Events
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Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
South Asia Program
5:30 pm
Uris hall, Terrace
One year ago, on August 15, 2021, the Taliban entered the Arg (Presidential palace) in Kabul, completing their astonishingly rapid takeover of Afghanistan. At the end of that same month, US forces completed withdrawal from Afghanistan – marking an end to the longest war in American history. One year later, our…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:00 pm
Stimson Hall, G25
"Black Feminist Poetics and Language Teaching"
Luana Reis
Ph.D. Candidate and Portuguese Instructor, University of Pittsburgh
This talk discusses the inclusion of Black feminist poetic texts in language teaching. The objective is to rethink the roles of students and teachers in the…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
11:00 am
Uris Hall, Terrace
The annual 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, and more.
The International Fair is sponsored by…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Institute for European Studies
12:15 pm
Virtual
Emma Belcher, president of Ploughshares Fund, joins a national panel of experts for a vital look at the future of nuclear security policy at a time when the United States, Russia, and other nations continue to maintain enough nuclear weapons to destroy life on earth.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine…
Institute for European Studies
4:30 pm
Uris Hall, G08
There is a strong tendency in social and political sciences to simplify the academic use of the concept of populism. This is what populists do when they dichotomise reality into friends and enemies. The goal of this talk is to highlight and discuss why scholars have to develop an adaptive and multifaceted…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
South Asia Program
11:25 am
Virtual
Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili presents evidence from Afghanistan to illustrate how failure to break from Soviet-era centralized public administration undermined the massive state-building project and perpetuated a wedge between Afghan civil society and a state that failed to deliver on its promise.
Liberal…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Dr. Lalitha Gopalan
Cinemas Dark and Slow in Digital India provides a sustained engagement with contemporary Indian feature films from outside the mainstream, including Aaranaya Kaandam, I.D., Kaul, Chauthi Koot, Cosmic Sex, and Gaali Beeja, to undercut the dominance of Bollywood-focused film…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for European Studies
4:30 pm
Rhodes-Rawlings
A LACS 60th Anniversary (1961-2021) Public Issues Forum
Post colonial discourse in defining the notion of an historic western Enlightenment has emphasized its characterization with violent colonialism, chattel slavery, indigenous genocide and persistent institutional and cultural racism. The growing global…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
12:00 am
Cornell University
100 Years of Economic Development
Cornell University, September 15-17, 2022
This is to announce that, after some stops and starts caused by the pandemic, we have now decided to have the conference, 100 Years of Economic Development, in Ithaca, NY, from September 15-17, 2022.
From the end of…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
1:00 pm
Stimson Hall, G01
How can we think about the relationship between cinema and the environment beyond the realm of representation? Building off the "material turn" in media studies, which attends to the substances that compose media, in this talk I explore Mexican cinema through a material lens. As an industry that has long…
Past Events
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
South Asia Program
12:00 pm
Virtual
Join us on Zoom throughout the summer for LRC Happy Hour. Every second Thursday of the month at noon on Zoom. We'd love to hear how it's going! All of it.
Bring your (language instruction) stories whether they be good, bad, amazing, or unusual. It takes all kinds of stories to make Happy Hour great…
East Asia Program
8:00 pm
Virtual
Join us virtually this summer 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…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
10:00 am
Virtual
Immigrants have set down roots and continue to arrive in local communities across the United States. If we want to know where immigrant families and residents are thriving (or falling behind), then quantitative analyses offer many opportunities to compare and contrast where immigrants make the most of local…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
10:00 am
Virtual
Recovering and propagating family histories can be a strategy to identify and dismantle how U.S. immigration policies have institutionalized the racial exclusion of targeted groups, even as they mask the selective inclusion of legal immigrants. Madeline Y. Hsu will discuss the family history origins of her two…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
11:00 am
Virtual
For decades, numbers and narratives about ethnoracial demographic change have flooded U.S. public life. Yet, to date, scholarly attention has been more concerned with the sources and consequences of projected trends than with the political struggles and meaning-making processes through we have come to envision and…