Events
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
4:45 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, 64
Day 1: Book Talk – SARS Stories: Affect and Archive of the 2003 Pandemic
Speaker: Belinda Kong (Asian Studies and English, Bowdoin College)
In SARS Stories, Belinda Kong delves into the cultural archive of the 2003 SARS pandemic, examining Chinese-language creative works and social practices at the…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
8:00 am
Mann Library, 160 (Friday) and 102 (Saturday)
On Friday, May 3 and Saturday, May 4, 2024, the Institute for African Development, in collaboration with the Polson Institute for Global Development and the Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University, will host a symposium on Imagining Just Environmental and Climate Futures in Africa. Please see…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
10:00 am
Physical Sciences Building, 401
Day 2: Pandemic Archives: Media, Geopolitics, and Temporalities of Crisis
About this workshop:
As the world enters its fourth year living with COVID-19, this workshop critically examines our conceptual tools for capturing this chronic crisis and its seismic impact on global geopolitics and humanistic…
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
11:00 am
Virtual
Join us on Zoom to practice your Portuguese skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you…
South Asia Program
12:00 pm
Stimson Hall, G25
Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Tariq Thachil (Political Science, University of Pennsylvania)
Urban citizens in low-income democracies rarely hold elected officials accountable for toxic air. To understand why, we fielded a large citizen survey in Delhi, India, a highly polluted megacity where voters rarely prioritize air pollution…
Southeast Asia Program
4:00 pm
Physical Sciences Building, 120
Join us for this talk by Roald Hoffmann, Nobel laureate in chemistry and Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Emeritus, at Cornell.
At this event, Hoffmann pays tribute to his former colleagues Tang Ao-Qing (1915–2008, former president of Jilin University) and Lu Jiaxi (1915–2001, former…
Southeast Asia Program
5:00 pm
Virtual
Join us on Zoom to practice your Thai skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
6:00 pm
Stimson Hall, G25
Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Southeast Asia Program
South Asia Program
12:00 am
Cornell Tech, Roosevelt Island, TBD
Registration Link: https://pitch.emiconference.com/
The registration for the 2024 Cornell EMI Mark Mobius Pitch Competition is NOW OPEN. Apply by 4/10.
The Cornell EMI Mark Mobius Pitch Competition invites student entrepreneurs and recent graduates…
Past Events
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
South Asia Program
7:00 pm
Willard Straight Theatre
"In September 2018, Dr. Gulshan Abbas, sister of Rushan Abbas, was abducted by Chinese authorities shortly after Rushan's speech condemning the Uyghur genocide. The documentary "In Search of My Sister" chronicles Rushan's relentless pursuit of truth and justice, spanning multiple countries…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
4:30 pm
White Hall, 106
The Ottoman Eichmann: Mustafa Reşat (Mimaroğlu) and The Technocracy of Genocide
Notorious SS officer Adolf Eichmann took the order he was given to send millions of Jews to death camps and applied it to the letter. Eichmann made sure that every single Jew reached the respective concentration and death camps.…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
12:20 pm
Warren Hall, 175
Perspectives in Global Development: Spring 2024 Seminar Series
Abstract
How can we explain the causes and effects of global migration from the perspective of sending states and migrants themselves? Rina Agarwala will present on her book The Migration and Development Regime, which introduces a novel…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Aman Luthra (Geography, George Washington University)
Similar to many countries around the world, recycling in Indian cities is sustained by a large population of informal workers who collect, transport, and trade in recyclable materials to eke out a meager living. One group of workers in this sector…
Southeast Asia Program
7:00 pm
Klarman Hall, Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium
Before the Go-Go’s or the Riot Grrrl movement, there was Fanny, the first all-women rock band to be signed by a major label, record five albums, and tour internationally. Championed by David Bowie, Bonnie Raitt, Joe Elliot and others, Fanny defied the “isms” through undeniable talent. In 1987 June Millington, with…