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Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

Einaudi Center for International Studies

12:00 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Can a state exist without a military in an increasingly divided and heavily militarized world? The answer is “yes.”

Twenty-one sovereign countries – one-ninth of the United Nations’ roster – do not maintain standing armies. Many of them are small island states in the Caribbean and the South Pacific and…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

South Asia Program

5:30 pm

Uris Hall, G24

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…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

4:30 pm

Stimson Hall, G25

"Doing It (Gender) Justice: Reimagining Language Education Through Trans Knowledges"
Kris Aric Knisely
Associate Professor of French and Intercultural Competence, University of Arizona

As people who teach, learn, and research language, the time for us to work toward forms of gender…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

South Asia Program

12:15 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Talk by Sohini Chattopadhyay (History, Union College)

In May 1939, a 20-year-old man died in Bombay’s suburb of Vile Parle. He was a migrant worker, often without a home, and Dalit. His friends took his body to a cremation ground, but only by trespassing it at night since Dalits were not allowed access to…

Southeast Asia Program

Einaudi Center for International Studies

3:00 pm

Kahin Center

In this talk, Conan Cheong investigates the desire of eminent Lao Buddhist monks to photograph and be photographed by examining the monk portraits kept in the Buddhist Archive of Luang Prabang, Laos. The Archive, housed in a Buddhist monastery, preserves over 35,000 photographs taken and collected by monks from…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

7:00 pm

Willard Straight Hall Theatre

The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut.

Centering on two roommates who also work together in a city…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

12:15 pm

Kahin Center

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Emi Donald from Cornell University, who will discuss the distinction between tomboy and transman identities in Thailand. Emi Donald is a PhD candidate in History Department at Cornell University.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at the The Kahin Center,…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

Institute for African Development

Institute for European Studies

East Asia Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

12:00 pm

Virtual

Nuclear weapons and associated technologies have been primarily developed by and for Global North nations, often using the labor and natural resources of indigenous populations around the world, and often doing violence to those populations and their environments. As a result, many scholars analyze the development…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Institute for African Development

11:15 am

115 Sibley Hall

In rural areas on the peri-urban fringe of rapidly expanding African cities, urbanization can be interpreted and conceived as an unwelcome change threatening traditional ways of life and personal and community cultural identity of rural areas with customary land tenure arrangements and generally ethnically…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

Migrations Program

4:30 pm

Goldwin Smith Hall, 142

East Asia Program Lecture Series presents "Book Talk: Seeing China’s Belt and Road."

Speaker: Rachel Silvey, Professor, Department of Geography & Planning, University of Toronto

Description: Launched in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is China's signature trillion-dollar…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

South Asia Program

12:15 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Talk by William Lodge, II (Public Policy, Cornell University)

This presentation delves into the intersectional and syndemic barriers affecting HIV care among transgender women and Hijras (TGW) in India. Drawing on findings from a multi-method study conducted in Mumbai and New Delhi, the talk illustrates how…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

5:30 pm

Willard Straight Hall Theatre

Widely considered the most important film in the history of Ukranian cinema, Sergei Parajanov's Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors is a masterwork that boldly combines folkloric pageantry, fairy tale mysticism, and frenetic, hallucinatory cinematography.

Adapted from Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky's novel,…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

8:30 pm

Willard Straight Hall Theatre

Sasha is a young vampire with a very serious problem: she's too sensitive to kill! Frustrated by their daughter's empathy for humans, Sasha's parents decide to cut off her blood supply to force her to learn how to huntÉ or starve! Just as she decides to reject her vampire instincts and embrace a…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

3:30 pm

Rockefeller Hall, 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)

Speaker: Kathlene Baldanza, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, Penn State University

Description: In China, Korea, and Vietnam, the genre of “biographies of exemplary women” (列女傳) served both to celebrate individual women for their virtue and to promote widow chastity more broadly. The dozen…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

12:15 pm

Kahin Center

Gatty Lecture Series

This talk has been rescheduled from October 17, 2024 to January 30, 2025.

Join us for a talk by Joshua Babcock, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University, who will discuss the raciolinguistic distinctiveness and national identity in Singapore.

This Gatty…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

12:00 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Do acts of military insubordination affect states’ ability to prevent foreign aggression? Muhib Rahman, Cornell University, argues that military mutiny makes a state more vulnerable to international coercion. Mutinies help foreign adversaries differentiate weak targets from strong ones by “affecting” and “revealing…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Comparative Muslim Societies Program

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Institute for African Development

Institute for European Studies

Migrations Program

5:00 pm

Virtual

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.

Register here. Can’t attend? Contact…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

3:00 pm

ILR Conference Center, 423

Cornell Center on Global Democracy presents: Democratic Resistance and International Policy

Jan 28 3 – 4:30
ILR conference room 423

Brief Welcome and Introduction: Rachel Beatty Riedl, Peggy J. Koenig ’78 Director of the Center on Global Democracy

Opening Remarks: Kenneth Wollack,…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

South Asia Program

12:15 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Talk by Rohit Lamba (Economics, Cornell University)

India has a remarkable digital infrastructure, a burgeoning demographic dividend, a stable democracy, a high-performing high-tech services sector, a learned and arguably well-meaning elite, and a phenomenally successful diaspora. There is also rising…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

7:30 pm

Willard Straight Hall Theatre

Winner of the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the prestigious André Bazin Prize from Cahiers du Cinema, both celebrating outstanding feature debuts, this enthralling work from Vietnamese filmmaker Pham Thien An is a reverie on faith, loss, and nature expressed with uncommon invention and depth.

Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

12:00 pm

Johnson Museum of Art

Come learn about Cornell-China art connections and play with clay. You're invited to learn about the museum's connection to China via artwork and scholarship, view guardian figures in the museum, and create your own guardian figure from clay. Much of this time will be hands-on in the art studio.…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

South Asia Program

6:00 pm

Virtual

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…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

Institute for African Development

11:00 am

Uris Hall, G08

Roland Marchal, CNRS, SciencesPo

For a longtime observer of armed conflicts in Central and Eastern Africa, it is striking that we are witnessing a higher number of conflicts than in 1991. This presentation will address several recurrent aspects. First, Marchal will address the intricacies of violence and…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

Comparative Muslim Societies Program

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Institute for African Development

Institute for European Studies

South Asia Program

Migrations Program

12:00 pm

Uris Hall, G08

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…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

3:00 pm

Lincoln Hall, B20

Master Javanese gamelan musician Wakidi Dwidjomartono joins the Cornell Gamelan Ensemble and students taking Gamelan in Indonesian History and Cultures for a program of traditional Javanese gendhing.

Southeast Asia Program

Einaudi Center for International Studies

12:00 pm

Sibley Hall, 208

Join us for a talk with Cornell alums Sutee Anantsuksomsri, PhD and Nij Tontisirin, PhD where they discuss the role of street food in Bangkok's identity and development.

This talk will take place in Sibley Hall 208 on Monday, Decmeber 9 from 12:00pm to 2:30pm. The talk will be followed by lunch and a Q…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Comparative Muslim Societies Program

Southeast Asia Program

4:30 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Talk by Al Haj Khalifah U Aye Lwin (Religions for Peace Myanmar, Masjid Sujud Shah Utica NY)

Myanmar has a track record of forging unity in multiplicity, and Muslims have been an integral part of Myanmar society since the Pagan dynasty. Rohingyas were, in fact, prominent citizens, just like other Myanmar…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

12:15 pm

Kahin Center

atty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Dr. Kathryn "Kitsie" Emerson from EKALAYA Arts Cente, who will discuss the social critique in Javanese wayang. Dr. Emerson obtained PhD from the Leiden Institute of Asian Studies at Leiden University. Currently, Dr. Emerson serves as the Director of Ekalaya…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

Comparative Muslim Societies Program

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Institute for African Development

Institute for European Studies

South Asia Program

Migrations Program

5:00 pm

Uris Hall, G08

The Laidlaw Undergraduate Leadership and Research Program promotes ethical leadership and international research around the world—starting with the passionate leaders and learners found on campuses like Cornell. Open to first- and second-year students, the two-year Laidlaw program provides generous support to carry…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Migrations Program

2:30 pm

Plant Sciences, 404

As part of the day-long Refugee Pathways Symposium, organized as part of the community-engaged course, PUBPOL 3050/5050: Refugee Pathways and Resettlement Policy, in collaboration with Cornell Law School and the Migrations Program, Dr. Elizabeth Campbell, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees…