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Infrastructure is at the heart of contemporary development strategies. Yet short time horizons are thought to impede infrastructure provision in democracies. Why do elected politicians invest in infrastructure projects that will not be completed during their…

A webinar featuring Vina A. Lanzona, Francisco Jayme Paolo A. Guiang, and Lila Ramos Shahani, moderated by Christine Balance and organized by the Southeast Asia Digital Library.

Vina A. Lanzona: "Origins and Vision of the Martial Law Library: Navigating the Difficult Philippine Past"

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Book talk and conversation with award-winning Syrian novelist Shahla Ujayli, author of "A Sky So Close to Us" and "Summer with the Enemy," both shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Joining the discussion to talk about her work and challenges of translating Arabic…

Talk by Kaveh Yazdani (History, University of Connecticut)

How, when, and why did the Parsis of Gujarat become among the foremost brokers and entrepreneurs in 18th -and 19th-century India? What are the different phases of their ascendancy and success, especially concerning their socio-economic activities in…

Join us October 3–5, 2024 for a three-day conference featuring distinguished Cornell faculty and prominent economists and scholars from around the world.

View and download the conference program.

The World at a Turning Point: Cornell Conference on Development Economics and Law will be an important…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Daena Funahashi, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley, who will discuss constitutional change and political legitimacy in Thailand.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at the The Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will…

There is an oft-told story about the concept of strategic stability and the function of arms control. The conventional story says that stability was a condition inherent to the logic of nuclear deterrence, and that arms control was a project to restrain the superpower strategic competition and promote stability.…

At independence, African states inherited liberal constitutions enshrining multiparty democracy. However, within a decade, many collapsed into military dictatorships and one party-regimes and elections lost their significance. The democratization process of the late 1980s and early 1990s led to the drafting of ‘new…

The Laidlaw Undergraduate 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…

Breaking the Cycle captures the political awakening among Thais after the rise and fall of Thanathorn, a young politician who calls to end the cycle of coups d’etat. The film explores the 2019 election in Thailand, which marked the end of five years of full military rule and a new group of young politicians who…

The Laidlaw Undergraduate 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…

Learn more about the “thin country” with “crazy geography.” The England of South America. A South American exception. The Republic of Poetry. Birthplace of neoliberal shock therapy. The descriptions for and of Chile abound. This spring 2025 program simultaneously reveals from whence such descriptions arose as well…

Co-sponsored by Anthropology

The Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) introduced a series of state-led initiatives promising modernity, progress, national grandeur, and stability: state surveyors assessed land for agrarian reform, engineers utilized nationalized oil for industrialization, archaeologists…

Speaker: Laura T. Murphy, Policy Advisor, Department of Homeland Security and Professor of Human Rights, Sheffield Hallam University

Laura Murphy will discuss the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, the landmark forced labor legislation that prohibits goods made in the Uyghur Region of China from import into…

Talk by Kim Searcy (History, Loyola University Chicago)

I will focus on the Sudanese Mahdiyya- 1885-1898. I will analyze how second-in-command, the Khalifa Abdallahi used Jihad as a symbol to articulate, their power, legitimacy, and authority, initially within the context of their war with the Turco-…

Go global in summer 2025! Global Internships give you valuable international work experience in fields spanning global development, climate and sustainability, international relations, communication, business, governance, and more.

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Talk by Carole McGranahan (Anthropology, University of Colorado)

What does a day of ethnographic research look like? In this talk, I present one day, over the course of thirty years of research with the Tibetan community, sinking into what it feels like to be immersed, to notice, to ask, to listen. I move…

In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for her father, Tona, led by her mother, aunts and other relatives. As the day goes on, building to an event both anticipated and dreaded, Sol begins to understand the gravity of the celebration…

Our special guest speaker, Patricia Buckley Ebrey, History, University of Washington will kick off the first Classical Chinese text-reading for this semester.

The group meets monthly during the semester to explore a variety of classical Chinese texts and styles. Other premodern texts linked to classical…

This year's Annual Hu Shih Distinguished Lecture is titled: From Research Assistants to Professors: Scholars from China as Experts on China, 1920-1960 Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Professor Emeritus, History, University of Washington

This talk will look at the growth of China studies as an academic field in…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Eric C. Thompson, Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the National University of Singapore, who will discuss the writing of a book The Story of Southeast Asia.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at the The Kahin Center,…

Why do some coercive demands succeed while others fail?

A dominant paradigm in the study of international relations explains coercive outcomes by pointing to the credibility and severity of threats. This lecture advances another paradigm called the Assurance Dilemma. Even highly credible and severe threats…

Good governance is contingent on the development of political systems that gives citizens ownership of the political process.

Institute for African Development weekly seminar series examines a broad range of critical concerns in contemporary Africa including food production, human resource development, migration, urbanization, environmental resource management, economic growth, and policy guidance. The weekly presentations are made by…

POSSIBLE LANDSCAPES

Directed by Kannan Arunasalam

Produced and conceptualized by Tao DuFour and Natalie Melas

"For no one had yet written of this landscape

that it was possible.”

Derek Walcott

A collaboration between a documentary filmmaker, Kanan Arunasalam and two…

"Türkiye’s Christian Sites: Seven Churches of Revelation and Holy Sites, House of Virgin Mary, Early Christian Settlements and pilgrimage" lecture with Pelin Kumbet Cagman, visiting scholar at Cornell University.

Part of the "Exploring Turkish Language and Culture" lecture series.

A conversation among Sumeet Samos, Sarita Pariyar, and Prachi Patankar

Sumeet Samos is a research scholar, writer, rapper, and anti-caste activist from India.

Sarita Pariyar is a Fulbright Graduate Fellow at Cornell University. She is a writer, activist, and founder of Just Futures Pahal in Nepal.…

In his talk, Derek Penslar, the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University, will compare the emotions and perceptions that the public on three different continents—the Middle East/south Asia, France/Germany, and several Latin American states—brought to the Palestine question and the 1948…

Cosponsor: Department of Global Labor and Work

Latin America’s “left turn” at the beginning of the twenty-first century was unprecedented in its scope and duration, producing 32 presidential victories by left-of-center parties or leaders in 11 different countries between 1998 and 2015. Despite notable…

Talk by P. Sainath (Founding Editor, People’s Archive of Rural India)

The 2022 celebrations around the 75th year of India’s Independence seemed devoid of any recall of who and what it was the Indian people fought against to win Freedom and Independence. Official websites dedicated to the subject tell young…