Events
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
Migrations Program
3:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
This session will describe opportunties for undergraduate and graduate students in the Institute for European Studies and the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.
IES offers a minor in European Studies, Global Summer Internships, a Graduate Fellows Program, and research funding for both…
Southeast Asia Program
6:00 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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
11:15 am
115 Sibley Hall
This talk is part of a forthcoming book entitled, Medicines that Feed Us, in which Langwick examines the shifting, multiple relationships between toxicity and remedy in the face of the environmental and health crises shaping the 21stcentury. Broadly, she is interested in how that which counts as “therapeutic” is…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
12:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Eighty years ago, almost to the day, the end of the Second World War still looked a long way off to the men caught in the meat grinder of Iwo Jima. But the inexorable movement toward the total defeat of the Axis states—graphically depicted in the mushroom cloud that would soon loom over Hiroshima—was already…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:15 pm
Kahin Center
Gatty Lecture Series
Join us for a talk by Dr. Ivan V. Small from Northern Illinois University, who will discuss Vietnamese American migration and community formation across regions. Dr. Small obtained PhD from the Cornell University. Currently, Dr. Small serves as Professor of Anthropology at Northern…
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
Migrations Program
5:00 pm
Virtual
The Amit Bhatia ’01 Global PhD Research Awards fund international fieldwork to help Cornell students complete their dissertations. Through a generous gift from Amit Bhatia, this funding opportunity annually supports at least six PhD students who have passed the A exam. Recipients hold the title of Amit Bhatia ’01…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
5:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Land, we are often told, is at the heart of the conflict in Israel/Palestine. But when we survey the field of Palestinian Studies, we find that scholars often treat land as an abstraction and rarely study the people who live on and from it. In this talk, I focus on a legal relationship that has complex political…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
9:00 am
PSB 401
Latin America and the Caribbean: Connection, Integration, and Negotiation
LACS invites Cornell faculty, staff, graduate, and undergraduate students to participate in its Annual Research Symposium on February 21 and 22, 2025. This symposium aims to be a vibrant community-building space, fostering…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Pinky Hota (Anthropology, Smith College)
The Violence of Recognition explores the roots of ethnonationalism conflict between two historically marginalized groups—the Kandha, who are Adivasi (tribal people considered indigenous in India), and the Pana, a community of Christian Dalits (previously…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Migrations Program
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…
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
5:00 pm
A. D. White House, Guerlac room
Dr. Verlato's lecture, "The Politics of Script: Romanizing the Arabic Language in Modern Egypt," investigates alternative geographies of script reform that supersede the national framework by recuperating early attempts to romanize the Arabic language in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
3:00 pm
Rockefeller Hall, 203
A discussion with Pita Limjaroenrat, hosted by the Center on Global Democracy.
About the Speaker
Pita Limjaroenrat (b. 1980) formerly led the Move Forward Party (MFP) in Thailand’s May 2023 general elections, where his social democratic platform won the most votes and seats in the Parliament. Despite…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
7:00 pm
Willard Straight Hall, Cornell Cinema
The Bomb is a critically acclaimed documentary film that puts viewers at the center of the story of nuclear weapons. It explores their immense power, their perverse allure, and the profound death wish at their very heart. Combining archival footage, animation, music, and text, The Bomb offers a visceral and…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
7:00 pm
Virtual
Hosted by librarians Emily Zinger (Cornell University Library) and Brent Bianchi (Yale University), this webinar will provide an overview of Yale’s Maurice Durand papers, as well as current work with the Digitizing Việt Nam project. Our first speaker, Trâm Phương Nguyễn, Ph.D. (Columbia University) will focus on…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
11:15 am
115 Sibley Hall
Becoming 'Unlawful': Homeownership, housing bureaucracy, and the production of precarity in Eastridge, Cape Town, South Africa
Public Registration
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
12:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
About the Speaker
Helen M. Kinsella is a Political Science and Law Professor at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She holds affiliate faculty positions in the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, the Human Rights Center at the Law School…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:15 pm
Kahin Center
Gatty Lecture Series
Join us for a talk by Dr. Parkorn Wangpaiboonkit from Washington University in St. Louis, who will discuss Siamese responses to European colonial music theory. Dr. Wangpaiboonkit obtained PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Currently, Dr. Wangpaiboonkit serves as Assistant…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
3:30 pm
Rockefeller Hall, 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)
Eric S. Lee, Cornell University
Accidental Status: Reassessing Protection Privilege in Northern Song (960-1127)
Lee writes:
Much of what we have been told about governance during middle and late imperial China revolves around the narrative of a meritocracy created and maintained by the civil…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Rajbir Judge, (History, California State University, Long Beach)
How do traditions and peoples grapple with loss, particularly when it is of such magnitude that it defies the possibility of recovery or restoration? Rajbir Singh Judge offers new ways to understand loss and the limits of history by…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:45 pm
Uris Hall, Uris G08
Guadelupe Pinzón is one of Mexico’s leading maritime historians. Her work expands Mexico’s territory into both the Caribbean and the Pacific, thus offering an uncommon approach to Mexican history. In this conversation Dr. Pinzón and Ernesto Bassi will speak about how thinking of Mexico’s maritime space reframes…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
12:20 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Since the end of the 17th century, English and French navigators increased their presence throughout the Pacific to connect existing Atlantic trade with Asia. Their navigations through the Pacific familiarized them with advantageous sites—such as in Tierra de Fuego—which functioned as stopovers. These new…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Migrations Program
4:45 pm
Virtual
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides full funding for graduate and professional students conducting research in any field or teaching in more than 150 countries. Open to U.S. citizens only. The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program supports doctoral students conducting research in…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
11:15 am
115 Sibley Hall
In this presentation, I discuss how street traders’ associations in Harare (Zimbabwe) mobilize and organize to defend the interests of traders operating in a politically volatile and contested urban environment. I demonstrate how external political dynamics, and institutional constraints shape the strategies and…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
12:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Book launch with a panel discussion
Sabrina Karim, Cornell University, will give a brief presentation of her book Positioning Women in Conflict Studies: How Women’s Status Affects Political Violence (Oxford University Press 2024), followed by a discussion with gender and conflict experts Summer Lindsey,…
Southeast Asia Program
3:15 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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
South Asia Program
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Abdul Haque Chang (Social Sciences, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi)
This talk shows how in Sindh, the state of environmental exception has become the norm for governance (as in Agamben's formulation regarding the suspension of law). Specifically, this state of exception refers to…
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 European Studies
South Asia Program
Migrations Program
5:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Join us to learn about opportunities for undergraduate students with the Einaudi Center for International Studies! This session will discuss how to successfully apply for programs like Global Internships and Laidlaw Scholars, and how to discover or strengthen global interests, including academic minors, weekly…
Institute for African Development
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…
South Asia Program
3:30 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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for European Studies
4:30 pm
Warren, B02
Based on years of ethnographic research on France’s present antiracist movement and mobilization against state violence, I introduce a framework of “suspect citizenship” which demonstrates how ethnoracial minorities are constantly outside of the boundaries of full societal inclusion. I argue that postcolonial…
Past Events
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
4:30 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Peter Lavelle (Associate Professor, Department of History University of Connecticut)
In the 1850s, when the Taiping Rebellion threw the finances of the Qing Empire into disarray, officials scrambled to prevent their empire from crumbling. In Xinjiang, they enacted a raft of measures to urgently make…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
3:00 pm
Virtual
East Asia Program Lecture Series presents "The Political Thought of Xi Jinping."
Speaker: Steve Tsang, University of London
Description: This talk offers a comprehensive examination of the official dogma shaping today's China. Professor Steve Tsang, Director of SOAS China Institute at…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:15 pm
Kahin Center
Gatty Lecture Series
Join us for a talk by Dr. Benjamin Tausig from SUNY-Stony Brook University, who will discuss racial and gender identity shifts in 1960s Thailand. Dr. Tausig obtained PhD from New York University. Currently, Dr. Tausig serves as Associate Professor of Critical Music Studies at SUNY-Stony…
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Einaudi Center for International Studies
12:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Can a state exist without a military in an increasingly divided and heavily militarized world? The answer is “yes.”
Twenty-one sovereign countries – one-ninth of the United Nations’ roster – do not maintain standing armies. Many of them are small island states in the Caribbean and the South Pacific and…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
5:30 pm
Uris Hall, G24
Are you interested in the intersection of mental health and culture, global health, and community engagement? Do you want to gain field research skills and learn about indigenous communities in South India’s beautiful and fragile Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve? If so, the Cornell-Keystone Nilgiris Field Learning…