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Oumar Ba discusses the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its relationship with African states at this week's seminar with the Reppy Institute. RSVP to attend and learn more below.

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Oumar Ba is an Assistant…

Against a US backdrop of an agricultural ‘labor shortage’, available data by the Office for Foreign Labor Certification shows that the number of received applications increased between 2019 and 2020 by 8% from 13,081 to 14,131 which translates into an increase from 257,667 to 275,430 certified positions. Despite…

2019 > Senegal > Directed by Mati Diop
With Mama Sane, Amadou Mbow, Ibrahima Traore
In a suburb of Dakar, workers on the construction site of a futuristic tower, without pay for months, decide to leave for Portugal in search of a better future. Among them is Souleiman, the lover of Ada. Though the…

Join the Institute for African Development (IAD) at Cornell Cinema on 3/2 at 7pm for the screening of Mati Diop's Atlantics with a post-screening discussion with Tristan Ivory, Assistant Professor of International and Comparative Labor, Department of Sociology. This film is a part of the Sub-Saharan African…

This talk focuses on some of the key ideas of my ethnographic monograph Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City. Drawing on more than 24 months of ethnographic research in the Uyghur region of Northwest China and nearby Kazakhstan between 2011 and 2020, open-source and internal…

In Reencounters, Crystal Mun-hye Baik examines what it means to live with and remember an ongoing war when its manifestations—hypervisible and deeply sensed—become everyday formations delinked from militarization. Contemplating beyond notions of inherited trauma and postmemory, Baik offers the concept of…

Just before the coronavirus pandemic, Bernard-Henri Lévy’s reporting took him to eastern Ukraine, as part of an eight-part journey to cast light upon human rights abuses in global hotspots that have escaped international attention or active response.

Now, with the Ukraine crisis making global news headlines…

2021 > Switzerland/France/Argentina > Directed by Andreas Fontana
With Fabrizio Rongione. Stephanie Cleau, Elli Medeiros
Argentina 1980. The "dirty war"; the military junta and the disappearances. Amid this tense atmosphere, a Swiss private banker arrives to replace his partner, who has…

CEAS publications and EAP welcome author Scott Mehl, Colgate University to discuss his book, "The Ends of Meter in Modern Japanese Poetry."

In "The Ends of Meter in Modern Japanese Poetry", Scott Mehl analyzes the complex response of Meiji-era Japanese poets and readers to the challenge…

How to green a petrostate: Resource nationalism and post-oil futures in the Arabian Peninsula

Resource nationalism has taken many shapes in the Arabian Peninsula since the discovery of large oil and gas reserves in the early- and mid-20th century. As the region assumed its place in hegemonic global…

The global COVID-19 pandemic weakened Senegal’s already-precarious economy, causing a resurgence of pirogue migration from coastal towns to the Canary Islands and resulting in hundreds of fatalities. Faced with what they see as an inadequate governmental response, the civil society has been leading an online and on…

In the '40s, three brothers decide to live a great adventure and enlisting in the Roncador-Xingu Expedition, which has a mission to tame the Central Brazil. The Villas Boas brothers: Orlando, 27, Claudius, 25, and Leonardo, 23, engage in a fantastic and incredible saga. Soon start to lead the expedition that…

Mariteuw Chimère Diaw is an associate and Deputy Director General of the Consortium D’Entreprises in Senegal, and a member of the Multistakeholder Expert Panel of IPBES, the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosytem Services. He was until recently the Director General of the African Model Forest…

Kathleen "Kat" Cruz Gutierrez is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she teaches courses on modern Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and the history of science and the environment. She completed her Ph.D. in Southeast Asian Studies with a Designated Emphasis in…

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Zar, a constellation of belief and therapeutic response to spirit winds, has long been considered a ritual trace attesting to the movement of African slavery in the Indian Ocean world. This talk considers representations of the spirit healing ritual zar in Iranian ethnographic filmmaking in…

Cristina Florea is an Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University. She is interested in the interactions between German and Russian power (their competition for territory and influence) across this space, as well as the consequences these interactions have had for the people living in between. Her research…

2020 > Canada/USA > Directed by Joshua Bonnetta
The Two Sights (An Dˆ Shealladh) explores the disappearing tradition of second sight in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. As we listen to locals' accounts of haunting experiences - phantom horses, ghost voices and other supernatural phenomena -…

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…

Ambassador William B. Taylor served as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine from 2006 to 2009. In 2019, he served as chargé d’affaires at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv. Currently, he is the Vice President for Russia and Europe at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). Taylor visits the Cornell community to discuss…

The Cornell Contemporary China Initiative is pleased to start its spring '22 lecture series with Denise Tang of the Lingnan University of HK. Her talk is titled,

'Everyday Erotics: Older Chinese Lesbians and Bisexual Women'

This talk presents the life stories of older Chinese lesbians…

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…

In this special online event, Ed Baptist will present the Cornell-based Freedom on the Move (FOTM) project, in conversation with moderator Eric Tagliacozzo. The output of FOTM is a database documenting the lives of fugitives from American slavery through newspaper ads placed by slave owners in the 18th and 19th…

Talk by Samah Choudhury (Religious Studies, Ithaca College)

Our contemporary moment has witnessed a precipitous rise in the presence of American Muslim comedians in pop culture - on television, movies, and on the stage. I map their unprecedented popularity to the contemporary moment when American “Muslim”…

Ithaca Premiere. 2021 > Chad > Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
With Achouackh Abakar, Rihane Khalil Alio
Amina, a single mother and practicing Muslim, lives with her 15-year-old daughter, Maria. When Amina learns Maria is pregnant and wants to abort the child, they face an impossible situation in…

Emerging Markets Theme Research Series of the SC Johnson College of Business. and LACS Research Symposium Keynote Address

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In this seminar, Rodrigo will discuss findings from a variety of studies his team has conducted over the past five years around questions…

Friday, February 18th at 12:15pm-1:15pm. Register here.

The Cornell University Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) presents the Passim Sextet with their rich rhythms of Brazilian music and culture, with influences of samba, chôro, folk & classical music. Performed the following…

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement will create the largest free trade area in the world measured by the number of countries participating. The pact connects 1.3 billion people across 55 countries with a combined gross domestic product (GDP) valued at US$3.4 trillion. It has the potential to…

This talk is co-organized by the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.

May Sabe Phyu is a women human rights defender leading civil society efforts to end discrimination against women and ethnic and religious minorities for more than 20 years in the development and humanitarian sector. She raises…

Have you considered summer study abroad and are interested in studying law? Join Cornell Law School faculty and the Office of Global Learning to learn more about the Cornell Prelaw Program in Paris, a three-week academic program in international and comparative law. Study law in a uniquely international and…

While Muslim societies are very diverse, a common feature is the high status of the written word, and the centrality of libraries. During our entire period, the authority of the ulamas derived from their ability to derive the law from the foundational books. On the other hand, individuals were encouraged to read,…