Join us for a virtual discussion with Adam Bobbette, author of The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java and winner of the 2025 Benda Prize. This virtual conversation is open to the broader public, and is hosted by GETSEA.

All participants should read the Preface and Chapter 1. Those interested in…

What did Soviet empire look like in intimate terms—as experienced and perceived through the lens of interpersonal relations? Despite many decades of scholarship on Soviet society and subjectivity, we have very few neighborhood-level studies of sociability and materiality, although interpersonal experience and…

Update: This lecture has been canceled.

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Maria Hwang, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies from McGill University.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at the The Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact…

Civil wars become international conflicts when outside states provide support to rebel groups. Sometimes, external intervention is driven by affinity for the rebel group and a desire to achieve the rebel group’s goals. Sometimes, however, external intervention is driven by tensions on other issues, for example,…

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…

Female spirit mediums unsettled the late imperial state and Confucian elite due to their access to unseen worlds. Yet these women remained vital to ritual life and popular in anecdotal literature. This colloquium examines two to three texts exploring how Ming-Qing scholars discussed the influence of female spirit…

With an introduction by Ambassador Derek Mitchell

Myanmar stands at a critical crossroads. Nearly five years after the coup, the country faces humanitarian catastrophe, economic collapse, and ongoing violence. During this Forum on Burmese Democracy, leading voices will share their perspectives on the crisis…

From Iran's Revolutionary Process to the Unraveling of the "Axis of Resistance" - Challenging Long-Held Assumptions about the Islamic Republic. This lecture explores the complex dynamics reshaping the Islamic Republic of Iran, drawing on the findings of years-long research that challenges conventional assumptions…

Join us for a virtual conversation with Marwan Kaabour, a London-based and Beirut-born graphic designer and editor of The Queer Arab Glossary. This illustrated volume captures the nuances and diversity of the language(s) of the queer Arab community. Full of wit and pathos, Kaabour's work is a powerful…

Recent decades have seen a surge in extreme anti-immigrant rhetoric in many countries and regions, including the Southern African Region, despite the African Union's emphasis on continental mobility as a key aspect of sustainable development. Xenophobia, a form of hatred directed at foreigners, immigrants, and…

Cornell’s international community faces evolving questions about their rights and mobility. To help our students, faculty, and staff navigate these immigration policy changes, Global Cornell is sponsoring a webinar series featuring legal and immigration experts. These virtual sessions provide guidance on legal…

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…

Presented by Gopalaya & Gopal Yonjan Foundation

Dedicated to Peace, Unity & Harmony in Nepal

At a time when Nepal’s wounds are still raw and much remains to be rebuilt, the program turns to the enduring power of Gopal Yonjan’s songs through stories and compositions presented by his wife…

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:

Following a military buildup…

This talk explores an unconventional form in which knowledge on Mexico's "war on drug trafficking" is produced and circulates, and the kind of symptomatic reading that it performs. By analyzing two such instances—a journalist's testimony on her experience of drug-war violence before a federal…

"Implementing Undergraduate TAs in the Language Curriculum"
Mijeong Mimi Kim
Teaching Professor of Korean Language and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Washington University in St. Louis

This presentation examines the strategic integration of Undergraduate Teaching Assistants (UTAs…

Discussion with Sarah Thompson (Government, Cornell University), Sadia Mahmood (South Asia Program, Cornell University) and author Natasha Raheja (Anthropology and Performing & Media Arts, Cornell University)

Selective Welcome: Pakistani Hindus in India (Forthcoming, University of Chicago Press) explores…

Speaker:

Chih-Jou Jay Chen, Director of Institute of Sociology, Research Fellow, Academia SinicaPanelists:

Victor Nee, Frank and Rosha Rhodes Professor of Economic Sociology, and Director of the Center for the Study of Economy and SocietyPeter J. Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of…

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 will open in the fall.

Can’t attend? Contact…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Caitlyn Sears, an incoming postdoctoral associate at Cornell University's Southeast Asia Program.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at Warren Hall, B75. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact seapgatty@…

For close to a decade, the U.S. government has been preoccupied with the threat of China, fearing that the country will “eat our lunch,” in the words of President Joe Biden. The United States has crafted its foreign and domestic policy to help constrain China’s military power and economic growth. This talk will…

Join this info session to learn about 2026 Global Hubs Faculty Research Seed Grants offered by Global Cornell as part of our Global Hubs initiative. Info session attendees will learn about the grant opportunity and application tips through a short presentation and Q&A.

Through these seed grants, Cornell…

The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program provides fully funded immersive summer programs for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to learn languages of strategic importance to the United States’ national security, economic prosperity, and engagement with the world. Each summer, over 500 American students…

Purnima Menon, an expert on food and nutrition policy, will deliver a lecture at Cornell University on Tuesday, September 30, at 12:20 p.m. ET in Mann Library 102. The lecture is entitled “Nudging People (and Policy) Towards Better Diets and Nutrition: Insights from South Asia.” The event is part of the Tata-…

Last Public Issues Forum

This film series has been created to celebrate the new minor in Caribbean Studies. It invites viewers to reflect on the Caribbean as a space of media creation, as well as to consider social issues of global concern from the perspective of the Caribbean. With films from Colombia, Cuba…

Talk by Ahona Panda (History, Claremont McKenna College)

The talk explores the entwined political and literary lives of the Bengali politician and writer, Abul Mansur Ahmed (1898-1979), and studies him as a person who lived through the political articulations of three nationalisms: Indian, Pakistani, and…

An extraordinary account of the Soviet dissident movement, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement shows how dissidents spearheaded the struggle to break free of the USSR’s totalitarian past, a struggle that continues in Putin’s Russia—and that illuminates other…

This talk examines how to ensure Indigenous Peoples are meaningfully involved in jurisdictional REDD+ initiatives, with their rights safeguarded and their perspectives actively shaping decisions. It highlights practical approaches for designing benefit-sharing systems, implementing safeguards, and establishing…

Talk by Margaret Graves (History of Art and Architecture, Brown University)

Historical ceramics from the Islamic world are now held in elite collections worldwide. Many migrated westward during the turn-of-the-twentieth-century heyday of Islamic art collecting, a time when craft skills in the Middle East…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Aditya Bhattacharjee, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow from Asian Studies at Cornell University.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at the The Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact …