Seymour Lecture Focuses on Japan’s Olympic History

ITHACA, NY: This summer, Japan hosted the Olympics for the first time since 1964; before that, the country was awarded the 1940 Olympics and intended to use them to promote a jingoistic national identity, until it had to forfeit the games as a result of war…

Abstract

The dynamics of aggregate public opinion|particularly Stimson's (1991) measure of policy mood|have been long used to explain electoral outcomes and government responsiveness in the United States. However, we still know little about policy mood outside the US and a few Western European countries…

Informal gathering for European Studies minors and students interested in Europe.

Stop by. Have a slice (or many!).

Say Hello - Dobriy den - Hola - Bonjour - Zdravstvuyte - Olá - Hallo - Hej!

Hosted by: European Studies Minor and the Institute for European Studies

This session will provide PhD students with information on the Einaudi Dissertation Proposal Development Program. The program offers seminars, workshops, and faculty mentoring to PhD students in the social sciences and humanities who are developing research projects abroad or domestic research projects on topics…

The concept of money is about to be fundamentally redefined, says Eswar Prasad, the Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy at Cornell University.

In a live, virtual Chats in the Stacks book talk on his new book, The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance (Harvard…

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

Nay Yan Oo, Visiting Scholar, The Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University

Nay Yan Oo is a visiting scholar in the Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) at Cornell University. He previously…

Dr. Sabrina Karim, the Hardis Family Assistant Professor in Government, will present preliminary research from the Gender and Security Sector Lab that she runs at Cornell University. The presentation will focus on how gender equality within the security forces affects personnel’s beliefs and norms about the use of…

Includes admission to Kiarostami’s Close-Up at 8:35pm

1987 > Iran > Directed by Abbas Kiarostami

With Babek Ahmed Poor, Ahmed Ahmed Poor

A sensitive and beautiful film depicting the remarkable efforts made by a schoolboy as he tries to help his classmate in a mountainous region of Iran…

Learn about the Laidlaw Undergraduate Research and Leadership Program. Open to first- and second-year students, this 2-year program provides generous support to carry out internationally-focused research, develop leadership skills, engage with community projects overseas, and join a global network of like-minded…

This talk inserts the Omani sultans and their royal household into the Arabian Sea world to shift the focus away from the histories of imperial hegemony and capitalist expansion that dominate its historiography. It analyzes princely careers as they evolved drawing from multiple contexts that were accessed by the…

A three-day, international conference bringing together communities, scholars and policymakers.

We will present our research findings from Indigenous and rural societies in the Pamir Mountains of Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, as well as the Standing Rock Sioux Nation and Oneida Lake Watershed in the…

This event will occur via Zoom. Please register for the event at the following link: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hIX1iOuGSlODljETDSThLQ

1966 > Czechoslovakia > Directed by Vera Chytilova

With Ivana Karbanova, Jitka Cerhova and Marie Ceskova

"This radically mischievous work was the second feature of the Czech New Wave's sole female director, Vera Chytilova. In her visually arresting, capricious film - full of colorful…

Summary: Emmanuel Levinas’s concept of ‘alterity’, a term for absolute difference, has influenced a number of scholars who have recently come to be grouped under the label of ‘decolonial’ thinking, such as Enrique Dussel and Nelson Maldonado-Torres. In this talk, I argue that Édouard Glissant’s framing of an…

Artist, poet, and musician José Montoya (1932–2013) was a leading figure of the Chicano movement, producing iconic works in many genres, cofounding the art collective Royal Chicano Air Force, and helping to organize for the United Farm Workers, while also teaching at California State University, Sacramento, and…

In 2019, during Ghana’s “Year of the Return”, a national program of Diaspora Engagement, bearing a letter of recommendation from the Deputy Chair of the African Union, endorsing my work on the “RMDI Project”, I obtained an appointment to meet with HE President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo – with the objective of…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture Series.

Geoffrey Robinson, Department of History, UCLA

Geoffrey Robinson is a Professor of History at UCLA, where he teaches and writes about political violence, genocide, and human rights, especially in Southeast Asia. His major works include: The Dark…

Jonathan Mummolo is Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. He presents this co-authored article “The role of officer race and gender in police-civilian interactions in Chicago,” Science 371, 6530 (2021): 696–702.

This seminar is part…

1946 > France > Directed by Georges Rouquier

A portrait of the Rouquier family, cousins of the director, who lived in the farming community of Aveyron in South-central France. Like legendary documentary filmmaker Robert Flaherty, Rouquier worked with non-professional performers--in this case, farmers--…

Ithaca Premiere

2021 > Mexico/USA > Directed by Alexis Gambis

With Tenoch Huerta, Paulina Gaitan

After the death of his grandmother, a Mexican biologist living in New York returns to his hometown nestled in the majestic monarch butterfly forests of Michoacan. The journey forces him to…

Join the Institute for African Development for our conversation hour in Tumbuka on 10/5! Learn about traditional and cultural norms in Malawi as well as greetings, basic vocabulary and phrases in Tumbuka! (No previous knowledge of Tumbuka or African languages necessary!)

"Acquisition vs. Learning in 2021"
Karen Lichtman
Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics and Director of Educator Licensure in the Department of World Languages & Cultures, Northern Illinois University

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Stephen Krashen put forward a model of…

Often seen solely as a calamity, El Niño Southern Oscillation has impacted the Peruvian Andes for hundreds of years and has (re)shaped the means of agrarian life for Indigenous and campesino peoples. Based on archival and ethnographic work, this presentation discusses how El Niño and its “disasters” — floods,…

Just after the turn of the new millennium, in 2003, the newly created state of Uttarakhand in India’s central Himalayas declared its ambition to become fully organic in all aspects of agricultural production. But what does it mean to become organic in a region where many people claim agriculture has always been “…

Ithaca Premiere

2020 > Argentina/France > Directed by Matias Pineiro

With María Villar, Agustina Munoz, Pablo Sigal

The Argentinian filmmaker's latest film inspired by the female characters in Shakespeare follows Mariel and Luciana "imperfect reflections of each other as they…

2013 > Hong Kong/China > Directed by Wong Kar Wai

With Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Ziyi Zhang, Chang Chen

Based on the life of martial arts wunderkind, Ip Man (Bruce Lee's teacher), the film is part biography, part historical drama, tracing the legendary kungfu master's rise to power. Set…

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium welcomes Joe Dennis, University of Wisconsin. His text reading is: Songs to Encourage the Cessation of Litigation (Xisong ge 息訟歌) in Ming and Qing.

Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium 古文品讀

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC) 古文品讀 is a reading…

Plantation Archaeology and South Asian Indenture in Mauritius

In this talk I present the archaeology of a sugar estate on Mauritius, an island in the southwest Indian Ocean, as a new case study of plantation archaeology. More broadly, this work defines global labor systems and shifting environmental…

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…