The Spring 2023 LRC Learning Community will offer an interinstitutional opportunity to exchange best practices in language teaching and review basic principles of SLA, content-based language teaching, and assessment. The LC is organized as part of the Central New York Humanities Corridor Working Group on Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC). Our monthly meetings will connect the four CLAC Working Group partner campuses (Cornell, Colgate, Skidmore, and Syracuse) via Zoom to discuss readings by Roy Lyster (Content-Based Language Teaching, 2018, Routledge) and the recent book by Florencia Henshaw and Maris Hawkins (Common Ground: Second Language Acquisition Theory Goes to the Classroom, 2022, Hackett). This LC will be relevant for seasoned language instructors and those new to the field. The first 15 applicants will receive free copies of both books.

Apply here: https://cornell.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e3UnaygjEJy5JzM

The LC will be lively, exciting, and a combination of analytical, theoretical, and philosophical discussions. We hope you’ll join us!

Dates:
There will be four synchronous meetings throughout the semester.

Friday, February, 17, 2-3:30 pm on Zoom: Content-based language teaching (reading: Lyster, 2018)Saturday, March 25, 11-12:30 at Cornell: Guiding SLA principles and assessment (reading: Henshaw & Hawkins, 2022, Section I)
Author Florencia Henshaw will give an in-person workshop at Cornell, followed by a reception.Friday, April 21, 2-3:30 pm on Zoom: The role of input and skills (reading: Henshaw & Hawkins, 2022, Section II)Friday, May 5, 2-3:30 pm on Zoom: Integrating output and interaction (reading: Henshaw & Hawkins, 2022, Section III)Application Process:
All faculty and graduate students with an interest in language teaching are invited to apply for this learning community. Please complete the online application by 5 pm on Monday, February 6, 2023. Applicants will be notified by February 10, 2023. Space is limited.

More information can be found at https://lrc.cornell.edu/learning-communities.

Drug trafficking and drug-related violence have increased dramatically in Latin America's Southern Cone during the last decade. Illicit activities have increased and diversified in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay in a way that threatens political and social inclusion. The talk will discuss the evolution of drug-related crime and how these dynamics affect social and political stability in the long term. It will also address how governments have reacted, the nature of their strategies, and the extent to which these countries have learned from Central and North American experiences.

About the Speakers

Juan Bogliaccini is a Professor of Political Science at the Department of Social Sciences, Universidad Católica del Uruguay (UCU). He is also Chair of the Methods Center at UCU, and editor of the Latin American Political Economy Series at Palgrave Macmillan. He obtained a PhD in Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2012. His work focuses on the political economy of redistribution and inequality, in the areas of comparative capitalism, skills formation, security and welfare states. His recent work has appeared, among other places, in Economics & Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, Third World Quarterly, Development Policy Review, Journal of Latin American Studies, LARR, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan.

Emiliano Tealde is an Associate Professor of the Department of Social Sciences at the Universidad Católica del Uruguay. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics at the Università Degli Studi di Siena, Italy. His research is focused on studying the causes and consequences of criminal activity.

A conversation about encounters, collaborations, and commitments that shape, motivate, and inspire anthropologists.

Co-sponsored by the Society for the Humanities; Science and Technology Studies; and the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. Thank you.

Ashawari Chaudhuri is a visiting assistant professor in STS. Professor Chaudhuri's bio: I am an anthropologist of the environment, science, and medicine. My current book manuscript is a historically grounded ethnography of agricultural biotechnology in India. Along with asking what a good seed is for farmers and biotechnologists, I trace how knowledge about objects like genetically modified seeds is formed at intersections of practice, people, and time. My next project is an inquiry into the long relation between environmental heat and the body in South Asia. I find historically emerging meanings of words and concepts powerful. My teaching is often grounded in questions of ethics and creative negotiations with power around practices, technologies, and ideas that acquire palimpsests of meanings over time and across place.

Tanzeen Rashed Doha (PhD Anthropology, University of California, Davis; M.A. Philosophy, San Jose State University; M.A. Humanities, San Francisco State University) is a global racial justice postdoctoral fellow at the Einaudi Center. Doha is an anthropologist of Islam and secularism. His most recent research explores the relationship between race and religion as categories of modern secularity, specifically looking at questions concerning blackness and Islam. His current ethnographic work examines problems of betrayal, hypocrisy, false worship, disbelief, and other political and moral actions, and psycho-existential conditions, through an engagement with 20th century Islamist thought.

Tamta Khalvashi is a professor of Anthropology and the Head of the PhD Program of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Ilia State University in Georgia. She obtained her PhD in Anthropology from Copenhagen University (2015). She has been awarded postdoctoral fellowships from Fulbright Program at New York University, Department of Anthropology (2016-2017) and Cornell University, the Society for the Humanities (2022-23). Her research interests are located in the overlap of experimental anthropology, the interdisciplinary field of affect theory, and cultural anthropology with a particular focus on postsocialist transformations, peripheral histories, marginal social identities, space and materiality. Her article Horizons of Medea: Economies and Cosmologies of Dispossession in Georgia (Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute, 2018) has been awarded Honorary Mention from Soyuz (Postsocialist Cultural Studies Research Network of the American Anthropological Association) in the Article Price Annual Competition (2018). Currently, Khalvashi is finalizing two books Peripheral Shame: Affective City and Politics on the Margins of Georgia and A Sea of Transience: Politics, Poetics and Aesthetics on the Black Sea Coast (with Martin Demant Frederiksen).

Come hear Christopher Marquis discuss his new book Mao and Markets (Yale University Press, 2023) that charts how Mao’s ideological principles, mass campaigns, and socialist institutions have enduringly influenced Chinese entrepreneurs, listed companies and provincial and city politicians.

As China opened up its economy over the past four decades, conventional wisdom held that the country’s growing embrace of free markets would lead to a more liberal society. Instead, China’s unprecedented economic growth has positioned state capitalism as a durable foil to the orthodoxy of free markets, to the confusion of many in the West. Many have commented on China's renewed embrace of Maoist principles. What does this mean for the future of the Chinese economy and relations with the West? What are the implications of China returning to some of the ideological principles spearheaded by Mao Zedong? And how much of China’s decades of economic success can be credited to Mao and Maoism?

This panel is cohosted by the Cornell China Center, the Yale Club of Hong Kong, the Notre Dame Beijing Global Gateway, and the Yale Center Beijing.

About the Speaker

Christopher Marquis is the Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. He is the author of the award winning books Better Business: How the B Corp Movement is Remaking Capitalism and Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise. Prior to joining Cambridge he worked at Cornell for over 6 years, and Harvard for over 11 years, where he developed an award-winning course on social entrepreneurship. He is the author of more than 20 peer-reviewed academic articles and more than 50 Harvard business cases on topics related to sustainable business, and has earned awards for scholarly achievement from the Academy of Management and the American Sociological Association. Marquis earned a PhD in sociology and business administration from the University of Michigan and BA in History from Notre Dame. Before his academic career, he worked for six years in the financial services industry, most recently as vice president and technology manager for a business unit of J.P. Morgan Chase.

Event Details

7:30 am - 8:30 am Eastern Standard Time (EST) / 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm China Standard Time (CST). The event language is English.

Register for the book talk. Advance registration is required before Febrary 7 at 11:00 pm EST to obtain a Zoom event link. Your registration request will be confirmed at least 24 hours ahead of the event. If you encounter problems, please email yalecenterbeijing@yale.edu.

Please enter the Zoom room 15 minutes before the event start time. When the room is full, latecomers will not be able to join the event.

IAD Weekly Seminar - How to Identify the 'Best' Policy Practices?: The seminar will explore promising avenues to improve the science policy interface in Africa. Multiple themes under this broad umbrella will be covered, including:

Reviews of productive modes of interfacing science and policy.Detailed explorations of the regional policy-making process, including current obstacles to building strong S/P interfaces.Efforts to train the region's scientists in policy communication.The role of mass media, new media, and civil society in the process.The role of national and regional think tanks.Advocacy efforts directed at policy-makers to promote an evidence-based culture.

This panel brings together scholars of political theory, history, and anthropology to examine how different political actors and groups proposed visions of "worldmaking" in the colonial and imperial contexts of Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and beyond. These visions went beyond the nation-state form and offered alternative modes of sovereignty, self-determination, and social and political worlds.

In giving serious consideration to these visions, the work of the scholars on this panel highlights the limitations of interpretations that present independence and decolonization processes as straightforward transitions from colony to nation and, in doing so, makes the case that just as another world was possible, another world can be possible.

Hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies as part of its work on Inequalities, Identities, and Justice.

Speakers

Adom Getachew (University of Chicago)Gary Wilder (CUNY Graduate Center)Ernesto Bassi Arevalo (History, A&S)Moderator

Begüm Adalet (Government, A&S)

This two-day conference, organized by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Institute for Comparative Modernities, and Polson Institute for Global Development, brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars conducting innovative research on the topic of racial capitalism across the globe.

Anchored around Cedric Robinson’s two central claims—on the role of bonded labor in the development of capitalism and a world-consciousness rooted in African worlds—this conference is convened to spark conversation on the wider applicability of the term racial capitalism to understand current global articulations of capital and labor, and the emancipatory possibilities they may harbor.

Program

Saturday, April 22, 2023 | Africana Studies & Research Center Multipurpose room

10:30 a.m. —12:30 p.m. Panel Three | Abolitions: Debts, Borders, Empire

Moderator: Amiel Bize (Cornell University)

Panelists:

Jodi Kim (University of California, Riverside)

Aly Wane (Immigrant Justice Network, Syracuse Peace Council)

Carla Hung (Cornell University)

Discussant: Russell Rickford (Cornell University)

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1:00—3:00 p.m. Afternoon Breakout sessions

The breakout sessions offer a chance for Cornell students to meet with participants in small groups. Conversation topics will be guided by participants’ research interests and conference discussions. Two sessions per hour will run simultaneously.

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See Day One

Xingke tiben: A Murder Case from 1762

CCCC with Matthew Sommer (History, Stanford)

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC) 古文品讀 is a reading group for scholars interested in premodern Sinographic (古文) text. The group typically meets monthly during the semester to explore a variety of classical Chinese texts and styles. Other premodern texts linked to classical Chinese in Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese have been explored. Presentations include works from the earliest times to the 20th century. Workshop sessions are led by local, national, and international scholars.

All are welcome, with any level of experience with classical Chinese or Sinographic text.

This two-day conference, organized by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Institute for Comparative Modernities, and Polson Institute for Global Development, brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars conducting innovative research on the topic of racial capitalism across the globe.

Anchored around Cedric Robinson’s two central claims—on the role of bonded labor in the development of capitalism and a world-consciousness rooted in African worlds—this conference is convened to spark conversation on the wider applicability of the term racial capitalism to understand current global articulations of capital and labor, and the emancipatory possibilities they may harbor.

Friday, April 21, 2023 | Africana Studies & Research Center Multipurpose room

10:45 a.m. Opening Remarks, Conference organizers

11 a.m.—1:00 p.m. Panel One | Genealogies

Moderator: Viranjini Munasinghe (Cornell University)

Panelists:

Peter James Hudson (University of California, Los Angeles)

Megan Ming Francis (University of Washington)

Jordanna Matlon (American University)

Discussants: Amiel Bize (Cornell University) and Begüm Adalet (Cornell University)

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2:00—4:00 p.m. Panel Two | Settler Colonialism and Racial Capitalism

Moderator: Begüm Adalet (Cornell University)

Robert Nichols (University of Minnesota)

Joanne Barker (San Francisco State University; The University of Chicago)

Muriam Haleh Davis (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Darren Byler (Simon Fraser University)

Discussant: Jodi Byrd (Cornell University)

4:00 p.m. Reception to follow afternoon panel | Hoyt Fuller Room

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See Day Two