Past Events
Institute for European Studies
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
5:30 pm
Uris Hall, G08
This talk, based on the 2022 book with the same title, explores how diverse phenomena, such as populism, anti-black racism, and islamophobia in various countries share the same core: nativism. It Includes an in-depth, original analysis of political developments in three countries: the US, France, and the…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
4:45 pm
Myron Taylor Hall, 390 Moot Court
The Supreme Court of Japan (SCJ) has been described as the most conservative and passive constitutional court in the world. The small number of times the Japanese Supreme Court has struck down statutes as unconstitutional is an argument for such a statement. However, the SCJ has provided important decisions to…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
South Asia Program
12:30 pm
Lincoln Hall, B20
A conversation with Assistant Professor of Music Joe Lerangis and Tamir Khargana, lead singer of Tuvergen Band. Tamir will discuss musical styles from Tuva and Mongolia, as well as his own creative processes in blending those styles into a more contemporary sound, drawing inspiration from American blues, bluegrass…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Kalyani Ramnath (History, University of Georgia)
For more than century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading goods, supplying credit, and seeking work. This all changed with the war and as India, Burma, Ceylon,…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
South Asia Program
7:00 pm
Barnes Hall
A native of Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, throat-singer and multi-instrumentalist Tamir Hargana will perform songs from Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and Tuva, highlighting diasporic crossover of Mongolian singing, sounding, and playing styles. His band, Tuvergen, aims to create a "modern nomadic music,"…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
12:00 pm
Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, 2250
The Cornell Population Center brings Luca Maria Pesando, Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Pollicy at New York University Abu Dhabi. He will give his talk, "Dynamics of School Expansion and Sociocultural Changes in inter-Casate Marriage in India."
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
Southeast Asia Program
4:30 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Laura Lee Junker
The history of the Philippines is unique in Southeast Asia's islands in that the country has 14 massive islands, 7000+ smaller islands, and 200+ languages. Strangely, among the historical entities in these thousands of equatorial islands, none of the area's languages were…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
12:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Climate Cascades
International organizations (IOs) are rapidly reorienting around climate change, despite powerful principal states having divergent preferences. When and why do IOs prioritize climate change? Richard T. Clark, Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University, will…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:45 pm
Stimson Hall, G25
"Fail Better: Learning to Participate in Another Culture"
Mari Noda
Professor Emeritus in Japanese, The Ohio State University
Learning a language is like learning to play a new game. Since the rules of the game are determined by the culture, players new to the culture will experience…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
2:30 pm
Uris Hall, G-08
Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023 2:30pm Uris Hall G-08
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Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
2:30 pm
Uris Hall, G-08
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The seminar series for fall 2023 explores the future of African land, agriculture and food, digging into the contestations, conflicting and converging visions from a wide range of perspectives. How might land be used, valued and lived in, across cities, rural communities, forests, deserts and…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
2:00 pm
Virtual
Come find out more about our Winter Study Abroad program in Zambia. The program will examine the history of European settlement in southern Africa, the liberation wars and the independence process, Apartheid and post-Apartheid democracy in South Africa, as well as the turn to electoral democracy in Zambia, Botswana…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
12:20 pm
Emerson Hall, 135
Perspectives in Global Development: Fall 2023 Seminar Series
Abstract
The paradox of food security in the Indian subcontinent is of massive expansion in the production of food grain resulting in large food stocks of almost 60 million tonnes, on the one hand, and of mass chronic hunger, on the other…
South Asia Program
6:00 pm
Sage Hall, B05
Emerging Markets Institute and Students From Emerging Economies Professional Association at Cornell (SEEPAC) bring
Anupam Thareja
Founder & Managing Partner at Phi Capital
Registration Link: https://cglink.me/2cm/r2221724
As an investor and…
East Asia Program
4:45 pm
Rockefeller Hall 374, Asian Studies Lounge
Presentation and workshop with Jon Solomon (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3), moderated by Gavin Walker (Cornell University), around Prof. Solomon’s new book The Taiwan Consensus and the Ethos of Area Studies in Pax Americana: Spectral Transitions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), prefaced by Naoki Sakai (Cornell…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
4:45 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, GSH64 Kaufman Auditorium
Timothy Cheek, History, University of British Columbia kicks off this semester's CCCI lecture series with the theme of "China, the Central State and All Under Heaven."
How is China governed? It is a question on our minds today as the rule of Xi Jinping in China challenges American hopes and…
Southeast Asia Program
7:45 pm
FR Newman Arboretum- Treman Woodland Walk
You're invited to the premiere performances of NIGHT LIFE, created for the Newman Arboretum at twilight, combining dance, subtle lighting and a soundscape played on Indonesian Gamelan instruments that features the plants and trees of the Treman Woodland Walk, especially the magnificent Willow at its center.At…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
12:00 pm
245 Feeney Way, 120 Physical Sciences Building
Dreams Anew - Pioneering Change for Afghan Women's Health at AMIW will be hosted and run by students from Afghanistan, offering a comprehensive exploration of Afghan women's health from various perspectives. From tracing the country's history of peace and women's fundamental rights before the…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
10:00 am
Physical Sciences Building, 401
A Conference Sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies and the Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University, Ithaca
Friday, September 22 | Saturday, September 23, 2023
DAY 2 –– Saturday, September 23, 2023 | Physical Sciences Building 401
10:00 – 11:30 a.m. PANEL TWO –…
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
3:30 pm
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art - Cornell University, Wing Lecture Room, Floor 2L
Artistic freedom is a fundamental democratic right.
Creative expression, from poetry to street art, theater, and literature, is often at the vanguard of political resistance and change, and so artists are some of the first to be silenced. In this panel, speakers discuss their own experiences as artists in…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
3:30 pm
Rockefeller Hall, 375 Asian Studies Lounge
Our semester's first Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium text-reading will be led by Megan Bryson, Department of Religious Studies, University of Tennessee.
The Dali kingdom (937–1253), centered in what is now southwest China’s Yunnan province, left behind several ritual texts that have not been found…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
3:00 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, G64 (Kaufmann Auditorium)
A Conference Sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies and the Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University, Ithaca
Friday, September 22 | Saturday, September 23, 2023
DAY 1 –– Friday, September 22, 2023 | Goldwin Smith Hall 64, Kaufmann Auditorium
3:00 – 3:15 p.m. Welcome…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
3:00 pm
McGraw Hall, 165
To be a good woman? Caste, respectability and violence in South India and postwar Sri Lanka
This talk will focus on gendered lives in the midst of profound transformation. "It is hard to be a good woman", one of the older women I worked with in Kerala told me. She was an agricultural laborer from a…
Southeast Asia Program
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
5:00 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, G22
This talk emphasizes the significance of kabaklaan, or irreverent queer performances often dismissed as lower class, to the Philippine Pink Power Movement (PPM). The PPM was comprised of nationwide rallies, viral new media, and other forms of solidarity building that sought to elect former Vice-President Leni…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
12:30 pm
Virtual
Come find out more about the history and politics of Zambia and more broadly southern Africa. The program will examine the history of European settlement in southern Africa, the liberation wars and the independence process, Apartheid and post-Apartheid democracy in South Africa, as well as the turn to electoral…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:20 pm
Rockefeller Hall, 374
Gatty Lecture Series
Join us for a talk by Vicente L. Rafael, (Professor of History and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Washington in Seattle), who will discuss authoritarian imaginary in the Contemporary Philippines.
This Gatty Lecture will take place at the Rockefeller Hall 374. Lunch will be…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
South Asia Program
12:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Sharif Hozoori, IIE-SRF fellow and visiting scholar at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies' South Asia Program will discuss his research about the failure of liberal democracy in Afghanistan due to the ruling elite's overt ethnocentrism.
Ethnocentrism has been present throughout…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
12:20 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) Seminar Series, Co-sponsored by: Romance Studies & Department of Performance & Media Studies
Through a long-term personal project called What Remains, Lexi Parra has been documenting the effects of violence, repression by the State, and power of…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
4:45 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, GSH64 Kaufman Auditorium
In the past decade, China's grassroots feminist movement, primarily led by young women, has brought about transformative changes to various gender-discriminatory policies in the country. Through activist endeavors, this movement has initiated a ground-up understanding of feminism among the general public.…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Adeem Suhail (Anthropology, Franklin & Marshall College)
This talk is based on ethnographic explorations of the broken worlds the denizens of contemporary Karachi, Pakistan, inhabit. It examines the period between two catastrophic floods in 2020 and 2022. By observing the efforts of the Wasted to…