Events
Southeast Asia Program
6:00 pm
Virtual
Join us on Zoom to practice your Thai skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…
Institute for European Studies
12:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
A Paradigm Shift to Social Europe: The impact of the EU Minimum Wage directive on the strengthening of collective bargaining in Europe
The EU Minimum Wage Directive, adopted in 2022, marks a paradigm shift in EU labor policy. While the EU has long contributed to weakening trade unions and collective…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Migrations Program
5:00 pm
Virtual
The Laidlaw Scholars Leadership and Research Program promotes ethical leadership and international research around the world—starting with the passionate leaders and learners found on campuses like Cornell. Open to first- and second-year students, the two-year Laidlaw program provides generous support to carry out…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
12:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Civil wars become international conflicts when outside states provide support to rebel groups. Sometimes, external intervention is driven by affinity for the rebel group and a desire to achieve the rebel group’s goals. Sometimes, however, external intervention is driven by tensions on other issues, for example,…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:15 pm
Kahin Center
Update: This lecture has been canceled.
Gatty Lecture Series
Join us for a talk by Maria Hwang, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies from McGill University.
This Gatty Lecture will take place at the The Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for European Studies
2:00 pm
Kennedy Hall, 461
What did Soviet empire look like in intimate terms—as experienced and perceived through the lens of interpersonal relations? Despite many decades of scholarship on Soviet society and subjectivity, we have very few neighborhood-level studies of sociability and materiality, although interpersonal experience and…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
3:00 pm
Virtual
Join us for a virtual discussion with Adam Bobbette, author of The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java and winner of the 2025 Benda Prize. This virtual conversation is open to the broader public, and is hosted by GETSEA.
All participants should read the Preface and Chapter 1. Those interested in…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
4:30 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Speaker: Wah Guan LIM Associate Professor of Transcultural Theatre National Chung Hsing University
Description:
The 1980s was a most important decade for global Chinese theatre. In large part prompted by changes in regional geopolitics, the search for a local identity peaked among the Chinese…
Institute for European Studies
12:20 pm
Sibley Hall, 115
Slurry to Melody: On Bela Balazs, or, How History Makes Order out of Chaos
For a copy of the paper, email: cf476@cornell.edu
Southeast Asia Program
3:00 pm
120 Mary Ann Wood Drive, B21
The State as Surrogate Tourist: Tourism Competitions and State Recognition in Indonesia
ABSTRACT: In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Indonesia’s Ministry of Tourism launched the Tourism Village Award (ADWI), which expanded from 1,200 villages in 2021 to over 6,000 in 2024. Drawing on fieldwork in Lombok…
Institute for European Studies
1:00 pm
Virtual
This symposium will explore the acts of writing, translation, and cultural production and preservation in the context of Ukraine. How do poets who are also translators move between these two practices? How does translation relate to political transition, and to the movement between historical epochs? How do war,…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Jason Cons (Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin)
Delta Futures explores the competing visions of the future that are crowding into the Bengal Delta’s imperiled present and vying for control of its ecologically vulnerable terrain. In Bangladesh’s southwest, development programs that imagine…
South Asia Program
3:30 pm
Morrill Hall, 423
Contextualizing the Silver Bullet
The high yielding variety seeds (or HYVs) are overwhelmingly depicted in current historiography as the silver bullet that solved the problem of hunger in many parts of the Global South in the 1960s. Developed by Rockefeller breeders, these seeds of wheat and paddy were…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
12:20 pm
Uris Hall, G08
The Caribbean has been identified as a region particularly vulnerable to changing climates, where conservation imperatives have advocated for the protection of fragile ocean ecosystems. As shifting ocean environments refigure marine ecosystems, making fish scarce in the shallows, diver fishermen along the coasts of…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
4:30 pm
Rockefeller Hall, 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)
Speaker: Eno Pei-Jean Chen (Associate Professor, Taiwanese Literature at the National Chengchi University)
Description:
This talk speaks to the existing scholarship on "Cultural Cold War" and "Affective Turn" in gender/East Asian Studies, explores the dynamics of intra-East Asian…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Migrations Program
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
5:00 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, G76, Lewis Auditorium
Lund Critical Debate
Since January 2025, the United States has slashed billions in international aid—and effectively dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), responsible for administering U.S. development and humanitarian aid around the world. In what has become the largest…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Institute for African Development
12:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
What explains the fact that the humanitarian response in some crises is well funded, while other emergencies are largely neglected? How do recent funding cuts affect the work of humanitarian organizations and the lives of affected people?
This lecture will give an overview of the literature on funding…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:15 pm
Kahin Center
Gatty Lecture Series
Join us for a talk by Anocha Suwichakornpong, Associate Professor of Film from Columbia University.
This Gatty Lecture will take place at the The Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact seapgatty@cornell.…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Migrations Program
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
4:30 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Go global in summer 2026! Global Internships give you valuable international work experience in fields spanning global development, climate and sustainability, international relations, communication, business, governance, and more.
Applications will open in the fall.
Can’t attend? Contact…
South Asia Program
4:45 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, G64
This talk will discuss the theory, method, and material of “cross-cultural Harlem.” How can we remain alive to the grief of the political moment while also developing interpretive approaches that offer hope? Professor Shukla will begin to answer that question by exploring Harlem as a space for encounters among…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
12:00 pm
Olin Library, 703
Please join us for an event in our Digital Humanities Initiative Colloquium Series: a presentation by and conversation with Karen Jaime, Associate Professor of Performing and Media Arts and Latina/o Studies at Cornell. Professor Jaime's talk will focus on the Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library (HIDVL…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Rohit Lamba (Economics, Cornell University)
India's pursuit of great power status faces a fundamental paradox: the economic nationalism that shapes its development strategy simultaneously undermines the global integration necessary for achieving its international ambitions. This article examines…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:30 pm
Warren Hall, B25
You are warmly invited to join us for a special event with President Laura Chinchilla, 2025-2026 John W. Nixon ’53 Distinguished Policy Fellow, in conversation with Colleen Barry, Dean of the Brooks School, and Zarifa Ghafari, Human Rights Activist, former Afghan mayor, and Cornell MPA ’26.
Event…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
8:00 pm
Virtual
Are you interested in the intersection of mental health and culture, global health, and community engagement? Do you want to gain field research skills and learn about indigenous communities in South India’s beautiful and fragile Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve? If so, the Cornell-Keystone Nilgiris Field Learning…
East Asia Program
3:30 pm
420 College Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850
Come to CTB to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
12:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Armed militant organizations and affiliated peaceful activist groups often co-exist within dissident movements. Although states tend to identify and repress activists within these movements as fronts for their militant counterparts, there is little research on how activist actions or the repression they face affect…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:15 pm
Kahin Center
Gatty Lecture Series
Join us for a talk by Analyn Salvador-Amores from the University of the Philippines Baguio.
This Gatty Lecture will take place at the The Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact seapgatty@cornell.edu.…
East Asia Program
5:00 pm
Stimson Hall, G24A
Come to the LRC or join us on Zoom to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
5:15 pm
Johnson Museum of Art, Robinson Lecture Hall
Thasnai Sethaseree will discuss his work in conversation with Dr. Tamara Loos in conjunction with the exhibition Cold War: The Mysterious.
An artist and professor of media arts and design at Chiang Mai University, Sethaseree holds a master’s degree in visual arts from the University of Chicago and a PhD in…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Llerena Guiu Searle (Anthropology, University of Rochester)
In order to build a more just world order, philosopher Olúfémi Táíwo argues that we must contend with the fact that our current social order builds on relations of colonialism that did not end with colonial independence in the 1940s-1960s.…
Past Events
Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
3:30 pm
Rockefeller Hall, Room 374
Female spirit mediums unsettled the late imperial state and Confucian elite due to their access to unseen worlds. Yet these women remained vital to ritual life and popular in anecdotal literature. This colloquium examines two to three texts exploring how Ming-Qing scholars discussed the influence of female spirit…
East Asia Program
6:30 pm
PSB, Atrium (near Goldie's)
Come enjoy Korean games and delicious treats from Paris Baguette! Explore several game stations, and collect at least 5 stamps to receive a free treat from Paris Baguette (a French-style Korean bakery). You can also learn K-Pop Demon Hunters’ dance moves and try playing traditional Korean musical instruments. Bring…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
4:30 pm
Physical Science Building 120
With an introduction by Ambassador Derek Mitchell
Myanmar stands at a critical crossroads. Nearly five years after the coup, the country faces humanitarian catastrophe, economic collapse, and ongoing violence. During this Forum on Burmese Democracy, leading voices will share their perspectives on the crisis…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
12:00 pm
Virtual
From Iran's Revolutionary Process to the Unraveling of the "Axis of Resistance" - Challenging Long-Held Assumptions about the Islamic Republic
Register for the virtual talk: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/…
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
7:00 pm
Virtual
Come learn more about this spring opportunity with spring break travel, developed in partnership with Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), National University of Singapore (NUS), and as part of the Jeb E. Brooks School’s Global Policy Exchange Lab. This collaborative online international learning (COIL) and…