For some, India’s single screen cinemas are a legacy to be celebrated and preserved. For others, they remain a place to see movies. Still others remember that it was within those crumbling edifices that they first discovered the magic of the movies, and made deep, lasting connections.

Cinema Pe Cinema, a…

JOHN TAIN (Carnegie Museum of Art)

Of Mountains and Seas: Lahore Biennale and the Global in the Present

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Goldwin Smith Hall, G22 | 4:45 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.

The Institute for Comparative Modernities is pleased to welcome curator John Tain to campus for a talk…

The John M. Echols Collection on Southeast Asia is the most comprehensive body of material on a global region in the Cornell University Library system and the largest collection of its kind on Southeast Asia in the United States, and in the world.

Southeast Asia Librarians Greg Green (mainland SEA) and Jeff…

The world needs infrastructure more acutely than ever. A cumulative $106 trillion in investments is imperative to meet global infrastructure requirements through 2040, not only for traditional assets such as roads, ports, bridges, and power grids but also for the next generation of those assets—and an emerging…

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Recent research on post-revolutionary struggles to consolidate a sovereign Mexican State and how these legacies laid the foundation for contemporary problems of state-cartel complicity, endemic violence, and the rising numbers of `disappeared' in Mexico. In empirical terms…

Talk by Nomaan Hasan (Anthropology, Cornell University)

What role can a religion have for those outside its fold? Against a political landscape that frames Islam as an insular and adversarial presence, this talk follows a Muslim civic organization in India as it seeks to establish Islam as an ethical…

Information & Tickets: https://cinema.cornell.edu/filipinana

Amid stifling heat and pervasive drought, Isabel (Jorrybell Agoto), a 17-year-old Ilokana from the rural north, works at a posh country club outside Manila, lining up golf balls for powerful…

Part of the two-day symposium Sea-ing Indonesia

Citra Sasmita, Artist, and Wayan Kun Adnyana, Artist & Rector of the Indonesian Institute of the Arts (ISI) will discuss there work and how it addresses issues of gender, activism and the environment on the island of Bali, Indonesia. After brief…

Against the backdrop of post-independence nation-building, especially during the New Order regime, Indonesia has consistently assimilated the ocean to a land-based perspective, and one moreover that focuses -- under the rubric of ‘landscape’-- on its more solid, extractive, and materially driven formations. But…

Part of the two-day symposium Sea-ing Indonesia

Wayang Plastik is a new collaborative work drawing upon Javanese and Balinese traditions of music and shadow puppetry, evoking the Queen of the South Sea, and addressing the scourge of plastic waste. Featured guests Peni Candra Rini, vocalist and composer from…

Speaker: Jaeyoon Song, Professor of History, McMaster University

Title: Names can Kill: Enslavement through Semiotic Stigma in a Neo-Confucian Korea, ca. 1400-1900

Abstract: In this colloquium, we will examine several important documents on premodern Korean slavery. By reading through these documents,…

Insufficient Chill: Apple Cultivation in the End Times

Insufficient Chill begins with a simple question: What work does it take to make a good apple? Apples are the principal cash crop in India’s western Himalayas, where commercial cultivation has sustained livelihoods and transformed landscapes since the…

Talk by Kali Rubaii (Anthropology, Purdue University)

Taking war as a toxic structure, this talk begins at the belly of war, in Fallujah, Iraq. Rubaii's forensic ethnography between 2014 and 2024 traces weaponized metals from the sand and bodies of people in Fallujah back to their origins at war's…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Doreen Lee, Professor of Anthropology, Director of Global Asian Studies, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Northeastern University.

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

In the late 1990s, a new private military company (PMC) from South Africa, Executive Outcomes, intervened in Angola and Sierra Leone, where the company's operations ushered in a ceasefire. Still, when Executive Outcome's CEO, Eeben Barlow, declared his PMC capable of doing "what blue helmets could…

Drop in to learn more and ask questions about the 2027 Global Hubs Faculty Research Seed Grants that Global Cornell and partner universities are offering through the Global Hubs initiative.

Join us on Zoom at any time during the session.

Through these seed grants, Cornell faculty from across the…

Come learn more about this spring opportunity with spring break travel, developed in partnership with Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), National University of Singapore (NUS), and as part of the Jeb E. Brooks School’s Global Policy Exchange Lab. This collaborative online international learning (COIL) and…

Find out more about our winter program exploring the Tiputini Biological Station in the Yasuni National Park in the Amazon in Ecuador. Tropical forests have a stunning array of diversity, and adaptations to strong species interactions, while species in alpine ecosystems have highly-specialized adaptations to…

The Migrations Program is bringing together migration scholars for a conference about migration, sustainability, and belonging in the contemporary moment. Students, scholars, and researchers from the Cornell community will share work that examines human mobility as a sociolegal and political process shaped by…

Founded in the wake of war, the East Nimba Nature Reserve shelters some of West Africa’s most endangered species. With exclusive, on-the-ground access, OVERBURDEN follows rangers, scientists, and forest defenders, including ranger Moses Darpey, biologist Grace Kotee Zansi, chief park warden Catherine Kuku Dolo, and…

The Village is a Scandal: Sexual Politics and the Making of the Rural in Modern India This talk offers a critical analysis of one of anthropology’s iconic conceptual categories: the village. Drawing on ethnographic work in the Indian Himalaya, this talk explores how scandals or kaand emanating from ungovernable…

Do you need to travel internationally for your graduate research or fieldwork?

The Einaudi Center sponsors international travel for individual Cornell graduate students. If you’re traveling between the United States and a host country for activities directly related to your dissertation or thesis research,…

"Including Pronunciation Practice in All Language Classes: Why and How"
LRC Signature Speaker
Anne Violin-Wigent
Associate Professor of French and Director of the Basic Language Instruction Program, Michigan State University

Pronunciation instruction tends not to be included in…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Michał Lubina, Associate Professor at the South and Southeast Asia Unit, Institute of Middle and Far East, Jagiellonian University (JU), Kraków, Poland

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

Join us for a screening of the documentary Bombshell (2026) on Wednesday, September 16, at 6:00 p.m.

In the acclaimed 1964 film Dr. Strangelove, an American president calls a drunken Soviet Premier with bad news: “…Dimitri, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong…

This event is part of the “Something Going Wrong with the Bomb”: Rethinking Nuclear Weapons and Global Security conference, taking place on September 17, 2026.

Eighty years after the devastating atomic bombings that ushered in the nuclear age, BOMBSHELL explores how the U.S. government manipulated the…

Come learn more about our winter study abroad in Cambodia, lunch provided. In collaboration with the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS), Cornell's Southeast Asia (SEAP, Einaudi) Study Abroad program in Cambodia will provide an in-depth focus on the cultural heritage of Cambodia both past and present. This highly…

Find out more about our winter program exploring the Tiputini Biological Station in the Yasuni National Park in the Amazon in Ecuador. Tropical forests have a stunning array of diversity, and adaptations to strong species interactions, while species in alpine ecosystems have highly-specialized adaptations to…

Protecting forests is about much more than protecting trees. It is about people, culture, livelihoods, and understanding the local realities that shape how conservation actually works. Drawing from experiences in different countries, this session will explore what we can learn when research meets practice—and how…

My talk on "Translation and Language Justice in and Beyond Europe” will focus on “language justice,” (a term that does not as-yet refer to a clear field or critical problematic), as a rubric for a vision of language politics straddling law, official global language policy, and language rights under conditions…