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Latin American and Caribbean Studies

6:00 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…

Southeast Asia Program

5:00 pm

Virtual

Join us on Zoom to practice your Thai 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…

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

South Asia Program

1:30 pm

Kroch Library

The student curators from the course, ASIAN2272 Food and Asia, will present their selection of Asian cookbooks to the public.

Learn about Asian food cultures and themes, and get a taste of the rich selection of cookbooks in Cornell University Library's collections.

The tour begins at the cases…

East Asia Program

7:30 pm

Goldwin Smith Hall, HEC auditorium (132)

The Korean Language Program is proud to present its 15th annual Korean showcase. The representatives from each Korean class will present their respective final projects of the semester. For the general audience, their presentation will be in English, but through their various demonstrations, you will be able to get…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

4:15 pm

Sociology Student Lounge (Room 6112) at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Part of the Immigration Seminar Series

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Southeast Asia Program

East Asia Program

4:00 pm

Physical Sciences Building, 120

Join us for this talk by Roald Hoffmann, Nobel laureate in chemistry and Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Emeritus, at Cornell.

At this event, Hoffmann pays tribute to his former colleagues Tang Ao-Qing (1915–2008, former president of Jilin University) and Lu Jiaxi (1915–2001, former…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

South Asia Program

12:15 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Talk by Tariq Thachil (Political Science, University of Pennsylvania)

Urban citizens in low-income democracies rarely hold elected officials accountable for toxic air. To understand why, we fielded a large citizen survey in Delhi, India, a highly polluted megacity where voters rarely prioritize air pollution…

South Asia Program

12:00 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…

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

11:00 am

Virtual

Join us on Zoom to practice your Portuguese 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…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

10:00 am

Physical Sciences Building, 401

Day 2: Pandemic Archives: Media, Geopolitics, and Temporalities of Crisis

About this workshop:

As the world enters its fourth year living with COVID-19, this workshop critically examines our conceptual tools for capturing this chronic crisis and its seismic impact on global geopolitics and humanistic…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Institute for African Development

8:00 am

Mann Library, 160 (Friday) and 102 (Saturday)

On Friday, May 3 and Saturday, May 4, 2024, the Institute for African Development, in collaboration with the Polson Institute for Global Development and the Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University, will host a symposium on Imagining Just Environmental and Climate Futures in Africa. Please see…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

4:45 pm

Goldwin Smith Hall, 64

Day 1: Book Talk – SARS Stories: Affect and Archive of the 2003 Pandemic

Speaker: Belinda Kong (Asian Studies and English, Bowdoin College)

In SARS Stories, Belinda Kong delves into the cultural archive of the 2003 SARS pandemic, examining Chinese-language creative works and social practices at the…

South Asia Program

1:00 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

Institute for African Development

12:00 pm

Mann Library, 160

On May 3-4, 2024, the Institute for African Development, in collaboration with the Polson Institute for Global Development and the Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University, will host a symposium on Imagining Just Environmental and Climate Futures in Africa.

Organized by the Institute for…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

South Asia Program

5:30 pm

Mann Library, 102

Join the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies's Global Public Voices fellows for a roundtable discussion exploring global free speech as part of Cornell's freedom of expression theme year.

This year's fellows are seasoned media voices, ready to advocate on global free speech…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Institute for European Studies

5:00 pm

Physical Sciences Building, 120

Institute for European Studies Luigi Einaudi Distinguished Lecture

Until 2005, the number of democracies in the world kept increasing, but after that date, the number has declined. Even robust democracies are now showing signs of weakness and some have turned into hybrid regimes suspended between democracy…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

4:00 pm

Mann Library, 112, CALS Zone

Join the inaugural cohort of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies's undergraduate global scholars for a showcase of their capstone presentations exploring global free speech as part of Cornell's freedom of expression theme year.

Undergraduate global scholars advocate for freedom of…

Southeast Asia Program

3:00 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…

Southeast Asia Program

3:00 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

Southeast Asia Program

12:20 pm

Kahin Center

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Thongchai Winichakul, (Emeritus Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison), who will discuss Thai intellectual history.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at the The Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact…

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

1:00 pm

Virtual

In this discussion, Marielena Hincapié, Distinguished Immigration Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Cornell Law School, interviews Jonathan Blitzer, staff writer at The New Yorker and immigration expert, on his recently published book Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of…

Southeast Asia Program

12:30 pm

209 Kennedy Hall

Join us for a panel discussion on the current state of refugee resettlement in Upstate New York, with representatives from resettlement centers in Syracuse, NY - including, Refugee and Immigrant Self-Empowerment (RISE) and Interfaith Works, as well as in Utica, NY - The Center. These three organizations have been…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

5:00 pm

Uris Hall, G08

In The Culture Trap, Derron Wallace argues that the overreliance on culture to explain Black students' achievement and behavior in schools is a trap that undermines the historical factors and institutional processes that shape how Black students experience schooling. This trap is consequential for a host of…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

4:45 pm

Uris Hall, Conference Room, 153

Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) Seminar Series

The mid-1960s ushered in an era of the belief in technological fixes for many social ills. Chief among these was a push to end global hunger using designer seeds that could yield more and thus feed more people. These seeds, developed in…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

4:45 pm

Goldwin Smith Hall, 64

Speaker: Thunghong Lin, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica. Introduced by Eli Friedman (ILR).

In an era where democratic nations globally face the risk of regression, the question arises: How can a small democratic country survive the political and economic pressures imposed by authoritarian great…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Comparative Muslim Societies Program

Institute for European Studies

4:30 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Talk by Violeta Moreno-Lax (Professor of Law, Queen Mary University of London and the University of Barcelona)

This paper takes issue with the exclusionary understanding of solidarity underpinning the European Union (EU)’s response to the Ukrainian refugee crisis. Through a detailed examination of the…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

1:00 pm

Kahin Center

Since the Myanmar military seized power in Burma/Myanmar in a coup d’état in February 2021, People's Defense Forces (PDF) and Ethnic Revolutionary Organizations (ERO) have been fighting to remove this military regime and restore civilian government. In this context, ethnic minority leaders in the country…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

South Asia Program

12:15 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Talk by Aarti Sethi (Anthropology, University of California Berkeley)

Since 1997, over 250,000 farmers have taken their own lives in central India, an agrarian region where farmers have grown cotton for centuries. Today, farmers are mono-cropping genetically modified hybrid cotton seeds, which have trebled…

South Asia Program

4:00 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…

South Asia Program

4:00 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…