Talk by Juned Shaikh (History, University of California, Santa Cruz)

Revolution and Slums were keywords in twentieth century Bombay: they are interpretive categories to capture the relationships of power in the city and the visions for transforming the relationships as well as the city itself. Revolution…

Want to learn a language this summer? Learn about Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships and Critical Language Scholarships, which provide fully funded opportunities for Cornell undergraduate and graduate students to study South and Southeast Asian languages in the summer, and even in the academic year.

Talk by Kelsey Jane Utne

This talk explores the disrupted burial of convicted murderer Abdul Rashid in 1927 in order to understand how urban expansion altered and constrained commemorative praxis in late colonial India. Because of the subsequent criminal prosecutions for corpse theft and official inquiry, we…

Please join us for a talk by Alexander Soucy (St. Mary's University).

In 2006, a monk and member of the Order of Interbeing wrote an open letter to the disciples of Thích Nhất Hạnh, in which he described his (and hence their) Zen lineage. One of the claims the letter made was that Thích Nhất Hạnh "…

Talk by Ravinder Kaur (South Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen)

In this talk, I unpack the affective-material entanglements of the moment of “opening up” of the Indian economy. The great transformation of the nation-form into commodity-form – Brand India – entailed more than structural adjustments and…

The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, in partnership with the Society for the Humanities, presents this symposium featuring five cutting-edge researchers whose work crosses disciplinary lines to tackle some of the world’s most pressing problems.

Join postdoctoral fellows Mohamed Abdou, Eman…

The Institute for Comparative Modernities' first Global South Translation Symposium, featuring presentations by our inaugural cohort of translators (see below), remarks by translation theorist Naoki Sakai and commentary by Brett DeBary and Jan Steyn. Registation is required for this online event.…

Please join us for a talk by James Robson 羅柏松 (James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University).

It has become increasingly well-known that religious statues throughout Asia have hidden cavities that are filled with various objects inserted during a…

This presentation has been postponed.

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In late 2018, the Indian YouTube channel T-Series became the most highly subscribed channel in the world, surpassing Swedish vlogger Pewdie Pie with 63 billion views and 88 million subscribers. In this talk, I investigate the successful expansion of…

How does migration shape life in your community?

Six undergraduate and graduate Cornell students can win $1,000 by submitting essays, poetry, or art that answers this question. Submissions are encouraged to show the connections between racism, dispossession, and migration in interdisciplinary, innovative,…

Learn about the Laidlaw Undergraduate Leadership and Research Program. Open to first- and second-year students, this 2-year program provides generous support to carry out internationally-focused research, develop leadership skills, engage with community projects overseas, and join a global network of like-minded…

Elephants roam in about 60% of the land area in Sri Lanka, and in about 70% of that, the rural communities also live and cultivate, creating the perfect grounds for a deadly conflict. A total of 407 elephants and 121 farmers died because of human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka in 2019 recording the world’s highest…

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.…

A Conversation with Timothy Mitchell, William B. Ransford Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University and Kaushik Basu, Professor of Economics and Carl Marks Professor of International Studies at Cornell University.

The Biden Administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan on August 31st focused attention on the plight of Afghans who supported U.S. and allied forces. In December 2001, shortly after the 9/11 attacks, Farid Ferdows '21 was hired by the U.S. Army to work as an interpreter/translator. He received a special…

lecture with Seema Golestaneh. Rescheduled for November 15.

sponsored by Department of Near Eastern Studies, Iranian Student Association, and NES undergrad lunch series

This project investigates changing patterns of knowledge resource management at the British East India Company. It covers the years between the Company’s takeover of Bengal in 1757 and the loss of its monopoly rights in 1833. At the beginning of the period, the Company generally depended upon individuals for the…

Please join us for a talk by MK Long (PhD Candidate, Department of Asian Studies).

This paper opens the historical study of initiated female Buddhist devotees (thilashin) in Myanmar through analysis of the 1982 biography of Daw Medawadi (1862-1932), founder of a Buddhist nunnery (chaung) at the turn of the…

Dr. Kuruvilla's book talk scheduled for November 9 ,2021 is being postponed. It will be re-listed on the events.cornell.edu calendar as soon new date has been confirmed. We apologize for any inconvenience.

In the absence of a global regulatory system for labor standards, many companies have been…

The Lingua Mater competition invites alumni to translate Cornell's Alma Mater into a different language and submit a video of the performed translation. The inaugural Lingua Mater alumni competition took place in 2018 as part of Cornell's Global Grand Challenges Symposium. Winners included the Cornell…

The Lingua Mater competition invites students to translate Cornell's Alma Mater into a different language and submit a video of the performed translation. The inaugural Lingua Mater student competition took place in 2018 as part of Cornell's Global Grand Challenges Symposium. The top three videos received…

On the 25th of April 2015, during the Gorkha Earthquake, a massive glacier-rock avalanche destroyed the village of Langtang, killing over 300 people and causing unthinkable destruction and loss. My work examines the afterlives of this unthinkable event and the ways in which the people of Langtang have worked to…

Up to now, we have had little sense of Tibetan lifespans before the 20th century. The Buddhist Digital Resource Center hosts the largest online biographical database on Tibet and includes data on the lifespans of some 2000 famous Tibetan lamas. Working with a research assistant, I have sorted this data by time…

FLAS fellowships at Cornell support undergraduate, graduate, and professional students studying modern South Asian and Southeast Asian languages and related area studies. Funding is offered in collaboration with the Einaudi Center’s South Asia and Southeast Asia Programs.

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 Affairs.

Dr.…

This paper is an attempt to understand how, what counts as “violence,” and what does not, emerges in a given society. Groups in post-1990s Sri Lanka, particularly those led by monks, engage in and authorize a “new” monastic discourse in which they demand state sovereign power. These groups and their political…

Shimmers in the Dark: On the Possibilities of Intimate Touch in Bombay’s Queer Sexpublics

Abstract:In Bombay’s cruising parks, gay parties, pride events, and virtual spaces—what I call queer sexpublics—queer sex, touch, and intimacy flourish. Though queer and trans people perpetually negotiate risk and…

Bio: Lyndsey Deaton, Ph.D., RA, AICP, PMP is passionate about current issues of social sustainability in the city. She engages these issues through academic and professional roles. She is the Director of the Urban Design Lab (UDL) at the University of Oregon, an organization that gives students the opportunity to…

How do peace processes really work and how can progress be measured? Madhav Joshi explains this emerging research agenda at an upcoming seminar with the Reppy Institute.

Madhav Joshi is research professor and associate director of the Peace Accords Matrix (PAM) at the Kroc Institute for International Peace…

South Asia is experiencing rising authoritarianism. The targets of right-wing movements are progressive forces who are increasingly viewed as outsiders threatening the imagined purity of the nation. The label of “foreign agent” is now widely invoked against political opponents who are accused of sedition. The…