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…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture Series.

Andrew Weintraub, Department of Music, University of Pittsburgh

Andrew N. Weintraub is Professor of Music at the University of Pittsburgh, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in ethnomusicology and popular music and directs the…

Sarah Brayne presents her recent book Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing (Oxford Scholarship Online, 2020). She is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin.

This seminar is part of a series organized by the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict…

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides full funding for graduate and professional students conducting research or teaching in any field in more than 150 countries. Open to U.S. citizens only.

The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program supports doctoral students conducting research…

In Yiwu, a town in southeast China known as the world’s largest wholesale center for manufactured commodities for daily consumption, thousands of Chinese Muslims (Hui) work as middlemen between Chinese suppliers and foreign traders. Despite their indispensable role in the trade, many of them act more like clerks…

Cornell's Migrations initiative is hosting the Migration as Practice: Pedagogy Workshop. Designed for faculty and instructors, the workshop will focus on specific strategies for designing inclusive and reflective pedagogy with transformative outcomes. It will also provide training on how to codevelop…

Ithaca Premiere

2019 > Spain > Directed by Robert Bahar & Almudena Carracedo

Filmed over six years, The Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain's 40-year dictatorship under General Franco as they organize a groundbreaking international lawsuit and fight a "…

Sites at the Periphery: Making Experimental Art Spaces in Beijing

Nancy P. Lin

Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University

The Pulse of Art History Lecture Series

9.28.21 4:45pm

Location: Goldwin Smith G22

Abstract:

Developing without the official support of…

Afghan refugees have long comprised the largest or second-largest group of refugees in the world, and the number of Afghans seeking safety outside Afghanistan increased dramatically even before the U.S. government's chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Betsy Fisher, Director of Strategy at International…

At the Edge of China—life in a Tibetan town is the focus of this talk by our guest speaker Barbara Demick, journalist, and author (Eat the Buddha, Penguin Random House, 2021). Under Xi Jinping, the Chinese Communist Party has exhibited zero tolerance for any slippage at the edges of the empire. The mass…

The Africana Studies & Research Center (ASRC) at Cornell University will host a lecture by Meagan Sylvester: People Power Movements in Caribbean Festival Culture

Meagan Sylvester, - Senior Lecturer, Music Sociologist, Author, Researcher.

Meagan Sylvester is a published author from the Caribbean…

Actors across latitudes and cultures amaze their audiences by displaying at will the physical ‘symptoms’ of emotions such blushing, shivering, and weeping. Sanskrit sources offer almost two millennia of sophisticated reflections on the emotional life of actors, the hidden engine lying behind their almost eerie…

Ithaca Premiere

2021 > Germany/France > Directed by Christian Petzold

With Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski

Dive into the eerie and fantastical romance from Germany's preeminent filmmaker, Christian Petzold. A water nymph of European mythology, Undine is cursed with having to kill her…

Please join Cornell's Society for Buddhist Studies, for a talk by Prof. Laura Guerrero (Philosophy, William & Mary).

In a recent article Kris McDaniel has suggested that a fruitful way to understand the Abhidharma distinction between conventional reality and ultimate reality is as a distinction…

The Cornell Institute for African Development (IAD) hosts a monthly webinar on contemporary African issues. 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…

1934 > China > Directed by Wu Yonggang

With Ruan Lingyu, Tian Jian, Zhizhi Zhang

A masterpiece of Chinese cinema's silent era, this heart-wrenching tale of a single mother who works as a prostitute so she can afford an education for her young son stars legendary actress Ruan Lingyu. The…

IXCANUL (“volcano” in the Kaqchikel language, English Subtitles)

Time: 6-8 PM | Place: G08 Uris Hall

This year’s LACS Film Series will screen movies from all over the region, highlighting the program’s recent focus on the Caribbean. During the Fall semester we’ll watch and discuss movies from North…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture Series.

Sandy Chang, Department of History, University of Florida

Sandy F. Chang is an assistant professor in Modern Asian History at the University of Florida. She specializes in Chinese migration, gender, and sexuality studies in Southeast Asia and the…

Chiara Ruffa discusses a new working paper, "Gender, Socialization, and Norms of Restraint: Findings from the US Military Academy at West Point." She is an Academy Fellow at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University and Associate Professor in War Studies, Swedish Defense…

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…

A discussion with CATO's Doug Bandow and Prof. Sarah Kreps.

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.

Contact:…

In this moment of hyper-politicized border and migration issues, questions of representation are crucial. This roundtable of scholars, journalists, and practitioners will address the needs and challenges of producing stories about complex border issues along with the potential for different stories to effect real…

Aesthetics and Ethics of Return: Trauma, Militarism and Modernities in Southeast Asia

Arguing for an ethics of return, the book Return Engagements is a political-economic critique of the nation-state, wars then and now, and global art markets, with a focus on Việt Nam and Cambodia. Artist, curator, and…

For many Cubans, Fidel Castro’s Revolution represented deliverance from a legacy of inequality and national disappointment. For others—especially those exiled in the United States—Cuba’s turn to socialism made the prerevolutionary period look like paradise lost. Michael J. Bustamante unsettles this familiar schism…

Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema demonstrates how the dancer-actress comes to be a central figure in articulating South Asian cultural modernities. Shifting attention from narrative-driven analyses and turning instead to gesture, movement vocabulary, and the social practices around…

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…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture Series.

Sara Ann Swenson, Department of Religion, Dartmouth

Sara Ann Swenson researches contemporary Buddhism in Vietnam. Her current work examines rising trends of Buddhist volunteerism in Vietnam’s fastest growing urban area, Ho Chi Minh City. Drawing on…

Anjali Dayal (Fordham University) discusses her new book Incredible Commitments: How UN Peacekeeping Failures Shape Peace Processes, out by Cambridge University Press (2021).

This seminar is part of a series organized by the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) and the Gender and Security…

** Co-sponsored by Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies (COPOS)

Constructed during the rule of the French Lusignan dynasty (1192–1489), the Gothic cathedrals and churches of Cyprus are famous for their pronounced Westernizing style, which reshaped and continues to distinguish their Levantine setting.…