This talk examines how the financial realities of outmigration from Central America to the United States reinforce return attempts after deportation. Because of the nature of mortgage payments, liens, and debt terms, deported out-migrants often find themselves with little recourse except to try to emigrate North again to find employment. This talk, therefore, examines how prevailing narratives of migration ignore or work around a fundamental economic reality—not one principally of poverty and underemployment but one rather of indebtedness stemming from the significant costs of transnational migration itself.

John Kennedy, is a PhD student, Romance Studies, LASP Graduate Fellow, and a Public Humanities Fellow, Cornell University. John studies migration and its narratives, broadly conceived. He is a recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship and is currently at work on a project on the financial ecology of migration in Mexico and Central America; he is a first-generation Guatemalan American.

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This event is sponsored by Monroe Community College and the Cornell University Latin American Studies Program with funding provided by a grant from the US Department of Education. Co-sponsored by: MCC’s Department of Anthropology/History/Political Science/Sociology and Global Education & International Services.

Join us for a student information session on the Laidlaw Undergraduate Research and Leadership Program. Open to first- and second-year Cornellians, the program provides generous support for students to carry out internationally-focused research of their choice, develop leadership skills to put into action, and join a global network of like-minded scholars.

By attending this information session, you will learn more about the programmatic and financial benefits of the Laidlaw Program, how research and leadership are intertwined, how to approach potential faculty research mentors, and the criteria by which applications will be evaluated. Don't miss this opportunity to get all of your questions answered!

An online panel discussion considering relations between modern mapping, as a configuration of spatial difference, and modern figurations of race and ethnicity in Japanese Studies.

Hosted by Brett de Bary, Professor Emerita, Asian Studies and Comparative Literature

Participants:

Discussant – John Namjum Kim, Associate Professor, German/Japanese/Comparative Literature, UC RiversideDiscussant – Parisa Vaziri, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature & Near Eastern Studies, CornellAndrew Harding, Ph.D. candidate in the field of Asian Literature, Religion & Culture,
“Make Zainichi Korean Again: The Allure of the Sovereign Figure in Post-Colonial Japan and Korea”Andrea Mendoza, Assistant Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature, UC San Diego,
“Toward a Critical Phenomenology of the Transpacific”Dexter Thomas, culture correspondent for Vice News,
“Black Liberation in Japanese Manga: Another Look at Golgo 13”Paul McQuade, Ph.D. candidate in the field of Asian Literature, Religion & Culture,
“Translating Race: Mapping Language and Ethnicity”This panel discussion will consider relations between modern mapping, as a configuration of spatial difference, and modern figurations of race and ethnicity in Japanese Studies, as well as the spatially bounded “Japan” taken to be its object. How do we understand how figures of race and ethnicity, as fundamentally aesthetic constructions without much reference to socio-demographic existences, nevertheless can mobilize such powerful political effects? How is our ability to critically read these figures shaped by geopolitical mappings institutionalized in postwar Area Studies? How do we historicize the multiple distinctions between “interiority” and “exteriority” these mappings enable? Panelists will propose and discuss possible approaches to these questions.

December 11, 900am-12:00pm (EST)/2:00pm-5:00pm (GMT)

This webinar will focus on the geo-politics of the democratic process in selected members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Scholars, members of political organization, practitioners and civil society representatives will share their insights and provide forward-looking perspectives toward social progress in the West African region.

Since September, approximately thirty graduate students working inside and outside the university around the world met every other week to read and think critically and politically about translation and movement in language in and in opposition to Southeast Asian Studies. How do the colonial, imperial and Cold War legacies in the field shape knowledge, and how might we resist it? What are the potential places of translation in a scholarly life and in a public life, and how do they intersect and diverge? Simultaneously, we circulated and workshopped our own translations of poems, short stories, archival documents, journal articles, and dissident manifestos with one another. In this reading, members of the workshop share their translations with you.

Readings by: alexandra dalferro, Alicia Le, Chu May Paing, Juria Toramae, Lezhi Wang, Megan Hewitt, MK Long, Ni Luh Gede Sri Pratiwi, Paula Hendrikx, Peera Songkünnatham, Rieyen Dizon Clemente

With support from the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UW-Madison and the GETSEA Consortium.

Join a webcast as some of the world’s most prominent human-rights leaders, along with his physicist colleagues and students, gather to honor Professor Yuri Orlov.

Renowned dissident Yuri Orlov, professor emeritus, died at age 96 in September. Born in Moscow, Orlov pursued a distinguished career in physics until his activities in support of human rights led to his arrest by the KGB, years of prison and labor camp, and Siberian exile. The Moscow Helsinki Group, which he founded, inspired human-rights monitoring groups throughout the world, including Human Rights Watch. Deported to the United States in 1986, he continued his human rights activity and, at Cornell, resumed his physics research and later taught physics and human rights. He retired as Professor Emeritus of Physics at the age of 91.

Learn more about Professor Orlov's life and legacy—and what it means to be an activist and dissident— by attending this special remembrance.

Part of International Education Week #IEW2020 with Global Cornell.

Co-sponsored by the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at the Mario Einuadi Center for Interational Studies, the Migration and Human Rights Program at Cornell Law School, and the National Security Archives.

Gaurav Kampani, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Tulsa, will join will join the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies for a discussion of “The West's Imagined versus India’s Conventional Nuclear Reality.”

Please note that the author will not give a formal presentation of his work, so it is best to read in advance. A link to the reading will be sent to you upon confirmation of registration.

Please pre-register at https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwudOCurDssGNJ6hMav_EP6ZLuGIp….

This is part of the Peace and Conflict Studies Reading Group Series.

Issues in African Development Special Topic Seminar Series (CRP 4770/6770) - Fall 2020 Theme: Environment, Sustainability and Health Challenges in Africa: Managing Human-Nature Interactions. 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.