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Join us for our upcoming event: “Eco-Innovation in Brazil and US." The Cornell Emerging Markets Institute is partnering with the Brazilian National Confederation of Industry (CNI) and the Brazilian Student Association at Cornell (BRASA) to talk about industry cooperation in science, technology, and innovation. Our diverse panel of speakers includes researchers and industry leaders working in Brazil, the US, and the international community at broad.

SUNY-Purchase Fulbright Artist in Residence Marcel Gbeffa and Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Centre Chorégraphique Multicorps will visit Cornell to perform a Contemporary Béninois dance recital and give a lecture on “Contemporary Béninois dance and Francophone performing arts residencies facing social justice”

The event is made possible with support from IAD’s UISFL grant. The event is bilingual FRN/ENG with consecutive translation.

It has long been recognized that the legacies of Japanese imperialism have continued to impact the production of an East Asian regional imaginary throughout the postwar years, and it has primarily been the U.S.-Japan alliance under Anpo that has exerted pressure to make the Japanese nation and the region coheres. Successively, however, the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the bubble economy, and the emergence of testimony and demands from former “comfort women” have destabilized Japan’s prewar claims to symbolic status of being the sole “modern subject” among “non-modern” East Asian others. The more recent reconfiguration of power relationships in East Asia have only intensified this destabilization. What impact has this had on “Japan,” taken as an object of studies within Japanese Studies in Japan, as well as the object of area studies abroad? What are the generative possibilities offered by such destabilizations?

PANELISTS:

Minoru Iwasaki, School of Political Science and Economics, Yamato University, JapanNarita Ryūichi, Japanese Social History, Japan Women’s University, JapanWatanabe Naoki, Japanese and East Asian Comparative Studies, Musashi University, JapanDiscussant: Richard Calichman, Asian Studies, City College of New York

The event is from 9:00-11:00 p.m. EST on April 24 and from 10:00-12:00 a.m. on April 25 in Japan's time zone.

Perspectives in Global Development: Spring 2023 Seminar Series

Distinguished speaker: Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted

Global hunger and malnutrition rates have been increasing, exacerbated by disruptions, including climate change, conflicts and COVID-19. Over the past three years, these disruptions have reversed the progress we have made towards achieving Agenda 2030, especially meeting the targets of SDG 2: Zero Hunger. There is growing recognition, backed by scientific data, on the potential and role of aquatic foods in transforming food systems to nourish people and planet. Aquatic food systems provide food and nutrition security and livelihood opportunities for over three billion people, globally, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Studies have shown that aquatic foods have lower economic and environmental costs, when compared to land-based foods. A paradigm shift, to diversify and build resilience in aquatic food systems, is necessary to optimize the reach of aquatic foods in nourishing people and planet. This requires strong commitments by food systems enablers, including governments and policymakers, research institutions, the private sector, and local communities.

About the speaker

Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, native of Trinidad and Tobago and a citizen of Denmark, is the Director of the Nutrition, Health and Food Security Impact Area Platform at CGIAR. She received the 2021 World Food Prize for her groundbreaking research, critical insights and landmark innovations in developing holistic, nutrition-sensitive approaches to aquaculture and food systems. By bringing together interdisciplinary and international collaborators, she drove transformations in aquatic food systems to deliver improved nutrition, resilient ecosystems and secure livelihoods for millions of vulnerable people across the globe.

Prior to joining WorldFish in 2010, she worked as an Associate Professor in the human nutrition departments of the University of Copenhagen and The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University in Denmark. She has more than 25 years’ experience in research and has published many refereed articles on food and nutrition security in low-income countries. Shakuntala holds a Ph.D from the The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University in Denmark.

About the seminar series

The Perspectives in Global Development seminars are held Wednesdays from 12:25 – 1:15 p.m. eastern time during the semester. The series will be presented in a hybrid format with some speakers on campus and others appearing via Zoom. All seminars are shown in Emerson 135. Students, faculty and the general public are welcome to attend. The series is co-sponsored by the Department of Global Development, the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, and the School of Integrative Plant Science as part of courses IARD 6960, NTRES 6960, PLSCS 6960, and AEM 6960.