Join SEAP and GETSEA for a simulcast film screening of Vietnamerica.

We will watch the film on the Cornell campus, then join an online discussion with audiences at universities across the US for a Q&A with the filmmakers.

Following the wars in Vietnam, over two million people fled to country…

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…

The East Asia Program (EAP) offers several funding opportunities to support student research and study related to East Asia.

Applications open Friday, November 14, 2025.

In person or join virtually: https://cornell.…

The tender longing for the stars, an impulse familiar to many, has unfolded alongside another trajectory in modernity: from Captain Cook’s pursuit of Venus to NASA’s Space-Age invocation of Christopher Columbus, tracing a historical course intertwined with imperial expansion. The cultural imagination of space…

Panelists:

Samira Rafaela, Former Member of European Parliament, Visiting Scholar, Cornell Law School

Chiara Cristofolini, Associate Professor of Labor Law, University of Trento, Visiting Scholar, Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations

Sarosh Kuruvilla, Andrew J. Nathanson Family…

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. The program is open to graduate students, recent graduates, and young professionals. Undergraduate students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are…

Talk by Sara Kazmi (English, University of Pennsylvania)

This talk will focus on left, feminist, and anticaste literatures produced by radical intellectuals from Punjab, a border region split between India and Pakistan. I show how Punjabi writers deployed regional oral poetic and performative forms to…

Title: Indebted Sisterhood: Sex Work and Social Reproduction Across Kenya, Vietnam, and China

Abstract: The heightened China’s presence in Kenya has provoked rampant rumors around Chinese women working in local brothels or Vietnamese women being trafficked to Chinese sham entertainment business. While the…

European History Colloquium

Jan Burzlaff, Cornell University, Jewish Studies

Relational Europeanism: Writing European Histories of WW2 and the Holocaust

November 14, 12:20 pm

Sibley Hall 115

For a copy of the paper, email cf476@cornell.edu…

"Current Challenges in Urban Language Revitalization"
Daniel Kaufman
Associate Professor of Linguistics, Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center

In this talk, I discuss the efforts of the Endangered Language Alliance in New York City to document and support several languages of…

Fall 2025

ICM New Conversations

The Institute for Comparative Modernities is pleased to host Prof. Shaoling Ma (Department of Asian Studies; Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University) for a new conversation about her current research, "Integrated Rural Circuits: A Scalar History of…

Go global in summer 2026! Global Internships give you valuable international work experience in fields spanning global development, climate and sustainability, international relations, communication, business, governance, and more.

Applications are open now.

Can’t attend? Contact…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Marlie Lukach, PhD student in Plant Breeding and Genetics, who will discuss lagenaria siceraria, the bottle gourd.

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

Nuclear issues are forever. Whether dealing with the Cold War nuclear arms race, or the legacy of nuclear testing in the Pacific, nuclear challenges persist for decades. This presentation looks at two case studies in nuclear history. First, exploring the intense nuclear cooperation between the U.S. and Russia that…

The Dorothea S. Clarke Program in Feminist Jurisprudence Presents: Women and Democratic Change in Myanmar

About the Talk

Women in Myanmar are driving social justice, criminal justice, and political parity, especially since the 2021 military coup. Social norms and cultural barriers hinder women'…

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…

Join Einaudi Center experts for World in Focus Talks on global events in the news and on your mind. Our faculty's research and policy insights put the world in focus.

This year we’re hosting informal campus discussions on many Tuesday afternoons. This week’s topic:

The Gaza–Israel conflict…

Screen time:

November 10, 7:30pm in 115 Ives Hall.

Followed by a Q&A with the Associate Producer, Jewher Ilham

Story:

Jewher, a Uyghur teen from China with little English, lands in the U.S. after she is violently separated from her father at the Beijing airport as he is detained.…

Septian Hario Seto (Executive Secretary of National Economic Council, Republic of Indonesia) will be joined on November 10, by moderator Jenny Goldstein (Global Development) and faculty respondents Vibha Kalra (Chemical + Biomolecular Engineering), James Rogers (Brooks School/Tech Policy Institute), and Esteban…

Peasant History and the Accumulation of Difference in Colonial Panjab

Talk by Navyug Gill, History, William Paterson University

One of the most durable figures in modern history, the peasant has long been a site of intense intellectual and political debate. Yet underlying much of this literature is…

Speaker: Jingyu Liu, Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Rollins College
Description: The Shuilu fahui (水陸法會), or Water-Land Dharma Assembly, stands as one of the most elaborate and enduring Buddhist salvation rituals to emerge from medieval China. Designed to liberate suffering beings across all…

Power and Posession in the Russian Revolution

Anne O'Donnell, New York University

November 7th at 12:20 PM

Sibley Hall 115

This talk invites us to think about what it would mean if we considered Palestine from an a priori space of de-territorialization. Taking the examples of mapping and speculative infrastructures, it proposes to start from the Palestinian condition of fragmentation, distance, and disconnection, and move outward…

The Latina/o Studies Program Fridays with Faculty luncheon seminar offers an opportunity for Latina/o and non-Latina/o students of all levels and disciplines to meet faculty and administrators from across the university for informal conversation about their current research/work in progress. All welcome!

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For the summer 2026 Leadership in Action experience, students will be placed with the Pachaysana Foundation exploring what it means to be an intercultural leader in today’s complex, fractured world. Please attend this Q+A webinar with Pachaysana Foundation to learn more about their work and how the Laidlaw Scholars…

Join us for a talk by Ashley Thompson, Hiram W Woodward Chair of Southeast Asian Art at SOAS University of London.

This lecture will take place at The Physical Sciences Building 120 with light reception to follow in Baker Portico. For questions, contact seap@cornell.edu…

This lecture discusses the concept of peace agreements as platforms for constructive social change, which requires authentic engagement and institutional transformations. It posits that signing peace accords is an important yet, alone and by itself, an insufficient step towards peacebuilding. Rather, the challenge…

This Event is CANCELED due to family emrgency

Resisting Authoritarianism: The Political Journey and Mysterious Deaths of Two Young Americans in Pinochet’s Chile.

Allende’s revolution promised real democracy and real social change. It inspired idealistic young people from all over to travel to Chile…

Join us for an interactive discussion on the importance of social mobility and class - along with its interactions with gender, religion, ethnicity, and migrant status - in understanding inequality across a number of contemporary African urban environments. The event will begin with brief presentations by Ryan…