Events
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
4:45 pm
Klarman Hall, KG42
In one of the most celebrated instances of modernizing Islamic craft, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (1922–2019) transformed mirror revetment—a labor-intensive and opulent decorative technique popular in Iranian architecture since the early modern period—into post-minimalist sculptural reliefs and geometric…
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
12:00 am
Sibley Hall, Room 140
Recent scholarship in the environmental and energy humanities has called attention to regimes of energy transition. The discussion on futures "after oil" marks a shift from earlier studies of oil assemblages, which evolved from analyses of coal-based fossil capitalism. The spaces shaped by these…
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
5:00 pm
Stimson Hall, G24B
Come to the LRC 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
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
Rockefeller Hall, 201 (Schwartz Auditorium)
Bartels World Affairs Lecture
In this year’s Bartels lecture, Ambassador Samantha Power examines the causes and consequences of dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). While reductions in United States foreign assistance have inflicted harm on millions of people, the principal…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
4:45 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, 142
More information forthcoming.
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
4:45 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Marc Herman (Humanities, York University)
In this book talk, Marc Herman discusses his new book, After Revelation: The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World. This book demonstrates that medieval Jewish legal thought was forged in dialogue with various and competing schools of Islamic law.…
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
11:00 am
Uris Hall, Terrace
International Fair showcases Cornell's global opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. Explore the fair and find out about international majors and minors, language study, study abroad, funding opportunities, global internships, Cornell Global Hubs, and more.
The International Fair is…
Past Events
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
Migrations Program
4:45 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, Kaufmann Auditorium, G64
Due to weather-related travel cancellations, Nasser Abourahme’s lecture on February 25 and graduate seminar on February 26 are postponed until Wednesday, March 11-12. Times and lecture location remain the same.
Abstract
Settler colonialism is always as much an attempt to conquer time as it is to…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
4:45 pm
Uris Hall, G08
In light of the war with Iran, Arang Keshavarzian's book talk will now be a roundtable discussion on recent events. This conversation will examine the war with Iran beyond the headlines, situating this latest outbreak of violence within broader historical, social, and regional contexts and debates.
The…
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
4:45 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, G22
Department of History of Art & Visual Studies Pulse of Art History Series.
Join us for a talk by Hamed Yousefi, (Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow).
This Pulse Lecture will take place in Goldwin Smith Hall G22.
Abstract
In the 1880s and 1890s, Muhammad Ghaffari Kamāl al-Mulk, chief painter…
Migrations Program
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
4:30 pm
Willard Straight Theatre
Rule Breakers tells the true story of Roya Mahboob, a visionary Afghan entrepreneur and advocate for girls’ education who defies rigid societal norms in her country. In a place where educating girls is treated like rebellion, Roya forms the first all-girls robotics team in Afghanistan and guides them to pursue…