Dr. Robert S. Wicks, Professor Emeritus and Former Director of the Miami University Art Museum, will speak on “Numismatic Method in the Study of Early Southeast Asian Coinage” as part of the “Curatorial Practicum: Commerce, Currencies, and Commodities: Reconfiguring the Archive” (ARTH 4110/6010) course. The lecture…

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…

Join Resident Director for CASA Chile, Pilo Mella, and staff from the Office of Global Learning to learn more about studying abroad in Santiago, Chile.

This talk argues that income growth conditions citizens’ responses to changes in inequality. Poor and rich alike respond to rising inequality by demanding more redistribution when their incomes stagnate or decline. Income growth renders the poor less concerned about inequality and makes the rich think that the…

Talk by Dr. Lalitha Gopalan

Cinemas Dark and Slow in Digital India provides a sustained engagement with contemporary Indian feature films from outside the mainstream, including Aaranaya Kaandam, I.D., Kaul, Chauthi Koot, Cosmic Sex, and Gaali Beeja, to undercut the dominance of Bollywood-focused film…

2021 > Switzerland > Directed by Ramon & Silvan Zürcher

With Henrietta Confucius, Liliane Amuat, Ursina Lardi

Lisa is moving out. Mara is left behind. As boxes are shifted and cupboards built, abysses begin to open up and an emotional roller coaster is set in motion. A tragicomic catastrophe…

2021 > France > Directed by Audrey Diwan
With Anamaria Vartolomei, Kacey Mottet Klein, Luˆna Bajrami
The autobiographical drama of writer Annie Ernaux, who pursued an illegal abortion in 1960s France. A mixture of heartfelt coming-of-age narrative and crucial social critique that feels tragically…

2021 > Rwanda, United States, France, Canada > Directed by Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman
With Cheryl Isheja, Elvis Ngabo, Bertrand "Kaya Free" Ninteretse
A boisterous and idiosyncratic vision of Afrofuturist techno-revolution, in a tale of labor organization, intersexuality and…

This conference focuses on Kashmiri literature through extensive discussions of forms, genres, ecologies, and poetics that inhabit literary landscapes in Kashmir. By exploring multiple forms, genres, and languages of literary expression across disparate te mporalities and historical contexts the conference aims to…

Please join Cornell's Society for Buddhist Studies for the first lecture of the '22-'23 academic year, by Prof. Monima Chadha. Prof. Chadha is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Monash University, Australia, and the inaugural Jack Karp Fellow at Cornell's Sage School of Philosophy.

Prof…

Through an interdisciplinary curriculum that you can mold to your interests, the European studies minor provides the opportunity to explore Europe’s past, present, and future.

You will cultivate a knowledge of European languages, culture, history, politics, and international relations. The minor offers the…

Community involvement in public services delivery is widely acknowledged in the literature and practice as being pivotal to local development initiatives especially in cities of the global south. However, the nature and role of social composition of communities is rarely explored. This presentation applies a case…

Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili presents evidence from Afghanistan to illustrate how failure to break from Soviet-era centralized public administration undermined the massive state-building project and perpetuated a wedge between Afghan civil society and a state that failed to deliver on its promise.

Liberal…

Do you want to understand how human migration shapes our world on the move? In the Einaudi Center’s migration studies minor, you explore the factors that influence migrants’ decisions to migrate and drive their departure, arrival, and integration into new societies.

The minor is open to all Cornell…

There is a strong tendency in social and political sciences to simplify the academic use of the concept of populism. This is what populists do when they dichotomise reality into friends and enemies. The goal of this talk is to highlight and discuss why scholars have to develop an adaptive and multifaceted…

Talk by Qamar Adamjee

This talk, a research project in its early stages, takes three 18th century Qing-period enameled vessels in the Denver Art Museum collection as a starting point for exploring their function, meaning, and context of use within a Chinese Muslim community. The copper vase, covered box,…

Robtel Neajai Pailey is an IAD guest speaker who will speak to this question and more at a lecture based around her work in Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia.

Pailey is an assistant professor in international social and public policy…

2021 > Italy > Directed by Michelangelo Frammartino
With Paolo Cossi, Jacopo Elia, Denise Trombin, Nicola Lanza
The extraordinary adventure of the young members of the Piedmont Speleological Group who, having already explored all the caves of Northern Italy, changed course and went South to…

Come meet students, faculty, and staff and learn about the organizations that are part of the Latinx community at Cornell.

OPEN TO THE CORNELL COMMUNITY!

Hosted by the Latino Living Center, Latina/o Studies Program, Latinx Student Success Office.

Join the Johnson Museum of Art and Precious Okoyomon—Nigerian American poet, sculptor, and avant-garde chef—for a participatory talk exploring themes of migration, dispossession, and redress. Okoyomon’s large-scale, immersive artworks are especially concerned with the entangled fate of humans, plants, and animal…

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…

Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi

Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

What does it mean to think Southeast Asia archipelagically? What points of connection and convergence does an archipelagic method enable? In this talk, Dr. Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi offers notes…

Emma Belcher, president of Ploughshares Fund, joins a national panel of experts for a vital look at the future of nuclear security policy at a time when the United States, Russia, and other nations continue to maintain enough nuclear weapons to destroy life on earth.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine…

The annual International Fair showcases Cornell's global opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. Explore the fair and find out about international majors and minors, language study, study abroad, funding opportunities, global internships, and more.

The International Fair is sponsored by…

"Black Feminist Poetics and Language Teaching"
Luana Reis
Ph.D. Candidate and Portuguese Instructor, University of Pittsburgh

This talk discusses the inclusion of Black feminist poetic texts in language teaching. The objective is to rethink the roles of students and teachers in the…

One year ago, on August 15, 2021, the Taliban entered the Arg (Presidential palace) in Kabul, completing their astonishingly rapid takeover of Afghanistan. At the end of that same month, US forces completed withdrawal from Afghanistan – marking an end to the longest war in American history. One year later, our…

Digitalization in Africa: Pace, Challenges, Possibilities and Accomplishments

Hybrid link

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) impact has increased dramatically since the second half of the 20th century with accelerated pace since the beginning of the 21st century. The functioning of…

Charnvit Kasetsiri

Professor Emeritus, Pridi Banomyong International College, Thammasat University, Bangkok

A comparative studies of the two longest reigns of King Chulalongkorn of Siam and King Bhumibol of Thailand.

Charnvit Kasetsiri is a Professor Emeritus of Thammasat University, Bangkok,…

1991 > USA > Directed by Mira Nair
With Denzel Washington, Roshan Seth, Sarita Choudhury
A Romeo and Juliet romance that follows the tensions between passion and tradition when an Indian family, expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin in 1972, is forced to relocate to Mississippi. Intergenerational…

Welcome, opening, and requirementd for the course LATA 4000/6000 the Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) Program Weekly Seminar Series