Please join Cornell's Society for Buddhist Studies, for a talk by Prof. Laura Guerrero (Philosophy, William & Mary).

In a recent article Kris McDaniel has suggested that a fruitful way to understand the Abhidharma distinction between conventional reality and ultimate reality is as a distinction…

Ithaca Premiere

2021 > Germany/France > Directed by Christian Petzold

With Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski

Dive into the eerie and fantastical romance from Germany's preeminent filmmaker, Christian Petzold. A water nymph of European mythology, Undine is cursed with having to kill her…

Actors across latitudes and cultures amaze their audiences by displaying at will the physical ‘symptoms’ of emotions such blushing, shivering, and weeping. Sanskrit sources offer almost two millennia of sophisticated reflections on the emotional life of actors, the hidden engine lying behind their almost eerie…

Thirty years after his impressive electoral triumph and twenty years since he resigned the Presidency from abroad, Alberto Fujimori’s political legacy still haunts Peruvian society. However, despite the major transformation in Peru in the 1990s, which marked the violent entrance of the country into the Neoliberal…

At the Edge of China—life in a Tibetan town is the focus of this talk by our guest speaker Barbara Demick, journalist, and author (Eat the Buddha, Penguin Random House, 2021). Under Xi Jinping, the Chinese Communist Party has exhibited zero tolerance for any slippage at the edges of the empire. The mass…

Sites at the Periphery: Making Experimental Art Spaces in Beijing

Nancy P. Lin

Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University

The Pulse of Art History Lecture Series

9.28.21 4:45pm

Location: Goldwin Smith G22

Abstract:

Developing without the official support of…

Ithaca Premiere

2019 > Spain > Directed by Robert Bahar & Almudena Carracedo

Filmed over six years, The Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain's 40-year dictatorship under General Franco as they organize a groundbreaking international lawsuit and fight a "…

The Migration as Practice: Pedagogy Workshop will focus on specific strategies for designing inclusive and reflective pedagogy, with transformative outcomes. Designed for faculty, the workshop will also provide training on how to co-develop curriculum in partnership with community organizations, with sustainable…

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 research…

In Yiwu, a town in southeast China known as the world’s largest wholesale center for manufactured commodities for daily consumption, thousands of Chinese Muslims (Hui) work as middlemen between Chinese suppliers and foreign traders. Despite their indispensable role in the trade, many of them act more like clerks…