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…

Margaret E. Roberts, Associate Professor of Political Science at University of California at San Diego, discusses her book Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall (Princeton University Press, 2018).

The author will join for a conversation about their work. No formal…

1996 > Hong Kong > Directed by Wong Kar Wai
With Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Charlie Yeung
Wong Kar Wai's take on love and loss in a '90s, urban, neon-lit setting, but a darker film than its companion piece, Chungking Express. "An exhilarating rush of a movie. Go-for…

Ithaca Premiere>2019 > Brazil > Directed by Sandra Kogut
With Regina Case
"A chaotic class dramedy where the help and the helped wind up switching places, Three Summers (Trs Ver›es) marks another occasion for Brazilian actress Regina Case (The Second Mother) to shine in the role of a…

African Islamic modernity is a discourse, a historical condition, and a project that highlights the entanglements of African racial identities, Islamic forms of life, and modernity as the globally hegemonic mode of social, economic, and political being. While there are many lineages by which one might trace the…

"Social Justice and the University Language Learner"
Cassandra Glynn (Concordia College), Pamela Wesely (University of Iowa), and Beth Wassell (Rowan University)

Teaching for and about social justice positively influences all students, yet integrating social justice education into the college…

Odysseys: Ithaca Writers on Exile, Wandering, and Searching for Home is a reading series presented by Ithaca City of Asylum and co-sponsored by Global Cornell and Cornell's Migrations initiative.

Homer’s Odyssey recounts the adventures of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, as he seeks to return home after the…

The Language Resource Center offers grants for effective and innovative projects that enhance language instruction at Cornell. We welcome proposals from all languages and all levels of instruction. Lecturers, senior lecturers, and professors who are involved with language teaching and do not have visiting status…

Waste work across South Asia is structured by caste, especially as low or non-caste groups (Dalits) have remained historically dominant in this form of labor. This continues to be true in contemporary Pakistan, where uneven urbanization driven by a consumption-based economy has shifted spatial relations along the…

This panel will bring together scholars who provide new perspectives on the material and moral reparations of the postcolonial, post-Nazi and post-communist eras in Germany, as well as the significance of these restitutions in serving as models for transitional justice and international law. It will explore both…

In contrast to the objective conditions and the current images of Africa in the global geo-politics measured by indicators of socio-economic performance, as the cradle of humankind, for tens of thousands of years the people of the continent exhibited what Basil Davidson referred to as the African genius. From 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 African…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture series

Alexandra Dalferro, PhD Candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology, Cornell University

Silk textiles woven in Surin Province are recognized across Thailand for the complex matmi, or ikat, patterns they bear. Matmi patterns are achieved by tying hundreds…

1991 > Hong Kong > Directed by Wong Kar Wai
With Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing, Maggie Cheung
Wong Kar Wai's second feature is a typically rapturous and melancholy erotic tale about a man and two women drifting through Hong Kong in 1960. In Cantonese, Shanghainese, Tagalog & Mandarin. Subtitled…

Laura Stone '90 is Deputy Assistant Secretary for South Asia, overseeing U.S. policy towards and relations with India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Maldives, and Bhutan. She will discuss her wide-ranging career in the U.S. Foreign Service, as well as her perspective on diplomatic statecraft in the 21st…

Following the 1655 invasion of Spanish Jamaica, English forces waged guerilla warfare on two fronts. The first was against a small Spanish resistance that maintained a toehold on the island despite the initial Spanish surrender. The defeat of that beleaguered resistance, however, depended on the outcome of the…

'Hukou' and 'Suzhi' as Technologies of Governing Citizenship and Migration in China

CCCI welcomes Chenchen Zhang, Lecturer in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queens University, Belfast

Abstract: This talk looks at the genealogy and contemporary…

Governments across the developing world rely on their armed forces for domestic policing operations. Advocates of these “mano dura” (iron fist) policies view them as necessary to control crime, while detractors claim they undermine human rights. We experimentally evaluate a military policing intervention in Cali,…

Rajasingham’s talk will draw from her book, Assembling Ethnicities in Neoliberal Times, to argue that Sri Lanka’s thirty-year ethnic war, and post-conflict contexts must be understood as shaped by the forces of global capitalism. She makes her arguments through an examination of ethnographic fictions— work invested…

Presenter: Beverly Bossler, Brown University

The Dao of soliciting a patron: Zheng Xia 鄭 俠 (1041-1119)'s "Letter presented to [the] Transport Intendant" 上漕車書 (Anon, Guo chao er bai jia ming xian wen cui 國朝二百家名賢文粹)

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC) 古文品讀 is a reading…

In the past 15 years, emerging markets (EM) have come to represent the largest share of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and made gains in economic development and political influence; in turn, their companies have taken on a new level of importance in driving innovation, local development and global competition…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture series

Mai Van Tran, Ph.D., Department of Government, Cornell University

What accounts for the survival and long-term commitment of activists to social movements under repression? I argue for the role of an important yet oft-neglected player: civilian…

Please join us March 4, 2021 at 5 pm EST for the first virtual Science on Tap! This month, we welcome Dr. Yangyang Cheng and her talk, "When Scientists Cross Water," about the ethics and governance of science, focusing on China and China-US relations.

RSVP 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…

Sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Paul Humphrey received his PhD in Modern Languages from the University of Birmingham (2013), and his research focuses on gender, sexuality and African-derived religions in Caribbean literature. His…

Prof. Mona Krook leads an interactive discussion of her new book, Violence Against Women in Politics (Oxford University Press, 2020).

The author will join for a conversation about their work. No formal presentation will be given; please read in advance. A link to the reading will be sent with the…

1988 > Hong Kong > Directed by Wong Kar Wai
With Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, Jacky Cheung
Set amidst Hong Kong's ruthless, neon-lit gangland underworld, this operatic saga of ambition, honor, and revenge stars Andy Lau as a small-time mob enforcer who finds himself torn between a burgeoning…

Ithaca Premiere>2020 > Spain > Directed by Nuria Gimenez
Using text from a woman's diary to accompany silent images of gorgeous home movie footage shot by her wealthy industrialist husband while traveling the world with him from the 1940s into the 1960s, this travelogue morphs into melodrama in…

Film is Sold Out, but Panel discussion with filmmaker Giulia Bertoluzzi on Tues Mar 2 at noon is still open, register here.

Ithaca Premiere>2018 > Italy/Tunisia > Directed by Giulia Bertoluzzi
Set primarily in Zarzis, Tunisia, and the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, Strange Fish tells the…

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports college graduates conducting research or teaching in any field in more than 150 countries. Applications are due in the fall; students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are encouraged to start the process in their junior year.

United States…