Institute for European Studies
Esra Akcan
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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Email: ea369@cornell.edu
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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Institute for European Studies
An 11-year-old Unearthed Fossils of the Largest Known Marine Reptile
Caitie Barrett, IES
Caitlin Barrett, professor in the archaeology department, discusses archaeological finds in Pompeii.
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This Week in Science: Pompeiian Frescoes, Dark Energy and the Largest Marine Reptile
Caitie Barrett, IES
This science recap quotes archaeologist Caitie Barrett about ancient paintings discovered at Pompeii, and what they show about the spectrum of ancient Roman society.
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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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Institute for European Studies
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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Institute for European Studies
Does the “Fascism Debate” Matter for Understanding 2024 American Politics?
By Our Faculty
Article
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- Article
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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
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
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.