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…

Sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Paul Humphrey received his PhD in Modern Languages from the University of Birmingham (2013), and his research focuses on gender, sexuality and African-derived religions in Caribbean literature. His…

Prof. Mona Krook leads an interactive discussion of her new book, Violence Against Women in Politics (Oxford University Press, 2020).

The author will join for a conversation about their work. No formal presentation will be given; please read in advance. A link to the reading will be sent with the…

1988 > Hong Kong > Directed by Wong Kar Wai
With Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, Jacky Cheung
Set amidst Hong Kong's ruthless, neon-lit gangland underworld, this operatic saga of ambition, honor, and revenge stars Andy Lau as a small-time mob enforcer who finds himself torn between a burgeoning…

Ithaca Premiere>2020 > Spain > Directed by Nuria Gimenez
Using text from a woman's diary to accompany silent images of gorgeous home movie footage shot by her wealthy industrialist husband while traveling the world with him from the 1940s into the 1960s, this travelogue morphs into melodrama in…

Film is Sold Out, but Panel discussion with filmmaker Giulia Bertoluzzi on Tues Mar 2 at noon is still open, register here.

Ithaca Premiere>2018 > Italy/Tunisia > Directed by Giulia Bertoluzzi
Set primarily in Zarzis, Tunisia, and the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, Strange Fish tells the…

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports college graduates conducting research or teaching in any field in more than 150 countries. Applications are due in the fall; students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are encouraged to start the process in their junior year.

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The seminar will introduce some examples of activities and transregional relations of Muslims in Tang, Song, and Yuan China (618-1279 CE). The talk will specifically concentrate of traders and physicians, and also introduce a few of the more important names that we know from this period. The scope of our inquiry…

Speaker: Dr. Yangyang Cheng (Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale Law School's Paul Tsai China Center).

Topic: Pushing the Frontier: When Science Becomes Transnational.

Description:

Scientific collaboration has become one of the most contentious issues in U.S. - China relations. In a world…

Panel discussion with filmmaker Giulia Bertoluzzi

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Set primarily in Zarzis, Tunisia, and the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, Strange Fish tells the story of Tunisian fishermen who have been rescuing migrants and recovering the dead along the world's deadliest migration route since…

The research seminar series is an initiative of the Emerging Markets Theme of the Cornell S.C. Johnson College of Business, which focuses on engaging students and faculty in discourse over the role of emerging markets in an increasingly connected world.

Every month, we will host a speaker to expand our…

Rahul Gandhi, member of India’s Parliament and former president of the Indian National Congress, will join Kaushik Basu, Carl Marks Professor of International Studies at Cornell University, for an open conversation on democracy, development, and life in politics, India, and the world. Q&A with Cornell students…

In the last three decades, the Brazilian constitutional experience has moved towards the adoption of a model of judicial supremacy, in which the Supreme Court has the prerogative to give the last word on the attribution of meaning to constitutional norms. With the rise of a government of judges, the Supreme Court…

This talk analyzes the relationship between dam building, border wars, and India's settler colonial politics in Kashmir, particularly in the aftermath of the removal of Articles 370 and 35A that maintained Kashmir's semi-autonomous status in the Indian union. I will discuss how controlling vital…

2019 > France > Directed by CŽline Sciamma
With Noemie Merlant, Adele Haenel, Luana Bajrami
In the late 18th century, Marianne, a young painter, recalls being commissioned to secretly paint a wedding portrait of Heloise, the daughter of a French aristocrat and reluctant bride. As the bond between…

In Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa, Noah Tamarkin considers new ways to think about belonging that can acknowledge the importance of historical and sacred ties to land without valorizing autochthony, borders, or other technologies of exclusion.

Tamarkin will join a panel of…

Is the Einaudi Center's International Relations minor for you? Here's a chance to find out. Graduates go on to successful careers in fields like international law, economics, agriculture, trade, finance, journalism, education, and government service.

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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 interested in African…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture series

John Burgess, independent author and journalist, former Washington Post journalist and author of Angkor's Temples in the Modern Era: War, Pride, and Tourist Dollars

Angkor, capital of the Khmer Empire for close to six centuries, has had a rich…

Anna Lührmann joins the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) for a discussion of her working paper, "Disrupting the Autocratization Sequence: Towards Democratic Resilience."

The author will join us for a discussion of her work. No formal presentation will be given; please read in…

Ithaca Premiere>2018 > France > Directed by Thomas Lilti
With Vincent Lacoste, William Lebghil, Michel Lerousseau
The Freshmen follows Antoine, who is about to start his first year of medical school... for the third time. Meanwhile, Benjamin, fresh out of high school, will have his first stab…

This LASP summer research grant provides funding for in-country research costs for graduate pre-dissertation work in Latin America or the Caribbean. (The grant does not cover international airfare; students should also apply for an Einaudi Center Travel Grant for airfare.) LASP will offer up to three research…

This is a second time during 24 February to meet the leaders if you couldn't make the 11am session. Sarayaku’s Kichwa communities were central to Ecuador’s first National Indigenous Uprising in 1990 and are at the forefront of indigenous rights mobilization. Come listen to four leaders from Sarayaku's…

Sarayaku’s Kichwa communities were central to Ecuador’s first National Indigenous Uprising in 1990 and are at the forefront of indigenous rights mobilization. Come listen to four leaders from Sarayaku's indigenous communities and learn more about indigenous cosmologies & human rights frameworks. Come…

This panel will explore the theme of reparations and restitutions to bring justice to the residual inequalities caused by slavery and colonization. It will focus on the recent developments to institute a sort of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Belgium, which was approved in Summer 2020 in the form of a…

Odysseys: Ithaca Writers on Exile, Wandering, and Searching for Home is a reading series presented by Ithaca City of Asylum and co-sponsored by Global Cornell and Cornell's Migrations initiative.

Homer’s Odyssey recounts the adventures of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, as he seeks to return home after the…

“The world’s ten richest men have seen their combined wealth increase by $540 billion during the pandemic, while the crisis threatens a lost decade in the fight against poverty,” revealed the Oxfam Inequality Report 2021, published on the opening day of the World Economic Forum’s ‘Davos Dialogues.' The India…

The Cornell Contemporary China Initiative (CCCI) welcomes Ana Candela, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University to speak and discuss her extensive research on

From Compradors to Hacendados:
Cantonese Merchants In Peru and the Expanding Settler Colonial Frontiers of the Cantonese…

Ithaca Premiere>2020 > Romania/Germany > Directed by Radu Ciorniciuc
With an empathetic and cinematic eye, filmmaker Radu Ciorniciuc offers viewers a compelling tale of an impoverished family living in the wilderness on the fringes of society in Romania, fighting for acceptance and their own version…

The Latin American Studies Program (LASP) invites Cornell Faculty, Staff, Graduate and Undergraduate Students, to attend in its Annual Research Symposium on February 20, 2021. The event is a great opportunity to hear about research related to Latin America in a number of varied disciplines and in different stages…