Journalist and translator Alice Driver is joining the Latin American Studies Program seminar series to share her work on migration, human rights, and gender equality.

Alice Driver is a writer and investigative journalist who covers immigration and labor rights. She is based in Mexico City, and she is the…

Kelly Hunter presents a paper titled "Who intervenes and how? The politics of intervention for conflict-related sexual violence"/.

When Madame Vice President, Kamala Harris, ran for president of the United States, news coverage focused on her unusual ethno-racial roots. Her Indian mother was from Chennai and her father, who is Black, was born in Jamaica. Some journalists also questioned whether progressive voters would be put-off by Harris’s…

Please join us for an invited talk by Prof. Jay Garfield, generously co-sponsored by the Departments of Asian Studies, History and Philosophy; the South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia and Religious Studies Programs; and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly. The event is open to all interested, and…

In this panel, Utku Balaban discusses the relationship between postwar urban growth and Islamic revivalism in Turkey. Rather than in a distant past dating back to the nineteenth century, the roots of the decades-long political success of Turkish Islamism lie in the growth of new working-class neighborhoods in the…

Joshua Neves, Associate Professor and Director of the Global Emergent Media (GEM) Lab at Concordia University (Montréal).

Dr. Neves writes: This talk examines the relationship between special effects and Asia or the South—what I am calling southern effects. It has two major lines of inquiry. The first…

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…

***Formerly titled "South of the Clouds, North of the Nagas: Yunnan's Changing Role in the Mekong Region." The title and abstract of this talk have changed slightly.***

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture series

Dr. Juliet Lu, Atkinson Center for Sustainability Postdoctoral…

Simon Egbert and Matthias Leese discuss their book Criminal Futures: Predictive Policing and Everyday Police Work, out via Routledge in 2020.

The authors 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…

Swati Chattopadhyay is a professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, and an affiliated faculty in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California–Santa Barbara. An architect and architectural historian, she specializes in modern architecture and urbanism, and the…

In this talk I will present the ongoing research project "Colonialism inside out" a Sri Lankan-Dutch research project, which has been running since 2017. The project aims at historical life writing, by combing macro-data from 18th century parish and census registers with qualitative data from legal…

Melodramatic Afterlives: Visions in Seoul’s Blockchain Space

Simon Posner, Ph.D. student, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University

Posner writes: This chapter looks at blockchain-inspired visions of the future crafted by members of Seoul's largest community of blockchain enthusiasts. I…

Learn about studying Indonesian at Cornell, with an opportunity to ask the instructor and current students questions!

This event is a part of Southeast Asia Language Month! To participate and compete for a $100 Amazon gift card and other prizes:
1. Download the GooseChase App
2. Enter code 3KX9D9…

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

Feature documentary follows Multi Grammy Award winners Arturo O’Farrill and Kabir Sehgal, as they prepare to record a live album at the U.S.-Mexico border wall. The project is inspired by the annual…

A community book read with Sumit Mandal, author of Becoming Arab: Creole Histories and Modern Identity in the Malay World and winner of the 2020 Benda Prize. This read is organized by the consortium for Graduate Education and Training in Southeast Asian Studies (GETSEA).

Sumit Mandal is a historian at the…

Kimberly Chung, McGill University Kimberly Chung, McGill University

Faculty host: Ivanna Yi, Assistant Professor, Asian Studies

Professor Chung writes: This paper examines the interrelationship of feminism, ecological sense and art practice in the context of contemporary South Korea. Since 2018, the…

with a panel discussion featuring filmmaker Varda Bar-Kar and others on Tuesday, April 27 at 1pm

Ithaca Premiere>2020 > USA > Directed by Varda Bar-Kar
An exuberant documentary that follows masterful son jarocho (a 300-year-old folk music rooted in the land that combines African, Indigenous…

Please join us for an invited talk by Prof. Kristin Scheible, generously co-sponsored by the Departments of Asian Studies, History and Philosophy; the South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia and Religious Studies Programs; and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly. The event is open to all interested, and…

Learn about studying Thai at Cornell, with an opportunity to ask the instructor and current students questions!

This event is a part of Southeast Asia Language Month! To participate and compete for a $100 Amazon gift card and other prizes:
1. Download the GooseChase App
2. Enter code 3KX9D9…

Abstract: In this talk, I trace the contemporary circulation of “golden era” 1960s and 1970s Cambodian popular music recordings as a global media archeology. I seek to contextualize and historicize revivals of pre-Khmer Rouge “Cambodian Rock” through the mediated movements of cassette tapes among North American…

Learn about studying Vietnamese at Cornell, with an opportunity to ask the instructor and current students questions!

Also on April 22:
Khmer Language Table: 2-3pm EDT
Tagalog Language Table: 4-5pm EDT

This event is a part of Southeast Asia Language Month! To participate and compete for a…

Learn about studying Tagalog at Cornell, with an opportunity to ask the instructor and current students questions!

Also on April 22:
Khmer Language Table: 2-3pm EDT
Vietnamese Language Table: 5-6pm EDT

This event is a part of Southeast Asia Language Month! To participate and compete for a…

Our changing climate poses great challenges for humanity around the world: extreme weather events, sea level rise, flooding, drought, wildfires and more. How are countries in areas most affected by climate change responding to these and other challenges? In honor of Earth Day 2021, this special edition of Verdant…

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…

Learn about studying Khmer at Cornell, with an opportunity to ask the instructor and current students questions!

Also on April 22:
Tagalog Language Table: 4-5pm EDT
Vietnamese Language Table: 5-6pm EDT

This event is a part of Southeast Asia Language Month! To participate and compete for a…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture series

Gavin Douglas, Professor of Ethnomusicology and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, UNC Greensboro

According to the seventh Buddhist precept, participation in musical events in the Theravada Buddhist world is deemed inappropriate for devote laity and…

Over the last decade, India has become the fifth-biggest economy in the world, taking an innovative approach to digitalization with the unique combination of large-scale diffusion of bank accounts for the unbanked, a nationwide biometric database for 1.3 billion citizens, and the widespread adoption of mobile…

Robbie Shilliam, Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, discusses the new book "Decolonizing Politics: An Introduction," to be released by Wiley in April 2021. This seminar will focus on the chapter on International Relations.

The author will join for a conversation about their…

In the early eighteenth century, Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II of Jaipur constructed five astronomical observatories in northern India. The observatories, or "Jantar Mantars" as they are commonly known, incorporate multiple buildings of unique form, each with a specialized function for astronomical…

Learn about studying Burmese at Cornell, with an opportunity to ask the instructor and current students questions!

This event is a part of Southeast Asia Language Month! To participate and compete for a $100 Amazon gift card and other prizes, follow the steps below. This competition is only for current…