Speaker: Jingyu Liu, Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Rollins College
Description: The Shuilu fahui (水陸法會), or Water-Land Dharma Assembly, stands as one of the most elaborate and enduring Buddhist salvation rituals to emerge from medieval China. Designed to liberate suffering beings across all…

Power and Posession in the Russian Revolution

Anne O'Donnell, New York University

November 7th at 12:20 PM

Sibley Hall 115

This talk invites us to think about what it would mean if we considered Palestine from an a priori space of de-territorialization. Taking the examples of mapping and speculative infrastructures, it proposes to start from the Palestinian condition of fragmentation, distance, and disconnection, and move outward…

The Latina/o Studies Program Fridays with Faculty luncheon seminar offers an opportunity for Latina/o and non-Latina/o students of all levels and disciplines to meet faculty and administrators from across the university for informal conversation about their current research/work in progress. All welcome!

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For the summer 2026 Leadership in Action experience, students will be placed with the Pachaysana Foundation exploring what it means to be an intercultural leader in today’s complex, fractured world. Please attend this Q+A webinar with Pachaysana Foundation to learn more about their work and how the Laidlaw Scholars…

Join us for a talk by Ashley Thompson, Hiram W Woodward Chair of Southeast Asian Art at SOAS University of London.

This lecture will take place at The Physical Sciences Building 120 with light reception to follow in Baker Portico. For questions, contact seap@cornell.edu…

This lecture discusses the concept of peace agreements as platforms for constructive social change, which requires authentic engagement and institutional transformations. It posits that signing peace accords is an important yet, alone and by itself, an insufficient step towards peacebuilding. Rather, the challenge…

This Event is CANCELED due to family emrgency

Resisting Authoritarianism: The Political Journey and Mysterious Deaths of Two Young Americans in Pinochet’s Chile.

Allende’s revolution promised real democracy and real social change. It inspired idealistic young people from all over to travel to Chile…

Join us for an interactive discussion on the importance of social mobility and class - along with its interactions with gender, religion, ethnicity, and migrant status - in understanding inequality across a number of contemporary African urban environments. The event will begin with brief presentations by Ryan…

For the summer 2026 Leadership in Action experience, students will be placed with the Pachaysana Foundation exploring what it means to be an intercultural leader in today’s complex, fractured world. Please attend this Q+A webinar with Pachaysana Foundation to learn more about their work and how the Laidlaw Scholars…

Study abroad in Spain alongside Spanish university students in the beautiful city of Seville. Open to any major with special classes focusing on health and healthcare in fall and immigration in the spring. Immerse yourself in the community through local organizations and homestays. Bartolome Miranda, Program…

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 are open now.

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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.…

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…

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.…

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…

Io Capitano (translated as "I’m the Captain") is a contemporary drama capturing the journey of two young Senegalese men seeking a brighter future in Europe. Between their dreams and reality lies a treacherous journey through a labyrinth of checkpoints, the scorched Saharan desert, a fetid North African…

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…

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…

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 Professor Rachel Riedl, Peggy J. Koenig ’78 Director of the Center on Global Democracy, and Zarifa Ghafari, Human Rights Activist, former Afghan mayor…

Join Einaudi Center experts for World in Focus Talks on global events in the news and on your mind. Our faculty's research and policy insights put the world in focus.

This year we’re hosting informal campus discussions on many Tuesday afternoons. This week’s topic:

Hostile drone activity has…

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…

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…

This talk will present Jewish authors from the Middle East, North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean – specifically Libya, Egypt, Tunisia and Rhodes – who emigrated to Italy in the 1950s and 1960s. Based upon the analysis of a corpus of novels, autobiographies and memoirs published over the last thirty years, I…

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…

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 are open now.

Can’t attend? Contact…

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.…

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…

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…