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Upcoming Events
Southeast Asia Program
1:30 pm
Kroch Library, 2B48
Join Trent Walker, a specialist in mainland Southeast Asian manuscript cultures from the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford, and Trina Parks, Conservator for Rare and Distinctive Collections at Cornell University Library, for an in-depth, hands-on workshop in the Kroch Library exploring some of the…
Southeast Asia Program
5:00 pm
Willard Straight Theatre
2022 > Philippines > Directed by Martika Ramirez Escobar
With Sheila Francisco, Bong Cabrera, Rocky Salumbides
Aging film director Leonor Reyes finds herself down on her luck until a fortuitus accident plunges her directly into one of her unfinished screenplays. Subtitled. More at…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Southeast Asia Program
9:30 am
Taylor Room (Statler Hotel); Kahin Center, See description for details
Learn about the state of the anti-military movement in Myanmar from an expert panel, hosted by the Cornell University Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) in both English and Burmese on March 27, 2023. Featured speakers will include members of the National Unity Government of Myanmar and a former senior State Department…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
4:45 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Xinyu Guan (Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology, Cornell University) leads this workshop.
Eighty percent of Singapore’s population lives in apartment blocks constructed by the Housing Development Board (HDB). Guan's talk examines how state-constructed housing estates in Singapore function as a site for the…
Mario Einaudi Center for International 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
4:30 pm
Uris Hall, G-08
Current calls to decolonize global research renew the institutional and personal scrutiny of our “best practices” in conducting field research. Beyond formal adherence to the Belmont principles of “respect, beneficence, and justice,” researchers must reexamine some of the hidden (and not so hidden) costs borne by…
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
Over 500 Cornellians have crossed the globe with the Fulbright U.S. Student Program since the 1940s. You could be the next!
The program, administered by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, supports college graduates conducting research or teaching English in more than 150 countries. The…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Southeast Asia Program
11:25 am
Virtual
In many accounts of the Vietnam War, the 1968 Tet Offensive – a sweeping series of communist attacks against military bases, provincial capitals and even the United States Embassy in Saigon – is recalled as a defining moment when American public opinion turned against the war. Long overlooked, however, is the…
Southeast Asia Program
South Asia Program
10:00 am
Virtual
Please join us for a virtual lecture by Petra Kieffer-Pülz (Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz).
Between 1803 and 1813 five ordination lineages were introduced from Burma to Sri Lanka that formed the Amarapuranikāya. In 1851 a dispute concerning the legal validity of the monastic boundary (sīmā) of…
Southeast Asia Program
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…
Mario Einaudi Center for International 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
4:30 pm
Uris Hall, G-08
The process of developing a PhD, its contribution, and your argument is an ongoing journey: from an initial hunch and hook, the development of a proposal, to the research and writing process itself. In this workshop, we will first share where we are in the PhD writing process and explore the ways in which writing…
Southeast Asia Program
5:00 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…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
7:00 pm
Cornell Cinema, 104 Willard Straight Hall, Ithaca NY, 14853
Host Nation by Ko-woon Lee (2016, 116 minutes)
“Do you want to work in Korea?” Thus begins twenty-six-year-old Filipina woman Maria’s two-year journey into the sex industry in South Korea, which mainly caters to American soldiers stationed there.
Host Nation chronicles Maria’s hopes, dreams, and…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:30 pm
Kahin Center
Gatty Lecture Series
Join us for a talk by Risa J. Toha, (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Wake Forest University), who will speak about national identity in Singapore.
This Gatty Lecture will take place at the Kahin Center, but people are also welcome to join us on Zoom. Lunch will be served…
Southeast Asia Program
4:30 pm
Physical Sciences Building, 401
On Refugee Grief: An Intergenerational Remembrance
Yến Lê Espiritu and Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi
A Keynote Event for Displaced. Detained. Undeterred: A Critical/Creative Symposium
In this keynote, we offer an intergenerational remembrance of Đại Tá [Colonel] HồNgọc Cẩn,our cậu hai [oldest…
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
South Asia Program
12:00 am
Carl A. Kroch Library, Kroch Asia Exhibition Space
As part of the Threads of History exhibition series, Kroch Asia presents Textiles of Asia: Patterns & Processes.
There is a rich history of textiles in Asia. From the animal-skin clothing of the Ainu to the intricate weaving of silk, Asian cultures have showcased their artistry through their textiles for…
Southeast Asia Program
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
9:00 am
Virtual
DISPLACED DETAINED UNDETERRED: A CREATIVE/CRITICAL SYMPOSIUM
April 20-23, 2023
Scholars, artists, and organizers who understand the violence of displacement deeply and intimately narrate and theorize how borders, militarized imperialisms, and their colonial genealogies shape people’s lives and…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
South Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
5:00 pm
Kennedy Hall, Call Auditorium
Lund Critical Debate Democracies worldwide—even many wealthy democracies long considered safely consolidated—are at risk today. Governments, policymakers, and voters face new conflicts over democratic institutions, checks and balances, which citizens can compete for office or deserve representation, and what rules…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:30 pm
Kahin Center
Gatty Lecture Series
Join us for a talk by Lina Chhun, (Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies, University of Texas at Austin), who will discuss oral histories in Cambodian American communities.
This Gatty Lecture will take place at the Kahin Center, but people are also welcome to join us…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
South Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
4:30 pm
Olin Library, 106G
Talk by David Ludden
The Rohingya survival crisis – in borderlands of Myanmar and Bangladesh -- has disappeared from the headlines, but Rohingyas remain one of the largest stateless populations in the world. Their suffering can be understood as an extreme example of the violence inflicted by national…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:30 pm
Kahin Center
Gatty Lecture Series
Join us for a talk by Phi Hong Su, (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Wiliams College), who will speak about Vietnamese migrants in Berlin.
This Gatty Lecture will take place at the Kahin Center, but people are also welcome to join us on Zoom. Lunch will be served. For questions,…
Mario Einaudi Center for International 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
4:30 pm
Uris Hall, G-08
This session will provide an overview of global travel expectations and responsibilities, including key health and security risks abroad and personal security principles, as well as tips and strategies to prepare for international travel, including predeparture logistics and use of resources for assessing current…