Come to our annual Showcase event and join us congratulating these 5 students who will receive Achievement Award! Shimtah and E.Motion will perform for us and students from 6 different courses will present their projects. Also, enjoy trivia and Korean snack! Invite your friends and let's celebrate the end of the semester together!

5/9/22 (Monday) at 8pm, Goldwin Smith 132 HEC auditorium

Certificate awardees:

Catherine Carter

Cole Horvath

Hitomi Minamida

Gabriella Smith

Chengyin Tan

Please join us for a talk by Eugene Wang (Harvard).

A Buddhist cave decorated with scenes of meditation at once makes perfect sense and no sense at all. It makes sense in view of the centrality of meditation in Buddhist imagination and practice. It makes no sense in that nowhere in Buddhist discourse do we ever find the instruction that meditation involves looking at wall paintings about meditation. Current scholarship is also polarized into camps of either affirmer and deniers. Affirmers regard meditation as the central function of decorated caves. Deniers see them as sites of mortuary function, having nothing to do with meditation. Meditation and memorial are thus seen as mutually exclusive. It will be shown that they are actually mutually dependent. Meditation is not the function of decorated Buddhist caves, but its narrative frame; memorial is essential to such caves, only that it often takes the narrative form of meditation.

The Cornell Buddhist Studies Seminar Series is co-sponsored by the GPSA-FC, the Departments of Anthropology, Asian Studies and Philosophy, by the South Asia Program, and by the Society for the Humanities. The Department of the History of Art and Visual Studies also generously co-sponsors Prof. Wang's talk. The talk is open to all members of the Cornell community; for accessibility queries please contact buddhiststudies@cornell.edu

Please join us for a talk by Neena Mahadev (Yale-NUS).

The Cornell Buddhist Studies Seminar Series is co-sponsored by the GPSA-FC, the Departments of Anthropology, Asian Studies and Philosophy, by the South Asia Program, and by the Society for the Humanities. The talk is open to all members of the Cornell community; for accessibility queries please contact buddhiststudies@cornell.edu

When travel is restricted during the pandemic, join EAP-GSSC’s symposium on “Food and Fieldwork” for a fulfilling journey. Emerging Cornell scholars from anthropology, sociology, development, and Asian studies will share their methodologies of fieldwork and stories of food. After a food trip to borderland Yunnan with Zhuang Han (Global Development), get a taste of Hainanese "western" food in Malaysia with Joshua Kam (Asia Studies), then indulge in the realm of bread with Annie Sheng (Anthropology); explore how organic food has been brought from farm to table with Shumeng Li (Sociology), and head to Sichuan for rituals of food with Jinglin Piao (Anthropology). HYBRID event. The in-person location is Uris Hall G08. Light refreshments will be served but rsvp is required and limited only to Cornell community members. Please rsvp for in-person participation using https://cornell.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6hy6iNesrTXeZxk

For online participation, please see the Zoom registration link below.

Forging Lasting Peace: Movements for Justice in a Pluralist World (Bartels World Affairs Lecture)

In our ethnically, racially, linguistically, and religiously diverse world, how do we find common ground? Amid ongoing conflict and violence, how do we foster lasting peace? In our world full of inequalities, what practices of activism and solidarity lead to transformative change? Drawing on her experiences of mobilizing, demanding, and brokering peace, 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee shares how action and activism can shape a just world.

A book signing and reception with refreshments will follow the lecture.

Lecture: 5:00–6:30 p.m. | Alice Statler AuditoriumBook signing and reception: 6:30–7:30 p.m. | Park AtriumFree ticket required for in-person attendance: Reserve your ticket. Join the lecture virtually by registering at eCornell.

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Learn more about our distinguished speaker by reading her book, Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War. Pick up your copy from The Cornell Store and bring it to the book signing! Buffalo Street Books will also have copies for sale at the event.

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How did Leymah Gbowee's protests lead to lasting peace? Read a Bartels explainer by Naminata Diabate.

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About Leymah Gbowee

Nobel Peace laureate Leymah Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist, trained social worker, and women's rights advocate. She currently serves as executive director of the Women, Peace, and Security Program at Columbia University's Earth Institute and is the founder and current president of the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa, founding head of the Liberia Reconciliation Initiative, and cofounder and former executive director of the Women, Peace, and Security Network Africa. She is also a founding member and former Liberian coordinator of Women in Peacebuilding Network/West Africa Network for Peacebuilding.

Host and Sponsors

The Bartels World Affairs Lecture is a signature event of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. Part of Einaudi's work on Inequalities, Identities, and Justice, this year's lecture is cosponsored by Einaudi's Institute for African Development and Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, in cooperation with Peace is Loud. To learn more about Peace is Loud and discover other empowering women peacebuilders, visit www.peaceisloud.org.

Bartels World Affairs Lecture

The Einaudi Center’s flagship event brings distinguished international figures to campus each academic year to speak on global topics and meet with Cornell faculty and students, particularly undergraduates. The lecture and related events are made possible by the generosity of Henry E. Bartels ’48 and Nancy Horton Bartels ’48.

Lecture and panel with Qiufan Chen.

The greatest value of science fiction is not providing answers, but rather raising questions.

Can AI help humans prevent the next global pandemic by eliminating it at the very root? How can we deal with future job challenges? How can we maintain cultural diversity in a world dominated by machines? How can we teach our children to live in a society where humans and machines coexist?

Welcome to 2041!

Qiufan Chen (Stanley Chan) is an award-winning Chinese speculative fiction author, translator, and curator. His major works include Waste Tide (Locus Best New Novel Finalist), as well as short story collections Future Diseases and Algorithms for Life, which have won him three Chinese Galaxy Awards and fifteen Chinese Nebula Awards. His recent works include AI 2041 (with Dr. Kai-Fu Lee), in which he imagines our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI.

In dialogue with Prof. Andrea Bachner and Prof. Anindita Banerjee and facilitated by Song Han, PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literatures.

Co-sponsored by Comparative Literature and Asian Studies.