Events
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
11:15 am
115 Sibley Hall
This presentation summarizes a new book analyzing the history of food security and agricultural development initiatives in post-colonial Africa and outlining a vision for future prosperity. The basic argument has three parts. First, development organizations and governments will only begin to seriously address food…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
12:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Does the intersection of targets’ sex, gender, and race shape public perceptions of legitimate drone warfare? Scholars argue that targets’ lived identities can bias public opinion for drone warfare, though they often conceptualize identity along a single axis—such as sex or race. Dr. Paul Lushenko, Dr. Shira Eini…
East Asia Program
5:00 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…
East Asia Program
6:00 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…
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
12:00 pm
Rockefeller Hall, 429
The Latina/o Studies Program Fridays with Faculty luncheon seminar offers an opportunity for Latina/o and non-Latina/o students of all levels and disciplines to meet faculty and administrators from across the university for informal conversation about their current research/work in progress. All are welcome!
…Southeast Asia Program
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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Prashant Kidambi (History, University of Leicester )
Cantonments were a ubiquitous symbol of the military origins and underpinnings of British rule in South Asia. This talk, based on new research, seeks to rethink existing approaches to the study of cantonments. It critiques perspectives that view…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
Institute for European Studies
Migrations Program
4:30 pm
Uris Hall, G08
In a world of massive inequalities between nations, and where citizenship at birth is the biggest determining factor of anyone's life chances, migration and international mobility are often seen as dramatic mechanisms of change. Yet strict borders and hierarchies between nations persist. The recently initiated…
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
10:00 am
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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Migrations Program
12:20 pm
Uris, G08
In the mid-nineteenth century, decades after independence in Latin America, borderlands presented existential challenges to consolidating nation-states. This talk examines how and why these spaces became challenging to governments and what their meaningfulness is for our understanding of the development of a global…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for European Studies
3:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Film Screening of "From Where We Stand" and discussion with producer Adrian Favell
Lucy Kaye's one hour documentary and deep dive into the life and times of residents of three post industrial towns in the North of England is at once moving, visually haunting, and (in parts) disturbingly raw.…
East Asia Program
3:30 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…
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
3:45 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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
4:45 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, G132
CRICKET AND THE IDEA OF INDIA
‘Cricket is an Indian game accidentally discovered by the English’, it has famously been said. Today, the Indian cricket team is a powerful national symbol, a unifying force in a country riven by conflicts. But India was represented by a cricket team long before it became an…
Institute for African Development
6:00 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…
South Asia Program
3:30 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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Migrations Program
4:45 pm
Virtual
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports U.S. citizens to study, conduct research in any field, or teach English in more than 150 countries. Students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are encouraged to start the process in their junior year. Recent graduates are welcome to apply through…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:15 pm
Kahin Center
Gatty Lecture Series
Join us for a talk by Dr. Kristian Saguin from the University of the Philippines Diliman, who will discuss urbanization and resource flows in Metro Manila. Dr. Babcock obtained PhD from Texas A&M University Currently, Dr. Babcock serves as Associate Professor of Geography at the…
Migrations Program
3:00 pm
120 Mary Ann Wood Drive, B21
Dusti Bridges is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell. The title for this talk will be announced closer to the event date.
Dusti joined the Anthropology Department as a Ph.D. student having earned her B.S. in Anthropology and Physical Geography from Texas State University and her M.A.…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Shozab Raza (Anthropology, University of Toronto)
In recent years, we have seen renewed efforts to “decolonize.” From the toppling of statues to the revision of disciplinary canons, much of this effort has focused on overturning colonial residues in our cultural and epistemological landscapes. This…
East Asia Program
Einaudi Center for International Studies
5:00 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, 64
East Asia Program Lecture Series presents "The Rule of Law in Political Conflicts: How Taiwanese Courts Respond to Disobedience in Political Polarization."
Speaker: Jimmy Chia-Shin Hsu, Academia Sinica
Description: In a severely polarized polity…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
4:45 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, Kaufmann Auditorium G22
NEW DATE AND NEW LOCATION (THIS EVENT WAS POSTPONED IN FALL 2024
Spring 2025 ICM Events Series
Samera Esmeir will speak on "Territorial Imperatives, Revolutionary Leanings: Thinking with the Palestinian Revolution." Please note that the date for this lecture has been changed to Wednesday,…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:15 pm
Rockefeller Hall, 374
Gatty Lecture Series
Join us for a talk by Elissa “E” Domingo Badiqué from Cornell University, who will discuss Filipinx mimicry and queer self-fashioning through dance. Elissa is a PhD candidate in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University.
This Gatty Lecture will take place…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Renny Thomas (Sociology & Social Anthropology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal)
My book, Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment (2021), explored ethnographically, the various ways in which Indian scientists lived their religious and scientific lives. In…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for European Studies
4:45 pm
Statler 196
Historians have long been interested in the questions of how and why multinational empires gave way to nation-states. As revisionist scholars of various empires have lamented during the last few decades, post- imperial nationalist historiographies all too frequently construed the transition from empire to nation-…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for European Studies
Migrations Program
12:20 pm
Uris Hall, G08
The global history of the interrelationship between race, migration, and real estate is still in its infancy, even as it promises a particularly rewarding angle on histories of how mobility and inequality have been intertwined. The Argentine capital of Buenos Aires, which during the second half of the nineteenth…
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
7:30 pm
Schwartz Center, Room 320
Join the "Body and Tech" and "Dance Compositions" course for a movement and creation workshop with Merián Soto.
Merián Soto, a Puerto Rican dancer, choreographer, video artist, and filmmaker, is the creator of Branch Dancing and Modal Practice, two innovative aesthetic-somatic dance…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
11:15 am
115 Sibley Hall
Climate change is increasing exposure to extreme heat events across the African continent. Yet, no matter the country, many African communities lack information about how extreme heat impacts their populations, and few have the requisite resources to adapt to extreme heat under climate change. This talk will…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
12:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Drawing on more than a decade of archival research in the US and UK, including in many never-before-used records, the book follows computerized systems' technological and legal history for aiming the big guns of battleships in the first half of the 20th century. The pioneering system was invented by two…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:15 pm
Kahin Center
Gatty Lecture Series
Join us for a talk by Martina Thucnhi Nguyen from Baruch College at City University of New York, who will discuss Nguyễn Văn Vĩnh's gendered writing strategy. Dr. Nguyen obtained PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Currently, Dr. Nguyen serves as Associate Professor of…
Past Events
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
4:30 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Peter Lavelle (Associate Professor, Department of History University of Connecticut)
In the 1850s, when the Taiping Rebellion threw the finances of the Qing Empire into disarray, officials scrambled to prevent their empire from crumbling. In Xinjiang, they enacted a raft of measures to urgently make…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
3:00 pm
Virtual
East Asia Program Lecture Series presents "The Political Thought of Xi Jinping."
Speaker: Steve Tsang, University of London
Description: This talk offers a comprehensive examination of the official dogma shaping today's China. Professor Steve Tsang, Director of SOAS China Institute at…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:15 pm
Kahin Center
Gatty Lecture Series
Join us for a talk by Dr. Benjamin Tausig from SUNY-Stony Brook University, who will discuss racial and gender identity shifts in 1960s Thailand. Dr. Tausig obtained PhD from New York University. Currently, Dr. Tausig serves as Associate Professor of Critical Music Studies at SUNY-Stony…
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Einaudi Center for International Studies
12:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Can a state exist without a military in an increasingly divided and heavily militarized world? The answer is “yes.”
Twenty-one sovereign countries – one-ninth of the United Nations’ roster – do not maintain standing armies. Many of them are small island states in the Caribbean and the South Pacific and…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
5:30 pm
Uris Hall, G24
Are you interested in the intersection of mental health and culture, global health, and community engagement? Do you want to gain field research skills and learn about indigenous communities in South India’s beautiful and fragile Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve? If so, the Cornell-Keystone Nilgiris Field Learning…