What does it take to challenge entrenched judicial dysfunction? In this talk, Janice Gallagher previews the central argument from her forthcoming book, "Bootstrap Justice: The Search for Mexico's Disappeared." She shows how the sustained mobilization of families of the disappeared widens cracks in impunity produced by shifting state-criminal alliances, and highlights the key role of state allies. Speaker is in-person.

Cornell Community may attend in-person at 1pm G01 Stimson Hall

Event is free and open to the public via Zoom--Please register through the following link:

https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5VxY9YHDS5yCp1N-FwG2Lw

A panel discussion and series of readings from the 2021 anthology Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts. Readings, annotations, and dialogue with editors and contributors Christopher K. Ho, Daisy Nam, Iftikhar Dadi, Rachel Ossip, and Dushko Petrovich.

This collection of seventy-three letters written in 2020 captures an unprecedented moment in politics and society through the experiences of Asian-American artists, curators, educators, art historians, editors, writers, and designers. The form of the letter offers readers intimate insights into the complexities of Asian American experiences, moving beyond the model-minority myth. Chronicling everyday lives, dreams, rage, family histories, and cultural politics, these letters ignite new ways of being, and modes of creating, at a moment of racial reckoning.

Registation is required to attend this online event. The registration link is:

https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_09xS16fkTcmiiQc3Kvge2g

Sarah Brayne presents her recent book Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing (Oxford Scholarship Online, 2020). She is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin.

This seminar is part of a series organized by the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) and the Gender and Security Sector (GSS) Lab. Download the Fall 2021 Seminar Series schedule here.

Participants will be given a preview of the working paper upon registration. To enrich the conversation, please read in advance of the seminar.

Chiara Ruffa discusses a new working paper, "Gender, Socialization, and Norms of Restraint: Findings from the US Military Academy at West Point." She is an Academy Fellow at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University and Associate Professor in War Studies, Swedish Defense University.

This seminar is part of a series organized by the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) and the Gender and Security Sector (GSS) Lab. Download the Fall 2021 Seminar Series schedule here.

Participants will be given a preview of the working paper upon registration. To enrich the conversation, please read in advance of the seminar.

Anjali Dayal (Fordham University) discusses her new book Incredible Commitments: How UN Peacekeeping Failures Shape Peace Processes, out by Cambridge University Press (2021).

This seminar is part of a series organized by the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) and the Gender and Security Sector (GSS) Lab. Download the full schedule of the Fall 2021 Seminar Series here.

Participants will be given a preview of the first two chapters of the book at registration. To enrich the conversation, please read in advance of the seminar.

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. -

This event is live and virtual -
https://cornell.zoom.us/j/98197275921?pwd=a3lqNGZ2QnNCSVRHS1BGMG5HRFdaZ…

Meeting ID: 981 9727 5921
Passcode: 055857

Zifeng Liu, Ph.D. candidate and Diverse Knowledge East Asia Fellow presents an excerpt from his dissertation: “Translating Black Left Feminism: Shirley Graham Du Bois and Mao’s China”

This presentation examines Shirley Graham Du Bois’s engagement with China in the long 1960s. It explores how she cautiously navigated the rapids of the unfolding Sino-Soviet split and sought to manipulate antagonistic geopolitical forces to aid global decolonial efforts. This presentation also argues that, through multilateral transnational practices of quotation, translation, exchange, and distribution, her own publications and China’s state-controlled mouthpieces fostered for her Black left feminist discourse a broad reading public that transgressed nation-states’ boundaries and created followers, who (re)interpreted and (re)activated her messages of Afro-Chinese solidarity.

Rough Work is research in progress and the main purpose of the session is to provide feedback and insight for the presenter. This session is hosted by EAP's Graduate Student Steering Committee. We encourage grad students who are engaged in East Asia-related research or who are from or connected to East Asia to get involved. GSSC provides a welcoming community for academic, creative, professional, and personal development.

Often seen solely as a calamity, El Niño Southern Oscillation has impacted the Peruvian Andes for hundreds of years and has (re)shaped the means of agrarian life for Indigenous and campesino peoples. Based on archival and ethnographic work, this presentation discusses how El Niño and its “disasters” — floods, droughts, and mudslides, and others — are also responsible for spurring adaptation, resilience, and different forms of socioenvironmental organization.

Hybrid (speaker in-person for the Cornell Community)

Free and open to the public by Zoom:

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