Join us for an information session to learn more about the new cycle of Migrations grants, open to all PI-eligible faculty across colleges and schools. Faculty-led programs and centers within the university are also welcome to apply.

The Cornell Migrations codirectors will address questions about priorities, selection criteria, budgets, and other guidance on how to prepare a successful application. Proposals are due January 18, 2023.

In this call for proposals, there are opportunities for Cornell faculty from any academic discipline to study migration at both the domestic and international levels. With support from the Mellon Foundation's Just Futures Initiative, we are funding U.S.-focused work that has long-term and discernible benefits addressing racial and immigrant justice on campus and beyond. Research with a broader international focus may apply for multispecies, interdisciplinary Migrations grants on any migration-related subject.

Register for the information session.

Tessy Schlosser, Ph.D. candidate in government at Cornell University, will present "A Decreative I: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the I of Decreation." The paper will be circulated on an email list in advance and participants come prepared to discuss it.

Tessy Schlosser is a Ph.D. candidate in political theory in the Government Department. Tessy’s research draws together political theory and poetry by considering the literary genres of philosophical writing as well as the philosophical aspects of poetic argumentation and relating both to the dialogical relationships and social movements that animate them. Tessy's dissertation, titled “Dreaming Power: The Body, the Kitchen, and the City as Utopian Topoi in the Political Thinking of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz,” introduces Sor Juana to the discipline of political theory. Across three core chapters organized around the sites of the body, the kitchen, and the city, the dissertation reconstructs a notion of situated imagination (phantasia), defined as wishful thinking that is neither strictly fixed in place nor outside of place. In the dissertation, Tessy argues that this way of conceiving political imagination offers a helpful if subtle understanding of the relationship between anti-patriarchal and anti-colonial political actions and dreams of emancipation that is not solely defined through the times and places of an oppressive system’s emergence but also by the continual reenacting of the practices of domination that sustain it.

If you have questions or would like to be added to the Workshop’s email list, email Sam Rosenblum, the graduate student coordinator for 2022-23, at smr335 (at) cornell (dot) edu.

To find out more information, go to https://government.cornell.edu/political-theory-workshop.

For the 2022-23 academic year, the Political Theory Workshop is generously supported by the Africana Studies and Research Center, the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program, the American Studies Program, the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Asian Studies, the Department of Classics, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Institute for Comparative Modernities, the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, the Department of German Studies, the Department of Government, the Department of History, the Society for the Humanities, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, the Jewish Studies Program, the Latina/o Studies Program, the Department of Literatures in English, the Department of Near Eastern Studies, the Department of Performing and Media Arts, the Sage School of Philosophy, the Department of Romance Studies, and the Department of Science and Technology Studies.

Come to the Office of Global Learning's info session to learn more about this program!

Nestled between the Alps and the Mediterranean in the magnificent Piedmont region of northern Italy, the city of Turin provides an inspiring background to explore the causes and consequences of population change, the debates unfolding in Europe around these issues, and the policies intended to address them.

Immerse yourself in the culture of Turin, Italy, while taking the following three-credit course on European population and policy issues:

Featuring a live score incorporating traditional Ukrainian folk melodies by Austin’s Montopolis

1929 > USSR > Directed by Dziga Vertov
This film is not only Vertov's masterpiece and final film of the silent era, it is a work which notably exemplifies the montage aesthetic of the Soviet avant-garde of the twenties. A city symphony filmed in Moscow and Odessa, the film is a continually shifting kaleidoscope of breathtaking imagery that captures the spirit of Russian life at that time. Featuring a. live original score by Austin, TX band Montopolis. Cosponsored with the Wharton Studio Museum. More at www.montopolismusic.com/man-with-a-movie-camera
1 hr 7 min

What happened to the tens of millions of guns left over from World War I? Mary Barton discusses how the Great Powers’ failure to secure these weapons contributed to the rise of state-sponsored terrorism during the 1920s and 1930s. Barton tells a global story of the demise of empires, the rise of communism, and the cooperation between the United Kingdom and United States that would evolve into the Five Eyes intelligence alliance.

The Five Eyes remains a vital intelligence alliance today. The Five Eyes justice chiefs recently strongly supported Ukraine's efforts to prosecute war crimes arising from Russia's invasion.

Please join us for this virtual conversation. Register here.

About the Speaker

Mary Barton is an analyst with the U.S. government. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2016. She completed postdoctoral fellowships at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, SAIS, and Dartmouth College, and previously served as a historian and wargaming analyst supporting the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Department of Defense.

Presented by the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. Co-sponsored by the Institute for European Studies and the Gender and Security Sector Lab.