This is a brief "lunch break" info session. Come and meet with our Brazil contact and LASP Program Manager to get information and your questions answered about the Summer 2021 digital internship program with Brazil. We call it digital and not virtual because there is nothing virtual (unreal) about it! If you apply…

Come and meet with our Brazil contact and LASP Program Manager to get information and your questions answered about the Summer 2021 digital internship program with Brazil. We call it digital and not virtual because there is nothing virtual (unreal) about it! If you apply and are accepted for this paid, $1,500 for a…

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

Ronit Ricci, Department of Asian Studies and Religion, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The small, Indian Ocean island known as Sarandib, Lanka, and Ceylon was a site of banishment throughout the 18th century for members of royal families, convicts,…

This is a brief "lunch break" info session. Come and meet with our Brazil contact and LASP Program Manager to get information and your questions answered about the Summer 2021 digital internship program with Brazil. We call it digital and not virtual because there is nothing virtual (unreal) about it! If you apply…

Join for a discussion of "Autocratic Stability in the Shadow of Foreign Threats," in the American Political Science Review and published online by Cambridge University Press, (July 2020).

Co-authored by: Livio Di Lonardo, Bocconi University; Jessica Sun, University of Michigan Department of…

2019 > France > Directed by Agnès Varda
With Agnès Varda, Sandrine Bonnaire, Herve Chandes
The final film from the late, beloved Agnès Varda is a characteristically playful, profound, and personal summation of the director's own brilliant career. Suffused with the people, places, and things…

Ithaca Premiere>2019 > France/Germany/Switzerland > Directed by Thomas Balms
In Happiness (2014), filmmaker Balms chronicled 8-year-old Peyangki's initiation into a monastery and the arrival of electricity to his remote Bhutan village. In his new film, ten years have passed, and the filmmaker…

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The Translator Interpreter Program (TIP) is facilitating an online discussion, “A Critical Exploration of Language Access and Equity with…

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About the seminar series

The "Perspectives in International Development Seminar Series" is co-sponsored by the Department of Global Development, the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and…

ROUGH WORK with Yiyun Peng, Ph.D. Candidate, Cornell, History

Beyond Workshops: Spatial Distribution of Paper-making Communities and Properties in Upland Southeast China, 1700-1950

Paper-making was a prevalent and profitable industry in upland Southeast China in the late imperial and republican…

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

Oscar A. Pérez is an assistant professor of Spanish language and Hispanic studies at Skidmore College, in Saratoga Springs, New York. He holds a PhD in Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and…

Take your learning to the next level with regional and thematic minors from the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and our programs. Whatever your major and career goals, our wide geographical reach and interdisciplinary focus provide opportunities for you to expand your global knowledge and broaden…

Asma Khalifa presents a paper titled "Impact of Civil War on Gender Relations".

This book talk focuses on the manifestations of musicophilia in Mumbai from the late 19th century to the present. Love and madness come together in the metropolis as a condition of subjective excess, the condition of the musical subject’s simultaneous psychic and social habitation of modern urban space. I propose…

Please join us for an invited talk by Prof. Joseph A. Marino, III, 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,…

This month's CCCC welcomes Sophie Volpp to lead a text reading on Qianlong Emperor’s Poem, “On the Mirror”

In 1763, the Qianlong emperor composed a poem entitled, “On the Mirror” (Jing yu (鏡 喻) that examines the novel properties of the western plate glass mirror in tandem with those of plate glass…

The displacement of populations due to climate change forecasts an unprecedented phenomenon in human history. Neither international law nor nations are prepared to face up to this challenge in a way that would secure refugee’s human rights or their appropriate resettlement. This panel brings together different…

The research seminar series is an initiative of the Emerging Markets Theme of the Cornell S.C. Johnson College of Business, which focuses on engaging students and faculty in discourse over the role of emerging markets in an increasingly connected world.

Every month, we will host a speaker to expand our…

Image, Stories, and Silences of “Ex-Returnees” Who Defected from North Korea to Japan: Artist Talk with Soni Kum

Kum will discuss her installation work, Morning Dew-The Stigma of Being "Brainwashed" exhibited in Tokyo in November 2020. It is based on interviews conducted with North Korean ex-“…

What is the human impact of U.S. war and foreign policy in Southeast Asia? How do refugees continue to make sense of war, empire, and national belonging?

This webinar brings together three leading scholars of critical refugee studies to explore these questions and more. Our panel will look at a range of…

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

Anthony Irwin, Society for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University

This talk focuses on the production, ritual use, and recent mass proliferation of magical swords in northern Thailand. Considered to be some of the most powerful…

Laura Sjoberg, Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida, discusses her working paper “Seducing Territory: Sex Acts and State Borders."

The author 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…

Ithaca Premiere>2004 > Hong Kong > Directed by Wong Kar Wai
With Chang Chen, Gong Li
Originally conceived for the omnibus film Eros, this film - presented in this retrospective for the first time in its extended cut - tells the tale of Zhang, a shy tailor's assistant enraptured by a…

Exorbitant Dust: Manuel Ramos Otero’s Queer and Colonial Matters

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March 31
4:30PM

Christina León is Assistant Professor of English at Princeton University. Her work centers on hemispheric American literature with a focus on Latinx, Caribbean, and diasporic studies, in…

Beyond soccer leagues, music camps, and drama lessons, today’s youth are in an education arms race that begins in elementary school. Tutoring companies were already growing rapidly before Covid-19, and remote learning has accelerated this trend. While often associated with Asian Americans, this has expanded widely…

Pedagogical concerns of curiosity, minoritarian difference, and ethics in teaching

Cornell Graduate Student Workshop with Christina León
Assistant Professor of English at Princeton University

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March 31
12:30PM

Christina has published a piece…

Rosalia Engchuan will present a Visual Culture Colloquium

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What are de-colonial strategies of visualizing, representing and acting on ecological crises, their causes, histories, and effects?

This lecture centers cinematic epistemologies from Southeast Asia in the study of climate…

Although Hamka (Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah, 1908-1981) embraced modernist ideas of purity, he also embraced the idea that Islam manifested itself differently in different places and times. Indeed, this was natural and necessary. As a Indonesian writer of great popularity and authority, and also as an…