Dr. Anil Menon argues that "forced migration can foster a strong group identity among refugees, which can mobilize them toward political parties that champion their identity-based grievances." Join us to discuss and hear Dr. Menon present his methodologies, analysis, and results of this argument in his recently published work The Political Legacy of Forced Migration: Evidence from Post-WWII Germany.

Dr. Anil Menon is a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Government at Cornell University. His research examines how traumatic experiences – ranging from interstate wars and forced migration to public health crises – shape short- and long-term political attitudes, behaviors, and institutions. Dr. Menon's work on these issues has been published at both academic and policy journals – American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, The Economic Journal, PLOS ONE, International Journal of Public Health, and Current History – and has been featured in popular press outlets like the Washington Post: Monkey Cage and The Conversation.

In-person capacity for this event will be limited, please register using the Zoom link below. Lunch will be provided.

Register for free: https://johnson.campusgroups.com/EMI/rsvp_boot?id=2100902

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.