Past Events
Southeast Asia Program
3:45 pm
Snee Hall, 2146
Land of no return: The role of non-knowledge in Indonesia’s peatlands
Millions of hectares of Indonesia’s peatlands have been drained and developed for agriculture and other uses over the past several decades, leading to extensive carbon dioxide emissions via fire and oxidation, and acute regional Southeast…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
7:00 pm
Virtual
Join us for an online discussion on Cornell University's Gerow D. Brill Collection and Michigan University's Dean C. Worcester Photographic Collection, hosted by the Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia (CORMOSEA), the Southeast Asia Program (SEAP), and the Southeast Asia Digital Library (…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
8:00 pm
Virtual
Miles Kenney-Lazar
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, National Unviersity of Singapore
On February 1st, 2021, the armed forces of Myanmar (Burma) carried out a coup d’état, toppling the democratically elected government formed by the National League for Democracy (NLD). Since that fateful…
Mario 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
8:00 am
Virtual
How will we meet the most pressing demands of our time?
Join us for a two-day symposium that brings together the Cornell community and international partners to discuss the most urgent challenges around the world and how we can work together to address them.
Building on the first Global Grand…
Southeast Asia Program
12:25 pm
Warren Hall, 151
Perspectives in Global Development: Fall 2022 Seminar Series Speaker: Hubert H. Humphrey Panel Agricultural sustainability and climate change are inextricably intertwined. Agriculture is highly vulnerable to adverse effects from climate change including higher incidence of extreme weather events, invasive weeds and…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
4:30 pm
Physical Sciences Building, 120
Brenda Yeoh (National University of Singapore) gives the 12th Frank H. Golay Memorial Lecture.
The prevailing neoliberal labour migration regime in Asia is underpinned by principles of enforced transience: the overwhelming majority of migrants—particularly those seeking low skilled, low-waged work—are…
Mario 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
Virtual
The Einaudi Center's Research Travel Grants for Graduate Students provide international travel support for Cornell graduate students conducting short-term research or fieldwork outside the United States.
If you’re traveling between the United States and a host country for activities directly related to…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
South Asia Program
2:00 pm
Virtual
Historical thinking is one of the most critical skills a college student can acquire. Teaching globally is a vital approach to understanding our contemporary world.
How do we combine the resources available to us from archives, libraries, and online collections to inform our understanding of the past and…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:30 pm
Kahin Center
Sunisa Manning
Writer
Sunisa Manning’s work challenges us to consider how fiction can translate movements across borders while remaining loyal to their origin stories. Her recent novel A Good True Thai describes the Thai 1970s student radicalization and revolution. This reading and talk will extend…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
South Asia Program
Institute for European Studies
12:00 am
Virtual
The Lingua Mater competition invites students to translate Cornell's Alma Mater into a different language and submit a video of the performed translation. The inaugural Lingua Mater student competition took place in 2018 as part of Cornell's Global Grand Challenges Symposium. The top three videos received…
Mario 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…
Mario 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…
Mario 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…
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…
Mario 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…
Mario 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,…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:30 pm
Kahin Center
Hitomi Fujimura
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at York Centre for Asian Research, York University in Toronto
In this talk, Hitomi will lecture on how the Karen Baptists who later established the KNA nurtured the idea of claiming national identity through multi-layered settings. The analysis entails a…
Mario 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
Virtual
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides full funding for graduate and professional students conducting research or teaching in any field in more than 150 countries. (Open to U.S. citizens only.)
The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program supports doctoral students conducting…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
Southeast Asia Program
4:30 pm
Morrill Hall, Room 404
Talk by Dr. Natali Pearson
In 1998, the Belitung, a ninth-century western Indian Ocean–style vessel, was discovered in Indonesian waters. Onboard was a full cargo load, likely intended for the Middle Eastern market, of over 60,000 Chinese Tang dynasty (619–907) ceramics, gold, and other precious objects. It…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
3:00 pm
Warren Hall, B73
Victoria Reyes
Associate Professor, Gender & Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside
Many enter the academy with dreams of doing good; this is a book about how the institution fails them, especially if they are considered "outsiders."
Tenure-track, published author…
Mario 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
Virtual
Develop your dissertation on global issues with a toolkit of resources!
The Einaudi Dissertation Proposal Development Program (DPD) supports 12 PhD students annually. Applicants’ research projects must focus on global issues, but the proposed research setting may be international or domestic.
Over the…
Mario 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
Virtual
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports college graduates conducting research or teaching in any field in more than 150 countries. Join this Einaudi Center Student Info Session to find out if Fulbright is right for you!
Applications are due in the fall. Students who wish to begin the program immediately…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
10:30 am
Virtual
Contributing authors of Children and Youths’ Migration in a Global Landscape (Emerald, 2022) are joining the Migrations initiative to speak about their work and writing.
The edited volume asks how transnational mobility shapes the lives of young people and in each chapter, scholars present the stories of…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:30 pm
Kahin Center
Meredith Talusan
Sarah Lawrence College and Condé Nast author and editor
Trans and Filipinx identities have the common quality of existing in liminal and contested spaces as they encompass wildly divergent understandings of gender, sexuality, nationality, race, and origin. Talusan explores the…
Mario 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
5:00 pm
Virtual
Are you interested in a possible career in public service, and maybe specifically with the U.S. Department of State? Ever wondered what it's like to work in various capacities at State -- ranging from a Foreign Service Officer to policy analyst and intelligence officer -- or how to go about preparing yourself…
Mario 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
11:30 am
Uris Hall, G08
Volunteer with the Foreign Language Introduction Program! FLIP has introduced thousands of children in Upstate New York to world languages and cultures. Volunteers from Cornell and surrounding communities who speak foreign languages provide fun ways for K–12 students to learn about and engage with our increasingly…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
12:30 pm
Kahin Center
Nicholas Kuipers
Assistant Professor of Political Science & Presidential Young Professor, National University of Singapore
Many countries select civil servants via examinations. In this talk, I argue that the outcomes of these tests prompt attitudinal shifts on the part of winners and losers—…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
3:00 pm
Virtual
Please join us for this online panel & discussion that centers queer & feminist methods for approaching Philippine martial law history: the wayward informality and queer urbanism of Manila during a time of martial law (Lopez), the revolutionary intimacies of the anti-Marcos movement in the U.S (Hanna), and…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
8:00 pm
Virtual
Global Cornell is offering competitive faculty grants in collaboration with Global Hubs partners.
Apply for funding to explore potential research collaborations with colleagues at Hubs universities.
These Joint Research and Seed Grants have been established to bring faculty from partner institutions…
Mario 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
Is the Einaudi Center's international relations minor for you? Join this Einaudi Center Student Info Session to find out.
In the international relations minor, you study the politics, economics, history, languages, and cultures of the world and gain a fresh perspective on your major field of study.…