2002 > Japan > Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
An animated tale of a young girl named Chihiro whose fantastic adventures are reminiscent of those in Alice in Wonderland. Winner of Best Animated Feature Oscar in 2002. The original Japanese language will be shown on March 24 & 26, and the English dubbed…

Members of the New York Baroque Dance Company, Catherine Turocy, director, will collaborate with Rebecca Harris-Warrick in a unique opera production, The Pleasures of the Quarrel: Three Parisian Operatic Hits from the Contested Season of 1753. The performance imagines a mash-up between factions of opera lovers in…

Poised for Growth: Cohort Learning and Its Effects on Accelerated Startups’ Growth

Registration Link: https://cglink.me/2cm/r1538392

Startup accelerators have emerged as important loci for organizational learning among early-stage startups. These…

This webinar series features diverse voices from the African continent and the Diaspora on a wide range of themes, challenges, breakthroughs in cutting-edge research outcomes, innovations, and discoveries across all disciplines and area studies. It is open to the global public. Register here

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The Cornell-Syracuse South Asia Consortium presents a symposium interrogating the histories and trajectories of anti-Asian violences.

The recent surge of racially motivated attacks on Asians in the United States brought renewed attention to the issue of anti-Asian violence. It is necessary to situate this…

LACS Film Series Spring 2022

Mecha, a woman in her 50s with several teenage children and a husband, Gregorio, wants to remain looking young. In order to avoid the hot and humid weather of the city, the family spends the summers in their decaying country estate named La Mandrágora. After Mecha falls and…

Dmitry Bykov is one of Russia’s leading public intellectuals, and a Visiting Scholar hosted by Cornell’s Institute for European Studies, under the auspices of the Open Society University Network. Meet with Dmitry for an hour of public conversation with Mabel Berezin, Director of the Institute for European Studies…

This is the second day of a two-day virtual workshop on peacebuilding, climate change, and migration. The first day of the workshop is March 22, 2022; participants are welcome to attend for just one or both days.

On this second day, we will examine understudied regions which are at substantial risk of…

Kyle Anderson, assistant professor at SUNY Old Westbury, will give a talk on his recently published book "The Egyptian Labor Corps: Race, Space, and Place in the First World War" (University of Texas Press, 2021).

In-person attendance is open to current Cornell students, faculty and staff. The…

Join Cornell faculty and scholars at Global Hubs worldwide for these dynamic conversations about Hubs research themes and potential collaborations. We encourage Cornell and partner faculty to register and attend. Others interested in Hubs are welcome. All salons will be held virtually from 8:15 to 9:30 a.m. ET.…

The Israeli Black Panthers, founded in 1971, was one of the first movements in Israel fighting for social justice for Jews from Arab and Muslim countries (also known as Mizrahi Jews). On March 22 co-founder and former leader of the Israeli Black Panthers, Reuven Abergel, will give a talk entitled "Darkness in…

This is the first day of a two-day virtual workshop which takes a novel approach to peacebuilding, climate change and migration. The first day of the workshop is March 22, 2022; participants are welcome to attend for just one or both days.

On this first day we will explore the following questions: What do we…

CEAS (Cornell East Asia Series) welcomes author Jianjun He to discuss his book, 'Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue: An Annotated Translation of Wu Yue Chunqiu'.

Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue is the first complete English translation of Wu Yue Chunqiu, a chronicle of two neighboring…

For its 2021-22 season, the Ithaca-based Cherry Artists’ Collective is harnessing the power of performance to engage communities around urgent issues related to migration, racism, and dispossession. The four productions in The Cherry’s “Migrations” season span different geographical and philosophical perspectives…

Co-Sponsor: Cornell University Public Health Program

This presentation draws from a chapter in Alex Nading's book in progress, Non-Traditional Causes: Kidney Disease, Climate Change, and Life Support in Nicaragua’s Sugar Plantation Zone. In it, he follows the treatment trajectories of former sugarcane…

Talk by Nayanika Mathur (Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK)

This talk weaves together beastly tales of big cats that make prey of humans in India to ask what may they be telling us about a planet in crisis. There are many theories on why and how a big cat comes to prey on humans, with the ecological…

2007 > Japan > Directed by Satoshi Kon
With Megumi Hayashibara, T™ru Furuya, K™ichi Yamadera, Satomi Koorogi
In this masterly example of Japanese anime that looks at the connection between movies and dreams, our heroine is a genius scientist by day, and an eighteen-year-old dream warrior named…

Spring 2022 Medieval Studies Graduate Student Roundtable

Please join us at the Medieval Studies Graduate Student Roundtable this semester! The Roundtable is a community space where everyone's voice and presence are valued whether or not they have expertise on the topic being presented. It is both a…

Registration Link: https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/overview/K031822/

According to Chainanalysis’ 2021 Global Crypto Adoption Index, global adoption of cryptocurrency has grown 881% in the last year and more than 2300% since 2019.…

Over two days, scholars, writers, practitioners, activists, and students across institutions are coming together virtually to explores the relationship between borders, captivity, and memory, and how it shapes the racialization of migration and the construction of national identity.

The first day of the…

Experts, Experiences, and Discussion

Hosted by Global Cornell, this virtual forum gives Cornell faculty, staff, and students a time to come together, learn more about the unprovoked invasion—and stand with the Ukrainian people.

Join scholars based in Ukraine, and Cornell faculty and students, as they…

The Wa people, who live between Burma and China, undercut many stereotypes about primitive mountain-folks. They are often labelled headhunters, but Magnus Fiskesjö’s new book, Stories from an Ancient Land: Perspectives on Wa History and Culture (Berghahn Books, 2021), confirms that taking head trophies is actually…

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.

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The United States is not the only country where democracy is vulnerable. The forces of polarization, populism, and autocracy have provoked deep conflict and democratic backsliding across the globe in recent years. Countries such as Venezuela, Turkey, Hungary, and Russia that once seemed to be on the road to…

This is a hybrid event. Registration information is below.

Dr. Henry Maar argues for the significance of the often-overlooked Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign to the arms control talks at the end of the Cold War. Launched in 1979 based on the ideas of Randall Forsberg, the Freeze campaign rallied the public…

2021 > Ethiopia > Directed by Jessica Beshir
Ethiopian legend has it that khat, a stimulant leaf, was found by Sufi Imams in search of eternity. Inspired by this myth, Faya Dayi is a spiritual journey into the highlands of Harar immersed in the rituals of khat, a leaf that Sufi Muslims chewed for…

This presentation explores how female representations encountered in Western prints, Persian painting, and South Asian sculpture were re-contextualized in Mughal environments of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries and re-imagined in Mughal paintings. Mughal patrons and artists negotiated elements…

Ato Kwamena Onoma is a program officer at the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa. He is the author of Anti-Refugee Violence and African Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and The Politics of Property Rights Institutions in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

This…

Join the staff and students from the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement for a conversation with Dr. Agustín Cano Menoni, professor, extensionist and researcher at the Universidad de la República de Uruguay.

Dr. Menoni is visiting Cornell so we can learn from and with one another about Extension…

"Bilingual Community-Based Language Pedagogy: An Arab-Jewish Language Café in Jerusalem"
Yarden Kedar
Israel Institute Visiting Faculty, Department of Psychology, Cornell University

The Good Neighbors – Abu Tor/Al-Thuri project is a grassroots, volunteer-based initiative that started…