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.

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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…

Peace and Conflict Studies Institute Reading Group for September 24. Emily Ritter, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, and Director of Graduate Studies, Vanderbilt University will join us for a discussion of "Oil Discoveries, Civil War, and Preventive State Repression," Journal of Peace…

In addition to the expropriation of lands that belonged to native communities, one of the most consequential outcomes of settler colonialism in the Americas was the invention, speciation, and treatment of enslaved people of African ancestry as subhuman. As a clandestine network of perilous migration routes, the…

This talk follows the pathways of a ziyarat (saint visitation) route, also known as Hajj-e Fuqara’ (pilgrimage of the poor) from bus stations in Iran through a bazaar in Gaziantep, Turkey to the Sayyida Zainab shrine near Damascus, Syria. Often referred to as Hajj-e Fuqara’ (pilgrimage of the poor) in Iran, this…

Speaker: Howard Chiang, UC Davis

Transtopia calls into question the coherence of transness and seeks to enable a non-hierarchical continuum of transgender subjects and experiences. This talk explores three examples of transtopia in the history of the Sinophone Pacific: the history of renyao (the “human…

The Nilgiris Field Learning Center (NFLC) is a transdisciplinary joint program of the Keystone Foundation, India, and Cornell, now in its ninth year. Undergraduates from across the university and young people from the Adivasi communities that Keystone works with, live, study, and conduct community-based research…

This panel is organized to bring together scholars and analysts to comment on the recent conversion of the Hagia Sophia from a museum into a mosque from the perspective of architectural history in geopolitical context.

What is the building’s significance for Byzantine, early and late Ottoman, Republican and…

President Donald Trump came into office vowing to disrupt the “deep state” and to “drain the swamp” of the federal bureaucracy. This panel will examine how the capacity and professionalism of the federal government has fared over the past four years, assessing the extent to which it has been weakened or deployed…

Join us for the launch of the Emerging Markets Theme within the SC Johnson College of Business! The theme will focus on an important cross-cutting and interdisciplinary topic and focus on research, broad teaching/learning initiatives, and external engagement.

Please register here to join us:…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty series

Tom Pepinsky, Tisch University Professor, Department of Government, Cornell University

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is the most significant challenge facing Southeast Asia since the 1997-98 economic crisis. As in the case of the economic crisis, politics…

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…

Lecture will be given in Español and not sub-titled.

Recent reconfigurations of political subjectivities in South America that gave impulse to the new rise of the right gravitate around hate as the political affect that infuses new tonalities in the public sphere. These reconfigurations of subjectivity,…

El “Simposio Latinoamericano de Avances de Investigación en SARS-CoV-2” es un evento académico virtual a realizarse los días 16 y 17 de septiembre de 2020, de 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (NYC/Ottawa) o 13:00 a 17:00 (COT, Colombia (UTC-5:00) ), que busca brindar un espacio en el cual investigadores en…

El “Simposio Latinoamericano de Avances de Investigación en SARS-CoV-2” es un evento académico virtual a realizarse los días 16 y 17 de septiembre de 2020, de 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (NYC/Ottawa) o 13:00 a 17:00 (COT, Colombia (UTC-5:00) ), que busca brindar un espacio en el cual investigadores en…

Peace and Conflict Studies Institute Reading Group for September 17; note special time of 12:30-1:45. Jack Paine, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Rochester, will join us for a discussion of "Strategic Civil War Aims and the Resource Curse." Please note that the author…

The current era of immigration policy reflects a tradition of virulent racism and xenophobia. Research by ILR Professor Shannon Gleeson examines the function of these policies in the workplace, and how they impact not only the 8 million undocumented immigrant workers in the United States, but also documented…

This event has been rescheduled from Wednesday, September 9, to Wednesday, September 16.

While Muslim societies are very diverse, a common feature is the high status of the written word, and the centrality of libraries. During our entire period, the authority of the ulamas derived from their ability to…

El “Simposio Latinoamericano de Avances de Investigación en SARS-CoV-2” es un evento académico virtual a realizarse los días 16 y 17 de septiembre de 2020, de 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (NYC/Ottawa) o 13:00 a 17:00 (COT, Colombia (UTC-5:00) ), que busca brindar un espacio en el cual investigadores en…

Dearest Lenny interweaves the account of Leonard Bernstein’s transformation from an American icon into a world maestro with an intimate story of his relationships with two Japanese individuals: Kazuko Amano, a loyal fan who began writing letters to Bernstein in 1947, and Kunihiko Hashimoto, a young man who fell…

Students will get an overview of the SMART service learning program and her details about applications.

While the colonial and contemporary agrarian economy of Bengal’s Himalayan foothills is most often associated with the tea plantations of Darjeeling and the Dooars, the small farms of nearby Kalimpong were also a key space in which colonial agents and missionaries worked to “settle” the mountainous terrain. Focused…

Join us on Zoom to hear from current and past SEAP directors, learn about upcoming anniversary events throughout 2020-21, and raise a toast to SEAP's bright future!

Registration required (register here)

Join the Latino Living Center, Latina/o Studies Program and Latinx Student Success Office for a virtual welcome back event. Meet new and returning students, mingle with faculty, staff and friends, learn how you can enhance your degree with a LATINA/O STUDIES MINOR and hear from Latinx student organizations.

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Get your classical Chinese mojo going with: "Rhetorical and Receptional Politics of Cheng Xuanying’s (ca. 605-690) Commentary on Zhuangzi"

Shuheng "Diana" Zhang, a Ph.D. student at the University of Pennsylvania presents.

CCCC is a reading group for students and scholars with an…