Meet internship supervisor Professor David Cordero-Heredia, Esq., Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, who will present the two Summer 2023 Law Research funded Internship opportunities—researching indigenous social movements or ancestral knowledge and the rights of nature.

Following the recent Global Grand Challenges Symposium, we are continuing the conversation with this virtual faculty and staff town hall.

The symposium brought together the Cornell community and international partners to discuss the most urgent challenges around the world and how we can work together to…

In this talk, Amanda Kaminsky will present a paper that untangles the supply chain of Kenya's crayfish industry, to explore how multispecies landscapes come to manifest and shape our social and cultural norms. Amanda draws from one year of ethnographic fieldwork to analyze the historical political ecology of…

Are you interested in the intersection of mental health and culture, global health, and community engagement? Do you want to gain field research skills and learn about indigenous communities in South India’s beautiful and fragile Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve? If so, the Cornell-Keystone Nilgiris Field Learning…

This panel discussion will bring together four speakers to discuss various aspects of the recent protests in China that are without recent precedent. We will aim to provide social and political context for the protests as well as historical analysis. Our panelists include both students and faculty who will present…

It’s been over 30 years since Congress enacted the most recent set of comprehensive immigration reforms: the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 and the Immigration Act of 1990. These bipartisan yet hotly contested bills passed only after a debate spanning five presidential administrations, eight…

Are you interested in Korean Music, Dance, and Snacks? Come join the Noraebang (singing) Contest and enjoy all of these things! The Contest stars the Korean Language Program students that you can vote for, performances by Korean dance groups E.Motion and LOKO, trivia prizes for the audience, and bakery goods from…

Come and learn about this exciting summer study abroad opportunity!

Funded by the Department of Education UISFL grant, Africa, AU Agenda 2063 & UN SDGs is a three-week summer course that focuses on African development that engages the interface between the UN 17 SDGs and AU Agenda 2063 and their…

Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…

Change in Time to 4:30pm and room to 312 Uris Hall.

This talk discusses identity formation in the Andean world through a study of the Quechua suffix -ntin/ -nintin. It also raises the suffix’s broader philosophical and political ramifications for questions of unity, collectivity, and the relationship between…

Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…

Information Session - Cornell Summer Program in Ghana – AU Agenda 2063 and the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Join us on Zoom to practice your Bengali skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…

The Cornell Gamelan Ensemble closes out the semester with a mixed program of traditional Javanese and Malaysian repertoire, plus a contemporary piece in traditional style by Javanese master Martopangrawit.

Join Bianca Graulau, an independent reporter from the island, for a discussion on the biggest issues facing the world's oldest colony. The talk will be followed by a Q&A session.

LACS Public Issue Forum in collaboration with the Puerto Rican Student Association

Funded in part by a UISFL grant…

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC) 古文品讀 is pleased to have Lucas Bender (East Asian Languages, Yale) lead this text reading.

Bender's text-reading is on "What Troubles the World is Inequality": Politics Before Metaphysics in Guo Xiang's 郭象 (252-312) Zhuangzi 莊子 Commentary…

Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…

Listening to the Shan Diaspora Soundscapes in Thailand: The Reflection of Home and Political Imagination.

This presentation will examine the performance of various genres of Shan music among the Shan diaspora in Chiang Mai, Thailand. I will unpack the processes of creating, performing and transmitting Shan…

Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…

Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…

Please join the Society for Buddhist Studies for our inaugral symposium on 20th century Indian Buddhism.

The Symposium will feature short papers by Anand Venkatkrishnan (University of Chicago), Padma D. Maitland (California Polytechnic State University), and Douglas Ober (University of British Columbia),…

Three recent literary winners of the Safal-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature speak on poetry, travel, and Kiswahili intergenerational transcendence.

The Safal-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature was founded by Cornell English Professor Mukoma wa Ngugi and Richmond American University…

Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…

Tessy Schlosser, Ph.D. candidate in government at Cornell University, will present "A Decreative I: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the I of Decreation." The paper will be circulated on an email list in advance and participants come prepared to discuss it.

Tessy Schlosser is a Ph.D. candidate in…

Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…

Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…

Nick Cheesman

In 2021, a group of anti-narcotics cops in Nakhon Sawan, Thailand suffocated a man to death with plastic bags. The torture and killing would have gone unreported but that it was captured on a video, which a lawyer posted online. News reports circled around the lead protagonist, a superintendent…

Jihyun Han (Ph.D. Candidate, History, Cornell University) leads this workshop.

This paper examines two layers of local history: Northeast China’s colonial experience in the 1930-the 1940s and local historians’ writing of it in the 1950-60s. In analyzing various forms of historical writings about Japanese…

Land of no return: The role of non-knowledge in Indonesia’s peatlands

Millions of hectares of Indonesia’s peatlands have been drained and developed for agriculture and other uses over the past several decades, leading to extensive carbon dioxide emissions via fire and oxidation, and acute regional Southeast…

Memorably born during debates about what to do with the King, the left/right divide was not the only opposition, nor indeed the most dominant, available at the time. The Terror, for instance, opposed the Mountain to the Plane or the Marais: the Mountain was composed of radical Jacobin deputies who dominated the…