Migrations postdoctoral fellow Sabrina Axster coauthors a chapter in The Oxford Handbook of International Political Sociology called “Corporeal Power.”

The Next Monsoon podcast examines how art and culture can help us navigate the uncertain future. Hosts Daniel Bass and Shavin Seneviratne look at contemporary cultural responses to climate change through visual arts, cinema, literature, architecture, and more in conversations with humanities scholars and practitioners. We investigate historical and contemporary works to understand our ever-changing relationship with the climate.

Over a long career spanning four decades, Tong Yang-Tze has received critical acclaim for her large-scale, unrestrained cursive script. The subject of this 54-meter long calligraphic work is Immortal at the River, the poem by Yang Shen (1488–1559) that forms the preface to the standard edition of the Chinese historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms (San guo yan yi).  The Herbert F. Johnson Museum originally intended to exhibit this monumental calligraphic artwork from February through June of 2020 but due to the pandemic, it closed on March 15.

The Reppy Institute's first occasional paper was published in 1971 when the Institute was known as the Peace Studies Program.  The most recent paper was published by the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict studies in 2016.  We are pleased to announce that all of the papers (numbers 1-32) are now available electronically from the Cornell University eCommons website. They can now be freely accessed for viewing or downloading.

One of the awards from the Cornell Library's Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences (DCAPS) helped digitize a portion of the archive of the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies and the papers of the late Randall Forsberg. Matthew Evangelista, professor of government, Agnieszka Nimark, a visiting scholar at the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, and Judith Reppy, professor emerita of science and technology studies were instrumental in this project.

Examines the religious life of Gwalior's Sindhis, Hindus whose families arrived from the far west of the subcontinent after its partition in 1947. Although most maintain a strong Hindu identity, their religious life often differs substantially from that of the majority of Hindus in Central India: it sometimes shows Sufi influences, often gives prominence to the Guru Granth familiar from Sikh tradition, and regularly highlights Sindhi saints and a distinctive divinity called Jhulelal. The video examines the religious practice of Hindu Sindhis in Gwalior, their community life, and t

Explores religious life and sensibilities in a group of interconnected working class neighborhoods. Members of Dalit groups, higher caste Hindus, and Muslims living in a Hindu area all comment on issues of identity, community, belief, and practice. Particularly engaging are some conversations with two young Muslim performers who act in traditional Hindu religious dramas. The DVD includes supplementary material giving some background to the video. 35 minutes.

Examines the changing role of music in a small Gwalior ashram, focusing on the use of film-music styles for prayer songs. The DVD features clips of different musical styles and interviews with performers. These are intercut with comments by the ashram’s present guru. 16 minutes. 

To purchase a DVD, or the set of 3 DVDs, write to the South Asia Program. The price is $10.00 per DVD or $25.00 for the set of three.