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Lancet Citizens’ Commission
Pathways to Universal HealthCare for India’s 1.3 billion

The Lancet Citizens’ Commission on Reimagining India’s Health System is a cross- sectoral research endeavor to lay…

Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…

Forging Lasting Peace: Movements for Justice in a Pluralist World (Bartels World Affairs Lecture)

In our ethnically, racially, linguistically, and religiously diverse world, how do we find common ground? Amid ongoing conflict and violence, how do we foster lasting peace? In our world full of inequalities,…

Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…

This talk by Mey-Yen Moriuchi (LaSalle University) explores the history of Chinese migration to Cuba, which began with the coolie trade in the mid-nineteenth century. Between 1847 and 1874, approximately 150,000 Chinese were brought to Cuba under termed contracts to fulfill a labor shortage on the sugarcane…

Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…

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Julia Zhu is a PhD candidate in Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University.

On the move: How comparative immigration policies shape migration decisions in a globalized world

How high-…

Open to members of the Cornell community only.

In the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Sergio (Sergio Corrieri), an affluent writer, chooses to stay behind in Cuba while his wife and family escape to neighboring Miami. Sergio is pessimistic about the revolution's promise to bring sweeping change…

Co-sponsored by the East Asia Program

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In 1905, as the Russo-Japanese War deepened and the rise of the Meiji Empire began to take hold including Japan’s annexation of the Korean peninsula, a…

Join Wendy Wolford and Jason W. Moore for a critical conversation on our contemporary planetary predicament and how different ways of conceptualizing it might entail different strategies for transformative change.

A presentation of the Polson Institute for Global Development

Wendy Wolford is the…

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Subrina Shen is an assistant professor at the Department of Management at the McCombs School of Business, the University of Texas at Austin.

When having a higher-status follower promotes exploration:…

The Lower Tapajós River is a multiethnic territory located in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon Forest, in the Pará state. This region is the dwelling place of 13 indigenous peoples, hundreds of traditional riverside communities, and dozens of quilombos (formerly enslaved communities with a background of anti-…

Chicana artist Sandy Rodriguez’s Codex Rodriguez Mondragón (2017—) records the ecological and political crises of our time by engaging contemporary realities of BIPOC and migrant peoples. Several of her maps and illustrations mark, record, & illuminate the farmworker communities of the U.S. and Mexico border…

Arturo Escobar Location: Warren B74 and Zoom This talk examines emerging narratives of life that differ significantly from dominant anthropocentric perspectives of the world and their associated extractive modes of global development. Based on the notion of radical interdependence, these narratives propose a new…

Idrissou Mora-Kpai is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Arts, Sciences and Studies at Ithaca College and an award winning filmmaker whose films have been screened world-wide at numerous prestigious festivals, such as Berlin, Rotterdam, Vienna, Milano, Busan, Sheffield, and garnered many international…

Centering BIPOC voices and creative knowledge of the natural and built environments of the Americas, this discussion will include the multiple migrations of humans, animals, plants, and other beings that have storied or narrativized this land, building on the place-based knowledge of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ (Cayuga…

"What Everyone Should Know about ASL and American Deaf Culture"
Corrine Occhino
Assistant Professor of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Syracuse University

ASL (American Sign Language) is experiencing a pop-culture moment. In the past few years, ASL has been visible in TV-shows…

Andressa Lanchotti

The Minas Gerais State Prosecutor’s Office actions in search for reparation for the Vale’s mining disaster in Brumadinho

On January 25, 2019, three tailings’ dams owned by Vale, a Brazilian multinational corporation which is the largest producer of iron ore and nickel in the world,…

Emily Vázquez Enríquez writes at the intersection of the environmental humanities and the fields of border and migration studies. Her first book project theorizes the concept of border biomes to think about the mutual entanglement between human and nonhuman entities in relation to border settings and migration…

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.

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Cosponsors: Africana Studies and Research Center/Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies (FGSS)

In this talk, Amarilys Estrella (Rice University) explores the everyday negotiations that Black Dominican women of Haitian descent…

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

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…