LACS Weekly Seminar

This talk explores the practical negotiations, discursive contests, and social aspirations surrounding print over a century of political transformation, from the late colonial era to the Mexican Revolution. Centering on the diverse communities that worked behind the scenes at urban…

Talk by Jomy Abraham

Wars, pogroms, environmental catastrophes, and resulting refugee crises turn certain geographies into killing fields. We are witnessing ‘unproductive’ geographies and population groups being abandoned to perish. The contemporary world is seeing new modes of narratives and texts emerging…

Learn about the state of the anti-military movement in Myanmar from an expert panel, hosted by the Cornell University Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) in both English and Burmese on March 27, 2023. Featured speakers will include members of the National Unity Government of Myanmar and a former senior State Department…

2022 > Philippines > Directed by Martika Ramirez Escobar
With Sheila Francisco, Bong Cabrera, Rocky Salumbides
Aging film director Leonor Reyes finds herself down on her luck until a fortuitus accident plunges her directly into one of her unfinished screenplays. Subtitled. More at…

Featuring performance and video artist Soni Kum and her collaborators Hiroki Yamamoto and Kazuya Takagawa, this symposium will address themes of borders, visibility, and invisibility in relation to the Johnson Museum’s current exhibition Morning Dew: The Stigma of Being “Brainwashed,” Kum’s inaugural installation…

"Guiding SLA Principles and Assessment"
Florencia Henshaw
Director of Advanced Spanish, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

The goal of this interactive session is to help language educators understand how they can develop materials and implement classroom strategies that are…

Registration Link: https://cglink.me/2cm/r2042282

The Cornell S.C. Johnson College of Business Emerging Markets Theme, in collaboration with China Institute for Economic Research (CICER), the Cornell China Center, and the Emerging Markets Institute, brings…

Bògòlanfini : cloth and culture

Friday, March 24, 2023 4:30pm Willard Straight Hall, Browsing Library Reception follows

Co-sponsored by the Johnson Museum of Art

The event is made possible by the UISFL grant, U. S. Department of Education

Join Trent Walker, a specialist in mainland Southeast Asian manuscript cultures from the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford, and Trina Parks, Conservator for Rare and Distinctive Collections at Cornell University Library, for an in-depth, hands-on workshop in the Kroch Library exploring some of the…

A discussion and a reflection on the Brazilian film "Aquarius" (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2016).

Dr. Carolyn Fornoff is an Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies in Romance Studies.

This is an in-person event and it is open to everyone.

Institute for African Development Weekly Seminar Series

In this seminar, we will explore promising avenues to improve the science-policy interface in Africa. The seminar will cover multiple themes under this broad umbrella, including (a) reviews of productive modes of interfacing science and policy, (b)…

Far-right political parties have recently been on the rise throughout Western Europe while social democratic parties have experienced an electoral decline. By asking what the roots of the far-right’s success are, why social democratic parties have lost ground, and if these developments are related, this talk…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Trent Walker, (Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University), which will focus on Buddhist Poetry in Cambodia.

This Gatty Lecture (co-sponsored by the Religious Studies Program) will take place at the Kahin Center, but people are also…

It is now widely accepted that the age of decolonization was also a turning point in the history of democracy, as the vast majority of the non-European world replaced imperial rule with democratic republics. Although this fact is taken for granted, scholarly attention so far has been focused on the nationalist…

The Pregnant Tree and the Goblin (2019, 115 minutes) by Kim Dongryung, Park Kyoungtae

In a shanty village located next to the US military base in Uijungbu, lives a former US military comfort woman named Park Insun. Living in the village for more than 40 years, Insun feels uneasy after the news announcement…

Bartels World Affairs Lecture In this year's Bartels lecture from the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, former president of Costa Rica Carlos Alvarado Quesada shares how conservation and sustainability are crucial for preserving democracy around the world. Costa Rica is one of the most biodiverse…

LACS Weekly Seminar

The environmental crisis accentuates inequality. In Latin America and the Caribbean, the most vulnerable populations often reside in informal, precarious, or popular settlements, which are more exposed to climate events and generally have less access to infrastructure and ecosystem…

A family of refugees from Sudan has landed in cold, upstate New York
just as an administration hostile to immigrants takes over and the Refugee Center overseeing their resettlement is faced with a battle for its own survival.

Join students and faculty from GDEV 2105: Critical Global Citizenship, in…

Sony Coráñez Bolton will be talking about his book Crip Colony: Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines. He is an assistant professor Latinx and Latin American Studies and Spanish at Amherst College. The event is sponsored by the CNY Humanities Corridor Group “Global…

Talk by Nilay Ozok

Kurdish emirates came under Ottoman rule in the sixteenth century within the context of the Ottoman-Safavid imperial rivalry. Until the mid-nineteenth century, the Kurdish begs maintained a degree of “autonomy” recognized by successive Ottoman sultans. This autonomy entailed various…

China researchers from many fields have adapted their inquiry due to the effects of the ongoing polycrisis — border exclusions, restrictions on movement, illness, and economic decoupling. This symposium will think through the challenges and obstacles that recent disruptions have presented to transregional China…

Leading gamelan musicians in the US join the Cornell Gamelan Ensemble for a klenengan, a long and relatively informal gathering that best accommodates the temporal expansiveness of Javanese gamelan music. Audience members are free to come and go, to enjoy snacks, and even to chat quietly with one another. The…

Indonesian Night 2023 is the biggest annual event of the Cornell Indonesian Association. The purpose of Indonesian Week 2023 is to promote the richness of Indonesian culture and arts to Cornell, creating awareness among guests of the beauty and variety of Indonesia to the whole Cornell University community. The…

A conversation about encounters, collaborations, and commitments that shape, motivate, and inspire anthropologists.

Co-sponsored by the Society for the Humanities; Science and Technology Studies; and the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. Thank you.

Ashawari Chaudhuri is a visiting…

This is a meeting in which students of Portuguese and the Portuguese-speaking community at Cornell will meet students, professors, teachers, and representatives of Afro-Brazilian organizations to read (or partially read) "O Olho Azul" by Toni Morrison.

The meeting will be in Portuguese and it is…

The 2023 Preston H. Thomas Memorial Symposium Exhibition highlights the work of leading creative experts around the world that explores and integrates regional cultural, material, technological, and spatial practices in the rural-urban territories of East and Southeast Asia. Through a collection of visual materials…

2022 > US > Directed by David Siev
With Skyler Janssen, Michael Meinhold, Chun Siev, Jaclyn Siev
David Siev's directorial debut captures a closely-knit Asian American family living in rural Michigan during the pandemic as they fight to keep their local restaurant and American dream alive.…

Risking their lives along a network of dangerous Colombian highways to confronting the wounds of leaving home through poetry, Nos Vemos Pronto documents first-hand the treacherous and diverse experiences of Venezuelan refugees in Colombia. Filmed in various regions throughout Colombia, from the Venezuelan border to…

Professional Directions: A Conversation with Documentary Filmmaker – David Siev (BAD AXE)

March 16th, 4:30–5:30 p.m., Film Forum at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts (430 College Ave.)

A screening of BAD AXE, directed by David Siev, will happen on March 16th at 7:00 p.m., followed by a Q…

Professor Fabien Nkot is the Secretary General, Ministry of Secondary Education (MINESEC), former Special Advisor to the Prime Minister, Republic of Cameroon, and University Professor, Public Law and Political Science, University of Yaounde 2, Republic of Cameroon.

The IAD Special Topic Seminar Series…