Meet the LASP Digital Internship organizer, Jihany Hassun, LASP Graduate Fellow, and learn about LASP Digital Research Internships and Einaudi Digital Research Internships with partners in Brazil. 

The Migrations Forum is an interdisciplinary works-in-progress series for Cornell migrations scholars, bringing together graduate students and faculty across disciplines to share ongoing research.

At this session, Natasha Raheja (Anthropology) will share a rough cut of the new ethnographic film A Gregarious…

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…

The Program in International Nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences is pleased to host guest speaker Purnima Menon, Ph.D.; Senior Research Fellow: Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division; Office of the Director, Nutrition and Food Safety at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Her…

Keisha Blain leads a discussion of excerpts from her book "Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Struggle for Global Freedom" published by University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.

Note: The author will join for a conversation about their work. No formal presentation will be given;…

1997 > Hong Kong > Directed by Wong Kar Wai
With Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Leslie Cheung
Wong Kar Wai deals with emotional entrapment in this film that won him the Best Director award at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. Taking as its subject two gay lovers from Hong Kong spending the last few months of…

2019 > USA > Directed by Ben Masters
With Heather Mackey '10, Ben Masters, Filipe Deandrade, Austin Alvarado, Jay Kleberg
This spectacularly photographed documentary follows five friends on an immersive adventure through the unknown wilds of the Texas borderlands as they travel 1200 miles…

Join LASP, Luisa Trujillo (LASP internship facilitator with CONDESAN/Ecuador) and meet some of LASP's partners in Ecuador to learn more about this summer's digital internships. Application deadline extended to March 31st 2021.

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Explore options beyond academia and discover how to make informed decisions for career choices in government, non-profits and industry. Test-drive career opportunities through career panels, individual and group sessions, site visits and more. Visit website for more details.

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One hundred million smallholder farmers in India and 500M across the world face a number of challenges toward achieving food and income security, which are increasingly exacerbated by climate change. Unpredictable rains, increasing temperatures and drought make farming…

Join LASP, Luisa Trujillo (LASP internship facilitator with CONDESAN) and meet some of LASP's partners in Ecuador to learn more about this summer's digital internships. Application deadline extended to March 31st 2021.

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The Floating World: History, Haiku, Global Modernism

The East Asia Program invites you to join our guest, Chris Bush, (Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, UCLA) Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literary Studies in this Rough Work session.

This “rough work” session shares an account of the…

Join LASP, Luisa Trujillo (LASP internship facilitator with CONDESAN) and meet some of LASP's partners in Ecuador to learn more about this summer's digital internships. Application deadline extended to March 31st 2021.

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Film Overview

The documentary film The River and the Wall follows five friends on an immersive adventure through the unknown wilds of the Texas borderlands as they travel 1200 miles from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico on horses, mountain bikes, and canoes. Conservation filmmaker Ben Masters realizes the…

Join LASP, Luisa Trujillo (LASP internship facilitator with CONDESAN) and meet some of LASP's partners in Ecuador to learn more about this summer's digital internships. Application deadline extended to March 31st 2021.

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Cosponsored by Latino/a Studies Program, Latin American Studies Program, and Comparative Literature

Melissa Castillo Planas' most recent book project, with Rutgers University Press’ new Global Race and Media series, A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture, examines the…

Latin American economies have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown measures adopted by national governments to address the public health crisis. Given the erosion of many of the social and economic gains of the early 2000s, what are the prospects for economic recovery in the months and years…

Rough Work session with Xuewen Yan, Ph.D. student, sociology

The popularity and prestige of the English language in Chinese academia: A missing link in the hegemony of English as lingua franca?

Xuewen Yan writes: With the rise of English as the global language, scholars across the social sciences have…

The time of global pandemic presented many obstacles for communities engaged with Southeast Asia to stay connected and thrive. At the same time, the limitations upon meeting in person or conducting fieldwork inspired new ways to forge dialogues, shake old conventions, and embrace creative, often technological,…

This event is part of the ongoing Critical Moves: Performance in Theory Movement series co-organized by Prof. Balance and Prof. Karen Jaime and co-sponsored by Cornell Asian American Studies Program (AASP), Latina/o Studies Program (LSP), and the department of Performing Media Arts. Basement Bhangra Redux is also…

Poetry is sometimes viewed as the least directly political of literary genres, yet the political and other forms of exile have encroached on the lives of writers. Forced to flee their homeland, writers have chosen to make exile a vital theme as well as a practical condition. The IAD Migration Poetry Hour will…

Inequality, Labor, and Migration in East Asia

Through the Prism of Global Pandemic Virtual Workshop

Long-standing demographic changes will have serious implications for the nature of work, spatial mobility, and the overall distribution of resources in the countries of East Asia. Has the Coronavirus…

Join the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs and eCornell for a conversation with President Bill Clinton on the state of democracy in America. This program will delve into the challenges faced by our democracy today and what can be done to strengthen our democratic norms for future generations. Following the…

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…

Margaret E. Roberts, Associate Professor of Political Science at University of California at San Diego, discusses her book Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall (Princeton University Press, 2018).

The author will join for a conversation about their work. No formal…

1996 > Hong Kong > Directed by Wong Kar Wai
With Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Charlie Yeung
Wong Kar Wai's take on love and loss in a '90s, urban, neon-lit setting, but a darker film than its companion piece, Chungking Express. "An exhilarating rush of a movie. Go-for…

Ithaca Premiere>2019 > Brazil > Directed by Sandra Kogut
With Regina Case
"A chaotic class dramedy where the help and the helped wind up switching places, Three Summers (Trs Ver›es) marks another occasion for Brazilian actress Regina Case (The Second Mother) to shine in the role of a…

African Islamic modernity is a discourse, a historical condition, and a project that highlights the entanglements of African racial identities, Islamic forms of life, and modernity as the globally hegemonic mode of social, economic, and political being. While there are many lineages by which one might trace the…

"Social Justice and the University Language Learner"
Cassandra Glynn (Concordia College), Pamela Wesely (University of Iowa), and Beth Wassell (Rowan University)

Teaching for and about social justice positively influences all students, yet integrating social justice education into the college…

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Most farming communities in Pakistan are comprised of small landholders with limited access to literacy, emergency assets, climate change information and linkages with disaster relief services. Agricultural output is often insufficient for family sustainance, so men…