International Fair showcases Cornell's global opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. Explore the fair and find out about international majors and minors, language study, study abroad, funding opportunities, global internships, Cornell Global Hubs, and more.

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Localizing Surrealism: A Cross-Cultural Study of Modern Taiwanese Poetry

超現實主義的在地化：台灣現代詩的跨文化研究

Speaker:

Cheng-Chung Liu, Professor and Chair, Department of Chinese Literature

National Taiwan University

This lecture will be delivered in Mandarin.

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South Asia Librarian Kelsey Utne will introduce graduate students to resources available through the Cornell University Library for doing research on South Asia.

U.S. foreign policies are changing dramatically, with profound implications for peace and security throughout the world. The administration of Donald J. Trump has broken with many decades of precedent by expressing sharp criticism of NATO and historical allies, while expressing admiration for historic adversaries…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Chiara Formichi, H. Stanley Krusten Professor of World Religions in the Department of Asian Studies.

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

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…

Undergraduate Global Scholars are student leaders in the campus community. This competitive fellowship program is open to students from all colleges and majors with a passion for big global questions and speaking across differences. The Global Scholars program provides a toolkit of resources for weighing…

Join us this year for Bienvenidos 2025! It will be an incredible time to learn more about the LatinX student organizations, resources, music, performances, and more! We hope you're ready to mingle and enjoy light foods/refreshments Party popper

Food Provided- RSVP required for food lineup!

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Talk by Ronojoy Sen (Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore)

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared victory in the Indian general elections for the third time at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters in New Delhi, he ended his speech by chanting Bande (bow) several…

Join us to learn about opportunities for undergraduate students with the Einaudi Center for International Studies. This session will discuss how to discover or strengthen global interests, including academic minors, guest lectures, summer research and travel experiences, and more!

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Learn more about this spring break opportunity that includes travel to Kigali, Rwanda, where students will deepen their knowledge of studio production techniques while engaging in vibrant cross-cultural musical collaboration. Open to songwriters, performers, producers, and audio engineers, the course centers around…

During the Cold War, the Smolensk Archive held the only collection of Communist Party documents available to Western scholars, becoming the foundation for generations of scholarship on Soviet history. Crucibles of Power returns to the Smolensk Region with fresh eyes and fresh sources. Prizewinning historian Michael…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Brad Simpson from the University of Connecticut, who will discuss Indonesian politics and policies surrounding the New International Economic Order.

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

The Einaudi Global Research Fellows Program supports PhD students, postdocs, visiting scholars, and local academics who are deeply engaged in research that bridges international or regional studies with critical examinations of global challenges.

Eligible students:
• Have completed at least two…

Please join us for a screening of the Pulitzer Center-supported film Democracy in Debt: Sri Lanka Beyond the Headlines (2024, 25 min) and a discussion about fostering and engaging cross-border, Southasian publics with producer Beena Sarwar, SAPAN, and Ronojoy Sen, National University of Singapore, moderated by…

Talk by Ann Gold (Religion, Syracuse University)

On March 1, 1968 my first husband and I, both college drop-outs, set forth on the now stereotypical overland journey from Europe to South Asia. We reached Pakistan in mid-April at the peak of the hot season, and walked across the border into India about three…

Chronic Kidney Disease of non-traditional causes (CKDnt) is among the first pathologies to be directly associated with climate change, and it has become a case study in the emerging field of “planetary health.” While its exact origins remain unknown, leading theories suggest that CKDnt is triggered by exposure to…

The IAD Colloquia are monthly events that aim to strengthen relationships as well as to increase awareness, interest, and dialogue about African scholarship and issues across campus and beyond. The monthly panel discussions include Cornell faculty and invited specialists.

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"The Rise of OER in Language Teaching and Learning"
Fernando Rubio
Director of the Center for Language Study, Yale University

Compared with STEM fields, second language (L2) education has only recently begun to embrace open education and the new knowledge ecologies it produces. L2…

How AI might be used in nuclear command and control is the subject of much discussion in national security circles. But this debate—important though it has been—obscures many other ways that AI could be used or should not be used across the entire nuclear weapons enterprise. (In this talk, the nuclear weapons…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Ian Baird from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who will discuss the nuances of sovereignty as constructed by Champassak royals.

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

Join us to learn about opportunities for graduate students with the Einaudi Center for International Studies. This session will discuss how to discover or strengthen global interests, including research and travel grants, guest lectures, fellowships, and more!

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View the art, media, and writing of Cornell students and staff who share the ways that migration shapes their lives in this Mann Library exhibit. The exhibit will showcase winning submissions from the Migrations Program's creative writing and art competition and an interactive digital space where you can share…

Speaker: Chang Xu, Assistant Professor, Department of Transnational Asian Studies, Rice University
Description: Against the backdrop of the 1785 Qing–Russian trade embargo, reports of rhubarb smuggling in southern Xinjiang in 1788 prompted the Qianlong Emperor to impose a swift, empire-wide ban on rhubarb…

Talk by Daisy Rockwell (Artist, writer, and Hindi-Urdu translator)

Translators love to use metaphors to capture the nature of their work, yet every metaphor seems to fall short, resulting in a great, unusable tangle of mixed metaphors. In this lecture, Daisy Rockwell will share some of her own handcrafted…

FALL 2025

Monday, September 22, 2025

Room location TBD

ICM NEW BOOKS SERIES

"Moorings: Voyages of Capital Across the Indian Ocean"

NIDHI MAHAJAN (Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz)

The Institute for Comparative Modernities…

Undergraduates interested in spending a semester or year at Oxford or Cambridge must attend an information and group advising session before applying to the program. Learn more about eligibility criteria, the admissions process, and the student experience to determine whether this will be a good fit for you.

In this 80th year of the atomic age, the catastrophic risks posed by nuclear weapons are growing. The US and Russia are developing new nuclear bombs and missiles and upgrading weapons delivery systems. China is rapidly expanding its nuclear weapons capabilities.

In the history of the atomic age, progress…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Aditya Bhattacharjee, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow from Asian Studies at Cornell University.

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

Talk by Margaret Graves (History of Art and Architecture)

Historical ceramics from the Islamic world are now held in elite collections worldwide. Many migrated westward during the turn-of-the-twentieth-century heyday of Islamic art collecting, a time when craft skills in the Middle East were being redirected…