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:…

Please join us for a talk by Neena Mahadev (Yale-NUS).

The Cornell Buddhist Studies Seminar Series is co-sponsored by the GPSA-FC, the Departments of Anthropology, Asian Studies and Philosophy, by the South Asia Program, and by the Society for the Humanities. The talk is open to all members of the Cornell…

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC) is pleased to welcome Wang Jin Ping, of the National University of Singapore to lead our next CCCC text reading:

The 1265 Dual Steles: Narrating, Visualizing, and Gendering a Quanzhen Daoist Lineage on Stone

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC…

When travel is restricted during the pandemic, join EAP-GSSC’s symposium on “Food and Fieldwork” for a fulfilling journey. Emerging Cornell scholars from anthropology, sociology, development, and Asian studies will share their methodologies of fieldwork and stories of food. After a food trip to borderland Yunnan…

Centering BIPOC voices and creative knowledge of the natural and built environments of the Americas, this discussion will include the multiple migrations of humans, animals, plants, and other beings that have storied or narrativized this land, building on the place-based knowledge of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ (Cayuga…

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Dredge Byung’chu Kang, PhD MPH, is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California San Diego. His research focuses on beauty and love as they intersect with race, class, gender, sexuality, transnationality, and structural violence in interracial relationships, body modification, popular culture…

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This panel discussion, based on the book Drones and Global Order: Implications of Remote Warfare for International Society (Routledge, 2022), will explore the implications of drone warfare for the legitimacy of the global order. Since 2002, when the…

2019 > France > Directed by Ladj Ly
With Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti, Djebril Zonga
Inspired by the 2005 riots in Paris, Les Miserables follows Stephane, a recent transplant to the impoverished suburb of Montfermeil, as he joins the local anti-crime squad. Working alongside his unscrupulous…

Join us virtually this spring 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…

w/post-screening discussion with Denise Green (Director, Cornell Fashion & Textile Collection) and filmmaker Katherine Sender (Dept of Communication/FGSS)

2022>Directed by Katherine Sender and Shuchi Kothari

Threads: Sustaining India’s Textile Tradition is a documentary film that follows the…

"What Everyone Should Know about ASL and American Deaf Culture"
Corrine Occhino
Assistant Professor of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Syracuse University

ASL (American Sign Language) is experiencing a pop-culture moment. In the past few years, ASL has been visible in TV-shows…

Perspectives in Global Development Seminar
Speaker: Uma Lele, president of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE)
Note: The original seminar date has change. The seminar will now be held April 13
Location: Emerson 135 and Zoom
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Presented in partnership with Cornell Global Development and the Institute for African Development

Overview

The 2021 STAARS Fellows will present their research projects. Each Fellow will get 40 minutes to present followed by 15 minutes for questions. Coffee, tea, and light breakfast fare will be…