Events
Each semester, we host a seminar series that brings academics from universities across the globe to the Ithaca campus. Our speakers provide new and engaging perspectives to the analysis of Muslim societies with knowledge that spans disciplines. Explore some of our past seminars to see who has helped enhance the conversation.
- Sect, Difference, and Interreligious Marriage in Lebanon
- In the Shadow of Gothic: Ottoman Mosque Architecture in Cyprus
- Shifting Channels and Logistical Power: Muslim Middlemen, Low-end Trade, and Local State in Yiwu, China
- Restoring the Sultans in the Arabian Sea: Imperial Careers in the Nineteenth Century
- Rare Islamic Books in the Olin Library Collection
- Strange Parallels, Surprising Encounters: Catholicism, Islam, and Analogist Rituals in the Late Sixteenth Century Philippines
- Monsoon Voyagers: An Indian Ocean History
Upcoming Events
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
Southeast Asia Program
3:00 pm
Virtual
Our CMS seminar today will be led by the curator of the Middle Eastern Collection in Olin Library, who will be hosting us to see precious objects in the library's collection about Islam. We have many world-class books, some of them centuries old, which show the history and evolution of Islam over a long…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
Institute for European Studies
12:00 pm
Virtual
Iraq: From the Inside Out
After the American invasion of Iraq, along with a collapse of much of the social order, many of the state norms and regulations governing architecture, heritage sites, and city planning also broke down.
This webinar will feature two Iraqi scholars working on architecture and…
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
12:15 pm
Landis Auditorium, Myron Taylor Hall, Room 184
Greetings!
You are invited to join us for a lunchtime discussion on Tuesday, November 2, 2021 from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. in Room 184 – Landis Auditorium – Myron Taylor Hall with Dr. Dipali Mukhopadhyay, Associate Professor in the Global Policy Area at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public…
Mario 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
4:45 pm
Virtual
FLAS Fellowships support undergraduate, graduate, and professional students studying modern foreign languages and related area or international studies. Funding is offered in collaboration with the Einaudi Center’s South Asia and Southeast Asia Programs.
Mario 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
4:45 pm
Virtual
The Einaudi Center International Research Travel Grants provide travel support for Cornell graduate students conducting short-term research and/or fieldwork outside the United States. They also provide travel support for professional students engaged in various academic experiences in the international arena.…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:45 pm
Virtual
The Institute for African Development (IAD) Summer Africa Internship program provides sophomores, juniors and rising senior undergraduate students with challenging practical fieldwork in Africa. Application deadline is February 28th. Internships are available in Ghana and Zambia. Those interested in applying must…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
South Asia Program
11:00 am
Virtual
This talk charts out an oceanic microhistory, grounded in the voyages of a dhow from the port of Kuwait, captained by the nakhoda ‘Abdulmajeed Al-Failakawi. It anchors itself in Al-Failakawi’s logbook, and looks out from the deck of the dhow onto a world of texts, letters, accounts, and other writings by nakhodas.…