities' whose functions in the world economy transcend national borders. Without the same fanfare, formerly peripheral and…

Event Overview

Immigration will be a key issue in 2025. Everyone agrees that we have a broken immigration system, but people disagree on the solutions. Congress is paralyzed. Presidents try executive actions but are sued. Federal courts seem to be the final arbiters of immigration policy these days.

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Fall 2024 Harry ’51 and Joshua ’49 Tsujimoto Perspectives in Global Development Seminar Series

Register to attend via Zoom.

Abstract

Agriculture remains integral to Nigeria’s economy, accounting for 24% of the GDP and employing 38% of the workforce. Despite this, widespread multidimensional…

Over 70 undergraduate students will present their international summer experiences in a poster session. Their work includes conducting research, working in Global Internships, and putting leadership into action as Laidlaw scholars.

The poster session will be in the Baker Portico & Atrium of the Physical…

Co-sponsored by Romance Studies

The archipelago of Puerto Rico is a colony in debt. Debt, according to Lucí Cavallero and Verónica Gago, goes hand in hand with the disciplining of bodies, especially female, queer, and dissident bodies. Therefore, colony and debt possess certain characteristics—confinement,…

Talk by Ayesha Matthan (History of Art, Cornell University)

This talk looks at a photographic construction of the working classes in Bombay/Mumbai/Bambai between the 1970s and 1990s by a specific range of photographers. It will situate these images at a time when the city was witness to the steady decline of…

Featured guests Wakidi Dwidjomartono and Heni Savitri join the Cornell Gamelan Ensemble and leading members of the larger American gamelan community for a klenengan, a long and relatively informal gathering that best accommodates the temporal expansiveness of Javanese gamelan music. Audience members are free to…

Xiangjun Feng, University of Toronto will bring us to the close of this semester's Classical Chinese text-reading series.

Classical Chinese in Mexico, in 1923, on Mesmerism: Two Examples

Feng writes:

In what contexts do we usually encounter Classical Chinese? In the “Sinosphere,” in the…

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…

"I Belong Here: Addressing Gen Z Learner Identities through Differentiated Instruction in World Languages"
Tom Garza
UT Regent's and University Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor and Director of the Texas Language Center, UT Austin

Tomlinson et al. (2003) characterized…