This panel will bring together scholars who provide new perspectives on the material and moral reparations of the postcolonial, post-Nazi and post-communist eras in Germany, as well as the significance of these restitutions in serving as a model for transitional justice and international law. It will explore both…

Co-sponsor: East Asia Program

This talk explores ways in which notions of visuality are interconnected with epistemological frameworks of race/ethnicity/nationality and space/territoriality/borders by analyzing Juan Martín Hsu’s film La Salada (2014). By taking as its focus the borderscape of La Salada – the…

The Language Resource Center offers grants for effective and innovative projects that enhance language instruction at Cornell. We welcome proposals from all languages and all levels of instruction. Lecturers, senior lecturers, and professors who are involved with language teaching and do not have visiting status…

Please join us for an invited talk by Prof. Lucinda Ramberg, generously co-sponsored by the Departments of Asian Studies, History and Philosophy; the South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia and Religious Studies Programs; and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly. The event is open to all interested, and…

Odysseys: Ithaca Writers on Exile, Wandering, and Searching for Home is a reading series presented by Ithaca City of Asylum and co-sponsored by Global Cornell and Cornell's Migrations initiative.

Homer’s Odyssey recounts the adventures of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, as he seeks to return home after the…

"Social Justice and the University Language Learner"
Cassandra Glynn (Concordia College), Pamela Wesely (University of Iowa), and Beth Wassell (Rowan University)

Teaching for and about social justice positively influences all students, yet integrating social justice education into the college…

African Islamic modernity is a discourse, a historical condition, and a project that highlights the entanglements of African racial identities, Islamic forms of life, and modernity as the globally hegemonic mode of social, economic, and political being. While there are many lineages by which one might trace the…

Join us virtually this spring 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 listening to and speaking in a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new…

1996 > Hong Kong > Directed by Wong Kar Wai
With Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Charlie Yeung
Wong Kar Wai's take on love and loss in a '90s, urban, neon-lit setting, but a darker film than its companion piece, Chungking Express. "An exhilarating rush of a movie. Go-for…

Ithaca Premiere>2019 > Brazil > Directed by Sandra Kogut
With Regina Case
"A chaotic class dramedy where the help and the helped wind up switching places, Three Summers (Trs Ver›es) marks another occasion for Brazilian actress Regina Case (The Second Mother) to shine in the role of a…