All societies, and especially diverse ones like the US, are multilingual; translingual communication mediates life and professions and makes knowledge grow and work. Yet, myths about language set up barriers, inhibiting free exchange and application of knowledge. These myths include the ideas that knowledge must only be produced, can only be exchanged, and is applied best through dominant languages—damaging assumptions that adversely affect many domains, but particularly knowledge work by academics across the disciplines. Harm caused by this suppression of languages has been long documented in the literature in language, writing, and communication studies. Drawing on the research and his own efforts to counter language ideologies, Dr. Shyam Sharma will present a framework and share practical strategies, showing how transcending monolingual worldviews (and mobilizing all languages) helps academe and its scholars to magnify the impact of the knowledge they produce, both transnationally and within US academe and society.

About the speaker
Dr. Shyam Sharma is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at the State University of New York in Stony Brook. His scholarship and teaching focus on issues of language and language policy/politics, cross-cultural rhetoric, international students and education, and writing in the disciplines. His works have appeared in a variety of venues, including College Composition and Communication, JAC, Across the Disciplines, Composition Studies, NCTE, Series in Writing and Rhetoric, Hybrid Pedagogy, Kairos, and Professional and Academic English (IELTS SIG). His last book (Routledge, 2018), based on data gathered by visiting 20 US universities plus data collected distantly from 15 more, offers theoretical and practical pathways for the advancement of Writing Studies at the graduate level, using writing support for international graduate students as a major intervention in graduate education. His next book analyzes the foundations of international education in the US in the decades after the Second World War, showing fault lines and potential futures by analyzing trajectories in the past few decades.

The event is free and open to the public. Campus visitors and members of the public must adhere to Cornell's public health requirements for events, which include wearing masks while indoors and providing proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test.

Co-sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences; the Graduate School Offices of Inclusion and Student Engagement, and Future Faculty and Academic Careers; the Office of Postdoctoral Studies; the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs; the English Language Support Office; the Language Resource Center; and the South Asia Program.

Registration is required: https://cornell.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1Li39my9DG4VrtY

This webinar, hosted by the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, features experts in finance, international policy, and labor economics discussing the unprecedented sanctions being levied at Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine.

The Cornell-Syracuse South Asia Consortium presents a symposium interrogating the histories and trajectories of anti-Asian violences.

The recent surge of racially motivated attacks on Asians in the United States brought renewed attention to the issue of anti-Asian violence. It is necessary to situate this rising tide of violence in the broader histories that have produced it. By taking up “Asia” as a fraught geopolitical category that is formed through imperialist projects, this symposium attends to the underlying logics of violence that are crucial to rendering these histories legible. Building connections that are enabled by transnational, relational, and critical lenses not only will deepen insights into the discourse of anti-Asian violence, but also will allow a meaningful consideration of the implications of this moment for solidarity and movement- building. This symposium will convene a cohort of scholars, students, and activists whose work can collectively help trace the genealogies and geographies of anti-Asian violence.

The South Asia Program is coordinating efforts for current Cornell students, faculty and staff to travel to and from Syracuse for this event on Friday March 25. Please fill out this form by March 18 if you are interested in a ride (or are able to offer others a ride) to and from Syracuse for the symposium. Space is limited.

220 Eggers Hall (Strasser Legacy Room), Syracuse University

Roundtable: Queering Solidarities: Race, Caste, and Gender

Chris Eng (Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Washington in St. Louis)
Sangeeta Kamat (Professor, Comparative and International Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
William Mosley (Assistant Professor, Program for Interdisciplinary Humanities, Wake Forest University)
Esther K. (Red Canary Song Collective)
Discussant: Viranjini Munasinghe (Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University)

Panel: Cripping Violence, Indigeneity and Pedagogy: Global Perspectives

Juliann Anesi (Assistant Professor, Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles)
Deepika Meena (Research Scholar, IIT Gandhinagar)
Edward Nadurata (Graduate Student, Department of Global and International Studies, UC Irvine)
Discussant: Michael Gill (Associate Professor, Cultural Foundations of Education, Syracuse University)

Panel: Transnational Asia: Feminist & Decolonial Critiques

Juliana Hu Pegues (Associate Professor, Literatures in English, Cornell)
Danika Medak-Saltzman (Assistant Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, Syracuse University)
Deepti Misri (Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder)
Discussant: Mona Bhan (Associate Professor, Anthropology and Ford-Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies, Syracuse University)

Closing Keynote

Iyko Day, Mount Holyoke College
“Nuclear Antipolitics and the Queer Art of Logistical Failure”

CO-SPONSORED BY:

At Cornell University: South Asia Program, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, East Asia Program, Southeast Asia Program, and Asian American Studies Program

At Syracuse University: Graduate School, Humanities Center, Hendricks Chapel, Department of Cultural Foundations of Education, Department of English, Department of Religion, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, East Asia Program, Asian/Asian American Studies Program, Disability Studies; Disability Cultural Center, Intergroup Dialogue, and Democratizing Knowledge Collective

With funding from the Department of Education Title VI Program.

FACULTY CO-ORGANIZERS:

Susan Thomas, Cultural Foundations of Education, Syracuse University

Antonio Tiongson, Department of English, Syracuse University