Ithaca Premiere>2020 > Romania/Germany > Directed by Radu Ciorniciuc
With an empathetic and cinematic eye, filmmaker Radu Ciorniciuc offers viewers a compelling tale of an impoverished family living in the wilderness on the fringes of society in Romania, fighting for acceptance and their own version of freedom. Shortlisted for the 2021 International Documentary Association (IDA) Awards for Best Feature. In Romanian & English. Subtitled. More at zeitgeistfilms.com/film/acasamyhome
1 hr 26 min

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1994 > Hong Kong > Directed by Wong Kar Wai
With Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Faye Wong
The film tells two stories, both set in contemporary Hong Kong, of young policemen trying to get over bad relationships and having crazy encounters with other women: a hit woman for the mob and an obsessive fast-food waitress. Fabulous soundtrack. The film that introduced American audiences to Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar Wai. In Cantonese & Mandarin. Subtitled. Cosponsored with the East Asia Program.
1 hr 37 min

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Following the 1655 invasion of Spanish Jamaica, English forces waged guerilla warfare on two fronts. The first was against a small Spanish resistance that maintained a toehold on the island despite the initial Spanish surrender. The defeat of that beleaguered resistance, however, depended on the outcome of the second front, a conflict waged between the English and several autonomous communities of African descent. Far deadlier and more threatening for the English, that front waged on until the leader of one of these communities, Juan Lubolo, switched sides, forcing the remaining Spanish resistance to abandon Jamaica and giving the English an invaluable ally in the continuing war against the palenques that continued to fight for autonomy on the island. In this presentation, I will trace the history of the Afro-descended captives seized by Lubolo and his forces. Securing Jamaica for English settlement depended on transforming these captive enemies into enslaved people through inter- and intra-imperial human trafficking. Africans and Afro-Jamaicans, the majority of Spanish Jamaica’s population on the eve of the invasion, proved too dangerous for the English to enslave, in part due to their knowledge of the topography, flora, and fauna of the island as well as their likely connections to armed, autonomous communities. In order to transform Lubolo’s prisoners of war into enslaved laborers, English officials in Jamaica used human traffickers to smuggle the Afro-Jamaican captives into neighboring Spanish colonies. The goal was to create wealth that English colonists, in turn, could use to purchase enslaved Africans from the transatlantic slave trade. And, by 1671, English Jamaican lawmakers codified this practice of trafficking “dangerous” captives “to foreign parts” into law, turning an illicit, wartime practice into a method of social control in Jamaica’s burgeoning slave society.

Professor Schmitt a historian of early America and the Caribbean, with particular interests in human trafficking, colonization, and illicit economies over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In her research and her teaching, she is interested in tracing individuals who crossed imperial boundaries—by choice and by coercion—in order to understand how processes like colonialism, imperialism, slavery, and trade functioned in the interstices of early modern empires. Professor Schmitt is currently at work on her book manuscript, tentatively titled The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking, Colonization, and Trade in the Greater Caribbean, 1530-1690, which analyzes the ubiquity of human trafficking and captivity in the greater Caribbean and North America from the 1530s until the 1690s and what that meant for colonization, trade, and warfare in the region. At Cornell, she teaches classes on colonialism, imperialism, slavery, and corruption.

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports college graduates conducting research or teaching in any field in more than 150 countries. Applications are due in the fall; students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are encouraged to start the process in their junior year.

United States citizens in any field of study are eligible.

Contact: fulbright@einaudi.cornell.edu, https://einaudi.cornell.edu/fulbright-us-student-program

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports college graduates conducting research or teaching in any field in more than 150 countries. Applications are due in the fall; students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are encouraged to start the process in their junior year.

United States citizens in any field of study are eligible.

Contact: fulbright@einaudi.cornell.edu, https://einaudi.cornell.edu/fulbright-us-student-program

Take your learning to the next level with regional and thematic minors from the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and our programs. Whatever your major and career goals, our wide geographical reach and interdisciplinary focus provide opportunities for you to expand your global knowledge and broaden your approach to your studies and the world. Find out if an Einaudi Center minor is right for you and how to apply.

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This LASP summer research grant provides funding for in-country research costs for graduate pre-dissertation work in Latin America or the Caribbean. (The grant does not cover international airfare; students should also apply for an Einaudi Center Travel Grant for airfare.) LASP will offer up to three research grants to qualified graduate students who need to conduct field research over the summer of 2021. Grant amounts may vary from $500 to $1,500. The graduate minor in Latin American (and Caribbean) studies allows students to acquire in-depth knowledge of the region, which will enhance their expertise for future research and professional advancement. The main requirement is to have a Latin American studies field faculty member as a member of a student’s committee.

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Want to learn a language this summer? Learn about Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships and Critical Language Scholarships, which provide fully funded opportunities for Cornell undergraduate and graduate students to study South and Southeast Asian languages in the summer, and even in the academic year.