Past Events
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
3:00 pm
Stimson Hall, G25
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…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Institute for African Development
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
5:00 pm
Alice Statler Auditorium
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,…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for European Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
4:00 pm
Virtual
Join the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs as we welcome Jens David Ohlin and Neta Crawford to discuss Russian war crimes in Ukraine. The event is moderated by Rep. Steve Israel and Prof. Doug Kriner. Speakers Neta Crawford, Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science, Boston University Prof.…
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
South Asia Program
2:00 pm
Virtual
Please join us for a talk by Eugene Wang (Harvard).
A Buddhist cave decorated with scenes of meditation at once makes perfect sense and no sense at all. It makes sense in view of the centrality of meditation in Buddhist imagination and practice. It makes no sense in that nowhere in Buddhist discourse do we…
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
5:00 pm
Virtual
Book talk with Andrew Simon (Ph.D. '17).
"Media of the Masses" investigates the social life of an everyday technology—the cassette tape—to offer a multisensory history of modern Egypt. Over the 1970s and 1980s, cassettes became a ubiquitous presence in Egyptian homes and stores. Audiocassette…
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
2:00 pm
Stimson Hall, G25
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…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
East Asia Program
1:00 pm
G-01 Stimson Hall
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…
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
1:00 pm
Stimson Hall, G25
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…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
12:15 pm
Virtual
Talk by Anna Stirr
Gokul Joshi (1930-1961) was a radical progressive poet and singer who was born in poverty and lived an itinerant life in Nepal and India in the 1940s and 50s, performing his songs and poetry and organizing workers and peasants against their exploiters wherever he went. He was an…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
1:00 pm
Sage Hall, B11
Registration Link: https://cglink.me/2cm/r1537912
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-…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
11:30 am
Biotechnology Building, G10
All societies, and especially diverse ones like the US, are multilingual; translingual communication mediates life and professions and makes knowledge grow and work. Yet, myths about language set up barriers, inhibiting free exchange and application of knowledge. These myths include the ideas that knowledge must…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
10:00 am
Virtual
IAD Global Africa Monthly Webinar Series
Friday, April 29, 2022
@10:00am - 12:00pm EST/2:00pm - 4:00pm GMT
Register:
Introduction of the Series
N’Dri Assie-Lumumba
Professor, Africana Studies
Director, Institute for African Development
Discussant: Dr. Kouame…
East Asia Program
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
7:30 pm
Virtual
Lecture and panel with Qiufan Chen.
The greatest value of science fiction is not providing answers, but rather raising questions.
Can AI help humans prevent the next global pandemic by eliminating it at the very root? How can we deal with future job challenges? How can we maintain cultural diversity…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
6:00 pm
G64 Goldwin Smith Hall, Kaufmann Auditorium
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…
Southeast Asia Program
5:00 pm
132 Goldwin Smith Hall, Hollis E. Cornell (HEC) Auditorium
The Spring 2022 Barbara & David Zalaznick Creative Writing Reading Series closes with a reading by Vietnamese American multigenre writer Bao Phi.
Bao Phi is a two-time Minnesota Grand Slam champion and a National Poetry Slam finalist, whose poetry is included in the 2006 Best American Poetry anthology…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
4:30 pm
Virtual
All Cornell graduate students, undergraduates, and postdocs conducting academic research in collaboration with researchers, enterprises, and institutions in China are invited to register and join the virtual 2022 Cornell Student China Collaboration Research Symposium on 28 April 2022 from 4:30-6:00 pm EDT via Zoom…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
2:40 pm
Uris Hall, G-08
Register
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…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:15 pm
Kahin Center
Co-sponsored by SAAGA and Performing and Media Arts
In 1934, a U.S. production company released a film set in the southern Philippines called Brides of Sulu, about a pair of star-crossed lovers (one Muslim, one not) risking their lives to elope. In 2011, two Filipino film archivists began investigating…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Institute for African Development
11:25 am
Uris Hall, G08
This is a hybrid event. Registration information is below.
This talk sheds light on what various actors engaged with the United Nations trusteeship system wanted decolonization to mean, what they thought, or hoped, it should mean, and their contests of power over normalizing its meaning. The speaker will…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
12:00 am
Virtual
Guest Speaker:
Fatema Sumar, Vice President of Compact Operations, Millennium
Leveraging her expertise in international development, foreign policy, diplomacy, and advocacy, Fatema Z. Sumarleads efforts to fight poverty by transforming global systems in reaching vulnerable populations. As Vice…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
Southeast Asia Program
4:45 pm
Virtual
This presentation builds on material in the book, Muslim Environmentalisms (Columbia University Press, 2019), which explains how the idea of "the environment" is an ethical idea. Anthropogenic ecological change considered as a matter of environmental justice (EJ) means developing new scales and…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
4:45 pm
115 Ives Hall
By Bharat Patankar
Bharat Patankar is an intellectual-activist based in India. A recent New York Times obituary of his life-partner Gail Omvedt, noted that Patankar has led Shramik Mukti Dal (toilers' liberation league), "an organization credited with launching some of the largest organized mass…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
1:00 pm
Virtual
Over the last decade, record numbers of displaced people have been caught in the middle of an intensifying tug-of-war between Western liberal democracies and Eastern autocrats. With little chance of returning to their homes in Syria or Central America, these people crossed borders to seek political, religious, or…
South Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
12:25 pm
Emerson Hall, 135
Perspectives in Global Development Seminar Speaker: Ashish Bajracharya, deputy director at Population Council Location: Emerson 135 and Zoom. In recent years, the garment industries of countries in South and Southeast Asia, including Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Vietnam have grown to provide economic opportunities to…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
7:00 pm
Willard Straight Theatre
Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008) is the inspiring account of a group of ordinary women—Muslim and Christian, rich and poor, urban and rural—who came together to bring peace to their beloved but war-torn Liberia. The story of their protest's historic achievement is suspenseful and ultimately incredibly…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
4:45 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, GSH64
CCCI welcomes Tani Barlow, the George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University to speak on, "Instinct and Society."
When Li Zehou burst onto the scene during the 1980s ‘culture fever’ he dragged back in altered form a much earlier foundational debate over…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
1:00 pm
Virtual
The human story in the Americas began nearly 33,000 years ago, its chapters filled with thousands of years of place-based knowledge possessed by its inhabitants, until colonialism brought with it dispossession and genocide. Now, an interdisciplinary research team at Cornell University is exploring the arts of the…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
1:00 pm
G-01 Stimson Hall
Co-sponsored by the East Asia Program
The speaker has changed her title and abstract (4/21/22). Below is the new abstract for the title above:
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…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Syed Jaleel Hussain
The ethnic, linguistic and religious diversity has been an essential feature of life in Kashmir for centuries. The majority of the muslim population is Sunni along with sizeable pockets of Shia minority. Shias have played a critical role in the socio-political and cultural life of…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
9:30 am
Kahin Center
The recent arrests and detentions of Sri Lankan writers, bloggers and poets form part of a long history of extrajudicial detention which elucidates the ever-present stakes of writing about Sri Lanka, or simply Writing Sri Lanka. This graduate student conference aims to collectively reflect on how these stakes…