HYBRID event: CCCI welcomes Lawrence Chua, of Syracuse University, to speak on "Provincializing China: Race and Architecture in Colonial-era Penang."

This presentation examines the role of architecture in racialization in 19th and 20th-century Penang. It uses three case studies: the Khoo Kongsi (…

Since 9/11, the U.S. has used armed drones to combat terrorists. Bush initiated the use of strikes; Obama accelerated the practice, especially in Pakistan; and, Trump institutionalized it further. Biden’s “over-the-horizon” counterterrorism strategy suggests he will also continue to rely on strikes. At the same…

The European university extension tradition started in the decade of 1870 in Cambridge and Oxford universities, and rapidly spread through Europe in the form of conferences of cultural diffusion and “Popular University”. In its origin, university extension is the result of two interconnected processes: the European…

Talk by Sharif Hozoori

Analyzing the situation of Afghanistan, its past struggle and instability, war and displacement, peace and conflict, scholars would argue that the external forces and power politics are influential and effective in articulation of events but the current research highlights a different…

How do we construct, deconstruct, and maintain Southeast Asia? Who is doing this labor and why? The sinews by which we entangle Southeast Asia take many forms: from the epic to the quotidian and every shade in between and beyond; as connective strands; as resonating sounds; as adjoining bridges; as shared images;…

Este seminario tiene como ambito de mejor entender como funciona el programa de la Tarjeta del Trabajador Fronterizo (TTF) en Mexico, su desarollo y sus efectos sobre los trabajadores, la industria y la sociedad.

Los apresentadores incluyen Dra. Martha Rojas Wiesner (El Colegio de la Frontera Sur), Dra.…

This webinar, hosted by the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, features experts in finance, international policy, and labor economics discussing the unprecedented sanctions being levied at Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine.

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 African…

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Professor Amy Rutenberg will discuss the idea that debates over U.S. manpower policy -because they rest on questions of personal liberty, collective responsibility, and competing visions of national security – end up substituting for much larger…

The Biden Administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan on August 31, 2021 focused attention on the plight of Afghans who supported U.S. and allied forces. In December 2001, shortly after the 9/11 attacks, Farid was hired by the U.S. Army to work as an interpreter/translator. He received a special immigration visa…

Talk by Michele Friedner (Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago)

The Indian state relates to the category of disability through the distribution of aids and appliances such as hearing aids, canes, and wheelchairs that are ‘make in India,’ as examples. In 2014, the state modernized its…

The migration studies minor is a university-wide, interdisciplinary undergraduate minor that prepares students to understand the historical and contemporary contexts and factors that drive international migration and shape migrant experiences around the globe. This minor draws on the rich course offerings found…

In this webcast, you’ll discover how Cornell University and its partners have helped Afghans at risk, what remains to be done, and how you can help. Advocates and immigration policy experts from No One Left Behind, Human Rights First, and the Immigrant Advocates Response Collaborative will discuss how they’re…

MartÍn Caparrós is a distinguished Argentine author, writer, and narrative journalist, and one of the fundamental Latin American voices of our time. In 2017, he was awarded the prestigious Maria Moors Cabot award by the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, for outstanding reporting on America; specifying work…

What are the prospects for halting China’s mass atrocities in the Uyghur region, which are now entering their fifth year since the start in 2017? An update and discussion. Our special guest is Tursunay Ziyawudun, a survivor of the Chinese concentration camps in the region known in Chinese as Xinjiang. Translation…

Is the Einaudi Center's International Relations minor for you? Here's a chance to find out. Graduates go on to successful careers in fields like international law, economics, agriculture, trade, finance, journalism, education, and government service.

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This is a hybrid lecture. Professor Caparrós will be speaking in-person at G01 Stimson Hall as well as virtually, use the link below to register to attend virtually.

MartÍn Caparrós is a distinguished Argentine author, writer, and narrative journalist, and one of the fundamental Latin American voices of our…

In this webcast, an interdisciplinary group of Cornell University experts will discuss how the concept of invasion characterizes the movements of humans, plants, and animals as threatening. They’ll dive into the range of work that address "invasive species," exploring how it aligns with or diverges from…

Talk by Uttara Shahani (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, UK)

The 1947 partition of India is inadequately understood within the context of earlier partitions in the British Indian empire. Sindh, an understudied province in the historiography on partition, provides a particularly important angle…

The Russian invasion of Ukraine constitutes the first major land war in Europe in decades. It threatens lives across the region, the post–Cold War international order—and the stability of the global economy, as the United States, European allies, and countries around the world have imposed severe sanctions on…

Polson Institute for Global Development Seminar
A conversation with Ching Kwan Lee, UCLA

Professor Ching Kwan Lee explores the making of 'Global China' as an economic, cultural, and political phenomenon in this conversation with Jenny Goldstein (assistant professor of global development at…

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 African…

Kimberly Kay Hoang is an Associate Professor of Sociology and the College and the Director of Global Studies at the University of Chicago. She is an award winning scholar, author, and teacher- her work having received over 18 prizes from several different professional associations. Additionally, she has received…

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Oumar Ba discusses the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its relationship with African states at this week's seminar with the Reppy Institute. RSVP to attend and learn more below.

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Oumar Ba is an Assistant…

Against a US backdrop of an agricultural ‘labor shortage’, available data by the Office for Foreign Labor Certification shows that the number of received applications increased between 2019 and 2020 by 8% from 13,081 to 14,131 which translates into an increase from 257,667 to 275,430 certified positions. Despite…

2019 > Senegal > Directed by Mati Diop
With Mama Sane, Amadou Mbow, Ibrahima Traore
In a suburb of Dakar, workers on the construction site of a futuristic tower, without pay for months, decide to leave for Portugal in search of a better future. Among them is Souleiman, the lover of Ada. Though the…

Join the Institute for African Development (IAD) at Cornell Cinema on 3/2 at 7pm for the screening of Mati Diop's Atlantics with a post-screening discussion with Tristan Ivory, Assistant Professor of International and Comparative Labor, Department of Sociology. This film is a part of the Sub-Saharan African…

This talk focuses on some of the key ideas of my ethnographic monograph Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City. Drawing on more than 24 months of ethnographic research in the Uyghur region of Northwest China and nearby Kazakhstan between 2011 and 2020, open-source and internal…

CEAS publications and EAP welcome author Scott Mehl, Colgate University to discuss his book, "The Ends of Meter in Modern Japanese Poetry."

In "The Ends of Meter in Modern Japanese Poetry", Scott Mehl analyzes the complex response of Meiji-era Japanese poets and readers to the challenge…

How to green a petrostate: Resource nationalism and post-oil futures in the Arabian Peninsula

Resource nationalism has taken many shapes in the Arabian Peninsula since the discovery of large oil and gas reserves in the early- and mid-20th century. As the region assumed its place in hegemonic global…