The Jewish Studies Program invites you to come join our colleagues at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) Global Labor and Work Workshop in welcoming a new book from Cornell University Press at a book launch with Elissa Sampson and Robert Zecker. The Global Labor and Work series has a longstanding…

In the late 1990s, as the hearings of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) began, stories of past abuse, including sexual violence, within the exiled camps of the African National Congress (ANC) emerged. Despite women alluding to or directly describing violence they had suffered within the ANC,…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Liang Wu, Postdoctoral Associate at SEAP/Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at Rockefeller 374, Asian Studies Lounge. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact …

Presented by Alex V. Barnard, Assistant Professor of Sociology at New York University (NYU)

Is there an underlying order to how societies classify, treat, and control madness? Both popular and scholarly portrayals of contemporary mental health systems emphasize service fragmentation and inter-professional…

Join the Migrations Program for a tour of a special exhibition at the Johnson Museum of Art. We will explore "Naples: Course of Empire" featuring work by contemporary artist Alexis Rockman and discuss how humanity and climate change affect migration and movement over the centuries. The group will meet in…

Speaker: Rania Huntington, Professor of Chinese Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title: The Grieving Father and the Baleful Spirits: Qian Xiyan’s Ting lan zhi (Record of Listening to Falsehood)

Abstract: Qian Xiyan composed the Ting lan zhi in response to the death of his young son, the…

Faced with a past that seems to repeat itself ad infinitum, through the dynamics of colonialism, neocolonialism, and neoliberalism, we ask ourselves about the past, present, and future of Latin America and Caribbean. The slogan “Otro futuro es posible” –another future is possible– has been appropriated in a wide…

Faced with a past that seems to repeat itself ad infinitum, through the dynamics of colonialism, neocolonialism, and neoliberalism, we ask ourselves about the past, present, and future of Latin America and Caribbean. The slogan “Otro futuro es posible” –another future is possible– has been appropriated in a wide…

Book talk by Shani Rohit De (History, Yale University) and Ornit Shani (Asian Studies, University of Haifa)

In this paradigm-shifting history, Rohit De and Ornit Shani re-examine the making of the Indian constitution from the perspective of the country's people. In a departure from dominant approaches…

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…

Department of History of Art & Visual Studies Pulse of Art History Series.

Join us for a talk by Hamed Yousefi, (Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow).

This Pulse Lecture will take place in Goldwin Smith Hall G22.

Abstract
In the 1880s and 1890s, Muhammad Ghaffari Kamāl al-Mulk, chief painter…

Are you curious about how mental health, culture, and global health connect to real-world policy challenges? Do you want to learn through hands-on field research and community engagement in one of the most beautiful and biodiverse regions of South India? The Cornell-Keystone NFLP Summer Program in India offers an…

What can maps reveal about movement, displacement, and mobility? What are applications and limits of migration data? And how can we use digital tools to map migration?

This hands-on workshop introduces participants to using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to visualize and analyze human migration data.…

Wednesday, February 25, 2026 4:00pm Africana Studies and Research Center

Speakers: Kassim Kone, Professor, Anthropology, SUNY Cortland; Osuanyi Quaicoo Essel (Associate Professor, Textiles and Fashion, University of Education, Winneba); and Akousa Mawuse Amankwah (Senior Lecturer, Department of Industrial…

Join us for a Chats in the Stacks book talk with Alex Nading, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, as he discusses his latest book, The Kidney and the Cane: Planetary Health and Plantation Labor in Nicaragua (Duke University Press, 2025). Nading follows activists, scientists, and residents in the…

Abstract
Settler colonialism is always as much an attempt to conquer time as it is to conquer land. This is nowhere clearer than in the struggle over Palestine. And at no point starker than in the genocide in Gaza. In this talk, I take as my primary object the Palestinian refugee camps created in the fallout…

Amidst many proposals to incorporate AI into some aspect of the nuclear enterprise, many efforts are underway today to improve the safety of AI so that its introduction into any given part of the nuclear enterprise does not pose undue risk. Yet it does not seem possible to reduce the risks of such introduction to…

"Unearthing Gender and Performance in the Archive of Hellenism"

Artemis Leontis, University of Michigan

This talk explores how feminist archival practices challenge conventional histories and open new ground for understanding Hellenism and Classicism. By placing Eva Palmer Sikelianos’…

Learn and explore at our exhibition open house celebrating The Hum of Life: A Thousand and One Tales From Bali, free and open to all!

Exhibition cocurator Kaja McGowan will offer an introductory lecture, illuminating the cultural background, narrative elements, and visual aesthetics of the artwork on view.…

Margarete Bieber is a prominent yet enigmatic figure in the history of classical art and archaeology. She was pathbreaking in many respects: Bieber was the second woman in Germany to earn a doctorate in archaeology in 1907, and only the second woman across all fields of study in Germany to receive her habilitation…

European History Colloquium

Victoria Frede, Associate Professor, History, UC Berkeley
Friday, February 27, 12:20 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall - 283

The Reign of Virtue: The Cult of Friendship at the Court of Empress Elizabeth

The cult of friendship arrived in Russia in the mid-1750s,…

East Asia Program Lecture Series presents Translucent Atmospherics: Media as Utility in China

Speaker: Angela Xiao Wu, Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University

Abstract
Utilities provide essential services like water, electricity, railroads…

Talk by Llerena Guiu Searle (Anthropology, University of Rochester)

In order to build a more just world order, philosopher Olúfémi Táíwo argues that we must contend with the fact that our current social order builds on relations of colonialism that did not end with colonial independence in the 1940s-1960s.…

In this talk, I analyze the relationship between criminal governance and citizen claim-making for public goods. Millions of people across Latin America live in urban peripheries marked by uneven state presence but where criminal organizations are often present and govern everyday life. What impact does this…

Speaker: Jina Kim, Associate Professor of Korean Literature & Culture, University of Oregon

Description: This presentation examines how a 1950s South Korean radio docudrama contributed to post-war reconstruction of national identity, shaped cultural narratives, and participated in collective healing. In…

Asylum seekers and refugees from many areas of the world and specifically from Central and South America are desperately trying to immigrate to the United States. These migrants are traveling through dangerous areas and difficult terrain to reach the southern border of the US with the hopes of making a better life…

Modern surveillance technology has transformed the epistemic conditions of armed conflict. Drones, satellites, and persistent ISR systems now enable military commanders to identify individual civilians and predict, with statistical precision, the casualties their strikes will cause. Yet international humanitarian…

Talk by Arang Keshavarzian (Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, NYU)

The Persian Gulf has long been a contested space—an object of imperial ambitions, national antagonisms, and migratory dreams. The roots of these contestations lie in the different ways the Gulf has been defined as a region, both by those…

The Southeast Asia Program’s annual graduate conference offers a space for scholars of Southeast Asia to share new work, receive feedback, and engage with peers and faculty across disciplines.

This year’s special-format conference will feature a mix of panel presentations and individual talks from current…

Talk by Aniket Aga (Geography, University at Buffalo, SUNY)

Environmental regulation was among the chief reasons for the secular discrediting of the second Congress-led federal government under Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in India (2009–14) and the electoral victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)…