Talk by Rahul Sagar (Political Science, NYU Abu Dhabi)

Letters to an Indian Raja (1891) was the first work of political theory to be published in modern India. It advised Maharajas to introduce liberal values and constitutional government in the self-governing Native States. Such reform would, it argued,…

Come and explore international research from students at the Einaudi Center for International Studies. Our undergraduate Global Scholars will present posters on their international aid projects.

Global Scholars Showcase

Global Scholars will present a showcase of their capstone projects providing…

// Film Screening and Conversation //

The Culture Industry of War
(2013, dir. Hamed Yousefi, 27 min)

In the essay-film The Culture Industry of War, art historian and filmmaker Hamed Yousefi explores the role of images in Iran’s modern political culture. Focusing on the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988…

Take Care of My Cat (2001, Korean title: Go-yang-i-leul boo-tak-hae) is a debut feature from director Jae-eun Jeong and perhaps the best coming-of-age film Korea has ever produced. (Please don't miss the opening scene — its music and imagery are simply fantastic!)

Set in the port city of Incheon, the…

Join us for a virtual discussion on colonial collections in and on the Philippines featuring presentations by guest experts:

Cheryl Beredo, Director of Collections and Chief Curator, Yale University

Surveying several collections that can support the study of U.S. colonial archives of and on the…

"Chunking in the Second Language: Implications for Language Learning and Teaching"
Serene Wang
Language Scientist and Educator

Many second language learners attain substantial vocabulary and grammatical knowledge and perform well on standardized proficiency tests, yet they continue to…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is viewed by some as having great promise, while others view the arrival of this novel technology with skepticism or concern. AI is certainly having a significant impact in many arenas of life. What are the specific implications of AI for people living in the Global South? This…

Why do isolated latent proliferators insist on retaining some of their nuclear capabilities in nonproliferation settlements? Prominent scholarship on nuclear proliferation shows that weak states have used latent nuclear capabilities like uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing to draw Western states into…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Thuy Linh Nguyen, Associate Professor of History from Mount Saint Mary College.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at The Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact seapgatty@cornell.edu…

The East Asia Program is honored to have Wu Hung, the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia at the University of Chicago, to give the 2025-2026 Hu Shih Distinguished Lecture: “Emperor Qianlong’s Peepshow Boxes: A Case of 18th-…

Come learn more about our winter study abroad in Cambodia. In collaboration with the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS), Cornell's Southeast Asia (SEAP, Einaudi) Study Abroad program in Cambodia will provide an in-depth focus on the cultural heritage of Cambodia both past and present. This winter course will focus…

Hakem Al-Rustom, Assistant Professor at University of Michigan, will give this year's Armenian Genocide Commemoration Lecture, "What Remains: Afterlives of Genocide and the Persistence of the Unfinished."

This lecture begins from a simple but unsettling premise: genocide does not end. It…

Come to the LRC or join us on Zoom 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…

Join this year's cohort of Fellows at the Society for the Humanities for presentations on work-in-progress on the 2025-26 focal theme of Scale. Each presentation will be followed by a Q&A. Open to the public.

Scale Fellows’ Conference Friday, April 24, 2026

9:00-9:30am Coffee & Light…

The College of Arts & Sciences will celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the Cornell Levinson Program in China and Asia-Pacific Studies – and a new faculty director for the program — at an April 24 symposium on the Ithaca campus.

The event, set for 1:35-6:30 p.m. in Room 120 of the Physical Sciences…

Join us for Legalized Inequalities: Immigration and Race in the Low-Wage Workplace, a Union Days book talk and panel discussion on low-wage work, inequality and the policies shaping today’s labor landscape.

Beyond unlivable wages and limited upward mobility, low-wage work in the United States often includes…

Speaker: Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and the College Chinese Art, University of Chicago

Title: How to Read Chinese Handscroll Paintings

About Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium
The group meets monthly during the semester to explore a variety…

Join us for Cornell's Annual South Asian Language and Culture Showcase! Members of the Cornell community will be giving a series of short cultural performances, including songs, dance, poetry, skits and more in various South Asian languages.

Samosas and other snacks will be served.

14Strings! will be performing at Sage Chapel on Sunday, April 26th from 4pm to 6pm!

14Strings! is a Filipino style Rondalla based in Ithaca, New York. The main instruments are 14 stringed plucked instruments like the banduria, the laud (Lute), and the octavina.

14Strings! was originally a student…

For its Spring Semester performance, the Cornell Gamelan Ensemble returns to the atrium of Klarman Hall, whose magnificent acoustics resemble those of the grand pavilions called pendhapa where gamelan is played at Java’s royal palaces. The program features ladrang Siyem, a 1929 piece inspired by the Thai royal…

Talk by Suvaid Yaseen (Asian Studies, Hamilton College)

The history of Muslim political thought in the disputed Kashmir region of South Asia has largely been narrated within the national frameworks of India and Pakistan, and often overdetermined by security concerns, especially when it comes to Islamic…

Join us for a talk by Southeast Asia Program Visiting Scholar, Aung Thura Ko Ko.

This talk will take place at Rockefeller Hall 374, Asian Studies Lounge. Lunch will be served.

For questions, contact seap@cornell.edu.

Abstract: Since the February 2021…

Maria Taylor (CALS) will discuss parts of an upcoming book with special guest Hannah Hopewell (LSU) and Cornell faculty.

Participation is by invitation only. Please email Maria Taylor (mct228@cornell.edu) if you would like to be invited to and receive the paper.

This talk examines the history of the environmental clauses in Chile’s constitution. That constitution was imposed at gunpoint by the Pinochet dictatorship and has been widely assailed for preserving the “guardrails” of Chile’s neoliberal economic model. Surprisingly, the 1980 constitution, designed in a…

A Palestinian String Theory? On Ethnographic Engagements across Multiple Dimensions

In the past three years, life in Palestine has been an up-close encounter with mass death—and more than ever, these deaths have their origins in high-tech military technologies that are imperceptible and faraway while being…

IES Luigi Einaudi Distinguished Lecture

With the second Trump administration challenging the basic tenets of transatlantic relations, Europeans must find a way to contain the damage and chart a new path forward. Doing so successfully will require an understanding of the post-Cold War history of Europe, NATO…

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…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Bradley Davis, Professor of History from the Eastern Connecticut State University.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at The Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact seapgatty@cornell.…

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…

This event has been postponed for the Fall 2026 semester.

Talk by Marc Herman (Humanities, York University)

In this book talk, Marc Herman discusses his new book, After Revelation: The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World. This book demonstrates that medieval Jewish legal thought was forged in…