Shimmers in the Dark: On the Possibilities of Intimate Touch in Bombay’s Queer Sexpublics

Abstract:In Bombay’s cruising parks, gay parties, pride events, and virtual spaces—what I call queer sexpublics—queer sex, touch, and intimacy flourish. Though queer and trans people perpetually negotiate risk and…

Bio: Lyndsey Deaton, Ph.D., RA, AICP, PMP is passionate about current issues of social sustainability in the city. She engages these issues through academic and professional roles. She is the Director of the Urban Design Lab (UDL) at the University of Oregon, an organization that gives students the opportunity to…

Launched on January 1, 2021, the Africa 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…

Hear from four Latin American and Caribbean political cartoonists on the challenges of their craft and creativity across the region. The session will be moderated by Nicaraguan political cartoonist Pedro X. Molina, IIE Artist Protection Fund Fellow and Visiting Critic at the Einaudi Center's Latin American and…

The Annual Hu Shih Distinguished Lecture welcomes Tim Brook, History, University of British Columbia. He will speak on Government for the People: Troubling Legacies of the Confucian Statecraft Tradition .

Americans are familiar with Lincoln’s “of the people, by the people, for the people,” while Chinese…

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…

Political scientists Rebecca Hamlin and Lamis Abdelaaty are migration scholars whose work has broad implications for the study of asylum and migrant rights. In their new books, they look closely at the categories and labels that we assign to people on the move, how states respond to refugees, and how these labels…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture Series. ***This event is open to current Cornell NetID users only***

Kyaw Yin Hlaing, Center for Diversity and National Harmony

Dr. Kyaw Yin Hlaing is the executive director at the Center for Diversity and National Harmony. He earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees…

How do peace processes really work and how can progress be measured? Madhav Joshi explains this emerging research agenda at an upcoming seminar with the Reppy Institute.

Madhav Joshi is research professor and associate director of the Peace Accords Matrix (PAM) at the Kroc Institute for International Peace…

Students interested in Europe or international politics are invited to attend this interactive Zoom meeting with Vanessa Frazier. H.E. Frazier will be sharing a presentation about the work her work, how she built her career, insight into the operations of the UN, the impact of the work on Malta, and thoughts about…

This LACS summer research grant provides funding for in-country research costs for graduate pre-dissertation work in Latin America or the Caribbean. (The grant does not cover international airfare; students should also apply for an Einaudi Center Travel Grant for airfare.) LACS will offer up to three research…

Our CMS seminar today will be led by the curator of the Middle Eastern Collection in Olin Library, who will be hosting us to see precious objects in the library's collection about Islam. We have many world-class books, some of them centuries old, which show the history and evolution of Islam over a long…

James Millward, Professor of Inter-societal History, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Decolonizing Chinese Historiography—with special attention to Xinjiang

This talk focuses on the use of history, and, more broadly, examines how common concepts and vocabulary used by nearly all…

This chapter illustrates how after the Mexican Revolution in the 1920s, the Yucatan Peninsula became a prolific region for experimentation and development of modern apiculture in the tropics. To illustrate this aspect, I reconstruct the work of the first bee-experts that promoted the systematic relocation of the…

South Asia is experiencing rising authoritarianism. The targets of right-wing movements are progressive forces who are increasingly viewed as outsiders threatening the imagined purity of the nation. The label of “foreign agent” is now widely invoked against political opponents who are accused of sedition. The…

Ithaca Premiere

2020 > South Korea/USA > Directed by Sang-soo Hong

With Kim Min-hee, Song Seon-mi

The Woman Who Ran features three lowkey and lo-fi vignettes of Gamhee (Kim Min-hee) as she visits friends while her husband is on a business trip. The conversations are naturalistic and…

1979 > Japan > Directed by Hayao Miyazaki

With voices of Yasuo Yamada, Eiko Masuyama

Beloved Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki's feature debut has been gloriously restored so audiences old and new can experience the classic globetrotting adventures of the "gentleman thief"…

Join us for an informative information session on Africa summer internships on October 22, 2021 from 4:00-6:00 p.m. in G-08 Uris Hall. Summer 2021 interns will also be presenting on their summer research projects, so it will be a great opportunity to learn about what our Africa summer internships entail!

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LACS FILM SERIES with Zoom Q&A with Director Michele Stephenson

Kaufmann Auditorium (G64 Goldwin Smith Hall) 6 PM

Stateless looks at the complex politics of immigration and race in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, using a combination of magical realism and hidden camera techniques.

The new film from the critically acclaimed filmmaker of American Promise, looks at the complex politics of immigration and race in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, using a combination of magical realism and hidden camera techniques. Director Michèle Stephenson will do a Q&A session via Zoom with the audience…

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.

Amy Liu, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin

Amy Liu (PhD Emory University; BA Smith College) is an associate professor in the Government Department and codirector of the Politics of Race and Ethnicity Lab at the University of…

Author Patrícia Lino will be presenting and discussing her recent book, O Kit de Sobrevivência do Descobridor Português no Mundo Anticolonial (2020).

Patrícia Lino (1990) is a poet, an essayist, and an Assistant Professor at UCLA, where she teaches Luso-Brazilian literatures and cinema. Lino is the author of…

Rachel Wahl discusses the relationship between dialogue and activism in police reform, based on research published in Polity, vol 49, no 4 (2017): 489–517. Wahl is an Associate Professor at the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Virginia.

This seminar is part of a series organized…

From both domestic and foreign waters, The Development Diplomat: Working Across Borders, Boardrooms, and Bureaucracies to End Poverty is the story of an immigrant woman who blended skillsets and worked across borders, boardrooms, and bureaucracies to fight global poverty. Many people aspire to “change the world”,…

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports college graduates conducting research or teaching English 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.

Contact:…

CEAS welcomes author Glynne Walley to talk about his book Eight Dogs, or Hakkenden: Part One—An Ill-Considered Jest, a translation of Kyokutei Bakin's Nansō Satomi hakkenden. This multigenerational samurai saga was one of the most popular and influential Japanese books of the nineteenth century and has been…

The Pulse of Art History Lecture Series

This talk presents a close analysis of a Persian text (1760-61CE) in praise of the Maklī necropolis in Sindh, now in modern-day Pakistan. I discuss the intertwining of Ṣufī beliefs with emotions and movement and sociability. The act of walking serves as a critical…

Please join us on Tuesday, October 19th, 2021 from 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. in the Landis Auditorium (Room 184) for a Berger International Speaker Series seminar led by Professor Sandra Babcock entitled “Documenting the Resistance to Israel’s Occupations Amid an Escalating Campaign to Silence Dissent: The Work of…

Panelists:
Başak Can, Koç University
Sinan Erensü, Boğaziçi University
Moderator:
Begüm Adalet, Cornell University
Host:
Mostafa Minawi, Cornell University

This event focuses on research and academic freedom. Specifically, it will be about the politics of ethnographic and…