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Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

12:00 pm

Uris Hall, G08

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 have…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

12:15 pm

Kahin Center

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…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

4:30 pm

Stimson Hall, G25

"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,…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Migrations Program

10:00 am

A.D. White House, Guerlac Room

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…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

South Asia Program

12:15 pm

Uris Hall, G08

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…

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

4:45 pm

Goldwin Smith Hall, G22

ICM NEW BOOKS SERIES

IRINA TROCONIS (Associate Professor, Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University)

The Necromantic State: Spectral Remains in the Afterglow of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution

A conversation with Cornell faculty member Irina Troconis about her new…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Institute for European Studies

5:00 pm

Physical Sciences Building, 401

IES Luigi Einaudi Distinguished Lecture
Growing inequality and the decline of the American dream are marked by a mental health crisis across all social classes in the United States. I consider what alternative hopes are taking shape based on interviews with 80 Gen Zs and 185 agents of change who are producing…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

5:00 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Maritime movement has been essential to the current moment of capitalism, marked by the optimization of supply chains. As seaports continue to scale up tremendously, however, blockages, delays, and congestion persist and even multiply, complicating popular accounts of private capital unleashing an increasingly…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Institute for African Development

11:15 am

Sibley Hall, 115

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…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

Migrations Program

12:00 pm

Uris Hall, G08

One of the key challenges stemming from climate change will be climate displacement, as sudden and gradual events disrupt livelihoods and force millions to leave their homes. Despite the existing scholarship’s focus on cross-border movement, the majority of climate displaced people will move internally instead of…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

12:15 pm

Kahin Center

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Dr. Andrew Mertha from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, who will discuss Khmer Rouge, revolution, and leadership struggles. Dr. Andrew Mertha is the George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Comparative Muslim Societies Program

4:30 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Talk by Alan Mikhail (Chace Family Professor of History, Yale University)

At the turn of the seventeenth century, a Dutch privateer is captured by Muslim pirates and taken to Morocco. To win his freedom, he converts to Islam and begins plying the waters off the Atlantic coast for prizes and booty. He marries…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

South Asia Program

12:15 pm

Uris Hall, G08

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…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

4:45 pm

Goldwin Smith Hall, Room 64, Kaufman Auditorium

While social movements may appear to have receded in the 1950s with the rise of Cold War domesticity and McCarthyism (much like the upsurge of authoritarianisms today), the Korean War galvanized women to promote women’s rights in the context of the first global peace campaign during the Cold War. Recuperating the…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Institute for African Development

11:15 am

Sibley Hall, 115

African Integration Within the Imperatives of Neo-Liberal Globalism, Multipolarity and the African Union Agenda 2063: Can it be Feasible?

AGENDA 2063 is Africa’s blueprint and master plan for transforming Africa into the global powerhouse of the future. It is the continent’s strategic framework that aims to…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

12:00 pm

Uris Hall, G08

It is a familiar observation that the possibility of war permeates relations among states under anarchy. It is less well appreciated that states deliberately and routinely regulate that possibility by delineating prohibitions on the use of militarized bargaining. Three ambitious examples of such prohibition – the…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

East Asia Program

12:15 pm

Kahin Center

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Dr. Rachel Leow from University of Cambridge. Dr. Leow is an Associate Professor in Modern East Asian History at Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.

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

Southeast Asia Program

12:20 pm

Frank H. T. Rhodes Hall, 253

Also available via Zoom

Bio:
Vincent Woon Kok Sin is an associate professor in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at Xiamen University Malaysia. He earned his Ph.D. in environmental engineering from The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology in 2015 and his B.Eng. in chemical…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

South Asia Program

5:00 pm

Goldwin Smith Hall, 142

An Indian tourist couple arrive in the hill country of crisis ridden Sri Lanka to celebrate their 5th wedding anniversary. But, when things take an unexpected turn, conflicts deepen revealing cracks in their relationship.

Paradise is a 2023 Sri Lankan-Indian co-produced film co-written and directed by…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

South Asia Program

9:00 am

Kahin Center

As in years prior, this conference, cosponsored by the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies, provides an opportunity for graduate students to critically engage with the particularities of Sri Lanka and its diasporas; particularities often sacrificed to make our work speak clearly to non-specialist audiences.…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

12:00 pm

Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center

Cornell Botanic Gardens Tour of Chinese and Asian Plants

Join this guided outdoor stroll exploring different areas of the garden to highlight several plants endemic to China and eastern Asia. Discover the importance of trees and garden plants in East Asian culture, and learn about plans to develop an Asian…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

South Asia Program

10:00 am

Cornell Tech, TBD

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Past Events

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

Comparative Muslim Societies Program

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Institute for European Studies

South Asia Program

Migrations Program

5:00 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Join us to learn about opportunities for undergraduate students with the Einaudi Center for International Studies! This session will discuss how to successfully apply for programs like Global Internships and Laidlaw Scholars, and how to discover or strengthen global interests, including academic minors, weekly…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

South Asia Program

12:15 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Talk by Abdul Haque Chang (Social Sciences, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi)

This talk shows how in Sindh, the state of environmental exception has become the norm for governance (as in Agamben's formulation regarding the suspension of law). Specifically, this state of exception refers to…

Southeast Asia Program

Einaudi Center for International Studies

12:00 am

Kahin Center

The conference schedule is available here.

More details are also available on the conference website here.

A full packet with information about all papers being presented is available here.

How is Southeast Asia animated and made to move? Who crosses boundaries, who stays still, and what jams,…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

South Asia Program

4:30 pm

Kahin Center

Keynote address of the 27th SEAP Graduate Student Conference.

This talk, drawing upon years of fieldwork in Malaysia and South India has two main aims: First, in questioning the mobility and translatability of biomedical interventions given cultural conceptions of self, spirit, and wellness, I ask to what…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

12:00 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Book launch with a panel discussion
Sabrina Karim, Cornell University, will give a brief presentation of her book Positioning Women in Conflict Studies: How Women’s Status Affects Political Violence (Oxford University Press 2024), followed by a discussion with gender and conflict experts Summer Lindsey,…