Ladislaus M. Semali is a Professor Emeritus of Education of Pennsylvania State University, in the Department of Learning and Performance Systems. Academically, he specializes in adult literacy education, comparative and international education and non-Western place-based educational epistemologies. He has published…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty series

Megan Sinnott, Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Georgia State University

Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

In contemporary Thailand, new and transformed…

Peace and Conflict Studies Institute Reading Group for October 15. William Spaniel, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh and Iris Malone, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington…

Rescheduled from April, Dr. Daisy Wang will present this year's annual Stoikov Lecture, "Who is Lai Fong? New Perspectives on 19th-Century Photography in China" as a free webinar.

Daisy Wang is deputy director of the Hong Kong Palace Museum, which will open its doors in 2022. She was…

Ithaca Premiere

1966 > Portugal > Directed by Paulo Rocha
With Geraldo Del Rey, Isabel Ruth, Maria Barroso
Paulo Rocha's haunting second feature, Change of Life, tells the beautiful and deeply felt story of a young man, a veteran from the war in Angola, who returns home to his remote…

Ithaca Premiere

2019 > South Korea > Directed by Bora Kim
With Ji-hu Park, Sae-byuk Kim, Seung-yeon Lee
Fourteen-year-old Eun-hee moves through life like a hummingbird searching for a taste of sweetness wherever she may find it. Ignored by her parents and abused by her brother, she finds…

How is the coronavirus crisis affecting immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees? Einaudi Center Migrations faculty fellows Gunisha Kaur, MD and Steve Yale-Loehr, JD will discuss key topics including healthcare access, public benefits, and detention policies these populations face. They will also share from their…

The possibilities of presenting contemporary art through digital technologies have multiplied in recent years. Particularly through the pandemic, programming and exhibitions have migrated online, breaking down barriers for public appreciation. Out of necessity, putting arts engagement at the core of all programming…

Ndongo Samba Sylla, Research and Programme Manager for the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation

Dr. Ndongo Samba Sylla will present a lecture articulated on what Celso Furtado, the late Brazilian economist, called the ‘myth of economic development ’. He is a Senegalese development economist, interested in Fair Trade,…

This presentation reflects on the Connecting Modern Art Histories in and across Africa, South and Southeast Asia (MAHASSA) project, which brought together a team of international faculty and emerging scholars to investigate the cultural histories of these regions. Shaped by shared developments, these regions are…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty series

Patrick Jory, Senior Lecturer in Southeast Asian History, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, University of Queensland

Apart from some brief references to China and East Asia, Norbert Elias’s The Civilizing Process focussed on the history of…

Peace and Conflict Studies Institute Reading Group for October 8. Fiona B. Adamson, Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London, will join us for a discussion of “Pushing the Boundaries: Can We “Decolonize” Security Studies?” Journal of Global Security Studies, 5(1), 2020, 129–135…

"Multiliteracies Pedagogy and Teacher Professional Development: From Research to Practice"
Kate Paesani
Director of the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA), University of Minnesota

Recent scholarship foregrounds multiliteracies pedagogy as a viable approach for…

Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817-1898) was a major Muslim figure in nineteenth century colonial India whose critical work on religion, education, archaeology and science influenced generations. While his work is viewed as an effort to bring Muslims out of their isolation, seek modern western education, his writings…

The food industry has a long history of driving and shaping low wage labor migration regimes, and around the world agriculture is often a site for large undocumented workforces, exploitative visa arrangements, and a disproportionate share of human trafficking as compared with other industries. Agricultural labor…

This panel is organized to bring together architects and planners to comment on the ongoing reconstructions in Beirut after the deadly explosion of August 4, 2020, by contextualizing it in the city’s urban development and the relatively recent urban reconstruction of its center after the civil war. How, when, and…

The transformation of family patterns in advanced capitalist societies has received much attention in academic and popular writing. While “modern families” are widely accepted in Europe, alarm and anxiety characterize the tenor around the changes in East Asian family structures. South Korea serves as a case study…

After the fracture of the Republic of Colombia in 1831, a first civil war that took place in the Republic of New Granada—known as the War of the Supremes (1839-1842)—pitted slaveholding elites in New Granada’s Cauca region against the central government in Bogotá, whose republican platform centered egalitarian and…

Studying the ties and practices that bind Tamils to the districts they inhabit or visit is essential to understand not the ways Tamils use and transform space in diaspora. The territorialization of Tamil identity, that is, their spatial extension and the continuation of their socio-cultural practices, is not always…

Please join us for a virtual talk by Charles Hallisey, Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures at Harvard Divinity School. Professor Hallisey's research centers on Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, Pali language and literature, Buddhist ethics, and literature in Buddhist culture. His…

Over the past decade, democracy has been in retreat in a large number of countries in different regions, at least partially reversing the wave of democratization that swept across much of the world in the late 20th century. This webinar explores patterns of "democratic backsliding" in different world…

Issues in African Development Special Topic Seminar Series (CRP 4770/6770) - Fall 2020 Theme: Environment, Sustainability and Health Challenges in Africa: Managing Human-Nature Interactions. Issues in African Development Seminar Series examines critical concerns in contemporary Africa using a different theme each…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty series

Darin Sanders Self, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Cornell University

From taking direct control of politics, to setting conditions on democratization, or to yielding entirely to civilians, there is substantial variation in how militaries behave…

Join author Adom Getachew for a discussion on her new book, Worldbuilding After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination. This event is sponsored by Buffalo Street Books in downtown Ithaca.

The event also serves as the Peace and Conflict Studies Institute Reading Group for October 1.

Register…

Global flows of workers from Central America and the Caribbean to sustain agricultural production in the US are highlighted in this presentation. Based on interviews with farmworkers, we will examine their motivations for leaving home, their experience in the US, long term goals and structural challenges. We will…

As schools around the United States think about how to best teach English language learners and parents explore a growing number of language immersion programs for their children, it is clear that the language of instruction and positive educational outcomes are inextricably linked. The same is true in South Asia.…

What impact will the U.S. elections have on Latin America and U.S.-Latin American relations? A panel of Cornell professors will discuss how the Trump and Biden foreign policy teams approach Latin America and how they are likely to address hemispheric issues like trade and economic integration, criminal violence and…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty series

Sopheak Chann, Lecturer, Department of Natural Resource Management and Development, Royal University of Phnom Penh

This paper explores place-making in post-conflict resource landscapes by elaborating on the concept of frontier-construction. Much of resource…

Issues in African Development Special Topic Seminar Series (CRP 4770/6770) - Fall 2020 Theme: Environment, Sustainability and Health Challenges in Africa: Managing Human-Nature Interactions. Issues in African Development Seminar Series examines critical concerns in contemporary Africa using a different theme each…

In his seminar presentation, Aching proposes that we think of processes of racialization as ways of measuring the tolerance that societies possess for their own practices of dehumanization during specific historical periods. In examining this proposition, he will describe his training as a scholar of race and…