Ithaca Premiere>2019 > France/Germany/Switzerland > Directed by Thomas Balms
In Happiness (2014), filmmaker Balms chronicled 8-year-old Peyangki's initiation into a monastery and the arrival of electricity to his remote Bhutan village. In his new film, ten years have passed, and the filmmaker…

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The "Perspectives in International Development Seminar Series" is co-sponsored by the Department of Global Development, the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and…

Take your learning to the next level with regional and thematic minors from the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and our programs. Whatever your major and career goals, our wide geographical reach and interdisciplinary focus provide opportunities for you to expand your global knowledge and broaden…

This book talk focuses on the manifestations of musicophilia in Mumbai from the late 19th century to the present. Love and madness come together in the metropolis as a condition of subjective excess, the condition of the musical subject’s simultaneous psychic and social habitation of modern urban space. I propose…

Please join us for an invited talk by Prof. Joseph A. Marino, III, generously co-sponsored by the Departments of Asian Studies, History and Philosophy; the South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia and Religious Studies Programs; and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly. The event is open to all interested,…

Beyond soccer leagues, music camps, and drama lessons, today’s youth are in an education arms race that begins in elementary school. Tutoring companies were already growing rapidly before Covid-19, and remote learning has accelerated this trend. While often associated with Asian Americans, this has expanded widely…

Partisan Aesthetics explores art's entanglements with histories of war, famine, mass politics and displacements that marked late-colonial and postcolonial India. Introducing "partisan aesthetics" as a conceptual grid, the book identifies ways in which art became political through interactions with…

The Migrations Forum is an interdisciplinary works-in-progress series for Cornell migrations scholars, bringing together graduate students and faculty across disciplines to share ongoing research.

At this session, Natasha Raheja (Anthropology) will share a rough cut of the new ethnographic film A Gregarious…

The Program in International Nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences is pleased to host guest speaker Purnima Menon, Ph.D.; Senior Research Fellow: Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division; Office of the Director, Nutrition and Food Safety at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Her…

Explore options beyond academia and discover how to make informed decisions for career choices in government, non-profits and industry. Test-drive career opportunities through career panels, individual and group sessions, site visits and more. Visit website for more details.

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One hundred million smallholder farmers in India and 500M across the world face a number of challenges toward achieving food and income security, which are increasingly exacerbated by climate change. Unpredictable rains, increasing temperatures and drought make farming…

The time of global pandemic presented many obstacles for communities engaged with Southeast Asia to stay connected and thrive. At the same time, the limitations upon meeting in person or conducting fieldwork inspired new ways to forge dialogues, shake old conventions, and embrace creative, often technological,…

This event is part of the ongoing Critical Moves: Performance in Theory Movement series co-organized by Prof. Balance and Prof. Karen Jaime and co-sponsored by Cornell Asian American Studies Program (AASP), Latina/o Studies Program (LSP), and the department of Performing Media Arts. Basement Bhangra Redux is also…

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Most farming communities in Pakistan are comprised of small landholders with limited access to literacy, emergency assets, climate change information and linkages with disaster relief services. Agricultural output is often insufficient for family sustainance, so men…

Odysseys: Ithaca Writers on Exile, Wandering, and Searching for Home is a reading series presented by Ithaca City of Asylum and co-sponsored by Global Cornell and Cornell's Migrations initiative.

Homer’s Odyssey recounts the adventures of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, as he seeks to return home after the…

Please join us for an invited talk by Prof. Lucinda Ramberg, generously co-sponsored by the Departments of Asian Studies, History and Philosophy; the South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia and Religious Studies Programs; and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly. The event is open to all interested, and…

The Language Resource Center offers grants for effective and innovative projects that enhance language instruction at Cornell. We welcome proposals from all languages and all levels of instruction. Lecturers, senior lecturers, and professors who are involved with language teaching and do not have visiting status…

Waste work across South Asia is structured by caste, especially as low or non-caste groups (Dalits) have remained historically dominant in this form of labor. This continues to be true in contemporary Pakistan, where uneven urbanization driven by a consumption-based economy has shifted spatial relations along the…

Ithaca Premiere>1928 > India > Directed by Franz Osten
Shiraz is a ravishing, romantic tale behind the creation of one of the world's most iconic structures: the Taj Mahal. Filmed on location in and around Jaipur with an all-Indian cast (including 50,000 extras, 300 camels and seven elephants),…

Laura Stone '90 is Deputy Assistant Secretary for South Asia, overseeing U.S. policy towards and relations with India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Maldives, and Bhutan. She will discuss her wide-ranging career in the U.S. Foreign Service, as well as her perspective on diplomatic statecraft in the 21st…

Climate is a wicked problem that requires understanding of people and places. Three stories from the forested areas of central India illustrate that efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change might be most successful if approached from the lens of local livelihoods and well-being: restoration of degraded…

Ruth DeFries is a professor of ecology and sustainable development at Columbia University in New York. She uses images from satellites and field surveys to examine how the world’s demands for food and other resources are changing land use throughout the tropics. Her research quantifies how these land use changes…

Rajasingham’s talk will draw from her book, Assembling Ethnicities in Neoliberal Times, to argue that Sri Lanka’s thirty-year ethnic war, and post-conflict contexts must be understood as shaped by the forces of global capitalism. She makes her arguments through an examination of ethnographic fictions— work invested…

Please join us for an invited talk by Prof. Ann Gleig, generously co-sponsored by the Departments of Asian Studies, History and Philosophy; the South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia and Religious Studies Programs; the Society for the Humanities; and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly. The event is open…

Dr. Nimmi Gowrinathan will lead a workshop titled "Radicalizing Her". The workshop will focus on the topics on topics of feminist theory, identity, gender, power, and violence.

Dr. Nimmi Gowrinathan is the Founder and Director of the Politics of Sexual Violence Initiative, a global initiative…

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports college graduates conducting research or teaching in any field in more than 150 countries. Applications are due in the fall; students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are encouraged to start the process in their junior year.

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Before COVID-19, several African economies were fast growing, with high levels of Foreign Direct investment. Much like the rest of the world, African economies were hit hard by the pandemic due to the global slowdown, fall in commodity prices and lock down measures to…

Rahul Gandhi, member of India’s Parliament and former president of the Indian National Congress, will join Kaushik Basu, Carl Marks Professor of International Studies at Cornell University, for an open conversation on democracy, development, and life in politics, India, and the world. Q&A with Cornell students…

This talk analyzes the relationship between dam building, border wars, and India's settler colonial politics in Kashmir, particularly in the aftermath of the removal of Articles 370 and 35A that maintained Kashmir's semi-autonomous status in the Indian union. I will discuss how controlling vital…

Please join us for an invited talk by Prof. Peter Skilling, generously co-sponsored by the Departments of Asian Studies, History and Philosophy; the South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia and Religious Studies Programs; and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly. The event is open to all interested, and…