Talk by Kim Searcy (History, Loyola University Chicago)

I will focus on the Sudanese Mahdiyya- 1885-1898. I will analyze how second-in-command, the Khalifa Abdallahi used Jihad as a symbol to articulate, their power, legitimacy, and authority, initially within the context of their war with the Turco-Egyptian forces and then within the context of establishing an Islamic state. The Turco- occupying the Sudan since 1821, and the Sudanese holyman, Muhammad Ahmad al-Mahdi declared a Jihad to end the occupation. Following the defeat of the Turco-Egyptian forces in 1885, the Mahdi's goal was to establish an Islamic state and continue the militant struggle throughout the Muslim world.

Talk by Bhavani Raman (History, University of Toronto)

The laws that authorize modern state impunity, such as martial law, sedition, disturbed areas, and preventive detention, were first given statutory authority by a colonial corporation, the East India Company consolidating its conquest of India. Why was this the case and why has this history been forgotten by historians of law, colonialism, and South Asia? While the British East India Company's conquest of India through techniques of pacification, property rights, and culturally inflected governance are well-documented, it is less widely known that it was unable to successfully define treason through its entire existence. My paper recounts this history, focusing in particular on the Company criminal legal system which was predicated on Islamic legal principles. Islamic legal practitioners in these courtrooms challenged the Company’s desire to punish treason with death, thereby challenging the colonial regime's claims to sovereignty and plunging it into periodic crises. The Company responded by installing the statutory foundations of emergency and state security. Yet its inability to sufficiently define treason has left us a prism of legal debate and an unfinished state authority through which to understand the present and the past of the relationship between right to rebellion and racialized state violence.

Talk by Kaveh Yazdani (History, University of Connecticut)

How, when, and why did the Parsis of Gujarat become among the foremost brokers and entrepreneurs in 18th -and 19th-century India? What are the different phases of their ascendancy and success, especially concerning their socio-economic activities in Gujarat? In order to shed light on these questions, first, I briefly touch upon the early history of Zoroastrians in Gujarat, including their socio-economic activities between the 10th and 17th centuries. Then, I shortly examine some of the devastating effects of the famine of 1630-31. The main focus, however, is on the socio-economic rise of the Parsis in Gujarat between the late 17th and 19th centuries, including some of the tensions that ensued from within and without their community. Lastly, I also discuss some of the negative views circulating about Parsis in the late 18th and early 19th centuries through the examples of Joseph Tieffenthaler (1710–1785) and Abu Taleb (1752–1806).

Talk by Ayse Polat (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell Society for the Humanities Cambridge University, PhD)

How do the circulation and distribution of arms shape social relations, conflicts, and hierarchies? Is arms trafficking a means of contesting the established order of things, or cementing it? This paper discusses the Ottoman government’s dis/armament of Circassian settlers - muhajirin - in the Golan Heights. The arrival of Circassian refugees in the Golan marked an expansion of Ottoman settlement policy to Syria in 1878. From thereon, growing refugee settlements constituted an experiment in settler capitalism that reshuffled the ethnic and religious composition of the region. The settlers instituted and expanded a new regime of private property and agrarian production, predicated on the exclusion of their neighbors and exploitation of their slaves. The exclusivity and inviolability of settlers’ property engendered conflict within and outside of this refugee community, as inter- and intra-communal relations were brutalized by the illicit introduction, circulation, and distribution of arms. This paper brings together the history of an arms smuggler and a corrupt governor, to explore the economy of arms in the late Ottoman Golan. It evidences how the Ottoman government introduced and distributed arms into the Golan settlements, only to lose control over their illicit circulation and use. It argues that the economy of arms trafficking helped unsettle these violent intimacies between settlers and natives, and masters and slaves, without challenging and indeed, cementing, a securitarian order based on the primacy of private property.

Global Cornell is offering competitive faculty grants in collaboration with Global Hubs partners.

Apply for funding to explore potential research collaborations with colleagues at Hubs universities. 

Global Hubs collaborative research seed grants bring together Cornell and partner institution faculty to develop joint projects with the potential to create new or expanded research partnerships and cutting-edge scholarship with academic and societal impact. These international seed grants provide initial financial support for early-stage research projects or capacity-building efforts to create and sustain long-term collaborations and secure external funding.

Please join us on September 6, 9:00 a.m. ET / 2:00 p.m. GMT for a joint info session to learn more about the Cornell–UCL grant opportunity. Q&A and collaboration matchmaking will follow a short presentation.

Up to five (5) research proposals will be funded.

Each successful proposal may receive up to $5,000/£4,000 from each university for a total of $10,000/£8,000.

Application deadline: October 4, 11:59 p.m. ET

Project duration: January 1–December 31, 2025.

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Global Cornell is offering competitive faculty grants in collaboration with Global Hubs partners. 

Apply for funding to explore potential research collaborations with colleagues at Hubs universities. 

Global Hubs collaborative research seed grants bring together Cornell and partner institution faculty to develop joint projects with the potential to create new or expanded research partnerships and cutting-edge scholarship with academic and societal impact. These international seed grants provide initial financial support for early-stage research projects or capacity-building efforts to create and sustain long-term collaborations and secure external funding.

Please join us on September 5, 8:00 EDT / 8:00 SGT for a joint info session to learn more about the Cornell–NUS’s grant opportunity. Q&A and collaboration matchmaking will follow a short presentation.

Up to five (5) research proposals will be funded.

Each successful proposal may receive up to $5,000 from each university for a total of $10,000.

Application deadline: October 4, 11:59 p.m. EDT

Project duration: January 1–December 31, 2025.

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Global Cornell is offering competitive faculty grants in collaboration with Global Hubs partners.

Apply for funding to explore potential research collaborations with colleagues at Hubs universities.

Global Hubs collaborative research seed grants bring together Cornell and partner institution faculty to develop joint projects with the potential to create new or expanded research partnerships and cutting-edge scholarship with academic and societal impact. These international seed grants provide initial financial support for early-stage research projects or capacity-building efforts to create and sustain long-term collaborations and secure external funding.

Please join us on September 4 at 12:00 p.m. EDT / 11:00 a.m. ECT for a joint info session to learn more about the Cornell–USFQ grant opportunity to collaborate with colleagues in Ecuador. Q&A and collaboration matchmaking will follow a short presentation.

Up to five (5) research proposals will be funded.

Each successful proposal may receive up to $5,000 from each university for a total of $10,000.

Application deadline: October 6, 11:59 p.m. EDT

Project duration: January 1–December 31, 2025.

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Global Cornell is offering competitive faculty grants in collaboration with Global Hubs partners. 

Apply for funding to explore potential research collaborations with colleagues at Hubs universities. 

Global Hubs collaborative research seed grants bring together Cornell and partner institution faculty to develop joint projects with the potential to create new or expanded research partnerships and cutting-edge scholarship with academic and societal impact. These international seed grants provide initial financial support for early-stage research projects or capacity-building efforts to create and sustain long-term collaborations and secure external funding.

Please join us on September 4, 10:00 EDT / 3:00 GMT for a joint info session to learn more about the Cornell–King’s grant opportunity. Q&A and collaboration matchmaking will follow a short presentation.

Up to five (5) research proposals will be funded.

Each successful proposal may receive up to $5,000/£4,000 from each university for a total of $10,000/£8,000.

Application deadline: October 4, 11:59 p.m. ET

Project duration: January 1–December 31, 2025.

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Global Cornell is offering competitive faculty grants in collaboration with Global Hubs partners. 

Apply for funding to explore potential research collaborations with colleagues at Hubs universities. 

Global Hubs collaborative research seed grants bring together Cornell and partner institution faculty to develop joint projects with the potential to create new or expanded research partnerships and cutting-edge scholarship with academic and societal impact. These international seed grants provide initial financial support for early-stage research projects or capacity-building efforts to create and sustain long-term collaborations and secure external funding.

Please join us on September 4, 8:00 a.m. EDT / 8:00 p.m. HKT for a joint info session to learn more about the Cornell–HKUST grant opportunity. Q&A and collaboration matchmaking will follow a short presentation.

Up to five (5) research proposals will be funded.

Each successful proposal may receive up to $5,000 from each university for a total of $10,000.

Application deadline: October 4, 11:59 p.m. EDT

Project duration: January 1–December 31, 2025

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Global Cornell is offering competitive faculty grants in collaboration with Global Hubs partners. 

Apply for funding to explore potential research collaborations with colleagues at Hubs universities. 

Global Hubs collaborative research seed grants bring together Cornell and partner institution faculty to develop joint projects with the potential to create new or expanded research partnerships and cutting-edge scholarship with academic and societal impact. These international seed grants provide initial financial support for early-stage research projects or capacity-building efforts to create and sustain long-term collaborations and secure external funding.

Please join us on September 3, 6:00 EDT (Ithaca) / September 4, 8:00 AEST (Sydney) for a joint info session to learn more about the Cornell–USYD grant opportunity. Q&A and collaboration matchmaking will follow a short presentation.

Up to four (4) research proposals will be funded.

Each successful proposal may receive up to $7,500/AUD10,000 from each university for a total of $15,000/AUD 20,000.

Application deadline: October 4, 11:59 p.m. EDT

Project duration: January 1–December 31, 2025.

* Applications should be submitted online via USyd Funding Schemes Site. Applications can only be initiated by the USYD PI. Cornell PI may access and edit the applications after an invitation from USYD PI.

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