What is it like to move from the cloisters of academia to the high-profile sector of global markets and monetary policy? In his new book, Policymaker’s Journal: From New Delhi to Washington DC, (Simon & Schuster India, 2021)

Economist Kaushik Basu chronicles the years he spent working in the frenetic world of economic policymaking, first as chief economic advisor to the Indian government and later as the chief economist at the World Bank. In a live, virtual, Chats in the Stacks talk, Basu will discuss how he documented his day-to-day experiences over seven years of high-level, international economic policy work and share what he learned during that time.

Sponsored by Mann Library, the talk is followed by a live Q&A.

Basu is Cornell’s Carl Marks Professor of International Studies and a professor of economics. A former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank, from 2017 to 2021 he served as president of the International Economic Association and he was chief economic adviser to the Indian government from 2009 to 2012.

Dial-In Information

Please register through the following link:

https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OOBc_FOKSravdzhWeK3k3A

Prof. Nicholas Mulder provides a history of the interwar origins of economic sanctions, showing how they reconfigured international affairs by enabling distant coercion against civilian societies in peacetime. Based on wartime blockade practices, the instrument of sanctions offered a novel way to prevent war.

This presentation is based on his first book, The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War, recently published in January 2022 by Yale University Press.

About the speaker

Nicholas Mulder is an Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University. He works on European and international history from 1870 to the present. His research focuses on political, economic, and intellectual history, with particular attention to the era of the world wars between 1914 and 1945.

This seminar is part of the spring seminar series with the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS).

Issues in African Development Seminar Series examines critical concerns in contemporary Africa using a different theme each semester. The seminars provide a forum for participants to explore alternative perspectives and exchange ideas. They are also a focal activity for students and faculty interested in African development. In addition, prepares students for higher level courses on African economic, social and political development. The presentations are designed for students who are interested in development, Africa’s place in global studies, want to know about the peoples, cultures and societies that call Africa home, and explore development theories and alternate viewpoints on development.

Speaker details here

Zoom registration link here

Ithaca Premiere. 2021 > Chad > Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
With Achouackh Abakar, Rihane Khalil Alio
Amina, a single mother and practicing Muslim, lives with her 15-year-old daughter, Maria. When Amina learns Maria is pregnant and wants to abort the child, they face an impossible situation in a country where abortion is legally and morally condemned. "A blistering attack on patriarchy and a warm reaffirmation of 'the sacred bonds' (the meaning of the film's title) among women, it's a bracing work... etched in fully felt performances and beautifully hued compositions." (Justin Chang, LA Times) Subtitled. More at mubi.com/films/lingui
1 hr 27 min

Over two days, scholars, writers, practitioners, activists, and students across institutions are coming together virtually to explores the relationship between borders, captivity, and memory, and how it shapes the racialization of migration and the construction of national identity.

The first day of the symposium is March 18, 2022 and the second day is April 8, 2022.

Day 2 Schedule:

Welcome and Roundtable 1: Translation, Testimony, and Storytelling across Borders, 9:45–11:30 a.m. (ET)

Keynote: Language, Identity, and Representation in Transnational Italy, 12–1:30 p.m. (ET)

Speakers: Amara Lakhous and Ubah Cristina Ali FarahDiscussants: Ron Kubati and Loredana PolezziStudent Reflection Session, 1:30–2:15 p.m. (ET)

Open to undergraduate and graduate students at any institution

Roundtable 2: Readings and Discussion to Celebrate the Launch of Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives, 2:45–4:15 p.m. (ET)

This symposium is organized through the Central New York Humanities Corridor (LLC35), with co-sponsorship from Montclair State University Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies, the AAIS Critical Race Studies Caucus, Cornell's Migrations initiative, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and its Institute for European Studies, the Cornell Department of Romance Studies, the University of Rochester's Humanities Center, and the Department of Humanities in the Eastman School of Music.

Over two days, scholars, writers, practitioners, activists, and students across institutions are coming together virtually to explores the relationship between borders, captivity, and memory, and how it shapes the racialization of migration and the construction of national identity.

The first day of the symposium is March 18, 2022 and the second day is April 8, 2022.

Day 1 Schedule:

Welcome and Roundtable 1 Cultural, Legal, and Sociological Perspectives on Racial Justice in Italy and the Mediterranean, 9:45–11:30 a.m. (ET)

Keynote: Racial Justice and the Black Mediterranean, 12–1:30 p.m. (ET)

Speakers: Camilla Hawthorne and Angelica PesariniDiscussants: Simone Brioni and Teresa FioreStudent Reflection Session, 1:30–2:15 p.m. (ET)

Open to undergraduate and graduate students at any institution

Facilitators: Simone Brioni and Teresa FioreRoundtable 2: “Italian Others”: Histories of Racialized Migration and Diaspora between the Nineteenth Century and the Present, 2:45–4:15 p.m. (ET)

This symposium is organized through the Central New York Humanities Corridor (LLC35), with co-sponsorship from Montclair State University Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies, the AAIS Critical Race Studies Caucus, Cornell's Migrations initiative, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and its Institute for European Studies, the Cornell Department of Romance Studies, the University of Rochester's Humanities Center, and the Department of Humanities in the Eastman School of Music.