Department of History of Art & Visual Studies Visual Colloquium Series.

Join us for a talk by Michael Chagnon, (Curator, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto).

This VCC Lecture will take place in Goldwin Smith Hall G22.

"Topographies of the Unseen: Illustrating Hafiz in Seventeenth-Century Iran…

Talk by Margaret Graves (History of Art and Architecture, Brown University)

Historical ceramics from the Islamic world are now held in elite collections worldwide. Many migrated westward during the turn-of-the-twentieth-century heyday of Islamic art collecting, a time when craft skills in the Middle East…

Please join us for the Media Studies Colloquium in Uris Library 311.

Realtime Dependency: The Shah’s Cybernetic State and the Time of Revolution in Iran
Farzin Lotfi-Jam (Architecture)

Pre-circulated readings are available at https://…

Join us to learn about opportunities for graduate students with the Einaudi Center for International Studies. This session will discuss how to discover or strengthen global interests, including research and travel grants, guest lectures, fellowships, and more!

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Join this info session to learn about 2026 Global Hubs Faculty Research Seed Grants offered by Global Cornell as part of our Global Hubs initiative. Info session attendees will learn about the grant opportunity and application tips through a short presentation and Q&A.

Through these seed grants, Cornell…

Global Research Fellows are a new interdisciplinary research and professional development community at the Einaudi Center for advanced graduate students, Cornell postdocs, and visiting and local scholars. You'll find a community of fellow researchers with regional and international interests and a desire to…

Join us to learn about opportunities for undergraduate students with the Einaudi Center for International Studies. This session will discuss how to discover or strengthen global interests, including academic minors, guest lectures, summer research and travel experiences, and more!

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Undergraduate Global Scholars are student leaders in the campus community. This competitive fellowship program is open to students from all colleges and majors with a passion for big global questions and speaking across differences. The Global Scholars program provides a toolkit of resources for weighing…

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Lunch will be served starting at 11:30 am.

U.S. foreign policies are changing dramatically, with profound implications for peace and security throughout the world. The administration of Donald J. Trump has broken with many decades of precedent by expressing…

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…

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…

Spring 2025 ICM Events Series Samera Esmeir will speak on "Territorial Imperatives, Revolutionary Leanings: Thinking with the Palestinian Revolution." Please note that the date for this lecture has been changed to Wednesday, March 26, 2025. About the Speaker Samera Esmeir is associate professor in the Department of…

Land, we are often told, is at the heart of the conflict in Israel/Palestine. But when we survey the field of Palestinian Studies, we find that scholars often treat land as an abstraction and rarely study the people who live on and from it. In this talk, I focus on a legal relationship that has complex political and…

A Conversation with Nathan Thrall Abed Salama's world is turned upside down when he hears that his five-year-old son's school bus has collided with a semitrailer. Frantically, he tries to reach the site. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy explores one man's journey in navigating the…

Sonia Boulos (Nebrija University, Spain) and Tamir Sorek (Penn State University), co-editors of the new journal Palestine/Israel Review, will give a talk, "Palestine/Israel Studies: Carving Out a New Intellectual Space" on Tuesday, September 3. This lecture is the first in the Palestinian Studies speaker series.…