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:

https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iX3_SIpWQqWj4ltARiPQYg

The Cornell Institute for African Development (IAD) hosts a monthly webinar on contemporary African issues. This webinar series features diverse voices from the African continent and the Diaspora on a wide range of themes, challenges, breakthroughs in cutting-edge research outcomes, innovations, and discoveries across all disciplines and area studies.

Friday, September 24, 2021 / 11:00am – 1:00pm EST / 3:00pm – 5:00pm GMT/UTC/ 5:00pm – 7:00pm CEST

Discussants: Rokhaya Diallo, Journalist, author, filmmaker, and activist for racial, gender and religious equality based in Paris, France.

Dr. Gregory S. Jenkins, Professor of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, Geography, and African Studies, Penn State University.

The interview will be followed by Q & A

Languages: English and French with simultaneous translation

Author Patrícia Lino will be presenting and discussing her recent book, O Kit de Sobrevivência do Descobridor Português no Mundo Anticolonial (2020).

Patrícia Lino (1990) is a poet, an essayist, and an Assistant Professor at UCLA, where she teaches Luso-Brazilian literatures and cinema. Lino is the author of O Kit de Sobrevivência do Descobridor Português no Mundo Anticolonial (2020), Não é isto um livro (2020), and Manoel de Barros e A Poesia Cínica (2019). She recently directed DAEDALUS 22/1 (BRA 2021), Anticorpo. A Parody of the Laughable Empire (US-POR 2019) and Vibrant Hands (US-POR 2019). She is also the author of the mixed poetry album I Who Cannot Sing (2020). Lino presented, published, and exhibited essays, poems, and illustrations in more than seven countries. Her current research focuses on contemporary poetry, visual and audiovisual culture, parody and anticolonialism, ​and Luso-Brazilian film. She works as a researcher member at the UCLA Latin American Institute and as a collaborator at Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa. Lino is also the co-editor of escamandro, a Brazilian magazine dedicated to poetry and criticism.

Virtual Event Zoom link:

https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_31pGp-mdRGmtvhPvHMrTAw

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium welcomes He Bian, Princeton University to lead this month's text reading and discussion on “Yuan-Ming Nourishing Life (yangsheng) Texts: the Discourse of Men.” The text will be shared in the meeting. More details to come.

Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium 古文品讀

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC) 古文品讀 is a reading group for scholars interested in premodern Sinographic (古文) text. The group typically meets monthly during the semester to explore a variety of classical Chinese texts and styles. Other premodern texts linked to classical Chinese in Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese have been explored. Presentations include works from the earliest times to the 20th century. Workshop sessions are lead by local, national, and international scholars.

All are welcome, with any level of experience with classical Chinese.

At each session, a participant presents a classical Chinese text. Attendees discuss historical, literary, linguistic, and other aspects of the text, working together to resolve difficulties in comprehension and translation.

No preparation is required, all texts will be distributed at the meeting.Contact eap-guwen@cornell.edu for more information.
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