The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) summer research grant provides funding for in-country research costs for graduate pre-dissertation work in Latin America or the Caribbean. LACS will offer up to three research grants to qualified graduate students who need to conduct field research next summer…

A conversation with Nishant Batsha and Durba Ghosh (History, Cornell University).

On a small Pacific island, a brother and sister tune in to a breaking news radio bulletin. It is 1985, and an Indian grocer has just been attacked by nativists aligned with the recent military coup. Now, fear and shock are…

2021 > India, France > Directed by Payal Kapadia
With Bhumisuta Das
Through a series of fictional letters between two anonymous lovers, a whirlwind of fantasy, reality, dream, memory and feeling emerges, as Indian students take to the streets to protest the right-wing government and widespread…

You're invited to join this tour and conversation about the art museum's Chinese and East Asian collections. Come discuss opportunities to engage with the museum and how the museum can be a resource to Cornellians. Learn about Xu Bing, currently a Cornell A. D. White Professor-at-Large based in Beijing…

Professor Kristen Harkness will discuss her book When Soldiers Rebel: Ethnic Armies and Political Instability in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2018). The book argues that the processes of creating and dismantling ethnically exclusionary state institutions engender organized and violent political resistance.…

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 Summer Garden to showcase tree and herbaceous peonies and other…

The Issues in African Development Seminar Series examines critical concerns in contemporary Africa using a different theme each semester. The seminars provide a forum for participants to explore alternative perspectives and exchange ideas. They are also a focal activity for students and faculty interested in…

Develop your dissertation on global issues with a toolkit of resources!

The Einaudi Dissertation Proposal Development Program (DPD) supports 12 PhD students annually. Applicants’ research projects must focus on global issues, but the proposed research setting may be international or domestic.

Over the…

Al-An deSouza will present the third Migrations Visiting Artist Talk, “The Culture of Location,” in conjunction with their current exhibition at the Johnson Museum, Al-An deSouza: Elegies for Futures Past.

DeSouza will discuss the genre of landscape in relation to migration, settlement, and climate change…

Victoria Reyes

Associate Professor, Gender & Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside

Many enter the academy with dreams of doing good; this is a book about how the institution fails them, especially if they are considered "outsiders."

Tenure-track, published author…

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloqium (CCCC) 古文品讀 is pleased to start the fall '22 semester series with Hyeok Hweon Kang (Assistant Professor at Washington University, St. Louis). The text title is: Reading Artisanal Knowledge from 16th Century Korea

Faculty hosts: TJ Hinrichs (History, Cornell) and…

2021 > Thailand/Colombia > Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
With Tilda Swinton, Elkin D’az, Jeanne Balibar
Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival and following a unique roadshow distribution model that supposedly will never make the film available via online streaming,…

Talk by Denise N. Green

In 2015 I began teaching a class at Cornell about fiber, textile, and apparel production in India, which included a winter break field trip to manufacturing facilities. Inspired by the students' transformative learning experience and the connections we created, I wanted to…

This event is co-sponsored with LACS by the Cornell University and Ithaca College Jewish Studies.

Marjorie Agosin will speak about the complexities of writing about her own family. Mirroring the history of displacement of Jews across the world and especially in Latin America, she will highlight coexistence…

The imagination of the nonhuman in South Asian history was often through processes of dehumanization. References to Indian dogs in terms of caste and untouchability, the use of various animals as beasts of burden, the comparisons of aboriginal tribes with primates, and the enactment of animal cruelty acts, were all…

Sara Brenneis

"Los campos: The Spanish Deportation to Nazi Concentration Camps"

5:30 p.m. Monday, October 17

Klarman Hall KG42

Reception to follow.

Sponsored by

the Department of Romance Studies, Institute for Comparative Modernities,

Department of…

Talk by Dr. Natali Pearson

In 1998, the Belitung, a ninth-century western Indian Ocean–style vessel, was discovered in Indonesian waters. Onboard was a full cargo load, likely intended for the Middle Eastern market, of over 60,000 Chinese Tang dynasty (619–907) ceramics, gold, and other precious objects. It…

Crossing the World to Sleep with You: Chinese Crip Poetry and its Cross-Cultural Translatability is the title of this talk to be given by Hangping Xu, (East Asian Languages and Culture, UC, Santa Barbara).

Yu Xiuhua rose to her celebrity status when her poem “Crossing China to Sleep with You” went viral in…

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides full funding for graduate and professional students conducting research or teaching in any field in more than 150 countries. (Open to U.S. citizens only.)

The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program supports doctoral students conducting…

ICM FALL 2022 LECTURE SERIES

Khalid Medani is associate professor of political science and Islamic Studies and Chair of the African Studies Program at McGill University. He received a B.A. from Brown University, an M.A. from Georgetown University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the…