In the heyday of colonialism and empire, global connections conspired to produce a singular industrial and ‘civilized’ world on the ruins of many others. But another form of connectivity facilitated the survival of worlds of an entirely different kind. One example can be found in the late 19th century, in day-to-…

Infrastructure is at the heart of China’s growing, controversial presence in global development. In addition to economic considerations, observers see infrastructure projects as important cogs in China’s pursuit of international influence. However, debates on Chinese global infrastructure are remarkably devoid of…

We invite the Cornell community to participate in the Special Seminar and Poster Session Scaling-up Nature-based Solutions in Latin America to bring together Cornell faculty, scientists and students, international fellows, experts from Latin America, and finance specialists to find joint solutions for challenges on…

Discourse around Muslims and Islam all too often lapses into a false dichotomy of Orientalist and fundamentalist tropes. A popular reimagining of Islam is urgently needed. Yet it is a perhaps unexpected political philosophical tradition that has the most to offer in this pursuit: anarchism. To better understand…

Digvijay Negi, Cornell University

Deadweight Losses or Gains from In-kind Transfers? Experimental Evidence from India

Abstract:

Are in-kind transfers associated with deadweight losses? To answer this, we conducted an incentivized field experiment in India, which offered low-income households…

This talk discusses the geopolitics of the Single Market in financial services in the European Union (EU) by examining three crucial case studies: (1) the post-2008 crisis transatlantic tug of war, whereby the EU leveraged its Single Market vis-à-vis the US, seeking to set the rules for global finance; (2) the…

An interpretation of Trans-Asia Critical Humanities based on generalizable notions of hybridity, interconnected flows, and horizontality evokes the principle of nested, generative feedback functions, which increasingly undergird finance capital, machine learning, and data governance today. A diagram of loops easily…

Meet the director of Cornell’s study abroad program in Paris and hear from returned students from Cornell's program in Paris, EDUCO. Learn about what EDUCO offers French majors, minors, and students of all disciplines. EDUCO helps you immerse yourself in France through university study in French alongside…

Karl Offen's presentation explores a multigenerational family letter collection to illustrate the relationship between family biography and Atlantic geographies from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. Among the 300 documents in the letter collection that he and a colleague tracked down from…

The Institute for Comparative Modernities (ICM) hosts Department of History faculty member and Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) Ernesto Bassi for a lecture on his current research.

Abstract

During the late eighteenth century, Santa Marta (located in South America’s…

Over 500 Cornellians have crossed the globe with the Fulbright U.S. Student Program since the 1940s. You could be the next!

The program, administered by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, supports college graduates conducting research or teaching English in more than 150 countries. The…

Talk by Noor Ahmad Akhundzadah (South Asia Program & Natural Resources and the Environment, Cornell University)

Climate change and insecurity are the main threats to Afghanistan's water resources and socioeconomic sustainability. Afghanistan's contribution to Greenhouse Gases emissions is…

The Turkish Student Association invites you to join a vigil to memorialize the earthquake's victims will be held on Monday, Feb. 20, starting at noon on Ho Plaza.

After gathering in front of the Cornell Store, we will walk together to Ezra Cornell's statue on the Arts Quad for reflections shared…

Join us for a night of celebrating Syrian and Turkish culture through food, performances, and a silent auction.

On February 6, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Syria and Turkey. With a 7.5 magnitude aftershock. There have been more than 38,000, making this the deadliest earthquake worldwide since 2010.…

Saturday, February 18th, 2023 -- 9:00am-4:30pm (breakfast available at 8:30am) FULL SCHEDULE HERE

Physical Sciences Building (PSB) 401

A territory, understood as a site to be defended, is anchored by parameters of exclusivity and control. Territory is often associated with physical land mass,…

Friday, February 17th -- 4:30pm-7:30pm & Saturday, February 18th, 2023 -- 9:00am-4:30pm (breakfast available at 8:30am)

Physical Sciences Building (PSB) 401 FULL SCHEDULE HERE

A territory, understood as a site to be defended, is anchored by parameters of exclusivity and control. Territory is…

Casey Stevens (Ph.d. student, Asian Studies, Cornell) will launch the Classical Chinese Colloquium Spring '23 with Content and Form: Dunhuang Anthologies of Tang Poetry.

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC) 古文品讀 is a reading group for scholars interested in premodern Sinographic (古文) text.…

The Global University, Addressing New Subjects of Knowledge is Panel 1 of a 4 panel series which is part of Working in the Traces of Area Studies hosted by faculty emerita Brett DeBary (Asian Studies, Cornell) and Naoki Sakai (Asian Studies, Cornell).

We propose that the disciplines called “Area Studies,”…

Join Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program
for our Faculty Work Luncheon with
Durba Ghosh, Professor of History

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17
12PM-1PM
190 Rockefeller Hall

My teaching and research focus on the history of British colonialism on the Indian subcontinent. I am…

"Private Academies and the Public Good: A Cold War History of Religion and Education in Japan and the US" lecture with Jolyon Thomas, University of Pennsylvania, on Thursday, February 16, at 5:00 p.m. in A.D. White House.

Thomas researches religion in Japan and the United States at the University…

Have you considered summer study abroad and are interested in studying law? Join Cornell Law School faculty and the Office of Global Learning to learn more about the Cornell Prelaw Program in Paris, a three-week academic program in international and comparative law. Study law in a uniquely international and…

Join us for a Professional Directions: A Conversation with Gabriella Moses on Thursday, Feb 16 at 5pm in the Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. (430 College Ave.)

Free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Latina/o Studies Program

Gabriella A. Moses is an award-winning…

Ashley Aye Aye Dun will analyze Charmaine Craig’s 2017 novel Miss Burma and situate it within her current research, which studies how Burmese American literature confronts a slippage between ethnic authenticity and authoritarianism, as mediated through the body. Set during the Cold War, Miss Burma is a novelization…

What do you do when the site where you planned to do your research has a major disruption making your research infeasible? What do you do when a loved one gets sick and you need to find more time for caregiving in the last semester of your program? What do you do when you get a job—a year earlier than you…

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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…

This lecture coincides with the publication of A History of Photography in Indonesia: From the Colonial Era to the Digital Age (Afterhours/Amsterdam University Press 2022). The book is a selection of essays compiled by Brian Arnold that collectively piece together the development of photography in Indonesia, from…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by MK Long (PhD Candidate, Cornell University), which explores the rhetorical force of relationships in biographies of Buddhist nuns in Burma.

This Gatty Lecture will take place on Zoom only. For questions, contact …

Shannon Philip explores the gendering of everyday urban spaces and the social production of gendered violence. Through ethnographic data collected by ‘hanging out’ with young Indian men in New Delhi, he discusses the ways masculinities are constructed and performed, and how these in turn produce hostility, fear,…

Please join Cornell faculty for a gathering to share personal experiences and feelings about the two devastating Earthquakes that hit Southern Turkey and Northern Syria last week.

We believe it is important to get together in difficult times like this and support each other. We will have Turkish snacks and…

"Language and Peace: Joining Peace Pedagogies and Peace Linguistics in Language Education"
Larisa Kasumagic- Kafedzic
Fulbright Visiting Scholar Fellow, Cornell University
Associate Professor, University of Sarajevo

Efforts toward peacebuilding in language education around the…