Events
Our events include: the LACS seminar series, public issue forums, LACS distinguished annual lecturer, and films from LACS (free) or Cornell Cinema (ticket required) or a joint showing (free).
View recordings of some past events.
Upcoming Events
12:20 pm
Uris, G08
In the mid-nineteenth century, decades after independence in Latin America, borderlands presented existential challenges to consolidating nation-states. This talk examines how and why these spaces became challenging to governments and what their meaningfulness is for our understanding of the development of a global…
4:45 pm
Virtual
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports U.S. citizens to study, conduct research in any field, or teach English in more than 150 countries. Students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are encouraged to start the process in their junior year. Recent graduates are welcome to apply through…
9:00 am
Kahin Center
Why do we see the country and the city as intrinsically different spaces and ways of being? Almost 50 years after Raymond Williams (1973) argued that this contrast is “one of the major forms in which we become conscious of a central part of our experience and of the crises of our society,” we continue to see…
12:20 pm
101 Bradfield Hall, 101 Bradfield Hall
Spring 2025 Harry ’51 and Joshua ’49 Tsujimoto Perspectives in Global Development Seminar Series
Abstract
The intersection of race, class and gender in the conception and design of the Atlantic Slave system continues to attract multidisciplinary research interest. The Caribbean, and the southern US…
5:00 pm
Big Red Barn
Join graduate student writers to share goals and write in community. The writing workshop will begin with group introductions and a moment to share what we're working on. The bulk of the time will then be dedicated to writing in community and end with the opportunity to share what you accomplished with a…
4:45 pm
Klarman Hall, Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium
An A.D. White Professors-at-Large keynote public lecture
Thursday, March 27, at 4:45pm, Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall, and via Zoom
Open to all. A reception will follow.
Abstract
The establishment of colonial dispensations on the Caribbean frontier by rival European imperial…
4:45 pm
Statler 196
Historians have long been interested in the questions of how and why multinational empires gave way to nation-states. As revisionist scholars of various empires have lamented during the last few decades, post- imperial nationalist historiographies all too frequently construed the transition from empire to nation-…
10:00 am
Stimson Hall, G25
Come to the LRC 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 practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…
12:20 pm
Uris Hall, G08
The global history of the interrelationship between race, migration, and real estate is still in its infancy, even as it promises a particularly rewarding angle on histories of how mobility and inequality have been intertwined. The Argentine capital of Buenos Aires, which during the second half of the nineteenth…
3:00 pm
Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, 2219
ECUADORCome visit a collaborative poster session featuring visiting students fromEcuador’s Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ)! Students fromCornell and USFQ will present their collaborative research on comparativeeducation policy related to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal(SDG) 4: Quality…
7:30 pm
Schwartz Center, Room 320
Join the "Body and Tech" and "Dance Compositions" course for a movement and creation workshop with Merián Soto.
Merián Soto, a Puerto Rican dancer, choreographer, video artist, and filmmaker, is the creator of Branch Dancing and Modal Practice, two innovative aesthetic-somatic dance…
4:20 pm
Stimson Hall, G25
Come to the LRC 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 practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…
5:00 pm
Film Forum, Schwartz Center
¡Fenomenal! Rompeforma 1989–1996 is a documentary about Rompeforma: Maratón de Baile, Performance & Visuales, an experimental dance and performance festival that took place in Puerto Rico from 1989 to 1996. Co-directed and produced by Merián Soto and Viveca Vázquez, edited by Laura Sofía Pérez, and with an…
12:00 pm
Rockefeller Hall, 429
The Latina/o Studies Program Fridays with Faculty luncheon seminar offers an opportunity for Latina/o and non-Latina/o students of all levels and disciplines to meet faculty and administrators from across the university for informal conversation about their current research/work in progress. All are welcome!
…1:30 pm
Stimson Hall, G25
Come to the LRC 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 practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…
12:20 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Regions of the world are historical constructions yet over time they have seemed to become more and more fixed. This talk will cut across linguistic and cultural boundaries and re-examine conceptualizations of regions in the Americas and the wider Atlantic World, showing evidence for a very polyglot, cross-imperial…
4:30 pm
Stimson Hall, G25
"Dyslexia, ADHD, Autism: Encouraging and Supporting All L2 Learners"
Sara Lee
Associate Teaching Professor of German, Arizona State University
Up to 20% of people in the U.S. have dyslexia, which means that about 4-6 students in every classroom struggle with reading and writing,…
10:00 am
A.D. White House, Guerlac Room
In this event, we will be officially launching the archive Todosomos, a collection of handwritten testimonies by Venezuelan migrants who crossed the border from Venezuela to Colombia between 2019 and 2021. The event will have several panels and include interventions by the founders of Todosomos, the library team in…
4:45 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, G22
ICM NEW BOOKS SERIES
IRINA TROCONIS (Associate Professor, Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University)
The Necromantic State: Spectral Remains in the Afterglow of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution
A conversation with Cornell faculty member Irina Troconis about her new…