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Universities and Peace: The Role of Higher Education and Peace Pedagogies in Peacebuilding, Resistance and Citizenship

November 2, 2022

12:25 pm

Warren Hall, 151

Perspectives in Global Development: Fall 2022 Seminar Series Speaker: Larisa Kasumagić-Kafedžić This lecture will explore the role of higher education in responding to conflict by opening up the questions of the responsibility of higher education institutions to educate the students, citizens, professionals and leaders of the future to act ethically in defense of the peace values. Since universities can be seen as microcosms of society the question arises whether the university programs prioritize the contribution to the public good and what their role and responsibility should be in educating young people to address some of the society's biggest problems. The lecture will discuss the potential of integrating peace pedagogies across the curriculum in university programs and it will use the example of International Research Project University Peace Hubs: Peace-building pedagogies in higher education (2018-2020), which aimed at illustrating and documenting good practices of teaching about peace and actively working for peace in places and contexts where politics, schooling and socialization processes remain or become challenging, deeply divided and polarized (Rwanda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, United Kingdom). The lecture will argue that the pedagogical experience of working directly with difference, controversial and sensitive issues, by integrating peace pedagogies and peace approaches to education in different discipline areas, can build student knowledge and values aimed for building skills of negotiation, intercultural sensitivity, deepened understanding of different world views and fostering attitudes of acceptance and respect. About the speaker Larisa Kasumagić-Kafedžić is an associate professor at the University of Sarajevo’s Department of English Language and Literature in the Faculty of Philosophy. Her peacebuilding engagement began during the war in BiH with co-founding the organization Sezam (1994-95) and working on child war trauma, peace education and nonviolent communication with teachers and schools in conflict-affected communities. She is a 2003-04 Cornell University Hubert Humphrey Fellow Alumni. She holds an MPS in International Development and Education from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in English Language Pedagogy and Intercultural Education from Sarajevo University. Her teaching, writing and research interests focus on critical, peace and intercultural pedagogies in teacher education and language and culture didactics. She is the founder and the president of the Peace Education Hub, established in 2020 at the University of Sarajevo. She is currently a visiting associate professor at the University of Cornell where she will spend the 2022-23 academic year as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar Fellow. Her research project “Teachers as Agents of Change: Education for Peace and Social Responsibility“ will enable her to collaborate closely with schools, teachers and teacher educators in Ithaca and the region, while also providing various lectures and seminars on her expertise, experience and research with students, professors and community members at Cornell in the 2022-23 academic year. About the seminar series The Perspectives in Global Development seminars are held Wednesdays from 12:25 – 1:15 p.m. eastern time during the semester. The series will be presented in a hybrid format with some speakers on campus and others appearing via Zoom. All seminars are shown in Warren 151. Students, faculty and the general public are welcome to attend. The series is co-sponsored by the Department of Global Development, the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, and the School of Integrative Plant Science as part of courses GDEV 4961, AEM 4961, NTRES 4961, GDEV 6960, AEM 6960, and NTRES 6960.

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Institute for European Studies

Pizza on the Patio

October 28, 2022

12:00 pm

Uris Hall, Terrace

The European Studies Minor invites you to Pizza on the Patio, on Friday October 28 from 12:00 to 2:00 PM on the Uris Hall Terrace.

Bring any questions you have about the European Studies minor, upcoming courses, and summer opportunities. Be ready to try your hand at European trivia!

This event is open to undergraduate students.

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Who Gets the Remainder? The Ethics and Politics of Gleaning

November 5, 2022

12:00 am

AD White House

With this workshop, we focus on gleaning: the widely practiced but long under-theorized right of the poor to take harvest remainders. More than simply the action of destitute people scavenging food, gleaning has been explicitly codified as entitlement and obligation: Leviticus not only entitles the poor to glean after the reapers, but obligates field owners to “not reap to the edge” of their fields, to leave for “the poor and the foreign.” Positing the right of the excluded in terms of the leftover, gleaning is fundamentally feudal: it premises aegis and common provision on the basis of changeless inequality; it formulates welfare in terms of an “excess” that must not be recirculated back into homogenous surplus value. Taking this feudal category as a lens onto our late-liberal world, this workshop asks how gleaning persists today. We invite economic and cultural anthropologists, legal scholars, theologians, historians and activists to discuss such well documented practices as scavenging, moonlighting, hacking, pilfering and coin-shaving with attention to that which is claimed as the leftover. Ultimately, we ask: how do people lay claim to aegis, social provision and their right to a commons today, through and despite liberal idioms of civic equality, lawfulness and smooth circulation?

Featuring papers by Amiel Bize, David Boarder Giles, Daniel Caner, Xenia Cherkaev, Catherine Fennell, Vinay Gidwani, Cristiano Lanzano, Peter Linebaugh, Tamta Khalvashi, Lori Khatchadourian, Gustav Peebles, and Bettina Stoetzer

As well as presentations on enclosure and access in publishing with Eileen Frandenburg Joy of Punctum Books and Ramsey Kanaan of PM Press.

Workshop schedule: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SbIMOAlnzK_qeAkpCHdmpU01U3eNI9jk/ed…(link is external)

Events sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the Anthropology Department, and co-sponsored by the Society for the Humanities, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of History, and the Institute for European Studies.

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"Gleaning for Communism" Book Talk by Xenia Cherkaev

November 3, 2022

4:30 pm

McGraw Hall, 215

Xenia Cherkaev will speak about her forthcoming book Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice (Cornell UP 2023). The book tells a radically new story of how the Soviet system functioned and why it failed. Mediating between today’s popular narratives of “Soviet times” and the ownership categories of Soviet civil law, it shows the Soviet Union as an explicitly illiberal modern project, reliant in theory and fact on collectivist ethics. A historical ethnography, its narrative begins in the 2010s with former Leningrad residents’ stories of gleaning industrial scrap from worksites. Placing these stories in conversation with Soviet legal theories of property and with economic, political and social history, this book shows the Soviet Union as a “socialist household economy,” whose members were guaranteed “personal” rights to a commons of socialist property rather than private possessions. It traces the development of such “personal” rights though three historically significant turns – during the 1930s, 1960s and 1980s – and shows how the Soviet project unfolded in dialogue with contemporaneous neoliberal thought in one overarching debate about the possibility of a collectivist modern life.

Event co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of History, and the Institute for European Studies

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Centrism From the French Revolution to Today

November 29, 2022

5:15 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Memorably born during debates about what to do with the King, the left/right divide was not the only opposition, nor indeed the most dominant, available at the time. The Terror, for instance, opposed the Mountain to the Plane or the Marais: the Mountain was composed of radical Jacobin deputies who dominated the Committee of Public Safety – most famously Robespierre – who sat across the highest benches of the Assembly, whereas the Plain or the Marsh sat on the lower benches, closer to the tribune. What consequences for our understanding of history and contemporary politics of seeing political dynamics not through a left/right divide but a centre/extremes one?

Speaker
Hugo Drochon, University of Nottingham

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This event is hosted by the Institute for European Studies. It is co-sponsored by French Studies, History, and Government.

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Global Grand Challenges Symposium: Frontiers and the Future

November 17, 2022

8:00 am

How will we meet the most pressing demands of our time?

Join us for a two-day symposium that brings together the Cornell community and international partners to discuss the most urgent challenges around the world and how we can work together to address them.

Building on the first Global Grand Challenge, Migrations, symposium participants will help identify the next university-wide research, teaching, and engagement initiative to harness Cornell's global expertise.

The symposium, hosted by Global Cornell, will focus on five interdisciplinary themes, with panelists bringing their research and perspectives to bear:

Knowledge | Water | Health | Space | International Collaboration

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If you can't attend in person, please join us virtually:

Day 1: Wednesday, Nov. 16Day 2: Thursday, Nov. 17

Wednesday, November 16

Welcome: President Martha Pollack
Panel 1: Knowledge: What Counts, for Whom, and to What Ends?
4:30–6:00 ET, Klarman Hall, Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium

A panel of Cornell faculty and Global Hubs partners discuss innovations in higher education, social media, and legal frameworks; new forms of knowledge production and inequalities in access; and security, privacy, disinformation, and the role of knowledge in democracies.

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Remarks, Provost Michael Kotlikoff
Reception, 6:00 ET, Klarman Hall Atrium

Thursday, November 17

8:00–5:00 ET, Clark Hall, room 700 (7th floor)

Breakfast, 8:00 ET

Panel 2: Water: Worldwide Challenges and Approaches
9:00–10:30 ET

Faculty from Cornell and partner universities explore the most critical challenges related to changing global water conditions, including access to clean drinking water; water governance, norms, and customs; trade-offs between drinking water, irrigation, and hydropower; rising sea levels and water-dependent communities; and new solutions for wastewater, ocean plastics, and pollution.

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Panel 3: Health: An Integrated Global Perspective
11:00–12:30 ET

Faculty from Cornell and partner universities explore vital issues related to health, including equity, nutrition, mental health and well-being, disease, communication, new technologies, sociocultural norms, One Health, sustainable agriculture and ecosystems, elder care, and the business of medicine/health.

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Lunch, 12:30 ET

Panel 4: Space: In a Galaxy Not So Far Away
1:30–3:00 ET

Faculty from Cornell and partner universities explore urgent topics related to our global engagements with outer space, including intergovernmental collaboration and defining a new space policy; private space travel and exploration; historical lessons for colonization; new technologies, materials, and visualizations; intelligent life; resources and extraglobal markets; and access and inequalities.

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Panel 5: International Collaboration:< /b>Taking Action for Our Global Future
3:30–5:00 ET

In this final session, panelists discuss opportunities and challenges for creating truly collaborative and mutually beneficial partnerships in an unequal world. Faculty from partner universities share ideas for collaborating on the four themes introduced earlier in the symposium, and participants explore the tension between respect for local cultures and universalisms implicated in scientific inquiry.

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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

President of Iceland: Can Small States Make a Difference?

November 10, 2022

4:30 pm

Klarman Hall, Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium

With a population of 376,000—less than half the size of Cyprus—and land area of 40,000 square miles (103,000 square km), lceland is one of Europe's smallest states.

In his lecture "Can Small States Make a Difference? The Case of Iceland on the International Scene," President of Iceland Guðni Th. Jóhannesson shares his perspective as the leader of a small country that was a founding member of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

According to the Institute for Economics and Peace's Global Peace Index, Iceland is the world's most peaceful nation—for the 14th consecutive year. Iceland has consistently held the top position since the index launched in 2008.

Jóhannesson argues that Iceland's national commitment to peace; disarmament, arms control, and nonproliferation; and the shared values of the NATO alliance, including respect for democracy and human rights, are part of how his small state makes an outsized impact on international relations.

Hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, this Distinguished Speakers series event is part of Einaudi's work on Democratic Threats and Resilience.

The event will be moderated by Peter Katzenstein, the Einaudi's Center Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of International Studies and Professor of Government in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Join the livestream.Or view the event as it happens on the large screen in the Groos Family Atrium in Klarman Hall.***

In-Person: SOLD OUT

Please bring your Eventbrite ticket to the lecture. Doors open at 4:05pm.

Note: Due to security precautions, attendees may be searched, and bags will not be allowed in the auditorium. Free and secure bag storage will be available at the venue.

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About the Speaker

Guðni Th. Jóhannesson took office as Iceland's president in 2016. Previously, he was professor of history at the University of Iceland. He also taught at Reykjavik University, Bifröst University, and the University of London.

Jóhannesson has written numerous books on modern Icelandic history—including works about the Cod Wars, the Icelandic presidency, late Prime Minister Gunnar Thoroddsen, spying in Iceland, and the 2008 banking collapse—as well as dozens of scholarly articles and newspaper articles. In 2017 he was awarded an honorary degree by Queen Mary University of London, where he earned his PhD in history in 2003.

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Einaudi Center for International Studies

Institute for European Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

Heritage Forensics and the Silent Erasure of the Armenian Past

November 2, 2022

12:00 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Open to the Cornell community.

In 1997, Azerbaijan launched a state program of cultural erasure that resulted in the destruction of nearly every vestige of the medieval and early modern Armenian past in the exclave of Nakhchivan. In a year-long forensic investigation, Caucasus Heritage Watch (CHW), a collaboration between researchers at Cornell and Purdue universities, conducted a detailed forensic analysis to systematically document the disappearance of over a hundred Armenian heritage sites. The resulting report bears witness to a new form of heritage crime and supports legal efforts to hold perpetrators accountable. CHW’s work poses new questions in heritage studies: What is the role of the researcher in documenting crimes? How can scholars create evidence that can be used in a court of law in struggles against racial discrimination? This presentation will provide an overview of CHW’s work to document silent erasure in Azerbaijan and address the challenges and stakes of archaeology in the maelstrom of politics and conflict.

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Lori Khatchadourian, Near Eastern Studies
Adam Smith, Anthropology

Presented by Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies. Co-sponsored by the Institute for European Studies, Near Eastern Studies, Anthropology, the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies, and the Armenian Students Organization.

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Einaudi Welcome Reception

2022 welcome reception shot of people eating and mingling
October 4, 2022

150 Guests Celebrated Einaudi's Impact

The Einaudi Center's annual reception on October 3 connected faculty, staff, campus leaders, and friends from across Cornell.

Rachel Beatty Riedl speaking at welcome reception, Oct. 3, 2022
Director Rachel Beatty Riedl described the Einaudi Center's impact on campus and around the world.

The Einaudi Center welcomed 150 guests to Uris Hall Terrace for a fall gathering celebrating Einaudi's vibrant intellectual community. The well-attended event brought together affiliated faculty and faculty new this year to Cornell in numbers not seen since 2019. Their research interests and expertise span the globe. Learn more about Einaudi's regional and thematic programs and initiatives.

The attendees enjoyed a sunny afternoon with a playlist of world music(link is external) from Einaudi's own Daniel Bass, South Asia Program manager and Monsoon Radio DJ.


“The Einaudi Center's transnational perspective, the diversity and depth of our faculty expertise, and the range of our partnerships drive innovative collaborations and let us see new solutions.”

Einaudi Center director Rachel Beatty Riedl kicked off the event with remarks highlighting the center's core commitments: collaborations that advance knowledge, advocacy and thought leadership to inform global publics, and teaching and learning that open doors to new worlds.

Riedl highlighted a range of ways for faculty to get involved, including applying for Global Public Voices (due October 13) and exploratory seed grants with Cornell Global Hubs partners(link is external) (due October 21).

She invited attendees to join Einaudi, the Cornell community, and representatives from Global Hubs around the world at the Global Grand Challenges Symposium: Frontiers and the Future on November 16–17. Register for the symposium(link is external).

2022 welcome reception shot of people eating and mingling

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