Sarah Brayne presents her recent book Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing (Oxford Scholarship Online, 2020). She is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin.

This seminar is part of a series organized by the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture Series.

Andrew Weintraub, Department of Music, University of Pittsburgh

Andrew N. Weintraub is Professor of Music at the University of Pittsburgh, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in ethnomusicology and popular music and directs the…

The Migrations Forum is an interdisciplinary works-in-progress series for Cornell migrations scholars, bringing together graduate students and faculty across disciplines to share ongoing research.

Thursday, 9/30, 2:00-3:00pm, hybrid meeting: in-person in Einaudi conference room 153 OR online at this zoom…

Plantation Archaeology and South Asian Indenture in Mauritius

In this talk I present the archaeology of a sugar estate on Mauritius, an island in the southwest Indian Ocean, as a new case study of plantation archaeology. More broadly, this work defines global labor systems and shifting environmental…

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium welcomes Joe Dennis, University of Wisconsin. His text reading is: Songs to Encourage the Cessation of Litigation (Xisong ge 息訟歌) in Ming and Qing.

Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium 古文品讀

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC) 古文品讀 is a reading…

2013 > Hong Kong/China > Directed by Wong Kar Wai

With Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Ziyi Zhang, Chang Chen

Based on the life of martial arts wunderkind, Ip Man (Bruce Lee's teacher), the film is part biography, part historical drama, tracing the legendary kungfu master's rise to power. Set…

Ithaca Premiere

2020 > Argentina/France > Directed by Matias Pineiro

With María Villar, Agustina Munoz, Pablo Sigal

The Argentinian filmmaker's latest film inspired by the female characters in Shakespeare follows Mariel and Luciana "imperfect reflections of each other as they…

Just after the turn of the new millennium, in 2003, the newly created state of Uttarakhand in India’s central Himalayas declared its ambition to become fully organic in all aspects of agricultural production. But what does it mean to become organic in a region where many people claim agriculture has always been “…

Just after the turn of the new millennium, in 2003, the newly created state of Uttarakhand in India’s central Himalayas declared its ambition to become fully organic in all aspects of agricultural production. But what does it mean to become organic in a region where many people claim agriculture has always been “…

Often seen solely as a calamity, El Niño Southern Oscillation has impacted the Peruvian Andes for hundreds of years and has (re)shaped the means of agrarian life for Indigenous and campesino peoples. Based on archival and ethnographic work, this presentation discusses how El Niño and its “disasters” — floods,…