Cornell Population Center Innovations in Population Science Speaker Series presents "The Demography of Staying: Probing the Decline of Domestic Migration in the United States" with Peng Huang, University of Georgia. This seminar is hosted by MigLab.

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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Recent U.S. military actions in Venezuela—including strikes on civilian boats, the seizure of oil tankers, and the abduction of President Nicolas Maduro—have raised questions about U.S. ambitions in Latin America and their implications for peace and international order. This panel brings together five prominent…

Civilians have long developed strategies to protect themselves and others in the face of violence. Over the past two decades, research on civilian self-protection (CSP) has documented these practices across diverse conflict settings, challenging the assumption that protection is primarily delivered by states or…

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…

High rates of micronutrient deficiency persist in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and disproportionately impact populations with limited access to nutrient-rich foods. In response, national agricultural research programs and international organizations are prioritizing biofortification as a strategy to…

How can we identify and interpret xenophobia in online spaces? What can digital data tell us about real world enforcement and lived experiences of migrants, and where are its limits? And how can we use computational tools to study and respond to objectionable speech online?

This hands-on workshop introduces…

A workshop with Joanna Krenz to discuss two papers she authored:

Programmer as Translator: The LHC of Chinese Artificial Intelligence Poetry

Virtual Conciliation: (Un-)Coding the Split between Tradition and Modernity in Chinese Artificial Intelligence Poetry

The workshop will focus on…

Talk by Aniket Aga (Geography, University at Buffalo, SUNY)

Environmental regulation was among the chief reasons for the secular discrediting of the second Congress-led federal government under Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in India (2009–14) and the electoral victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)…

Join PMA for Ladies of Manila Sound Presented by PMA 1183 FWS: Hip-Hop’s Global Vibrations (NYC, LA, Southeast Asia). This event will take place on Zoom on Monday, March 9, from 11:40 am - 12:55 pm. There will be a short DJ turntablist performance, followed by a Q&A session.

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An evening of contemporary chamber music brings together works by Haitian and Dominican composers in performances by faculty and guest artists. The concert features modern musical voices in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and the diaspora, highlighting how composers of the twentieth century shaped distinctive…

This half-day symposium brings together scholars, performers, and graduate students to examine the music, history, and cultural contexts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Through papers, panel discussions, and an archival presentation, participants explore topics including musical exchange, nationalism, folklore…

Faculty and guest performers bring chamber music from Haiti and the Dominican Republic into close focus in this Center for Historical Keyboards Salon. Performance unfolds alongside commentary by Claude Dauphin, PhD, curator of the Society of Haitian Classical Music Research, and Cornell Music Professor Gabriela…

The Southeast Asia Program’s annual graduate conference offers a space for scholars of Southeast Asia to share new work, receive feedback, and engage with peers and faculty across disciplines.

This year’s special-format conference will feature a mix of panel presentations and individual talks from current…

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…

Student musicians step into the spotlight with chamber and vocal music from Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Featuring works by Rafael “Bullumba” Landestoy, Julio Alberto Hernández, Werner Jaegerhuber, and Julio Racine.

Modern surveillance technology has transformed the epistemic conditions of armed conflict. Drones, satellites, and persistent ISR systems now enable military commanders to identify individual civilians and predict, with statistical precision, the casualties their strikes will cause. Yet international humanitarian…

Asylum seekers and refugees from many areas of the world and specifically from Central and South America are desperately trying to immigrate to the United States. These migrants are traveling through dangerous areas and difficult terrain to reach the southern border of the US with the hopes of making a better life…

Speaker: Jina Kim, Associate Professor of Korean Literature & Culture, University of Oregon

Description: This presentation examines how a 1950s South Korean radio docudrama contributed to post-war reconstruction of national identity, shaped cultural narratives, and participated in collective healing. In…

In this talk, I analyze the relationship between criminal governance and citizen claim-making for public goods. Millions of people across Latin America live in urban peripheries marked by uneven state presence but where criminal organizations are often present and govern everyday life. What impact does this…

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.…

The Cornell Chamber Orchestra, Gabriela Gómez Estévez, conductor, performs Margarita Luna’s Miniaturas Quisqueyanas (orch. Gómez), Stravinsky's Suites for Small Orchestra Nos. 1 & 2, and Schubert’s Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major.

photo credit: Manifesto Designs

East Asia Program Lecture Series presents Translucent Atmospherics: Media as Utility in China

Speaker: Angela Xiao Wu, Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University

Abstract
Utilities provide essential services like water, electricity, railroads…

European History Colloquium

Victoria Frede, Associate Professor, History, UC Berkeley
Friday, February 27, 12:20 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall - 283

The Reign of Virtue: The Cult of Friendship at the Court of Empress Elizabeth

The cult of friendship arrived in Russia in the mid-1750s,…

Margarete Bieber is a prominent yet enigmatic figure in the history of classical art and archaeology. She was pathbreaking in many respects: Bieber was the second woman in Germany to earn a doctorate in archaeology in 1907, and only the second woman across all fields of study in Germany to receive her habilitation…

Learn and explore at our exhibition open house celebrating The Hum of Life: A Thousand and One Tales From Bali, free and open to all!

Exhibition cocurator Kaja McGowan will offer an introductory lecture, illuminating the cultural background, narrative elements, and visual aesthetics of the artwork on view.…

"Unearthing Gender and Performance in the Archive of Hellenism"

Artemis Leontis, University of Michigan

This talk explores how feminist archival practices challenge conventional histories and open new ground for understanding Hellenism and Classicism. By placing Eva Palmer Sikelianos’…

Amidst many proposals to incorporate AI into some aspect of the nuclear enterprise, many efforts are underway today to improve the safety of AI so that its introduction into any given part of the nuclear enterprise does not pose undue risk. Yet it does not seem possible to reduce the risks of such introduction to…

Join us for a Chats in the Stacks book talk with Alex Nading, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, as he discusses his latest book, The Kidney and the Cane: Planetary Health and Plantation Labor in Nicaragua (Duke University Press, 2025). Nading follows activists, scientists, and residents in the…