Events
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Migrations Program
8:30 am
Law School, 184 Myron Taylor Hall
The Cornell International Law Journal is hosting a symposium to honor Professor Stephen Yale-Loehr's career in immigration law. The event will cover topics such as the current state of asylum law, immigrants and the economy, and the need for increased legal representation for immigrants. Additionally, there…
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
3:00 pm
McGraw Hall, 165
Title: Past and Present of the Ñuu Savi Codices makers
Abstract: The precolonial Mixtec codices contain the cultural memory of the Ñuu Savi (Mixtec) “People of the Rain”, one of the Indigenous Peoples of southern Mexico. Historically, these documents have been interpreted without fully consulting their…
Migrations Program
7:30 pm
Kennedy Hall, Call Auditorium
Join us for the annual Koen-Horowtiz Lecture:
On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America
7:30-9:00 PM
Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall
November 8th, 2024
Keynote Speaker:
Abrahm Lustgarten, Award-winning Investigative Reporter, Author, Filmmaker, and…
East Asia Program
8:30 pm
Virtual
You're invited to join Cornell alumni, friends, and collaborators in Guangzhou and online for Cornell's annual Forum in China, organized by the Cornell China Center. This year's Forum promises a unique opportunity to learn from Cornellians joining prominent Chinese academics and industry leaders in…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Priyamvada Gopal (English, University of Cambridge )
Partially in light of its recent currency for Hindu majoritarianism and the rhetoric of Hindutva, this talk will raise questions about the project of ‘decolonization’ in India through the work of Bhimrao Ambedkar. His famous polemic, What Congress…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
4:30 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Guangtian Ha (Religion, Haverford College)
This talk draws from a book manuscript of the same title under preparation for Columbia University Press. Weaving together sources in classical Arabic, Persian, Chinese, and Bahasa Indonesia/Malay, and combining an array of methodologies from historiography…
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…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
5:00 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, 64
Speaker: R. Kenji Tierney Anthropology, SUNY New Paltz
Introduced by Jane Marie Law, Asian Studies, Cornell
What is the place of sumo in the 21st century? Rather than an "unchanging tradition," sumo acts as a mirror to the changing social conditions in Japanese society. Occupying a contenious…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
12:20 pm
Uris Hall, G08
CANCELLED!!!
Ecuador is renowned for its extraordinary biodiversity, offering a rich mosaic of landscapes and ecosystems. Despite its small size, the country boasts the Amazon rainforest, the Andean highlands, coastal lowlands, and the unique Galápagos Islands. Each region supports a wide variety of flora…
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
Uris Hall, G08
If you love languages, our funding opportunities are for you! Learn one of more than 50 languages offered at Cornell with a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship or Rare and Distinctive Language Fellowship. Opportunities are open to both undergraduate and graduate students.
FLAS fellowships support…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for European Studies
5:00 pm
175 Warren Hall
Join us in 175 Warren Hall for a lecture with Ketevan Gurchiani, Professor of Anthropology at Ilia State University in Tbilisi. This lecture is titled "On Hidden Power of Trees: Urban Resistance in Tbilisi." This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for European Studies and Einaudi Center for…
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
12:00 pm
Virtual
The Laidlaw Undergraduate Leadership and Research Program promotes ethical leadership and international research around the world—starting with the passionate leaders and learners found on campuses like Cornell. Open to first- and second-year students, the two-year Laidlaw program provides generous support to carry…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:10 pm
Cornell Law School, 186
About our Speaker:
Sirikan “June” Charoensiri is the Executive Advisor at TLHR, which she co-founded after the 2014 military coup in Thailand. In 2024, she founded Engage Thailand to further democracy and human rights advocacy internationally. June has a legal background from Thammasat University and the…
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
1:00 pm
Virtual
Go global in summer 2025! Global Internships give you valuable international work experience in fields spanning global development, climate and sustainability, international relations, communication, business, governance, and more.
Register for this virtual session.
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The Mario Einaudi Center…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for European Studies
1:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
“Exile,” wrote Edward Said, “is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home.”
Join Oleksandra Shtepenko, an exiled Ukrainian scholar, Cornell virtual scholar under threat, and…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
7:00 pm
Virtual
Are you a graduate student about to embark on research in Malaysia and/or Singapore for the first time? Join GETSEA for a roundtable and Q&A session with Dr. Meredith Weiss (Albany), Justin Weinstock (UC Berkeley) and Zheng Wang (Albany) to get a sense of what conducting research in these two countries entails…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
11:15 am
Ives Hall, 109
The talk will highlight the complexities of "Africa’s cultural, economic, social and political histories of dress and fashion and how textiles are produced, traded, used and worn."
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:15 pm
Kahin Center
Gatty Lecture Series
Join us for a talk by Seng Guo-Quan, Assistant Professor of History National University of Singapore, who will discuss the gendered history of the Chinese settler community in Indonesia.
This Gatty Lecture will take place at the The Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. This talk is co-…
Institute for European Studies
4:00 pm
Caldwell Hall, 100
Find out more about our summer public policy program in Turin. Nestled between the Alps and the Mediterranean in the magnificent Piedmont region of northern Italy, the city of Turin provides an inspiring background to explore the causes and consequences of population change, the debates unfolding in Europe around…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
4:30 pm
Stimson Hall, G25
"I Belong Here: Addressing Gen Z Learner Identities through Differentiated Instruction in World Languages"
Tom Garza
UT Regent's and University Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor and Director of the Texas Language Center, UT Austin
Tomlinson et al. (2003) characterized…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
5:30 pm
Virtual
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…
Institute for African Development
7:00 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
2:45 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
East Asia Program
3:30 pm
Rockefeller, 374 Asian Studies Lounge
Xiangjun Feng, University of Toronto will bring us to the close of this semester's Classical Chinese text-reading series.
The group meets monthly during the semester to explore a variety of classical Chinese texts and styles. Other premodern texts linked to classical Chinese in Japanese, Korean, and…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
11:00 am
Klarman Hall Atrium
Featured guests Wakidi Dwidjomartono and Heni Savitri join the Cornell Gamelan Ensemble and leading members of the larger American gamelan community for a klenengan, a long and relatively informal gathering that best accommodates the temporal expansiveness of Javanese gamelan music. Audience members are free to…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Ayesha Matthan (History of Art, Cornell University)
This talk looks at a portrayal of the working classes in Bombay/Mumbai/Bambai between the 1970s and 1990s by pictorialist photographers such as Foy Nissen, Pablo Bartholomew, Raghubir Singh, Raghu Rai, Ketaki Sheth, Sooni Taraporevala, and Henning…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
12:20 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Co-sponsored by Romance Studies
The archipelago of Puerto Rico is a colony in debt. Debt, according to Lucí Cavallero and Verónica Gago, goes hand in hand with the disciplining of bodies, especially female, queer, and dissident bodies. Therefore, colony and debt possess certain characteristics—confinement,…
South Asia Program
1:50 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
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
4:00 pm
Physical Sciences Building, Baker Portico & Atrium
Over 70 undergraduate students will present their international summer experiences in a poster session. Their work includes conducting research, working in Global Internships, and putting leadership into action as Laidlaw scholars.
The poster session will be in the Baker Portico & Atrium of the Physical…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
12:20 pm
Warren Hall, 175
Fall 2024 Harry ’51 and Joshua ’49 Tsujimoto Perspectives in Global Development Seminar Series
Register to attend via Zoom.
Abstract
Agriculture remains integral to Nigeria’s economy, accounting for 24% of the GDP and employing 38% of the workforce. Despite this, widespread multidimensional…
Past Events
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:15 pm
Kahin Center
Gatty Lecture Series
Join us for a talk by Lawrence Chua, Associate Professor at the School of Architecture at Syracuse University, who will discuss the colonial museum practices.
This Gatty Lecture will take place at the The Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Institute for European Studies
12:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Prospects for European Security after the War
Whatever the outcome of the Russian war against Ukraine, in its wake Ukraine will need to choose a security policy to defend its sovereignty from future threats. Its choice holds implications for broader European security. Some observers advocate Ukraine becoming…
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
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
12:20 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Abstract:
Sports came to play a significant role in nation building in a number of countries – especially those newly-independent states emerging on the end of decolonising movements in the middle of the twentieth century. Jamaica was no exception. Here, the process of nation-building was one that had to…
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…