Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Doreen Lee, Professor of Anthropology, Director of Global Asian Studies, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Northeastern University.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at the Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact…

Talk by Kali Rubaii (Anthropology, Purdue University)

Taking war as a toxic structure, this talk begins at the belly of war, in Fallujah, Iraq. Rubaii's forensic ethnography between 2014 and 2024 traces weaponized metals from the sand and bodies of people in Fallujah back to their origins at war's…

Insufficient Chill: Apple Cultivation in the End Times

Insufficient Chill begins with a simple question: What work does it take to make a good apple? Apples are the principal cash crop in India’s western Himalayas, where commercial cultivation has sustained livelihoods and transformed landscapes since the…

Speaker: Jaeyoon Song, Professor of History, McMaster University

Title: Names can Kill: Enslavement through Semiotic Stigma in a Neo-Confucian Korea, ca. 1400-1900

Abstract: In this colloquium, we will examine several important documents on premodern Korean slavery. By reading through these documents,…

Kaja McGowan will convene a two-day symposium exploring how Indonesian artists understand the relationship between land and sea. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Nyegara-Gunung, the program will include a keynote, performance, artist dialogue, an installation of new acquisitions, and workshops featuring…

Information & Tickets: https://cinema.cornell.edu/filipinana

Amid stifling heat and pervasive drought, Isabel (Jorrybell Agoto), a 17-year-old Ilokana from the rural north, works at a posh country club outside Manila, lining up golf balls for powerful…

Talk by Nomaan Hasan (Anthropology, Cornell University)

What role can a religion have for those outside its fold? Against a political landscape that frames Islam as an insular and adversarial presence, this talk follows a Muslim civic organization in India as it seeks to establish Islam as an ethical…

For some, India’s single screen cinemas are a legacy to be celebrated and preserved. For others, they remain a place to see movies. Still others remember that it was within those crumbling edifices that they first discovered the magic of the movies, and made deep, lasting connections.

Cinema Pe Cinema, a…

The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

Colonialism is often imagined as an imperial project organized by officials at the highest levels of the state. For the earliest English and French colonies in the Caribbean,…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Suzy Lee, Associate Professor of Human Development at Binghamton University.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at the Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact seap@cornell.edu.

Urbanism, Economy, and Governance at Teotihuacan, Mexico

The early Mexican metropolis of Teotihuacan was the largest city in the Americas of its day (ca. 100 BCE – 600 CE) and is one of the most visited archaeological sites in the hemisphere today. Although it has undergone over a century of investigations,…

Talk by Vidyan Ravinthiran (English, Harvard University)

What overlap is there between political, psychological and philosophical ideas of identity, and what role might poetry play in helping their convergence? Discussing his fusion of life-writing and verse criticism, Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the…

Information & Tickets: https://cinema.cornell.edu/levitating

Latas Village, a small suburban area, is known for its traditional trance parties, a long-standing ritual and form of entertainment passed down through generations where participants become…

Talk by Sharif Hozoori (Visiting Lecturer, Government)

Legitimacy is essential for all political regimes, whether democratic or authoritarian. This has been true for various authoritarian regimes throughout Afghanistan’s modern history and for the current Taliban regime as well. In this study, I focus on…

Across Cornell University's libraries - Engineering Library, Olin Library, and Mann Library - view the art, media, and writing of Cornell students and staff who share the ways that migration shapes their lives. The exhibit showcases winning submissions from the Migrations Program's creative writing and…

This presentation examines poetic representations of the city of Lima over the last fifty years, with a particular focus on the city’s transformation under Peru’s neoliberal project since the 1990s. Beginning in the 1970s, Peruvian poetry embraced the city and explored the possibilities of colloquial language to…

Speaker: Ben Read, Professor of Politics, UC Santa Cruz

Title: The Struggle for Oversight in Local Government: Mayors vs. Councils in the Heart of Taiwan’s Democracy

Abstract: Having held its eighth straight round of direct elections for the presidency in 2024, Taiwan is widely praised as a model case…

Faculty book chats from the Institute for African Development (IAD) showcase the breadth and depth of research by Cornell faculty on African development. At our inaugural book chat, Wendy Wolford (global development) will share her work that highlights the interconnectedness of land, sustainability, and development…

The Laidlaw Leadership and Research Program promotes ethical leadership and international research around the world—starting with the passionate leaders and learners found on campuses like Cornell. Open to first- and second-year students, the two-year Laidlaw program provides generous support to carry out…

Come learn more about this spring opportunity with spring break travel, developed in partnership with Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), National University of Singapore (NUS), and as part of the Jeb E. Brooks School’s Global Policy Exchange Lab. This collaborative online international learning (COIL) and…

Gatty Lecture Series

*Please note this Gatty Lecture takes place in Rockefeller Hall 374, not the Kahin Center*

Join us for a talk by Brooke Schedneck, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at Rockefeller Hall 374. Lunch will be served.…

Title: Strange Marriages, Painted Skins, and Ghost Writers: Japanese Responses to Pu Songling from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century

Speaker: William Fleming, UC Santa Barbara

Abstract: Through an examination of Japanese translations, adaptations, and imitations of Pu Songling from four distinct…

Russia's invasion of Ukraine, political radicalization, the crisis of the U.S., the rise of China—these are global shocks that define our current moment.

But in Europe, it is commonly said, they have a particular meaning. Not only are they close at hand. They signify a particular type of shock, a…

Despite an ongoing policy debate within the United States about the value of alliances, research suggests that the complex network of security relationships that the United States and other major patrons have established since the end of World War II have important and understudied implications for a wide range of…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Chao Ren, Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Hamilton College.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at the Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact seap@cornell.edu.

Speaker: Greg Sattler, New York University

Title: Poems from Visitors to Japan in 858: A Foray into the World of Merchants and Monks beyond Tang High Society

Abstract: In 858, a group of travelers from throughout East Asia journeyed on a merchant ship from China to Japan. After having traveled…

Talk by Rishad Choudhury (History, Oberlin College)

This talk surveys Islam’s emergence as an “imperial religion” in the Indian Ocean empire of the British Raj. Scholarship on colonial Islam has largely told a story of resistance: European empire as a provocation, and Pan-Islam as the insurgent reaction. By…

"AI Safety for the Global Majority"
Aditya Vashistha
Assistant Professor of Information Science and Director of the Cornell Global AI Initiative, Cornell University

AI safety is often framed around alignment failures, existential risk, or misuse by powerful actors. Yet for much of the…

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. The program is open to graduate students, recent graduates, and young professionals. Undergraduate students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are…

When the Yellow Vest movement rushed through the streets of Paris in 2018 most analysts as well as the general public were mystified and not sure how to react. It was an extraordinary movement of hundreds of thousands of people throughout France and it was not clear whether it represented the left or the right or…