"Linguistic Production and Perception in Heritage Language"
Gláucia Silva
Professor of Portuguese, UMass Dartmouth

Heritage language (HL) speakers tend to assess their linguistic competence in binary terms, such as "good" and "bad," and to consider that they speak…

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…

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, US Army War…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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,…

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…

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 this lecture, I attempt to examine conversations and debates from the early days of space science in India by examining how…

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-…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 fromUniversity of California, Berkeley. Currently, Dr. Nguyen serves as the Associate Professor of…

¡Fenomenal! Rompeforma 1989–1996 is a documentary about Rompeforma: Maratón de Baile, Performance & Visuales, an experimental dance and performance festival that took place in Puerto Rico from 1989 to 1996. Co-directed and produced by Merián Soto and Viveca Vázquez, edited by Laura Sofía Pérez, and with an…

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!

Talk by Ghazal Asif (Anthropology, Lahore University of Management Science)

For the past decade, the press in Pakistan has remained rife with stories of the kidnapping, forcible conversion to Islam, and marriages of young Hindu women at the hands of Muslim men. Women’s rights and minority advocacy groups…

Regions of the world are historical constructions yet over time they have seemed to become more and more fixed. This talk will cut across linguistic and cultural boundaries and re-examine conceptualizations of regions in the Americas and the wider Atlantic World, showing evidence for a very polyglot, cross-imperial…

Collaborative Rice Breeding Programs in East Africa: Insights from Feminist Political Ecology

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From Local Voices to Global Impact: The Power of Civic Engagement in Peacebuilding

This lecture will examine the role of youth, women, and community-based movements in advancing peace and reconciliation, focusing on deliberative processes, alternative conflict resolution tools, and civic-led initiatives that…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Michael Kirkpatrick Miller from Cornell University, who will discuss Ambonese masculinity and colonialism. Michael Kirkpatrick Miller is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Cornell University.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at the The Kahin…

"Dyslexia, ADHD, Autism: Encouraging and Supporting All L2 Learners"
Sara Lee
Associate Teaching Professor of German, Arizona State University

Up to 20% of people in the U.S. have dyslexia, which means that about 4-6 students in every classroom struggle with reading and writing,…

In this event, we will be officially launching the archive Todosomos, a collection of handwritten testimonies by Venezuelan migrants who crossed the border from Venezuela to Colombia between 2019 and 2021. The event will have several panels and include interventions by the founders of Todosomos, the library team in…

Talk by Amanda Lanzillo, (History, University of Chicago)

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, laborers across northern India found themselves negotiating rapid industrial change, emerging technologies, and class hierarchies. In response to these changes, Indian Muslim artisans asserted the…

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Annual IES Luigi Einaudi Distinguished Lecture

Michèle Lamont from Harvard University

IAD Spring 2025 Seminar Series:

In the 1960s and 1970s, in response to holdouts of colonial power in southern and Portuguese Africa, self-described African national liberation movements took form. These organizations engaged in military and diplomatic efforts to achieve independence, usually with the goal of…

About the Speaker
Camila Bustos is an Assistant Professor at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. Before joining Haub Law, Professor Bustos was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Human Rights at Trinity College and a Clinical Supervisor in human rights practice at the University Network for…