Speaker: R. Kenji Tierney Anthropology, SUNY New Paltz
Introduced by Jane Marie Law, Asian Studies, Cornell

What is the place of sumo in the 21st century? Rather than an "unchanging tradition," sumo acts as a mirror to the changing social conditions in Japanese society. Occupying a contenious…

Ecuador is renowned for its extraordinary biodiversity, offering a rich mosaic of landscapes and ecosystems. Despite its small size, the country boasts the Amazon rainforest, the Andean highlands, coastal lowlands, and the unique Galápagos Islands. Each region supports a wide variety of flora and fauna, making…

If you love languages, our funding opportunities are for you! Learn one of more than 50 languages offered at Cornell with a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship or Rare and Distinctive Language Fellowship. Opportunities are open to both undergraduate and graduate students.

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“Exile,” wrote Edward Said, “is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home.”

Join Oleksandra Shtepenko, an exiled Ukrainian scholar, Cornell virtual scholar under threat, and…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Seng Guo-Quan, Assistant Professor of History National University of Singapore, who will discuss the gendered history of the Chinese settler community in Indonesia.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at the The Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. This talk is co-…

"I Belong Here: Addressing Gen Z Learner Identities through Differentiated Instruction in World Languages"
Tom Garza
UT Regent's and University Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor and Director of the Texas Language Center, UT Austin

Tomlinson et al. (2003) characterized…

Talk by Ayesha Matthan (History of Art, Cornell University)

This talk looks at a portrayal of the working classes in Bombay/Mumbai/Bambai between the 1970s and 1990s by pictorialist photographers such as Foy Nissen, Pablo Bartholomew, Raghubir Singh, Raghu Rai, Ketaki Sheth, Sooni Taraporevala, and Henning…

Co-sponsored by Romance SRomance

The archipelago of Puerto Rico is a colony in debt. Debt, according to Lucí Cavallero and Verónica Gago, goes hand in hand with the disciplining of bodies, especially female, queer, and dissident bodies. Therefore, colony and debt possess certain characteristics—confinement…

Event Overview

Immigration will be a key issue in 2025. Everyone agrees that we have a broken immigration system, but people disagree on the solutions. Congress is paralyzed. Presidents try executive actions but are sued. Federal courts seem to be the final arbiters of immigration policy these days.

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A SEADL webinar featuring Amrina Rosyada and I Gde Agus Darma Putra, hosted by Emily Zinger, Southeast Asia Digital Librarian, Cornell University.

How can we use archives to build a narrative about behind-the-scene actors in research?

From the US to Indonesia, local research assistants have helped…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Nielson Sophann Hul, PhD Candidate in the Department of Linguistics at Cornell University, who will discuss the implosives in Khmer.

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

Talk by Bhavani Raman (History, University of Toronto)

The laws that authorize modern state impunity, such as martial law, sedition, disturbed areas, and preventive detention, were first given statutory authority by a colonial corporation, the East India Company consolidating its conquest of India. Why was…

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Talk by Zehra Hashmi (History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania )

This talk examines how and why Pakistan’s national biometric-based identification regime came to use an individual’s blood relations to construct and track uniquely identified individuals. Through the concept of datafied…

atty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Dr. Kathryn "Kitsie" Emerson from EKALAYA Arts Cente, who will discuss the social critique in Javanese wayang. Dr. Emerson obtained PhD from the Leiden Institute of Asian Studies at Leiden University. Currently, Dr. Emerson serves as the Director of Ekalaya…

Talk by Al Haj Khalifah U Aye Lwin (Religions for Peace Myanmar, Masjid Sujud Shah Utica NY)

Myanmar has a track record of forging unity in multiplicity, and Muslims have been an integral part of Myanmar society since the Pagan dynasty. Rohingyas were, in fact, prominent citizens, just like other Myanmar…

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The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies hosts info…

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…