Bartels World Affairs Lecture

The bestselling author of Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World joins us for a personal journey down the conspiracy rabbit hole to explore why our political sphere has become dangerously warped.

When author and social activist Naomi Klein discovered a writer with the…

Hosted by the Gender and the Security Sector Lab, the University of Edinburgh’s Centre of African Studies, and the Reppy Peace and Conflict Studies Program, The Transition Home: Key Challenges for African UN Peacekeepers Upon Return is a unique collaborative effort, bringing together qualitative and quantitative…

Ram Kaundinya, a leading expert on management and agribusiness in India, will deliver a distinguished lecture at Cornell University, titled, “The Role of Biotechnology in India’s Food and Climate Security.”

The event will be held in a hybrid format. Virtual participants can register to attend via Zoom.…

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In Afghanistan, poetry operates as a common idiom, appearing frequently in everyday speech by those who have and have not received formal education. In this talk, I explore the idea of a communal self that emerges through the composition of poetry in the service of jihad as seen in Afghan…

Talk by Yasmine Flodin-Ali (Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh)

Twentieth-century Muslims used Islam to articulate resistance to systems of domination, from British colonial rule in India to Jim Crow laws in the United States. This article maps the moral geographies promoted by three early twentieth…

Everyone Welcome - Dinner provided. With special guests Tom Hoebbel, filmmaker; and Rev. Dr. Ken Clarke, Director of the Tompkins County Office of Human Rights. RSVP required for dinner: https://cglink.me/2gw/r2132152

Asylum Seekers and Refugees from many areas of…

"Generative AI in Language Education: Insights and Implications for Teacher Development"
Ilka Kostka
Teaching Professor and Program Lead of the NU Immerse and Global Pathways Programs, Northeastern University

We are in a moment of immense educational transformation as generative…

Talk by Elora Shehabuddin (University of California, Berkeley )

Founded in 1984 with the goal of preparing for the third UN Women’s Conference in Nairobi the following year, DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) was the first “South-South” feminist network to challenge the racial and…

In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, Mira is a successful student shouldering high expectations from her parents and her teachers. But as she wrestles with new desires and ample curiosity inspired by the handsome transfer student Sri, she finds herself at odds with the schoolÕs strict rules and her…

LACS Public Issues Forum

Co-sponsored by Cornell Cinema, Literatures in English and Creative Writing, History of Art and Visual Studies, Performance and Media Arts, Romance Studies, and Society of the Humanities

Roundtable with Roberto Brodsky, Denisa Jashari, Kenneth Roberts, and Camilo Trumper…

This project connects the economic history of the late 19th and early 20th century with the recent trend of looking at Austria-Hungary as an imperial/colonial actor in relation to the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire. Unconventionally but productively using the dissolution of the monarchy as its conceptual starting…

LACS Public Issues Forum

Co-sponsored by Cornell Cinema, Literatures in English and Creative Writing, History of Art and Visual Studies, Performance and Media Arts, Romance Studies, and Society of the Humanities

Chile ’73: Fifty Years Later
Machuca follows the lives, over the course of a school…

Understanding how people are living on, with, and from their land reveals the often-hidden dynamics of contemporary social and political change, according to Wendy Wolford, Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development and vice provost for International Affairs. This topic is explored in the new…

In a post-January 6th US, a reasonable concern of fascism is manifesting in one particular way: silencing dissent and pluralism. This talk is about identifying the ways that silencing contentious politics benefits far right extremism and harms far left pro-democratic work in this complex political environment.…

The speaker, Jordan Blekking (Postdctoral Associate, Department of Global Development, Cornell) is investigating how smallholder farmers’ perceptions of environmental conditions vary across locations and how these perceptions inform their cropping decisions in areas experiencing high rainfall variability. Second,…

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hydro-POWER: State and Energy in Central Asia interrogates water infrastructure and strategic resource development as an instrument of imperial and colonial expansion. The industrial objects at the focus of this analysis controlled not only the distribution of water but also of regional…

A community book read with Kristian Karlo Saguin, author of Urban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila’s Resource Frontier and winner of the 2024 Benda Prize.

Register here for the Zoom link. Participants are expected to have read the book.

Urban Ecologies on the Edge offers an innovative and…

Extractivism haunts the planet and leaves in its path the pain and tears of people who, ironically, suffer the blessing of mineral wealth. Extractivism produces invaded territories, dispossessed communities, persecuted leaders, devastated forests, annihilated biodiversity, desiccated lagoons, poisoned rivers,…

Come enjoy Korean games and baked goods from Paris Baguette. There will be 5 stations of Korean games (hardboard battle from Squid Game, playing jackstones, hacky sack, paper-folding, and writing your name in Korean) and those who got all 5 stamps from each station by completing the activity can redeem a treat from…

In the 1980s, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar imported four hippopotamuses for a personal menagerie to entertain and impress guests at his lavish estate, Hacienda Nápoles. While many of the animals either perished or were transferred to zoos after his death in 1993, the hippopotamuses survived and reproduced in…

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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The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies hosts info…

A Conversation with Nathan Thrall

Abed Salama's world is turned upside down when he hears that his five-year-old son's school bus has collided with a semitrailer. Frantically, he tries to reach the site. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy explores one man's…

State-Building Under Indian Occupation
In this talk, Dr. Hafsa Kanjwal discusses her book Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation. The book interrogates how Kashmir was made “integral” to India through a study of the decade long rule (1953-1963) of Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad, the second Prime…

"Seeds of Survival is an exhibition at Cornell Botanical Gardens that honors the Black experience in the Americas dating back to the transatlantic slave trade1. The exhibition includes an outdoor plant display, audio tour and an indoor exhibit1. It focuses on food plants native to West Africa, such as black-…

The undergraduate minor in Latin American Studies spans across disciplines and allows you to explore the history, culture, government, politics, economy and languages of Latin America and the Caribbean. Qualifying courses can be found in many of the colleges.

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Learn more about this spring break opportunity in London. This program examines London as a global financial capital, a center of health research and policy, and a site where the consequences of climate change, including extreme heat events, are distributed in radically uneven ways. Beginning as part of the spring…

Come learn more about this spring opportunity with spring break travel, developed in partnership with Universidad San Francisco de Quito and as part of the Jeb E. Brooks School’s Global Policy Exchange Lab. This 3-credit collaborative online international learning (COIL) and community-based global learning (CBGL)…

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Co-sponsored by Government

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…