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Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

12:15 pm

Kahin Center

Tinakrit Sireerat is a Ph.D. Candidate in the field of Asian Literature, Religion and Culture. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in history from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, he joined the Ph.D. program at Cornell University to pursue his interests in the environmental history of Japan and Thailand during…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

Southeast Asia Program

Institute for European Studies

5:00 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Cities are changing sites of revolution and rebellion, contestations over forms of power and social relations. As historical and contemporary instances, revolutions present alternative views of world-making and contestations over the organization of society and relations of power. To better understand this…

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. Applications are due in the fall; students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are encouraged to start the process in their junior year.

United States…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

South Asia Program

9:00 am

220 Eggers Hall, Syracuse University

The Cornell-Syracuse South Asia Consortium presents a symposium interrogating the histories and trajectories of anti-Asian violences.

The recent surge of racially motivated attacks on Asians in the United States brought renewed attention to the issue of anti-Asian violence. It is necessary to situate this…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

Southeast Asia Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Institute for African Development

South Asia Program

11:25 am

Virtual

This is the second day of a two-day virtual workshop on peacebuilding, climate change, and migration. The first day of the workshop is March 22, 2022; participants are welcome to attend for just one or both days.

On this second day, we will examine understudied regions which are at substantial risk of…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

Southeast Asia Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Institute for African Development

South Asia Program

11:25 am

Virtual

This is the first day of a two-day virtual workshop which takes a novel approach to peacebuilding, climate change and migration. The first day of the workshop is March 22, 2022; participants are welcome to attend for just one or both days.

On this first day we will explore the following questions: What do we…

Southeast Asia Program

East Asia Program

4:00 pm

Virtual

The Wa people, who live between Burma and China, undercut many stereotypes about primitive mountain-folks. They are often labelled headhunters, but Magnus Fiskesjö’s new book, Stories from an Ancient Land: Perspectives on Wa History and Culture (Berghahn Books, 2021), confirms that taking head trophies is actually…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

4:45 pm

Rockefeller Hall 122, 122

HYBRID event: CCCI welcomes Lawrence Chua, of Syracuse University, to speak on "Provincializing China: Race and Architecture in Colonial-era Penang."

This presentation examines the role of architecture in racialization in 19th and 20th-century Penang. It uses three case studies: the Khoo Kongsi (…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

4:30 pm

Kahin Center

How do we construct, deconstruct, and maintain Southeast Asia? Who is doing this labor and why? The sinews by which we entangle Southeast Asia take many forms: from the epic to the quotidian and every shade in between and beyond; as connective strands; as resonating sounds; as adjoining bridges; as shared images;…

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 migration studies minor is a university-wide, interdisciplinary undergraduate minor that prepares students to understand the historical and contemporary contexts and factors that drive international migration and shape migrant experiences around the globe. This minor draws on the rich course offerings found…

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

Is the Einaudi Center's International Relations minor for you? Here's a chance to find out. Graduates go on to successful careers in fields like international law, economics, agriculture, trade, finance, journalism, education, and government service.

Contact:…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

4:45 pm

Virtual

Polson Institute for Global Development Seminar
A conversation with Ching Kwan Lee, UCLA

Professor Ching Kwan Lee explores the making of 'Global China' as an economic, cultural, and political phenomenon in this conversation with Jenny Goldstein (assistant professor of global development at…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

12:15 pm

Kahin Center

Kimberly Kay Hoang is an Associate Professor of Sociology and the College and the Director of Global Studies at the University of Chicago. She is an award winning scholar, author, and teacher- her work having received over 18 prizes from several different professional associations. Additionally, she has received…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

12:15 pm

Kahin Center

Kathleen "Kat" Cruz Gutierrez is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she teaches courses on modern Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and the history of science and the environment. She completed her Ph.D. in Southeast Asian Studies with a Designated Emphasis in…

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 research…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

7:30 pm

Virtual

The Cornell Contemporary China Initiative is pleased to start its spring '22 lecture series with Denise Tang of the Lingnan University of HK. Her talk is titled,

'Everyday Erotics: Older Chinese Lesbians and Bisexual Women'

This talk presents the life stories of older Chinese lesbians…

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. Applications are due in the fall; students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are encouraged to start the process in their junior year.

United States…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

Southeast Asia Program

12:15 pm

102 Mann Library

This talk is co-organized by the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.

May Sabe Phyu is a women human rights defender leading civil society efforts to end discrimination against women and ethnic and religious minorities for more than 20 years in the development and humanitarian sector. She raises…

Southeast Asia Program

12:25 pm

Emerson Hall, 135

Perspectives in Global Development Seminar Speaker: Wiwik Dharmiasi, Dala Institute and University of Hawaii Location: Emerson 135 and Zoom The traditional farming system in Bali, known as subak, was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2012. The subak represents water sharing practices in rice cultivation…

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

9:30 am

Virtual

The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has strained the world's healthcare systems and compounded challenges for governments and NGOs dealing with global waves of forced and voluntary migration. These movements of peoples across borders have magnified pressing issues ranging from social and economic inequalities…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

12:15 pm

Kahin Center

Since 2005, Jonathan Padwe has studied the changing landscape of highland Cambodia as it is perceived by, and managed by, the Jarai people of the border region where Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam meet. His 2020 book Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories: Jarai and Other Lives in the Cambodian Highlands charts the…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

South Asia Program

4:45 pm

Virtual

Want to learn a language this summer? Learn about Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships and Critical Language Scholarships, which provide fully funded opportunities for Cornell undergraduate and graduate students to study South and Southeast Asian languages in the summer, and even in the academic year.

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

South Asia Program

2:00 pm

Virtual

Please join us for a talk by Alexander Soucy (St. Mary's University).

In 2006, a monk and member of the Order of Interbeing wrote an open letter to the disciples of Thích Nhất Hạnh, in which he described his (and hence their) Zen lineage. One of the claims the letter made was that Thích Nhất Hạnh "…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

8:00 pm

Virtual

*Note: This Gatty Lecture will be entirely virtual, with no hybrid presence at the Kahin Center as usual. It will be held at 8pm instead of the usual 12:15pm.

Harriman Samuel Saragih is an Assistant Professor in Business Innovation, Monash University Indonesia. He currently teaches the course of Theory and…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

7:15 am

Kahin Center

**Due to unforeseen circumstances, Arnika Fuhrmann will no longer be presenting. The speaker and title of this Gatty Lecture have changed.**

Magnus Fiskesjö's research concerns ethnic relations and political anthropology in China and Southeast Asia. His research and teaching interests include historical…

Southeast Asia Program

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

10:00 am

Johnson Museum of Art

The Museum will be closed beginning Tuesday, December 14. Visit museum.cornell.edu/faq for information.

“(Re)collecting” signifies the active process of remembering and draws attention to the power of collections to elicit memories and histories and to act as participants in social and political change. This…

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

4:00 pm

Uris Hall, G-08

The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, in partnership with the Society for the Humanities, presents this symposium featuring five cutting-edge researchers whose work crosses disciplinary lines to tackle some of the world’s most pressing problems.

Join postdoctoral fellows Mohamed Abdou, Eman…

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

South Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

11:00 am

Virtual

The Institute for Comparative Modernities' first Global South Translation Symposium, featuring presentations by our inaugural cohort of translators (see below), remarks by translation theorist Naoki Sakai and commentary by Brett DeBary and Jan Steyn. Registation is required for this online event.…

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

South Asia Program

12:00 pm

Virtual

Please join us for a talk by James Robson 羅柏松 (James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University).

It has become increasingly well-known that religious statues throughout Asia have hidden cavities that are filled with various objects inserted during a…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

12:15 pm

Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture Series.

Hanisah Sani, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore

Hanisah Abdullah Sani is a comparative-historical sociologist of empire and state-formation, modernization, and development. Her research lies in the intersection of…