2021 > Spain > Directed by Amalia Ulman
With Amalia Ulman, Ale Ulman, Nacho Vigalongo, Chen Zhou
Amalia Ulman's debut feature is an offbeat comedy about a mother-daughter duo struggling to make ends meet, but desperate to keep up appearances, in post-crisis Spain. Subtitled. More at elplaneta…

Registration link https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvd-6hqz4iGNPIdRl_GB32lKdm8k…

In this seminar, we will explore promising avenues to improve the science policy interface in Africa. The seminar will cover…

Jeremy Ladd

Visiting Assistant Professor, Cornell University

Much research on democratization puts a premium on the importance of opposition political parties in bringing about democratic change, or at least being present at transitional elections to face incumbents. But the very existence of these…

In this virtual panel discussion, Eugene Fishel and Yaropolk Kulchyckyj will provide an insider perspective into Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine. They will bring together documentary evidence and declassified materials dealing with policy deliberation, retrospective articles authored by former policymakers, and…

Hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, as part of its research priority theme on Inequalities, Identities, and Justice.

What are the roles of science, math, music, art, hope, religion, and spirituality in Black life? What counts as Black liberation given BIPOC complicity with (neo)…

Cornell University and the Cornell China Center invite you to the Cornell-China 2022 Online Forum featuring 30 speakers highlighting collaboration, research, and innovation!

Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022, 7:00 p.m.–2:00 a.m. EST (Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022, 8:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. in Beijing)

Welcome by Cornell…

Join us for an information session to learn more about the new cycle of Migrations grants, open to all PI-eligible faculty across colleges and schools. Faculty-led programs and centers within the university are also welcome to apply.

The Cornell Migrations codirectors will address questions about priorities…

This workshop for community college faculty will discuss how to increase student engagement using podcasts. Presentations will include how to work with students on content creation and using podcasts in the classroom as a teaching tool.

Speakers include:

Eleanor Paynter, ACLS Fellow and Migrations…

Join us to learn more about the Summer 2023 Ecuador Reasearch and Engaged Internship opportunities in the Sciences, Social Sciences, Mapping/GIS, Law Research, and teaching English.

Prior to joining us, we recommend that you review the opportunities on our website:

Register and join us at:…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Featuring a post-screening panel discussion panel discussing indigenous rights in the Brazil US and will follow the film and includes Wendy Wolford (Global Development), Renata Marques Leitao (College of Human Ecology), and Eric T. Cheyfitz (American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program).

Check out the…

Talk by Dina Siddiqi

In Bangladesh, as elsewhere today, bodies marked Muslim are constitutive sites of feminist and other politics. The figure of the female garment worker – tasked with saving the national economy through her public, visible labor – has emerged as an especially dense site of debate and…

Talk by Trishna Senapaty

This talk explores the conceptual landscape of open prisons in India. Open prisons are institutions intended to facilitate prisoner rehabilitation by permitting them to live in small dwellings with their families and earn livelihoods outside their boundary walls. The talk delves into…

The Office of Global Learning and Cornell Dining are teaming up to welcome Cornell's international community, all Cornellians, and friends in the local community for the 35th Annual Celebration of Gratitude Dinner on Thanksgiving Day at Morrison Dining.

There are two seatings, at 11:30am and 1pm, so…

Talk by Sanaa Alimia in conversation with Aziz Hakimi

In this talk, Sanaa Alimia will discuss her new manuscript, Refugee Cities: How Afghans Transformed Pakistan (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). The book is a people's history of displacement across Afghanistan and Pakistan. Weaving together…

Featuring a live score incorporating traditional Ukrainian folk melodies by Austin’s Montopolis

1929 > USSR > Directed by Dziga Vertov
This film is not only Vertov's masterpiece and final film of the silent era, it is a work which notably exemplifies the montage aesthetic of the Soviet avant…

Join us for an online discussion on Cornell University's Gerow D. Brill Collection and Michigan University's Dean C. Worcester Photographic Collection, hosted by the Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia (CORMOSEA), the Southeast Asia Program (SEAP), and the Southeast Asia Digital Library (…

Miles Kenney-Lazar

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, National Unviersity of Singapore

On February 1st, 2021, the armed forces of Myanmar (Burma) carried out a coup d’état, toppling the democratically elected government formed by the National League for Democracy (NLD). Since that fateful…

The Issues in African Development Seminar Series examines critical concerns in contemporary Africa using a different theme each semester. The seminars provide a forum for participants to explore alternative perspectives and exchange ideas. They are also a focal activity for students and faculty interested in…