Registration Link: https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/overview/K031822/

According to Chainanalysis’ 2021 Global Crypto Adoption Index, global adoption of cryptocurrency has grown 881% in the last year and more than 2300% since 2019. This explosion has been largely driven by developing economies, where a grassroots movement led by digital currency pioneers is opening access to markets and improving financial mobility. Yet the crypto revolution isn’t all reward and no risk.

Hosted by the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business Emerging Markets Institute (EMI), this virtual panel discussion will explore how crypto is poised to shape emerging markets. EMI Director Lourdes Casanova and International Monetary Fund (IMF) fintech and crypto specialists Dimitris Drakopoulos, Gabriel Söderberg, and Parma Bains will explain current adoption trends of crypto generally, and central bank digital currency (CBDC) specifically, in emerging markets like China, Nigeria, and Venezuela. They’ll also discuss the risks of expanding crypto adoption to developing economies. The discussion will be followed by a question-and-answer session.

List of speakers:

Dimitris Drakopoulos, SENIOR FINANCIAL SECTOR EXPERT, International Monetary Fund

Gabriel Söderberg, FINANCIAL SECTOR EXPERT, Uppsala University, International Monetary Fund

Lourdes Casanova, SENIOR LECTURER AND GAIL AND ROB CAÑIZARES DIRECTOR EMERGING MARKETS INSTITUTE, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

Parma Bains, FINANCIAL SECTOR EXPERT, FINTECH, International Monetary Fund

Mihika Badjate, RESEARCH ASSISTANT, Emerging Markets Institute
Ravin Nanda, EMI FELLOW, Emerging Markets Institute

For its 2021-22 season, the Ithaca-based Cherry Artists’ Collective is harnessing the power of performance to engage communities around urgent issues related to migration, racism, and dispossession. The four productions in The Cherry’s “Migrations” season span different geographical and philosophical perspectives while offering audiences resources to spark public discussion.

In this webcast, Aoise Stratford, director of education for The Cherry Arts, will explore how playwrights and artists represent migration through theater and discuss how the “Migrations” season aims to create a profound, shared learning experience for Ithaca and surrounding communities. In conversation with colleagues André Nascimento and Andy Colpitts, Ms. Stratford will also discuss the role that arts organizations play in broadening critical conversations and action in our local, national, and global communities.

Speakers:
André Nascimento: PhD Student of Spanish in the Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University

Andy Colpitts: PhD Student, Performing and Media Arts, Cornell University

Aoise Stratford: Lecturer, Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University; Director of Education, The Cherry Arts

Moderator:
Eleanor Paynter: Postdoctoral associate, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell

Ato Kwamena Onoma is a program officer at the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa. He is the author of Anti-Refugee Violence and African Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and The Politics of Property Rights Institutions in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

This event is part of the IAD Distinguished Africanist Scholar Lecture series.

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All societies, and especially diverse ones like the US, are multilingual; translingual communication mediates life and professions and makes knowledge grow and work. Yet, myths about language set up barriers, inhibiting free exchange and application of knowledge. These myths include the ideas that knowledge must only be produced, can only be exchanged, and is applied best through dominant languages—damaging assumptions that adversely affect many domains, but particularly knowledge work by academics across the disciplines. Harm caused by this suppression of languages has been long documented in the literature in language, writing, and communication studies. Drawing on the research and his own efforts to counter language ideologies, Dr. Shyam Sharma will present a framework and share practical strategies, showing how transcending monolingual worldviews (and mobilizing all languages) helps academe and its scholars to magnify the impact of the knowledge they produce, both transnationally and within US academe and society.

About the speaker
Dr. Shyam Sharma is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at the State University of New York in Stony Brook. His scholarship and teaching focus on issues of language and language policy/politics, cross-cultural rhetoric, international students and education, and writing in the disciplines. His works have appeared in a variety of venues, including College Composition and Communication, JAC, Across the Disciplines, Composition Studies, NCTE, Series in Writing and Rhetoric, Hybrid Pedagogy, Kairos, and Professional and Academic English (IELTS SIG). His last book (Routledge, 2018), based on data gathered by visiting 20 US universities plus data collected distantly from 15 more, offers theoretical and practical pathways for the advancement of Writing Studies at the graduate level, using writing support for international graduate students as a major intervention in graduate education. His next book analyzes the foundations of international education in the US in the decades after the Second World War, showing fault lines and potential futures by analyzing trajectories in the past few decades.

The event is free and open to the public. Campus visitors and members of the public must adhere to Cornell's public health requirements for events, which include wearing masks while indoors and providing proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test.

Co-sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences; the Graduate School Offices of Inclusion and Student Engagement, and Future Faculty and Academic Careers; the Office of Postdoctoral Studies; the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs; the English Language Support Office; the Language Resource Center; and the South Asia Program.

Registration is required: https://cornell.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1Li39my9DG4VrtY

Cities are changing sites of revolution and rebellion, contestations over forms of power and social relations. As historical and contemporary instances, revolutions present alternative views of world-making and contestations over the organization of society and relations of power. To better understand this phenomenon, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies has assembled a panel discussion of Professor Mark Beissinger’s book, The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion (Princeton University Press, 2022). Join us for an exploration of how and why cities have become primary sites of revolutionary disruptions in the contemporary world.

Examining the changing character of revolution around the world, The Revolutionary City focuses on the impact that the concentration of people, power, and wealth in cities exercises on revolutionary processes and outcomes. Once predominantly an urban and armed affair, revolutions in the twentieth century migrated to the countryside, as revolutionaries searched for safety from government repression and discovered the peasantry as a revolutionary force. But at the end of the twentieth century, as urban centers grew, revolution returned to the city—accompanied by a new urban civic repertoire espousing the containment of predatory government and relying on visibility and the power of numbers rather than arms.

Using original data on revolutionary episodes since 1900, public opinion surveys, and engaging examples from around the world, Mark Beissinger explores the causes and consequences of the urbanization of revolution in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Beissinger examines the compact nature of urban revolutions, as well as their rampant information problems and heightened uncertainty. He investigates the struggle for control over public space, why revolutionary contention has grown more pacified over time, and how revolutions involving the rapid assembly of hundreds of thousands in central urban spaces lead to diverse, ad hoc coalitions that have difficulty producing substantive change.

Author of The Revolutionary City:

Mark R. Beissinger, Henry W. Putnam Professor of Politics, Princeton University

“Author Meets Critics” Expert Discussants:

Dina Bishara (Assistant Professor, School of Industrial and Labor Relations)Bryn Rosenfeld (Assistant Professor, Department of Government/A&S)Sidney Tarrow (Emeritus Maxwell Upson Professor, Department of Government/A&S; Adjunct Professor, Cornell Law School)
Moderator:

Rachel Beatty Riedl (Einaudi Center Director; Professor, Department of Government/A&S and Cornell Brooks School)

Co-Sponsors:

Institute for European Studies, Einaudi CenterSoutheast Asia Program, Einaudi CenterReppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, Einaudi CenterInstitute of Politics and Global Affairs
About the Forum:

The “Author Meets Critics” forum stages scholarly conversations around the Einaudi Center’s research priority areas: Democratic Threats and Resilience, and Inequalities, Identities, and Justice.

Attendance Requirements:

In-person attendance is open to the Cornell community: Cornell ID and mask REQUIRED

Register here.

Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine was largely informed by his notion of a shared Russian-Ukrainian history, which allegedly does not give Ukraine the right to a sovereign state. The current conflict in Ukraine is, in this sense, also a dispute about history. This panel brings together two leading historians of Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War to discuss the war’s roots and significance from a historical perspective. The speakers will address key questions such as: What has Ukraine’s relationship with Russia been over the long term and how might the war change it? Does the war in Ukraine mark a break with the post-Cold War order, a return to the Cold War, or the beginning of something completely new? How should we think about China’s role in the conflict? Is the war a moment of opportunity or crisis for the West?

Serhii Plokhy is Mikhailo Hrushevsky professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University and director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. He has written broadly on the history of Eastern Europe and Ukraine, on issues ranging from the premodern and early modern history of Eastern Slavs, to the Soviet Union’s collapse, nationalism and nationalist myth-making, and Chernobyl. His many publications include Yalta: The Price of Peace, The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union, The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, and Chernobyl: The History of a Tragedy. Professor Plokhy’s most recent work, Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disaster, will be published later this year.
This event is co-sponsored by The Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.

Odd Arne Westad is the Elihu Professor of History at Yale University, where he also teaches in the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and serves as director of International Security Studies. Professor Westad specializes in modern international and global history, especially the history of eastern Asia since the 18th century. He has published widely on the history of the Cold War, China-Russia relations, and the Chinese civil war and Communist party, and is currently working on histories of empire and imperialism, above all in Asia. Through books such as Cold War and Revolution, Decisive Encounters, The Global Cold War, and The Cold War: A World History, Westad has revolutionized the field of Cold War history.