The Office of Global Learning invites graduating international students to this year's graduation reception to celebrate the international Class of 2023! We're so proud of all you've achieved.

Join us for refreshments and celebratory remarks from Cornell's leadership and winners of our…

A LACS 60th Anniversary Special Seminar

In this event, historians Tessa Murphy (Syracuse) and Heather Roller (Golgate) will join LACS director Ernesto Bassi in a conversation about Murphy’s and Roller’s recently published, award-winning books The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean…

Film Screening and Discussion

Join us for a simultaneous film screening across six U.S. universities, with the director and producers of the film available for Q&A. We'll be watching the film Dragon for Sale: Environmental Justice and the Illusion of "10 New Balis" Development in Indonesia…

Eleana Kim (Anthropology, UC Irvine)

This book talk discusses Eleana Kim’s recently published ethnography of the ecologies of the South Korean borderlands, in areas adjacent the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Based on fieldwork with ecologists, environmentalists, and residents who live along the border, this…

Talk by Curt Gambetta (Architecture, Cornell University)

Beginning in the late 1940s, scientists, building professionals, and technocrats embraced cement-stabilized mud (also known as “soil-cement”) as an easy-to-use, economical alternative to pukka concrete and fired brick house construction in India. But…

The millennial city of the global South is a charged setting for allegations of corruption, with skyscrapers, land grabs, and slum evictions invoking outrage at deepening economic polarization. This talk, based on a newly published book Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City,…

Nationalism Unsettled presents a critical exploration of national imaginaries that disturb, defy or deviate from mainstream nation-state narratives, demanding renewed consideration of the nature of nationalism. In tackling this subject, we bring to the table speakers with cross-disciplinary expertise, spanning…

Join this year's cohort of Fellows at the Society for the Humanities for our concluding conference on the 2022-23 focal theme of Repair. The conference kicks off on Thursday, April 27, with a panel of humanities scholars, and continues all day on Friday, April 28, with several panels and two keynotes (Audra…

Register for free: https://johnson.campusgroups.com/EMI/rsvp_boot?id=2100902

Join us for our upcoming event: “Eco-Innovation in Brazil and US." The Cornell Emerging Markets Institute is partnering with the Brazilian National…

International students, connect with successful international alumni working in the United States, India, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, and beyond during this two-hour virtual networking session!

Participating alumni work in real estate, engineering, law, finance, venture capital, architecture, and more. You…

This virtual career panel hosted by the Cornell China Center features three accomplished Cornell alumni pursuing academic paths in sustainability research. Chinese panelists will share how they have built their academic paths in sustainability, with insights from their international and multicultural backgrounds.…

The Korean Language Program welcomes acclaimed musician Jung-Hee Oh and dancer Kate Kim. In this Korean traditional music performance and lecture, Ms. Oh performs gayageum byeongchang, a 12-stringed zither accompanied by song, and a p’ansori excerpt from The Song of Ch’unhyang, an epic Korean love story. Kate Kim…

Talk by David Ludden

The Rohingya survival crisis – in borderlands of Myanmar and Bangladesh -- has disappeared from the headlines, but Rohingyas remain one of the largest stateless populations in the world. Their suffering can be understood as an extreme example of the violence inflicted by national…

In this seminar, we will explore promising avenues to improve the science policy interface in Africa. The seminar will cover multiple themes under this broad umbrella, including (a) reviews of productive modes of interfacing science and policy, (b) detailed explorations of the policy-making process in the region,…

For over 70 years, Chinese script has been a driving force in shaping the digital age and pushing it beyond familiar alphabetical ecologies. Western-designed screens, printers, keyboards, character encoding schemes, and more have all been forced to adapt to accommodate the intricacies of the world's one major…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Lina Chhun, (Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies, University of Texas at Austin), who will discuss oral histories in Cambodian American communities.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at the Kahin Center, but people are also welcome to join us…

Strategic empathy is one of many capabilities the US Army War College seeks to enhance in its students, who are rising senior leaders in their respective armed forces and agencies. Government actors become more effective when they apply strategic empathy and thereby more fully understand the nuanced perspectives…

Abstract

The industrialized practices of rice production in the Dominican Republic create extensive environmental and social costs through fertilizer and pesticide run-off, soil erosion, economic vulnerability, and low labor standards. Dr. Payton and Dr. Cox will discuss the challenges and promises of a…

Migration has defined human activity for millennia, illustrated by the fact that it constitutes the basis of many foundational texts: the Sanskrit Ramayana, the Old Testament, Homer’s Odyssey, the Aeniad, Icelandic sagas. In Poetics of Relation (1990), Martinican philosopher and poet Édouard Glissant distinguishes…

“Priming the Canon: Ananda Coomaraswamy and Sri Lankan Art”

There has been much discussion about how to understand Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) as an influential voice in art history. This talks considers the place of Sri Lanka in his intellectual process, and therefore in the underlying energies of…

The Armistice of Mudros was signed on 30 October 1918 and on the morning of 13 November 1918, a mighty fleet of battleships from Britain, France, Italy and Greece sailed to Istanbul, and dropped anchor without encountering resistance. This day marked the beginning of the end of the Ottoman Empire, a dissolution…

It has long been recognized that the legacies of Japanese imperialism have continued to impact the production of an East Asian regional imaginary throughout the postwar years, and it has primarily been the U.S.-Japan alliance under Anpo that has exerted pressure to make the Japanese nation and the region coheres.…

Lund Critical Debate

Democracies worldwide—even many wealthy democracies long considered safely consolidated—are at risk today. Governments, policymakers, and voters face new conflicts over democratic institutions, checks and balances, which citizens can compete for office or deserve representation, and what…

Talk by Anushay Malik (History, Simon Fraser University)

Before 1947, the working classes in the province of Punjab imagined themselves as part of a world much bigger than the one they would find themselves in after Punjab was partitioned to carve out the new states of India and Pakistan. This time (in the…

This two-day conference, organized by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Institute for Comparative Modernities, and Polson Institute for Global Development, brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars conducting innovative research on the topic of racial capitalism across the globe.…

As in years prior, this conference provides an opportunity for graduate students to critically engage with the particularities of Sri Lanka and its diasporas; particularities often sacrificed to make our work speak clearly to non-specialist audiences. While we acknowledge the many benefits of such generalized…

Scholars, artists, and organizers who understand the violence of displacement deeply and intimately narrate and theorize how borders, militarized imperialisms, and their colonial genealogies shape people’s lives and foreclose right to both home and refuge. Featuring presentations, performances, films, installations…

Reading by V. V. Ganeshananthan (Novelist)

Jaffna, 1981. Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, a vicious civil war tears through her home, and her dream spins off course as she sees her four beloved brothers and their friend K swept up in the mounting violence. Desperate…

Xingke tiben: A Murder Case from 1762

CCCC with Matthew Sommer (History, Stanford)

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC) 古文品讀 is a reading group for scholars interested in premodern Sinographic (古文) text. The group typically meets monthly during the semester to explore a variety of classical…

To the Academy is a multimedia performance work inspired by Kafka’s short story, A Report for an Academy, and the ancient Sanskrit treatise on performance, The Natyashastra. The piece weaves a tale about an ape couple rehearsing a music hall show for a group of scholars. As the apes grapple with how to entertain…