Bartels World Affairs Lecture In this year's Bartels lecture from the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, former president of Costa Rica Carlos Alvarado Quesada shares how conservation and sustainability are crucial for preserving democracy around the world. Costa Rica is one of the most biodiverse…

Sony Coráñez Bolton will be talking about his book Crip Colony: Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines. He is an assistant professor Latinx and Latin American Studies and Spanish at Amherst College. The event is sponsored by the CNY Humanities Corridor Group “Global…

Leading gamelan musicians in the US join the Cornell Gamelan Ensemble for a klenengan, a long and relatively informal gathering that best accommodates the temporal expansiveness of Javanese gamelan music. Audience members are free to come and go, to enjoy snacks, and even to chat quietly with one another. The…

Indonesian Night 2023 is the biggest annual event of the Cornell Indonesian Association. The purpose of Indonesian Week 2023 is to promote the richness of Indonesian culture and arts to Cornell, creating awareness among guests of the beauty and variety of Indonesia to the whole Cornell University community. The…

The 2023 Preston H. Thomas Memorial Symposium Exhibition highlights the work of leading creative experts around the world that explores and integrates regional cultural, material, technological, and spatial practices in the rural-urban territories of East and Southeast Asia. Through a collection of visual materials…

2022 > US > Directed by David Siev
With Skyler Janssen, Michael Meinhold, Chun Siev, Jaclyn Siev
David Siev's directorial debut captures a closely-knit Asian American family living in rural Michigan during the pandemic as they fight to keep their local restaurant and American dream alive.…

Professional Directions: A Conversation with Documentary Filmmaker – David Siev (BAD AXE)

March 16th, 4:30–5:30 p.m., Film Forum at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts (430 College Ave.)

A screening of BAD AXE, directed by David Siev, will happen on March 16th at 7:00 p.m., followed by a Q…

NOTE: The tour will take place from 10:30-11:00 am. (The second tour formerly listed from 11:15-11:45 am is canceled.)

You're invited to join a guided tour of the 2023 Preston H. Thomas Memorial Symposium Exhibition on the theme of "FRINGE: New Centers for Architecture and Urbanism," which…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Khatharya Um, (Associate Dean and Associate Professor, UC Berkeley), which will focus on borders and barriers in Southeast Asian studies.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at the Kahin Center, but people are also welcome to join us on Zoom. Lunch will be…

Faculty and staff are invited to join for an overview and open discussion of the Global Hubs initiative.

Vice Provost Wendy Wolford will explain the purpose of the Global Hubs, and faculty leads for several of the Hubs locations will discuss their experiences with institutional partners and ways for faculty…

The 25th Cornell SEAP Graduate Student Conference

To be held in a hybrid format at the Kahin Center, welcoming early career scholars from Cornell and beyond.

Scholarship is forever a site of tension between the intellectual inheritance of one’s discipline and the magnificent potentiality of original…

It is not possible to fully understand current global environmental politics and responses to environmental challenges without understanding the role of data platforms, devices, standards, and institutions, according to Jenny Goldstein, assistant professor in Global Development.

In an in-person Chats in the…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Joseph Scalice, (Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, Nanyang Technological University), which will focus on the legacy of the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at the Kahin Center, but people are also welcome to join us…

A virtual workshop from GETSEA.

Are you a first-time attendee of the Association for Asian Studies annual meeting? A PhD student or early career researcher with questions about how AAS works, how to navigate such a large event, and how to build community with people who share your interests? Join GETSEA for…

Asian borders are often sites of division, surveillance, and militarization that usurp histories of indigenous sovereignty and fluid mobility, even as they are developed as zones of superficial connectivity. Against these spectacles, ordinary people escape and cross borders every day, often in illicit,…

Join us for a dance and musical performance by Arja Saraswati Puja featuring Sanggar Seni Citta Usadhi and the New Atlantic Chamber Gamelan.

Arja Saraswati Puja tells the story of the powerful King Watugunung, who rules the Kundadwipa kingdom with Lord Brahma’s blessing. Unbeknownst to the king, his most…

FRINGE: New Centers for Architecture & Urbanism
The FRINGE is an ambiguous and ubiquitous patchwork of zones forming a wide range of territorial landscapes that can be characterized as neither distinctly urban nor distinctly rural. Imbued with narratives driven by unrelenting and perpetual urbanization,…

On the banana plantations of Mindanao, the Philippines’ southernmost region, activists involved in an anti-chemical campaign decry their exposure to pesticide drift as an infringement on both their person and their personhood. Such forms of plantation-driven dehumanization draw the Pacific and the Atlantic worlds…

FRINGE: New Centers for Architecture and Urbanism - 2023 Preston H. Thomas Memorial Symposium

Beijing Panel — Thursday, March 2 (Ithaca) | Friday, March 3 (Beijing)

In-Person & Livestream Webinar

Cornell China Center | 1208 Beijing IFC Tower B

8 p.m. (Ithaca) | 9 a.m. (Beijing)…

In his new book Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor, Isaac examines how contracted service labor performed by Filipinos in the Philippines, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States generates vital affects, multiple networks, and other life-worlds as much as it disrupts and dislocates human…

In the heyday of colonialism and empire, global connections conspired to produce a singular industrial and ‘civilized’ world on the ruins of many others. But another form of connectivity facilitated the survival of worlds of an entirely different kind. One example can be found in the late 19th century, in day-to-…

Over 500 Cornellians have crossed the globe with the Fulbright U.S. Student Program since the 1940s. You could be the next!

The program, administered by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, supports college graduates conducting research or teaching English in more than 150 countries. The…

Ashley Aye Aye Dun will analyze Charmaine Craig’s 2017 novel Miss Burma and situate it within her current research, which studies how Burmese American literature confronts a slippage between ethnic authenticity and authoritarianism, as mediated through the body. Set during the Cold War, Miss Burma is a novelization…

What do you do when the site where you planned to do your research has a major disruption making your research infeasible? What do you do when a loved one gets sick and you need to find more time for caregiving in the last semester of your program? What do you do when you get a job—a year earlier than you…

This lecture coincides with the publication of A History of Photography in Indonesia: From the Colonial Era to the Digital Age (Afterhours/Amsterdam University Press 2022). The book is a selection of essays compiled by Brian Arnold that collectively piece together the development of photography in Indonesia, from…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by MK Long (PhD Candidate, Cornell University), which explores the rhetorical force of relationships in biographies of Buddhist nuns in Burma.

This Gatty Lecture will take place on Zoom only. For questions, contact …

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Denni Purbasari, who will be discussing her work with Indonesia's Kartu Prakerja Program, which is a large-scale program for Indonesians looking to develop the skills which are needed to enter the modern workforce.

About the Speaker

Denni Puspa Purbasari has…

Please join Cornell's Society for Buddhist Studies for a virtual talk by Prof. Maria Heim, the George Lyman Crosby 1896 & Stanley Warfield Crosby Professor in Religion at Amherst College.

Prof. Heim will argue that Buddhaghosa in the Sumaṅgalavilāsinī, and in particular, his commentarial elaboration…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Sophie Chao (Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow and Lecturer in the Discipline of Anthropology, University of Sydney).

This Gatty Lecture will take place on Zoom only. For questions, contact seapgatty…

Borderlands, migrations, and movement are prevalent themes in post-secondary education. They connect students to seemingly disparate experiences in an increasingly inter-connected world. How do we engage with these topics to teach effectively about diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice? In this workshop…