Talk by Ghazal Asif (Anthropology, Lahore University of Management Science)

For the past decade, the press in Pakistan has remained rife with stories of the kidnapping, forcible conversion to Islam, and marriages of young Hindu women at the hands of Muslim men. Women’s rights and minority advocacy groups…

Regions of the world are historical constructions yet over time they have seemed to become more and more fixed. This talk will cut across linguistic and cultural boundaries and re-examine conceptualizations of regions in the Americas and the wider Atlantic World, showing evidence for a very polyglot, cross-imperial…

Jeffrey Gettleman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and foreign correspondent for The New York Times, has covered major global conflicts and issues throughout his career. A 1994 graduate of Cornell University with a major in philosophy, Jeffrey took a wide range of classes at Cornell, including sculpture,…

Join the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies’ undergraduate global scholars for a showcase of their capstone presentations providing public commentary and perspectives on global democracy.

Undergraduate global scholars advocate for building democracy on campus and around the world. They have…

Join us for our Wednesday Lunch Series, featuring guest speakers from Cornell's faculty and staff as well as the surrounding community. Enjoy an informal discussion where you can learn more about the speaker’s work or research, how they ended up doing what they are doing, current issues in higher education and…

Today's society faces challenges of great complexity. Some of these problems are the result of modern society's past successes (such as climate change, the aging of the population, the impact of robotization on the workforce, or disinformation), and that is why they have proven so difficult to solve. The…

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…

The speaker examines the nexus between development programs and humanitarian support, exploring the institutional barriers to linking development-humanitarian in preventing food crises among the pastoralists and agro-pastoralist communities in the Horn of Africa. She has close to 10 years of research experience in…

From Local Voices to Global Impact: The Power of Civic Engagement in Peacebuilding

This lecture will examine the role of youth, women, and community-based movements in advancing peace and reconciliation, focusing on deliberative processes, alternative conflict resolution tools, and civic-led initiatives that…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Michael Kirkpatrick Miller from Cornell University, who will discuss Ambonese masculinity and colonialism. Michael Kirkpatrick Miller is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Cornell University.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at the The Kahin…

"Dyslexia, ADHD, Autism: Encouraging and Supporting All L2 Learners"
Sara Lee
Associate Teaching Professor of German, Arizona State University

Up to 20% of people in the U.S. have dyslexia, which means that about 4-6 students in every classroom struggle with reading and writing,…

East Asia Program Lecture Series presents “Walls-as-Media: Between Cheng (Wall-City) and Ping (Wall-Screen)"

Speaker: Jinying Li, Assistant Professor, Modern Culture and Media, Brown University

Description:

As global networks promise boundless access, we are facing increasing layers of…

Where next for Palestine’s heritage and cultural scene? In this talk I will combine several strands of my research on these topics extending them into a consideration of future scenarios and potentialities. I will begin with the current moment: the utter destruction of Gaza’s heritage in the context of genocide. I…

In this event, we will be officially launching the archive Todosomos, a collection of handwritten testimonies by Venezuelan migrants who crossed the border from Venezuela to Colombia between 2019 and 2021. The event will have several panels and include interventions by the founders of Todosomos, the library team in…

Why did Denmark develop mass education for all in 1814, while Britain created a public-school system only in 1870 that primarily educated academic achievers? Cathie Jo Martin argues that fiction writers and their literary narratives inspired education campaigns throughout the nineteenth-century. Danish writers…

Speaker: Thomas P. Kelly, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Description: My talk reconsiders the significance of self-inflicted book burning as a cultural phenomenon during the Ming-Qing transition by examining one of the most notorious fires of the period: Zhou…

New Year is a major cultural event celebrated across South Asia, and this campus-wide celebration highlights the rich languages and traditions associated with this festival. The event will serve as an opportunity for students of all backgrounds to engage through music, dance, food, and language-focused activities…

Talk by Amanda Lanzillo, (History, University of Chicago)

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, laborers across northern India found themselves negotiating rapid industrial change, emerging technologies, and class hierarchies. In response to these changes, Indian Muslim artisans asserted the…

ICM NEW BOOKS SERIES

IRINA TROCONIS (Associate Professor, Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University)

The Necromantic State: Spectral Remains in the Afterglow of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution

A conversation with Cornell faculty member Irina Troconis about her new…

The talk will address the main contents of my recent book “Latin America: the vision of its leaders” (Planeta, June 2024), which is the result of an intense and dedicated analyses on the region's main present and future challenges in six thematic areas: poverty and inequality, growth and productivity,…

Join us for a conversation on the role of migrant workers in the U.S. economy. Bringing together scholars and activists, the panel will examine how immigration laws and border enforcement function as tools of labor control, shape markets, and produce systemic vulnerability. The discussion will trace how these…

IES Luigi Einaudi Distinguished Lecture
Building on her recent book Seeing Others, on her recent work on the urban/rural divide across EU countries, and on the non-college educated young workers (18-30) in Manchester New Hampshire, and Manchester UK, Michèle Lamont discusses the challenges of addressing…

Join us for a conversation discussing the historical and contemporary relationship between the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, beginning with their acquisition in 1898 following the Spanish-American War. As sites of U.S. territorial expansion, both were governed through military rule and colonial…

Tuesday, April 22, 2025, at 4:45pm, 165 Statler Hall

A.D. White Professor-at-Large Martín Caparrós will be joined by Department of Global Labor and Work Professors Santiago Anria and Candelaria Garay for a discussion in Spanish that examines Argentine President Javier Milei through the lens of emerging Latin…

Maritime movement has been essential to the current moment of capitalism, marked by the optimization of supply chains. As seaports continue to scale up tremendously, however, blockages, delays, and congestion persist and even multiply, complicating popular accounts of private capital unleashing an increasingly…

Join us for our BeComing Lunch Series with Joaquin Rivera. BeComing is a space for discussion about personal experiences, successes, challenges, and growth – inside and outside of academic settings. Enjoy a catered lunch, free and open to all! Joaquin is a senior in the ILR School who minors in Classics and…

East Asia Program Lecture Series presents "Japan’s 'New Pre-War': On the Repetition of a Capitalist Form"

Ken Kawashima (Associate Professor, University of Toronto) will give a talk and lead a seminar on his current research, which explores the complex interrelationships between repeated…

The 2025 David J. BenDaniel Lecture in Ethics will feature a multilayered conversation with Sanda Ojiambo, Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Director, and CEO of the UN Global Compact, Andrew Karolyi, Charles Field Knight Dean, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, and Colleen Barry, Inaugural Dean, Cornell…

IAD Spring 2025 Seminar Series:

In the 1960s and 1970s, in response to holdouts of colonial power in southern and Portuguese Africa, self-described African national liberation movements took form. These organizations engaged in military and diplomatic efforts to achieve independence, usually with the goal of…