The dramatic escalation of violence in Israel and Palestine should prompt not only horror, grief, and dismay, but also reflection and action toward lasting peace and justice.

This virtual panel will provide expert perspectives on past and future prospects for peace and justice in Israel and Palestine. The event will include a moderated discussion with members of the audience.

The goal of this conversation is to deepen understanding by creating a space for dialogue between scholarly experts and individuals with a variety of perspectives and experiences. Our conversation will center humanity and the possibility of future repair, and encourage good faith participation, while also recognizing the trauma and grief that so many in our community are experiencing. Our ability to speak and learn is accompanied by a responsibility to listen and respect human life. We will stand firmly against any attempt to intimidate, threaten, or harass any member of our community, as we continue to seek possibilities for peace and restorative justice.

Panelists

Uriel Abulof, Associate Professor, Politics, Tel Aviv University Leena Dallashesh, Independent ScholarIan Lustick, Professor Emeritus, Bess W. Heyman Chair in Political Science, University of PennsylvaniaModerator
Rebecca Slayton, Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies Director and Associate Professor, Department of Science & Technology, Cornell University

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Event Host
Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, part of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Cosponsors
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Department of Near Eastern Studies

Laidlaw Scholars at Cornell will share their summer research and leadership-in-action experiences at this annual symposium.

Beginning in the Klarman Hall Auditorium, a panel of scholars will share their work and experiences. The presentation will be followed by poster presentations throughout the Groos Family Atrium.

The Laidlaw Undergraduate Leadership and Research Scholarship Program provides generous funding to first- and second-year undergraduates over two years as they pursue internationally focused research, engage in leadership training and a leadership-in-action experience, and join a global network of like-minded peers.

Learn more about the program, which is administered by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies with leadership training support from the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.

Are you interested in the intersection of mental health and culture, global health, and community engagement? Do you want to gain field research skills and learn about indigenous communities in South India’s beautiful and fragile Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve? If so, the Cornell-Keystone Nilgiris Field Learning Program might be for you!

A community book read with Alice Beban, author of Unwritten Rule: State-Making through Land Reform in Cambodia and winner of the 2023 Benda Prize.

This event is open to current graduate students at any university, but participants must read the book first to facilitate an active conversation!

Alice Beban’s Unwritten Rule: State-Making through Land Reform in Cambodia is a first-rate study of the politics of land redistribution. Challenging the idea that land reform strengthens land tenure, Unwritten Rule shows that instead it entangles citizens in patron-client relations, creates anxiety, and actually undermines title to land. Citizens in Cambodia must contend with a state that, Beban argues, is not so much lacking in state capacity but actively making things illegible through obfuscation, secrecy, and unwritten rules. Through multiple methods, including in-depth ethnography, survey research, as well as comparative analysis within Cambodia, Unwritten Rule provides a sharp, unique, and counterintuitive perspective on land reforms in an autocratic regime. This is a superb book from which political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, and historians can all gain deep and grounded insights.

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The seminar series for fall 2023 explores the future of African land, agriculture and food, digging into the contestations, conflicting and converging visions from a wide range of perspectives. How might land be used, valued and lived in, across cities, rural communities, forests, deserts and grasslands on the continent in the future? Who is proposing different visions of land futures in Africa, what are the histories, politics, socio-cultural, environmental and economic implications of these potential visions? In one of the regions with the most youthful populations, how are young people considering possible futures? What are ways that land, agriculture and food systems could be resilient, healthy, ecological, thriving and just? Can there be a decolonial agriculture and food future in Africa that celebrates Indigenous and local foodways?

Join us for an online discussion on Southeast Asian Manuscript collections held by institutions around the United States, including the University of California, Berkeley and the Library of Congress.

Dr. Trent Walker will share his experiences navigating the archival landscape of Southeast Asian Studies, covering how manuscript traditions from Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand appear in American libraries and the divergent approaches that researchers can take to incorporate these collections into their own scholarship. This webinar is hosted by the Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia (CORMOSEA), the Southeast Asia Program (SEAP), and the Southeast Asia Digital Library (SEADL).

Trent Walker is Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor. A specialist in Buddhism, literature, and music in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam, he is the author of Until Nirvana’s Time: Buddhist Songs from Cambodia and co-edited a major anthology, Out of the Shadows of Angkor: Cambodian Poetry, Prose, and Performance through the Ages. Recent publications include articles on Thai literary history, Lao and Shan exegesis, Theravada nuns, Pali-vernacular homiletics, Khmer epigraphy, and Vietnamese Buddhist translation. Trent also served as Director of Preservation and Lead Scholar for the Khmer Manuscript Heritage Project, a initiative of the Buddhist Digital Resource Center, in collaboration with the École française d'Extrême-Orient and with generous support from A Khmer Buddhist Foundation, to digitize over 1.5 million pages of Khmer, Pali, and Thai manuscripts from Cambodia.