Past Events
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
8:00 pm
Kahin Center
Tania Li and Pujo Semedi
Tania Li: Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto
Pujo Semedi: Associate Professor of Anthropology, Gadjah Mada University
Plantation Life examines the structure and governance of Indonesia’s contemporary oil palm plantations, which supplies 50% of the world’s…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
6:00 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, G22
A LACS Public Issues Forum in collaboration with the African Diaspora Knowledge Exchange Project
Two cases have become emblematic for understanding the intensification of racism and sexism in Brazilian society during the pandemic that killed more than 650,000 Brazilians and since the election of Jair…
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
4:45 pm
White Hall, 106
Levinson China & Asia‐Pacific Studies Program Guest Seminar
China and the United States are heading toward a cold war. How should we explain this development? What is likely to happen in the foreseeable future? What needs to be done to avoid a disastrous confrontation? The talk will try to address these…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
4:45 pm
Morrill Hall, Room 404
Talk by Niloofar Haeri
More than four decades after the revolution of 1979, how do we assess the religiosity of Muslim Iranians now? What is it to be religious? How is it that certain texts, ancient and repeatedly recited, continue to have such sway over the emotional and cultural histories of individuals…
Institute for European Studies
4:30 pm
McGraw Hall, 215
Xenia Cherkaev will speak about her forthcoming book Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice (Cornell UP 2023). The book tells a radically new story of how the Soviet system functioned and why it failed. Mediating between today’s popular narratives of “Soviet times” and the…
Institute for European Studies
Einaudi Center for International Studies
4:30 pm
Anabel Taylor Hall, 203, Auditorium
On November 3 scholar and singer-songwriter Psoy Korolenko will present a lecture-concert that combines discussion of Jewish musical tradition in cross-cultural context of the 19-21st centuries and artistic performance.
Pavel Lion, PhD in Philology, MSU, more known by his art name Psoy Korolenko, is a…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
2:40 pm
Uris Hall, G-08
The Issues in African Development Seminar Series examines critical concerns in contemporary Africa using a different theme each semester. The seminars provide a forum for participants to explore alternative perspectives and exchange ideas. They are also a focal activity for students and faculty interested in…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
11:25 am
Virtual
War in space is not inevitable. Outer space is not ‘wild west.’ There are fundamental rules of international law that govern all space activities, including military space activities. Outer space must be used for the benefit and interest of all states and for peaceful purposes. Outer space must be explored and used…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
8:30 am
Cornell Tech
Registration Link: https://cglink.me/2cm/r1635976
The Cornell S.C. Johnson College of Business Emerging Markets Theme brings together scholars from Cornell and beyond to provide thought leadership on the role of emerging markets – and emerging market…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
8:00 pm
Barnes Hall
Tacet(i) performs “Global Sound,” a music curation of diverse composers: Daniel Sabzghabaei (Iran/US), Thanakarn Schofield (Thailand), Jia Yi Lee (Singapore), Miles Jefferson Friday (US), Travis Christopher Johns (US), Laura Cetilia (US), and John Eagle (US). Featuring Ariana Kim on violin.
Part of Extended…
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
4:45 pm
Uris Hall, G-08
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…
Institute for European Studies
12:25 pm
Warren Hall, 151
Perspectives in Global Development: Fall 2022 Seminar Series Speaker: Larisa Kasumagić-Kafedžić This lecture will explore the role of higher education in responding to conflict by opening up the questions of the responsibility of higher education institutions to educate the students, citizens, professionals and…
Institute for European Studies
12:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Open to the Cornell community.
In 1997, Azerbaijan launched a state program of cultural erasure that resulted in the destruction of nearly every vestige of the medieval and early modern Armenian past in the exclave of Nakhchivan. In a year-long forensic investigation, Caucasus Heritage Watch (CHW), a…
Institute for European Studies
5:00 pm
Literatures in English Lounge, 250 Goldwin Smith Hall
Shop Talk: How to be interesting: nine keys for reader's attention
by Dmitry Bykov
Bio: I was born 12.20.1967, graduated Moscow University, spent two years in the Soviet Army, worked in most of post-soviet newspapers, published about 80 books, including 12 novels and 20 volumes of poetry. I was…
South Asia Program
4:45 pm
A.D. White House, Guerlac Room
ICM FALL 2022 NEW BOOKS SERIES
This talk by Professor Travers will focus on his just published book, Empire of Complaints: Indian Petitioning and the Making of the British Empire in India (Cambridge UP, 2022) which reinterprets the transition from Mughal to British rule in eighteenth-century India, showing…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
7:30 pm
Willard Straight Theatre
1998 > Japan > Directed by Hideo Nakata
With Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Yžko Takeuchi
A reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it. A special Halloween screening with costume contest, treats, and more!…
Southeast Asia Program
3:30 pm
401 Physical Sciences
In the early decades of the twentieth century, the Smithsonian Institution, in collaboration with the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and various federal agencies, sought to oversee the preparation of a Philippine flora; that is, a taxonomical catalogue of the islands’ botanical riches. Boosters originally…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
1:00 pm
Uris Hall, Go8
This interactive talk will serve as an introduction to the activist forms that make up the arsenal of the Theatre of the Oppressed (TO): a collection of games, techniques, and exercises using theatre as a vehicle for personal, political, and social change. Originally developed in Brazil by theatre innovator Augusto…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
11:00 am
Virtual
Talk by Harshana Rambukwella
This talk explores what solidarity might mean in the current geo-political context through the specific example of postcolonial Sri Lanka, which is experiencing an existential threat unprecedented in the country's contemporary history. Mired in a deep and intractable…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
4:00 pm
Willard Straight Theatre
2021 > India > Directed by S.S. Rajmouli
With N.T. Rama Rao Jr (Jr NTR), Ram Charan, Ajay Devgn
An action-packed spectacular that mythologizes two real-life freedom fighters who helped lead India's fight for independence from the British Raj: Komaram Bheem (Jr NTR) and Alluri Sitarama Raju (…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
South Asia Program
12:00 am
Virtual
The Lingua Mater competition invites alumni to translate Cornell's Alma Mater into a different language and submit a video of the performed translation. The inaugural Lingua Mater alumni competition took place in 2018 as part of Cornell's Global Grand Challenges Symposium. Winners included the Cornell…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
8:30 am
ILR Conference Center
Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) in collaboration with the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs, the Gender and the Security Sector Lab, Department of Government, and the Brooks School of Public Policy will be hosting a two-day meeting at Cornell…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
7:00 pm
Willard Straight Theatre
2020 > France > Directed by David Dufresne
As anger and resentment grow in the face of social inequalities, many citizen-led protests are being repressed with an ever-increasing violence. In The Monopoly of Violence, David Dufresne gathers a panel of citizens to question, exchange and confront their…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:30 pm
Virtual
"Antiracist Critical Literacy: Methodologies of the Oppressed for Language Education"
Claudia Holguín Mendoza
Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics, University of California, Riverside
In this presentation, Dr. Holguín Mendoza describes the design and implementation of a…
East Asia Program
3:30 pm
Rockefeller Hall, Asian Studies Lounge third floor
The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloqium (CCCC) 古文品讀 is pleased to have Jeffrey Moser (History of Art and Architecture, Brown University) to lead this text reading titled, "The Record of the Relocation of the Stone Classics to the Prefectural School of Jingzhao Prefecture." Composed by Lü Dazhong in 1090,…
East Asia Program
12:00 pm
Virtual
Please join the Society for Buddhist Studies for a talk by Juhn Ahn (University of Michigan).
In Goryeo and Joseon Korea, the restoration of Buddhist monasteries became the subject of heated debate. Although the Buddhist establishment in Korea had continued to restore monasteries at regular intervals for…
Institute for European Studies
12:00 pm
Uris Hall, Terrace
The European Studies Minor invites you to Pizza on the Patio, on Friday October 28 from 12:00 to 2:00 PM on the Uris Hall Terrace.
Bring any questions you have about the European Studies minor, upcoming courses, and summer opportunities. Be ready to try your hand at European trivia!
This event is…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
9:00 am
G-08 Uris Hall
Hybrid mode / in-person at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (USA)
Register:
The conference will focus on the digital era as an entrepreneurial transformative prototype in Africa. Other aspects of the conference will focus on the channels utilized by Africans while navigating digital instruments,…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
2:40 pm
Uris Hall, G-08
The Issues in African Development Seminar Series examines critical concerns in contemporary Africa using a different theme each semester. The seminars provide a forum for participants to explore alternative perspectives and exchange ideas. They are also a focal activity for students and faculty interested in…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:30 pm
Kahin Center
Eddy Malesky
Professor of Political Economy, Duke University
Are the poor ambivalent about globalization? Do they fail to understand the new economic opportunities and constraints associated with greater market integration? Despite the effects of trade liberalization on job opportunities and losses,…