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Esra Akcan

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Professor, Architectural Theory

Esra Akcan is the Michael A. McCarthy Professor of Architectural Theory in the Department of Architecture. Her scholarly work on a geopolitically conscious global history of urbanism and architecture inspires her teaching. She is the author of Architecture in Translation: Germany, Turkey and the Modern House (Duke University Press, 2012); Turkey: Modern Architectures in History (with S.

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  • Faculty
  • IES Core Faculty
    • Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies
      • IIJ Faculty Steering Committee

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International Fair

August 28, 2024

11:00 am

Uris Hall, Terrace

International Fair showcases Cornell's global opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. Explore the fair and find out about international majors and minors, language study, study abroad, funding opportunities, global internships, Cornell Global Hubs, and more.

The International Fair is sponsored by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and Office of Global Learning (both part of Global Cornell) in partnership with the Language Resource Center.

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Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

Comparative Muslim Societies Program

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Institute for African Development

Institute for European Studies

South Asia Program

Between Political Commitment and Creativity: Re nudo and Underground Culture in 1970s Italy

April 26, 2024

4:30 pm

Klarman Hall, K164

In the heated political climate of 1970s Italy, the first and longest-lived underground journal—Re nudo—aimed to link American radicalism with Italian extra-parliamentary politics.An arbiter of underground culture until the late 70s, Re nudo embraced the liberation of the individual from capitalism’s yoke by promoting psychedelics, sexual liberation, gay rights,feminism, and the revision of the institution of the family. Its audience was a new class in the making: a marginalized suburban proletariat made up of wage laborers, absentee students, and disaffected, angry youth. Its project went beyond the page: it even organized the largest music festival in Italian history. This talk will address the uses and limits of underground culture in creating a class aware of its revolutionary potential.

Informal meet-and-greet with students:
Friday, April 26 at noon in Klarman K164

Events sponsored by Romance Studies & the Institute for European Studies

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IES Graduate Fellows Research Symposium

April 20, 2024

10:00 am

Uris Hall, G08

IES Graduate Fellows Research Symposium – April 20, 2024

Light breakfast: 10am.

Panel 1: Collective Action and Politics (10:15am-11:30am)

Counter-Propaganda, Social Ties, and Autocratic Resistance: Evidence from Radio Free Europe (Frances Cayton, Government)

Image ethics in worship in late medieval / Early Modern Europe (Savannah Emmons, Medieval Studies)

A Most Fascist War: Revisiting the Italian Invasion of Ethiopia (Chris Mingo, History)

Lunch break: 11:30pm-12:30pm

Panel 2: Trade, Business, Law, and Culture (12:30pm-2pm)

Chaucer, Gower and the Bounds of the European World (Thari Zweers, Medieval Studies)

The impacts of artificial intelligence on worker ownership in tech companies. (Stefan Ivanovski, Industrial and Labor Relations)

Cultural history (music) of financial capitalism; the South Sea Bubble of 1720. (Morton Wan, Musicology)

Protecting Antiquities in a Civilized Manner: Ottoman antiquities regulations and international legal thought in the late nineteenth century (Emre Susamci, History)

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Transformative Archives and the Intersectional Black European Studies Project

April 12, 2024

4:00 pm

A. D. White House, Guerlac

Fatima El-Tayeb is Professor of Ethnicity, Race & Migration and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University.

Her research interests include comparative diaspora studies, queer of color critique, critical Muslim studies, decolonial theory, transnational feminisms, visual culture studies, race and technology, and critical European studies. Her publications deconstruct structural racism in “colorblind” Europe and center strategies of resistance among racialized communities, especially those that politicize culture through an intersectional, queer practice. She is the author of three books, Schwarze Deutsche. ‘Rasse’ und nationale Identität 1890 – 1933 (2001), European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe (2011) and Undeutsch. Die Konstruktion des Anderen in der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft (2016), and numerous articles on the interactions of race, gender, sexuality, religion and nation. Here current research projects explore the intersecting legacies of colonialism, fascism, and socialism in Europe and the potential of (queer) people of color alliances in decolonizing Europe. She is active in black feminist, migrant, and queer of color organizations in Europe and the US.

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Does the “Fascism Debate” Matter for Understanding 2024 American Politics?

U.S. Capitol behind caution tape

Author: Mabel Berezin

By Our Faculty

With the spring 2024 primary upon us, social scientists can draw lessons from Europe’s past. Our task is to figure out which lessons are meaningful in the current American moment.

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Publication Year: 2024

Journal: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Publication Number: 708.1

Putin's Hidden Weakness

Ukraine War Protest sign reads "Stop Putin's War"
March 25, 2024

Foreign Affairs Op-ed by Bryn Rosenfeld

Bryn Rosenfeld (IES) and her coauthors explain why Putin's approval ratings "are far from a reliable indicator of popular support for the war."

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  • Democratic Threats and Resilience
  • World in Focus

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Race and Modern Architecture

Russian Architecture
March 18, 2024

Esra Akcan, IES

Esra Akcan, professor of Architectural Theory, asks the question of what would happen if the architectural discipline was shaped by new ethical standards of hospitality toward immigrants.

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  • Inequalities, Identities, and Justice

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