This interactive talk will serve as an introduction to the activist forms that make up the arsenal of the Theatre of the Oppressed (TO): a collection of games, techniques, and exercises using theatre as a vehicle for personal, political, and social change. Originally developed in Brazil by theatre innovator Augusto…

Alexander Santiago-Jirau, CRP’02 (he/him/his) is Director of Education at New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW). In this role, he oversees all of NYTW’s education and engagement initiatives, including the Mind the Gap (MTG) intergenerational theatre program, student matinees, in-school teaching artist residencies, after…

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…

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…

ICM FALL 2022 NEW BOOKS SERIES

This talk by Professor Travers will focus on his forthcoming book, An Empire of Complaints: Indian Petitioning and the Making of the British Empire in India (Cambridge UP, 2022). which reinterprets the transition from Mughal to British rule in eighteenth-century India, showing…

If you love languages, our funding opportunities are for you! Learn one of more than 50 languages offered at Cornell with a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship or Rare and Distinctive Language Fellowship. Opportunities are open to both undergraduate and graduate students.

FLAS fellowships support…

Registration Link: https://cglink.me/2cm/r1635976

The Cornell S.C. Johnson College of Business Emerging Markets Theme brings together scholars from Cornell and beyond to provide thought leadership on the role of emerging markets – and emerging market…

The Emerging Markets Theme will hold the PhD Research Day, at Cornell Tech in NYC on November 3rd, at 9 am. PhD students from Cornell and other universities focusing on economic and business issues are invited to submit their papers and attend the event.

Registration link:…

War in space is not inevitable. Outer space is not ‘wild west.’ There are fundamental rules of international law that govern all space activities, including military space activities. Outer space must be used for the benefit and interest of all states and for peaceful purposes. Outer space must be explored and used…

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…

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…

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…

On November 3 scholar and singer-songwriter Psoy Korolenko will present a lecture-concert that combines discussion of Jewish musical tradition in cross-cultural context of the 19-21st centuries and artistic performance.

Pavel Lion, PhD in Philology, MSU, more known by his art name Psoy Korolenko, is a…

Talk by Niloofar Haeri

More than four decades after the revolution of 1979, how do we assess the religiosity of Muslim Iranians now? What is it to be religious? How is it that certain texts, ancient and repeatedly recited, continue to have such sway over the emotional and cultural histories of individuals…

A LACS Public Issues Forum

Two cases have become emblematic for understanding the intensification of racism and sexism in Brazilian society during the pandemic that killed more than 650,000 Brazilians and since the election of Jair Bolsonaro as President of Brazil. The first death recorded in Brazil by Covid…

Angela Figueiredo is a Professor of History of Africa and the African Diaspora of the Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Studies on Women, Gender and Feminism, and Coordinator of the Angela Davis Collective Research Group on Gender, Race and Subalternities at the Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia,…

Tania Li and Pujo Semedi

Tania Li: Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto

Pujo Semedi: Associate Professor of Anthropology, Gadjah Mada University

Plantation Life examines the structure and governance of Indonesia’s contemporary oil palm plantations, which supplies 50% of the world’s…

The Emerging Markets Institute Conference 2022

More information to come to www.emiconference.com

Talk by Isabel Huacuja Alonso

From news about World War II to the broadcasting of music from popular movies, radio played a crucial role in an increasingly divided South Asia for more than half a century. Radio for the Millions examines the history of Hindi-Urdu radio during the height of its popularity from…

Sunisa Manning

Writer

Sunisa Manning’s work challenges us to consider how fiction can translate movements across borders while remaining loyal to their origin stories. Her recent novel A Good True Thai describes the Thai 1970s student radicalization and revolution. This reading and talk will extend…