2005 > China/France/Germany/Hong Kong > Directed by Wong Kar Wai

With Tony Leung, Ziyi Zhang, Gong Li

Tony Leung reprises his role as the frustrated romantic of In the Mood for Love in this nominal sequel, "a complex, visually rich, pull-out-all-stops rumination on memory, regret, relationships and the creative process." (SF Chronicle) In Cantonese, Japanese and Mandarin. Subtitled. More at sonyclassics.com/2046/

2 hrs 9 min

2019 > Sweden > Directed by Roy Andersson

With Bengt Bergius, Marie Burman, Amanda Davies

"The latest from influential Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson (A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, A Swedish Love Story) weaves together multiple visually arresting vignettes into a powerful larger narrative exploring our personal lack of awareness." (Toronto International Film Festival) In Swedish. Subtitled. More at aboutendlessnessfilm.com/

1 hr 16 min

Includes admission to Kiarostami’s Close-Up at 8:35pm

1987 > Iran > Directed by Abbas Kiarostami

With Babek Ahmed Poor, Ahmed Ahmed Poor

A sensitive and beautiful film depicting the remarkable efforts made by a schoolboy as he tries to help his classmate in a mountainous region of Iran. "Cinema of breathtaking simplicity and power." (Geoff Brown, The Times London)

The Emerging Markets Institute (EMI) was launched in 2010 to broaden global leadership horizons in business research and talent development. Every year, the EMI holds an Annual Conference to bring together business and opinion leaders, academics, and students to discuss emerging markets.

For the second year, the Conference is also hosting a pitch competition. The objective of the pitch competition is to give international recognition to startups with presence in emerging markets. The final round of the competition is a part of the EMI Annual Conference.

Learn more about the pitch competition and register for the conference at the EMI Annual Conference website.

The Emerging Markets Institute (EMI) was launched in 2010 to broaden global leadership horizons in business research and talent development. Every year, the EMI holds an Annual Conference to bring together business and opinion leaders, academics, and students to discuss emerging markets.

Along with the conference, the EMI holds an annual case competition. The competition focuses on identifying and answering questions that real businesses and management face in relation with emerging markets. The growing role of Emerging Multinationals in the business world continues to evolve, and this case competition seeks to challenge us to think about how to navigate in a changing context.

This year's case competition will be held at the 2021 Annual Conference, which you can learn more about and register for on the conference website.

Ithaca Premiere

2019 > Spain > Directed by Robert Bahar & Almudena Carracedo

Filmed over six years, The Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain's 40-year dictatorship under General Franco as they organize a groundbreaking international lawsuit and fight a "pact of forgetting" around the crimes they suffered. Cosponsored with the Dept of Romance Studies. In Spanish, English, Basque & Catalan. Subtitled. More at thesilenceofothers.com/

1 hr 36 min

This talk charts out an oceanic microhistory, grounded in the voyages of a dhow from the port of Kuwait, captained by the nakhoda ‘Abdulmajeed Al-Failakawi. It anchors itself in Al-Failakawi’s logbook, and looks out from the deck of the dhow onto a world of texts, letters, accounts, and other writings by nakhodas. The texts they wrote give us a sense of how nakhodas braided together past and present as they moved around the Indian Ocean; the routes they traversed bore the sediments of a long history of trade and empire. By writing from the deck of the dhow, we can gather histories that have been scattered along the coasts of Arabia, South Asia, and East Africa; we gain a sharper sense of how actors understood this world of circulation and inscribed it into their voyages.

**Co-sponsored with the South Asia Program

When he settled in 1565 in the port-city of Cebu, in the Visayas (Central Philippines), Miguel López de Legazpi had only 350 men in arms under his command. And even after the Spaniards conquered the coastal sultanate of Maynilad (Manila) in 1571, they could not muster more than a few hundreds settlers and warriors to build and maintain their colonial dominance over a vast and densely populated archipelago. Hence the « Spanish Philippines » were by no means an impregnable fortress of untainted Christian-European high culture, but an unstable mosaic of contrasting religious worldviews and overlapping ethno-linguistic identities. Despite the efforts of Legazpi and his successors to tame it, the Islamization process of the Northern and Central Philippines (that may have started only a few decades before the arrival of the Spaniards) kept unfolding, even if in a subterranean way – all the more so since it was fueled by Brunei-based preachers and textured by long-distance connections with the Moluccas and the Malay Peninsula. In such a situation of chronical colonial weakness, identity borders could be nothing but porous, and religious hybridity became the rule. Starting in the 1580s, Borneo became a sanctuary for Spanish renegades who converted to Islam and took service with Muslim power-holders. In Manila’s surrounding countryside, some impoverished Spanish soldiers « went native » and started eating, dressing, feasting and praying like « Mohammedans ». Even inside Manila’s walls, the wives or mistresses of high-ranking Spanish officials hosted curing and bewitching maganito rituals that had more to do with the art of local babaylan healers than with Christian angelology – or that unproblematically appealed to both. By peering through Inquisition trials’ folders kept in the Archivo General de la Nación in Mexico City, one can get a sense of Manila’s late 16th and early 17th century multi-faceted ritual world, and of the role that Islam played in subaltern lives and imaginations.

Our CMS seminar today will be led by the curator of the Middle Eastern Collection in Olin Library, who will be hosting us to see precious objects in the library's collection about Islam. We have many world-class books, some of them centuries old, which show the history and evolution of Islam over a long period, and across many cultures. This is a wonderful opportunity to see some of the treasures of Cornell’s collection that are rarely seen, and which span centuries of time and thousands of miles of geography in Islamic lands, from Morocco to Indonesia.

This talk inserts the Omani sultans and their royal household into the Arabian Sea world to shift the focus away from the histories of imperial hegemony and capitalist expansion that dominate its historiography. It analyzes princely careers as they evolved drawing from multiple contexts that were accessed by the excessive mobility of the protagonists, both overseas and over land. It views the Western Indian Ocean as a wide canvas for Omani careering in which the Sultans remained entangled in imperial networks and translated Western obsessions -- likely slavery and radical Islam -- making them locally legible.