In December of 2019, the Indian government passed the Citizenship Amendment Act, facilitating expedited citizenship for persecuted religious minorities from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. The glaring absence of Muslims from the terms of the Act, however, has been heavily contested by a wave of protests…

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…

India’s Food Sovereignty Struggle

Smita Narula is the Haub Distinguished Professor of International Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University and Co-Director of the law school’s Global Center for Environmental Legal Studies. She is author of dozens of widely-cited publications, and has…

David Danks, Department of Philosophy Head and L.L. Thurstone Professor of Philosophy and Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, will speak at 12:15 pm in G-08 Uris Hall on “The Double-edged Sword of AI in Warfare” at the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies weekly seminar.

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty series

Christian C. Lentz, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Điện Biên Phủ is a place often invoked but poorly understood. On 7 May 1955, a year to the day after Vietnam’s great victory over France, a ceremony on…

With live accompaniment by Gary Lucas on guitars
Special Pricing: $14 general/$11 students ($3 off for All-Access Pass holders)
1920 > Germany > Directed by Paul Wegener
With Paul Wegener, Albert Steinruck, Lyda Salmonova
Based on the legend of the Golem, a creature made from clay by…

The demiurgic figure of Vishwakarma in the Vedic, Buddhist, and Brahminical Hindu traditions of pre-industrial India was associated with artisanal modalities of ingenuity and technicity. The increasingly public visibility of Vishwakarma worship across India since 1900 has shown unmistakable ties to the rise of…

Apply for Cornell China Center faculty research grants of $10k-$100k. Info sessions on March 3 and 6. Proposals due by 3/19-26.

Join in person in Uris Hall G08 or remotely via Zoom online here or by phone 877 369 0926 (US toll-free), Meeting ID: 404 834 710].

Abstract: To write a history of sexuality, or so the story goes, is to embrace the chimeric prose of paucity and plentitude. If the present is marked by an inescapable surfeit of evidence, the past is haunted by an unremitting loss of materials. Histories of sexuality routinely mediate past(s) through archival…

Owing to a common absence of a central religious body to authorize religious clerics, combined with the U.S. secular conception of separation of church and state, Muslim authority in the United States contends with a regulatory vacuum. The concept of clergy that drives much of how religion encounters our…

"Pathways to Language and Intercultural Proficiency"
Aleidine Moeller
Edith S. Greer Distinguished Professor of Language Education, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

This talk builds upon the major theoretical frameworks for promoting language and intercultural proficiency within the…

One in five women worldwide carries latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), and 3 million are diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB) each year. Of the nearly 800,000 Indian women diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB) every year, 70% are in their reproductive years, between the ages of 18 and 45 years. The current…

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2019 > South Korea > Directed by Bong Joon Ho
With Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo
A poor but extremely resourceful family of four ingratiates…

2019 > Spain / France > Directed by Pedro Almodovar
With Antonio Banderas, Penelope Cruz, Asier Etxeandia
In physical decline and facing a loss of creativity, a celebrated film director, modeled on Almodovar himself, looks back upon his life, and visits an ex-lover. Antonio Banderas has won high…

Paul Roquet | MIT The Circular Ruins: Isolation and Afterlife in Japanese VR Abstract: In the first couple of years of their existence, Japan's virtual reality visual novels have frequently staged encounters with depopulated digital environments isolated from the rest of society. This talk examines how the genre…

Sandro Gozi MEP (Member of the European Parliament) France Renaissance - Renew Europe Group Outline Introduction: What is EU today? 1. The “soft revolution”: sovereignty and borders 2. The new Challenges in the New Global Disorder: Power, Transnationalism, Multilateralism 3. What’s next: European Reform v. Status Quo…

Is the Einaudi Center's International Relations minor for you? Here's a chance to find out. Graduates go on to successful careers in fields like international law, economics, agriculture, trade, finance, journalism, education, and government service.

Learn more about Einaudi Center student…

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…

Paul Poast, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Chicago, will speak at 12:15 pm in G-08 Uris Hall about “Forged by War: The Great War of Global Economic Governance” at the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies weekly brown bag seminar.

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty series Mary Moroney, PhD Candidate, Department of Linguistics, Cornell University How do different languages express the same meaning? How do we study these things? In English we use the word ‘the’ to express something called definiteness. Definiteness has been described as…

A.K. Ramanujan (1929–1993) is well known as one of the finest poets, translators, folklorists, essayists and scholars of the twentieth century. His translations of ancient Tamil and medieval Kannada poetry, as well as of U.R. Anantha Murthy’s novel Samskara, are considered classics in Indian literature. A…

introduced by Andrew Campana (Asian Studies)
1996 > Japan > Directed by Mamoru Oshii
As stunning as any animated film you'll likely see, surpassing in details even the best computer animation to date, Mamoru Oshii's meditation on the effect of runaway technology on the very human notion…

David Ost
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Regional Fellow, Institute for European Studies
Cornell University

Abstract:
Many commentators have noted the links between today’s radical “populist” right and fascism by focusing on the contemporary right’s aggressive nationalism,…

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…

Shana Gadarian, Associate Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, will speak at 12:15 pm in G-08 Uris Hall about "Terrorism, Fear, and Immigration Attitudes after the 2015 Paris Attacks" at the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty series

Wendy M. Erb, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University

Borneo’s tropical forests belong to one of the most imperiled biodiversity hotspots on Earth, experiencing rapid destruction and degradation from human activities. A significant…

Learn about the Latin American Studies minor, an undergraduate minor across disciplines that allows you to explore the history, culture, government, politics, economy, and languages of Latin America and the Caribbean. Qualifying courses can be found in almost every college. Find out about internships and other funding…

Ithaca Premiere, FREE with Deborah Starr (NES) & filmmaker Rafael Balulu
2019 > Israel > Directed by Rafael Balulu
Jacqueline Kahanoff was the first to write of Levantine and Mizrachi identities in Israel. Director Balulu traces the footsteps of the Levantine thinker and author, and through…

An Evening of Indian Carnatic and Western Classical Music with special guest Arun Ramamurthy of the Brooklyn Raga Massive and violin professor Ariana Kim.

Is the fix in on the Pork Fix in China'? That's what guest speaker, Mindi Schneider will explore in her talk, The Pork Fix: African Swine Fever and the Opportunity of Crisis in China’s Pork Industry. Professor Schneider is from Wageningen University, in the Netherlands. This event is co-sponsored by the…