Events
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Aditya Bhattacharjee (Asian Studies, Cornell University)
The cultural affinities that have long connected South and Southeast Asia are particularly visible in Thailand, one of the first countries to recognize India after independence and a nation that occupies a prominent place both in India’s…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
4:30 pm
Uris Hall, G-08
East Asia Program Lecture Series presents “Invisible Anatomy: Meridians and Math in Chinese Medicine"
Speaker: Lan Li, Assistant Professor of The History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Description:
This talk is based on Body Maps: Improvising Meridians and Nerves in Global Chinese…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
5:00 pm
Rockefeller Hall, 374
Join SEAP and GETSEA for a simulcast film screening of two short films: Sotong and Against This Messy World.
We will watch the films on the Cornell campus, then join an online discussion with audiences at universities across the US for a Q&A with the filmmakers.
Sotong follows four fierce local…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Institute for African Development
3:30 pm
Uris Hall, TBA
"This study contributes to scholarship in African history, gender studies, and postcolonial theory by offering a nuanced account of the intersections among militarism, nationalism, and gender. It invites readers to reconsider the frameworks through which political subjectivity and historical memory are…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
6:00 pm
Ives Hall, 115
Please join us a for a screening of the documentary Invisible Nation (2023), hosted by the East Asia Program. The film tells the story of Taiwan's first female president, Tsai Ing-Wen.
Film synopsis: Unprecedented access to Taiwan’s first female president, Tsai Ing-wen, centers this portrait of the…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
6:00 pm
Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell Cinema
Film directed by Kannan Arunasalam
Young activists lead Sri Lanka’s 2022 uprising, toppling an authoritarian president — but can fragile hope survive in a country built on forgetting?
Republic of Amnesia (2025) follows the rise and fall of Sri Lanka’s Aragalaya (“The Struggle”) — the youth-led…
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
4:30 pm
Mary Ann Wood, B21
European History Colloquium - Atina Grossmann, Distinguished Professor of History, The Cooper Union
Between “Orient” and European Catastrophe: Jewish Refugees from National Socialism in Iran and India 1935-1948.
Atina Grossman is Professor of History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Migrations Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
6:00 pm
Willard Straight Theatre
Possible Landscapes joins seven people in seven different regions of the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago in the course of their daily lives: Kevin, a fisherman on the east coast suffering the recent loss of one of his crew members at sea; four generations of the Josephs family in the steep hillsides of the…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Institute for European Studies
12:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
"Bukovina: The Life and Death of an East European Borderland" (Princeton University Press, December 2025)
The making and remaking of Bukovina, a disputed Eastern European borderland, from the eighteenth century to the present day
Bukovina, when it has existed on official maps, has always fit…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:15 pm
Rockefeller Hall, 374
Gatty Lecture Series
Anti-authoritarian Counter-Cartographies of Solidarity with Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) in the Philippines
Join us for a talk by Arnisson Ortega, Associate Professor from the Department of Geography and the Environment at Syracuse University.
This Gatty Lecture will take…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
4:30 pm
Rockefeller Hall, 374
East Asia Program Lecture Series presents "Convict Politics: Innocent Convicts and Unlawful Commoners in Early Chinese Empires (221 BCE-23 CE)"
Speaker: Liang Cai, Ruth and Paul Idzik Associate Professor in Digital Scholarship of History, University of Notre Dame
Description:
This…
Institute for European Studies
4:30 pm
Mary Ann Wood, B21
European History Colloquium - Dan Edelstein, William H. Bonsall Professor of French and (by courtesy) of Political Science and History at Stanford University
Thursday April 9, 4:30 pm
120 Mary Ann Wood Dr.
Room B21
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:45 pm
ADW108
A roundtable discussion on centering Indigenous voices in Abiayala (Latin America) with Luis Cárcamo-Huechante, María de los Ángeles Aguilar Velásquez, and Polly Lauer, addressing questions about Indigenous representation both in the media and the field of Latin American Studies. Hosted by the Romance Studies,…
South Asia Program
3:00 pm
120 Mary Ann Wood Drive, B21
Anand Vivek Taneja is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Anthropology at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of the award-winning Jinnealogy: Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi and the forthcoming The Gabriel of Madness: Islamic Poetry and Ethics in an Age of Hindu…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
3:30 pm
Rockefeller Hall, 374
Speaker: Quan Gan, Lecturer of History, Rice University
Title: Invest the Gods, Praise the Lord: Royal Speeches on Temple Steles in Wuyue
Abstract: Throughout his political career, Qian Liu 錢鏐 (d. 932 CE) repeatedly petitioned the emperors in the north to grant honorific titles to powerful figures—…
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
8:00 pm
Virtual
Join us on Zoom to practice your Spanish 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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
10:00 am
Kahin Center
This conference explores the interrelationships among political literary, and religious culture in early second-millennium South India and Sri Lanka. Scholars of premodern South Asia and Indian Ocean political culture now recognize that transregional processes fundamentally shaped political environments in this…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Ateya Khorakiwala (Architecture, Columbia University)
What architectural technologies were deployed in response to colonial famine? A history of food is, at its most radical, a history of the production of poverty as a systematic condition and an institutional discourse. This paper seeks to locate…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
4:30 pm
Uris Hall, G-08
Speaker: Jordan Sand, Professor of Japanese History, Georgetown University
Abstract: The Ise shrines stand at the ritual center of Japanese imperial ideology. At the same time, they are admired around the world for their architecture and for the unique practice of periodic reconstruction. Yet the historical…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Migrations Program
4:45 pm
Virtual
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports U.S. citizens to study, conduct research in any field, or teach English in more than 150 countries. The program is open to graduate students, recent graduates, and young professionals. Undergraduate students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
6:00 pm
Cornell Cinema
Darkness falls over Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and its 17 million inhabitants. It is just before Christmas and people are struggling to gain access to electric light. Kudi is mobilising the residents of his Kisenso neighbourhood to collect money for a new power cable. On Mount…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
12:20 pm
Uris Hall, G08
TBD
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for European Studies
5:00 pm
A. D. White House, Guerlac Room
In this talk, Kira Thurman investigates the rise of Black Europeans in popular music since WWII. After the collapse of European empires, European popular music industries turned to the musical labor of former colonial subjects to reinvent themselves in an increasingly global and English-speaking marketplace.…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
5:30 pm
Klarman Hall Atrium
Any poem, any language! The Language Resource Center celebrates National Poetry Month. Sweet Poetry is an evening event in April named for enjoying tasty treats while sharing poems in different languages.
Join us on Wednesday, April 15, 2026 at 5:30 pm in the Klarman Hall Atrium. During the event, Cornell…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
5:45 pm
Ives Hall, 115
Tickling Giants is a documentary film featuring Bassem Youssef, known as the "Jon Stewart of Egypt. " The film offers a unique lens on political satire in Egypt in a period of political transition following the 2011 revolution.
Discussion moderated by Dina Bishara (Global Labor and Work, Cornell…
Southeast Asia Program
6:00 pm
Virtual
Join us on Zoom to practice your Thai 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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:15 pm
Kahin Center
Gatty Lecture Series
Join us for a talk by Aurore Candier, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Burma Studies at Northern Illinois University.
This Gatty Lecture will take place at The Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Migrations Program
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
5:00 pm
Rockefeller Hall, 201 (Schwartz Auditorium)
Bartels World Affairs Lecture
In this year’s Bartels lecture, Ambassador Samantha Power examines the causes and consequences of dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). While reductions in United States foreign assistance have inflicted harm on millions of people, the principal…
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
12:00 pm
Rockefeller Hall, 429
The Latina/o Studies Program Fridays with Faculty luncheon seminar offers an opportunity for Latina/o and non-Latina/o students of all levels and disciplines to meet faculty and administrators from across the university for informal conversation about their current research/work in progress. All welcome!
…
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
12:20 pm
Uris Hall, G08
"Controvérsias e Breve História Sobre a Linguagem Inclusiva no Brasil"
by
Brume Dezembro Iazzetti
Ph.D. Student in Science and Technology Studies (STS)
Cornell University
WHEN: April 17, 2026 at 12:20PM (EST)
WHERE: Uris Hall G08
Lecturer in Portuguese.…
Past Events
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
9:00 am
Virtual
Overview
Recent scholarship in the environmental and energy humanities has called attention to regimes of energy transition. The discussion on futures “after oil” marks a shift from earlier studies of oil assemblages, which evolved from analyses of coal-based fossil capitalism. The spaces shaped by these…
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
12:00 am
Sibley Hall, Room 140
Recent scholarship in the environmental and energy humanities has called attention to regimes of energy transition. The discussion on futures "after oil" marks a shift from earlier studies of oil assemblages, which evolved from analyses of coal-based fossil capitalism. The spaces shaped by these…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:30 pm
Stimson Hall, G25
"Advancing Second Language Proficiency and Intercultural Competence in Postsecondary Education"
LRC Signature Speaker
LeAnne Spino
Associate Professor of Spanish, Proficiency Coordinator, and Director of International Studies and Diplomacy, University of Rhode Island
This is a…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:15 pm
Kahin Center
Gatty Lecture Series
Join us for a talk by Courtney Wittekind, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Purdue University.
This Gatty Lecture will take place at The Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact seapgatty@cornell.edu…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
12:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Marshall Islanders explain that US nuclear blasting is woven into their polity “kone jubar”—like an ironwood tree roots in the soil; like a child belongs to the lands of their mother’s lineage. This talk is about bodies (biological, territorial, political) and persons (natural and legal), and about radionuclides…