1934 > China > Directed by Wu Yonggang

With Ruan Lingyu, Tian Jian, Zhizhi Zhang

A masterpiece of Chinese cinema's silent era, this heart-wrenching tale of a single mother who works as a prostitute so she can afford an education for her young son stars legendary actress Ruan Lingyu. The…

IXCANUL (“volcano” in the Kaqchikel language, English Subtitles)

Time: 6-8 PM | Place: G08 Uris Hall

This year’s LACS Film Series will screen movies from all over the region, highlighting the program’s recent focus on the Caribbean. During the Fall semester we’ll watch and discuss movies from North…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture Series.

Sandy Chang, Department of History, University of Florida

Sandy F. Chang is an assistant professor in Modern Asian History at the University of Florida. She specializes in Chinese migration, gender, and sexuality studies in Southeast Asia and the…

Chiara Ruffa discusses a new working paper, "Gender, Socialization, and Norms of Restraint: Findings from the US Military Academy at West Point." She is an Academy Fellow at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University and Associate Professor in War Studies, Swedish Defense…

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…

A discussion with CATO's Doug Bandow and Prof. Sarah Kreps.

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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In this moment of hyper-politicized border and migration issues, questions of representation are crucial. This roundtable of scholars, journalists, and practitioners will address the needs and challenges of producing stories about complex border issues along with the potential for different stories to effect real…

Aesthetics and Ethics of Return: Trauma, Militarism and Modernities in Southeast Asia

Arguing for an ethics of return, the book Return Engagements is a political-economic critique of the nation-state, wars then and now, and global art markets, with a focus on Việt Nam and Cambodia. Artist, curator, and…

For many Cubans, Fidel Castro’s Revolution represented deliverance from a legacy of inequality and national disappointment. For others—especially those exiled in the United States—Cuba’s turn to socialism made the prerevolutionary period look like paradise lost. Michael J. Bustamante unsettles this familiar schism…

Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema demonstrates how the dancer-actress comes to be a central figure in articulating South Asian cultural modernities. Shifting attention from narrative-driven analyses and turning instead to gesture, movement vocabulary, and the social practices around…

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.

Sara Ann Swenson, Department of Religion, Dartmouth

Sara Ann Swenson researches contemporary Buddhism in Vietnam. Her current work examines rising trends of Buddhist volunteerism in Vietnam’s fastest growing urban area, Ho Chi Minh City. Drawing on…

Anjali Dayal (Fordham University) discusses her new book Incredible Commitments: How UN Peacekeeping Failures Shape Peace Processes, out by Cambridge University Press (2021).

This seminar is part of a series organized by the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) and the Gender and Security…

** Co-sponsored by Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies (COPOS)

Constructed during the rule of the French Lusignan dynasty (1192–1489), the Gothic cathedrals and churches of Cyprus are famous for their pronounced Westernizing style, which reshaped and continues to distinguish their Levantine setting.…

Join us to learn about our interdisciplinary minor, summer 2022 internships, and other funding opportunities.

The Latin American Studies minor is an undergraduate minor across disciplines that will allow students to explore the history, culture, government, politics, economy and languages of Latin America…

A panel discussion and series of readings from the 2021 anthology Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts. Readings, annotations, and dialogue with editors and contributors Christopher K. Ho, Daisy Nam, Iftikhar Dadi, Rachel Ossip, and Dushko Petrovich.

This collection of seventy-three letters…

Visual Culture Colloquium

Tuesday, September 14, 2021 at 4:45pm

Min Ma Naing

Beyond Burmese Esthetics

Physical Event

Goldwin Smith Hall, G22

“I don’t find Burmese esthetics in your work.” This is a critique that Min Ma Naing, a photographer from Myanmar, has often received…

"How Can I Learn All These Words?"
Research-Based Strategies for Teaching and Learning L2 Vocabulary
Jamie Rankin
Senior Lecturer, Princeton University

Second language (L2) classrooms have undergone radical changes during the past 50 years, moving away from formal linguistic…

In 1821, as insurgent forces battled Spanish royalists in what would become the last throes of the Wars of Independence in the northern Andes, representatives of the newly constituted republic of Gran Colombia (present-day Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Panama) passed a gradual emancipation law to address the…

Since 1947, the valley of Kashmir has become synonymous with a territorial dispute. Such is the emphasis on “territorial integrity” in the mediatized discourse on Kashmir, both in the South Asian subcontinent and the west, that the territorializing of the region is hidden under the self-evident notions of…

Ithaca Premiere

2020 > Finland/Sweden > Directed by Zaida Bergroth

With Alma Pöysti, Krista Kosonen, Jakob Öhrman

"A formative decade in the life of bisexual, Swedish-speaking, Finnish visual artist and author Tove Jansson, creator of the Moomins." (Variety) In Swedish, Finnish…

HYBRID EVENT | Twenty years after 9/11, America has finally ended its longest war. But the precipitous fall of Kabul serves as a poignant reminder that the threats to American national security remain acute and are ever-evolving. This congressional policy forum will reflect on the tumultuous past two decades and…

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.

Joshua Plotnik, Department of Psychology, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York

Joshua Plotnik, Ph.D. is a comparative psychologist who has studied elephants in Thailand since 2007. Recently, Dr. Plotnik has been…

In recent years China has emerged as a leading economic power and is expanding its military capability in both conventional and nuclear forces. How should the United States respond to these changes? Our three panelists will discuss the impact of advances in cyber technology, the implications of the new Chinese ICBM…

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…

Ithaca Premiere

2020 > UK/Sweden > Directed by Fred Scott

With Roy Andersson, Johan Carlsson, Martin Serner

A moving portrait of the artist at work (and at drink), this doc captures the 76 year-old Swedish auteur Roy Andersson creating his recent film, About Endlessness (screening on Sept…

Through an interdisciplinary curriculum that you can mold to your interests, the European Studies (ES) Minor provides the opportunity to explore Europe’s past, present, and future. You will cultivate a knowledge of European languages, culture, history, politics, and international relations. The minor offers the…

2005 > China/France/Germany/Hong Kong > Directed by Wong Kar Wai

With Tony Leung, Ziyi Zhang, Gong Li

Tony Leung reprises his role as the frustrated romantic of In the Mood for Love in this nominal sequel, "a complex, visually rich, pull-out-all-stops rumination on memory, regret,…