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With Pick for Treasury Secretary, Biden will Tip Hand About His Economic Agenda

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November 26, 2020

Eswar Prasad, SAP

"We have been in a regime where there is a sense that cooperating with other countries weakens the U.S. She felt and acted completely differently,” says Eswar Prasad, a professor of trade policy. “She’s a master in the art of gentle persuasion rather than using sticks to get people to do the right thing."

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Tamil Conversation Hour

December 3, 2020

5:00 pm

Join us virtually this fall to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun listening to and speaking in a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn more than you might think, without instruction or correction. Conversation Hours are are open to any learner, but are probably most useful to those at an intermediate level or above. Open to the public. Join Tamil Conversation Hour on Zoom every other week!

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South Asia Program

The West's Imagined versus India’s Conventional Nuclear Reality

December 3, 2020

11:30 am

Gaurav Kampani, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Tulsa, will join will join the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies for a discussion of “The West's Imagined versus India’s Conventional Nuclear Reality.”

Please note that the author will not give a formal presentation of his work, so it is best to read in advance. A link to the reading will be sent to you upon confirmation of registration.

Please pre-register at https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwudOCurDssGNJ6hMav_EP6ZLuGIp…(link is external).

This is part of the Peace and Conflict Studies Reading Group Series.

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Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

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Pingali Named Board Chair of Anti-Hunger Institute

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November 9, 2020

Prabhu Pingali, SAP

Prabhu Pingali, Director of the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI), has been named chair of the governing board of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), an international organization focused on reducing hunger, poverty and environmental degradation in the dryland tropics.

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Wrong Again! Just like 2016, Pollsters Across America Missed the Mark with U.S. Elections

Voting Election
November 9, 2020

Thomas Pepinsky, SEAP/SAP

"We’re not yet at the stage where we can diagnose exactly what went wrong with the polls in this cycle,” says professor of government Thomas Pepinsky. “I think it’s clear that the polling industry in aggregate is going to have to study the results because there are some big misses.” 

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The Police and the Public: Global Perspectives (Lund Critical Debate)

December 9, 2020

6:30 pm

Protests against racism and police violence crescendoed in the United States and around the world in 2020. In the United States and internationally, how can we balance social justice, accountability, and personal freedom with demands for order and security?

This Lund Critical Debate brings together the United Nations’ police commissioner and a noted expert on political conflict resolution to discuss strategies—both inside and outside the policing framework—for public safety and law enforcement. The conversation will address current questions around security and policing, including political violence, racial injustice and Black Lives Matter, and global responses to unlawful use of force.

The panel welcomes questions in advance and during the event. Registration is required.

Panelists
Luís Carrilho, United Nations Police Adviser. He has served since November 2017 as police commissioner and director of the UN’s Police Division. He previously served as the police commissioner in multidimensional United Nations peacekeeping operations in Timor Leste, Haiti, and the Central African Republic.

Christian Davenport, Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Policy, University of Michigan. His research focuses on racism, social movements, and political conflict, including human rights violations, genocide, torture, political surveillance, and civil war. His most recent book is The Peace Continuum: What It Is and How To Study It (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Moderator
Sabrina Karim, Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies; Hardis Family Assistant Professor for Teaching Excellence, Department of Government, A&S. Her research focuses on conflict and peace processes, international involvement in post-conflict security, and state building in the aftermath of civil war.

About the Debate
This year’s Lund Critical Debate is hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, part of the Einaudi Center. Established in 2008, the Einaudi Center's Lund Critical Debate Series is made possible by the generosity of Judith Lund Biggs ’57.

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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

Semi-Study Break: World Music of the Moment with Global Cornell

November 16, 2020

11:00 am

Celebrate International Education Week #IEW2020 with Global Cornell!

Join DJ Daniel Bass of WRFI's Monsoon Radio for world music of 2020—from coronavirus and mass incarceration, to migration, love, dancing, and beyond. Jonathan Miller of Homelands Productions cohosts.

For semi-finals: It's a semi-study break. See you there.

Registration is required.

Daniel Bass (South Asia Program) has been a radio DJ for nearly 30 years. As an undergraduate at Carleton College, he was music director of KRLX, the student-run radio station, and hosted a weekly show. In graduate school at the University of Michigan, he cohosted a weekly show of South Asian music on WCBN, the college/community radio station in Ann Arbor. In 2013, he started Monsoon Radio on WPKN in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He brought the show to Ithaca's WRFI in 2017. Monsoon Radio features music of South Asia, its influences and diasporas, branching out to music of the Indian Ocean and the Muslim world and fusions from all over the globe. Until the pandemic forced the show into hiatus, Monsoon Radio aired every other Tuesday night on WRFI, 88.1 FM, and wrfi.org.

Jonathan Miller's work as a journalist, writer, and editor has taken him to more than 20 countries in Asia, the Americas, Africa, Europe, and the Pacific. His radio and television reports have been broadcast on NPR, Marketplace, BBC, PBS NewsHour, and other outlets. As executive director of the journalism collective Homelands Productions, he has designed and produced multi-platform projects on cultural change, globalization and work, and the future of food. He serves as board chair of Ithaca City of Asylum. From 2016 to 2018 he was associate director of communication at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.

Register here: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hjkj48IdQ7yEVetaG1QFlA(link is external)

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Einaudi Center for International Studies

South Asia Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Institute for African Development

Institute for European Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

Comparative Muslim Societies Program

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

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