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.
- A Farewell to Arms: Political Economy of Arms Trafficking in the Golan Heights, 1880-1918
- Jihad as a Symbol of Legitimacy and Authority in the Sudan
- The Socio-Economic History of the Parsis in Gujarat, c.17th to 19th Centuries
- Dreams of a Muslim World: Twentieth Century Muslim American Mappings
- From Baghdād to Baghpūr: Global Blackness in Medieval Arabo-Asia
- The Question of Treason: Just Rebellion and Colonial Law
- The World’s Largest Stateless People, and the Rhetoric of Victim-Blaming Muslims in Myanmar (Burma)
Upcoming Events
5:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
The undergraduate minor in Latin American Studies spans across disciplines and allows you to explore the history, culture, government, politics, economy and languages of Latin America and the Caribbean. Qualifying courses can be found in many of the colleges.
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5:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
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4:30 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Yasmine Flodin-Ali (Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh)
Twentieth-century Muslims used Islam to articulate resistance to systems of domination, from British colonial rule in India to Jim Crow laws in the United States. This article maps the moral geographies promoted by three early twentieth…
5:00 pm
Biotechnology Building, G10
Bartels World Affairs Lecture
The bestselling author of Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World joins us for a personal journey down the conspiracy rabbit hole to explore why our political sphere has become dangerously warped.
When author and social activist Naomi Klein discovered a writer with the…
1:00 pm
Virtual
Go global in summer 2025! Global Internships give you valuable international work experience in fields spanning global development, climate and sustainability, international relations, communication, business, governance, and more.
This session will discuss opportunities with the Universidad San Francisco de…
5:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Go global in summer 2025! Global Internships give you valuable international work experience in fields spanning global development, climate and sustainability, international relations, communication, business, governance, and more.
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The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies hosts info…
2:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
The East Asia Program (EAP) offers several categories of fellowships and grants to support student and faculty research and study related to East Asia:
EAP Graduate Area Studies Fellowships East Asian Language Study Grants EAP Research Travel GrantsCan’t attend? Contact eap@…
4:30 pm
Uris Hall, G08
The Migration Studies Minor is a university-wide, interdisciplinary undergraduate minor that prepares students to understand the historical and contemporary contexts and factors that drive international migration and shape migrant experiences around the globe. This minor draws on the rich course offerings found…
5:00 pm
Virtual
The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies funds international graduate student research!
Research travel grants provide international travel support for graduate and professional students to conduct short-term research or fieldwork outside the United States.
Global PhD Research Awards fund…
4:30 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Guangtian Ha (Religion, Haverford College)
This talk draws from a book manuscript of the same title under preparation for Columbia University Press. Weaving together sources in classical Arabic, Persian, Chinese, and Bahasa Indonesia/Malay, and combining an array of methodologies from historiography…
5:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
If you love languages, our funding opportunities are for you! Learn one of more than 50 languages offered at Cornell with a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship or Rare and Distinctive Language Fellowship. Opportunities are open to both undergraduate and graduate students.
FLAS fellowships support…
1:00 pm
Virtual
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12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Bhavani Raman (History, University of Toronto)
The laws that authorize modern state impunity, such as martial law, sedition, disturbed areas, and preventive detention, were first given statutory authority by a colonial corporation, the East India Company consolidating its conquest of India. Why was…
1:00 pm
Virtual
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4:30 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Al Haj Khalifah U Aye Lwin (Religions for Peace Myanmar, Masjid Sujud Shah Utica NY)
Myanmar has a track record of forging unity in multiplicity, and Muslims have been an integral part of Myanmar society since the Pagan dynasty. Rohingyas were, in fact, prominent citizens, just like other Myanmar…
5:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Go global in summer 2025! Global Internships give you valuable international work experience in fields spanning global development, climate and sustainability, international relations, communication, business, governance, and more.
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The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies hosts info…