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Institute for African Development

12:15 pm

Cornell Law School, MTH 186

Please join us on Thursday, 8/31/2023, from 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. in MTH 186 for a lunchtime seminar given by our guest, Associate Professor of English Jeanne-Marie Jackson of Johns Hopkins University, and moderated by Professor Elizabeth Anker.

Food will be provided during the event, so don’t forget to…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

Institute for European Studies

12:00 pm

Biotechnology Building, G10

Assessing Paths to Peace

On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded the sovereign nation of Ukraine. The ensuing war has yielded many surprises, including Russia’s botched invasion, division and instability in Russian military leadership, and strength of the Ukrainian defense. Nonetheless, many questions remain…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Institute for African Development

2:30 pm

Uris Hall, G-08

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The seminar series theme for fall 2023 ( Envisioning Land, Agriculture, and Food Futures in Africa) explores the future of African land, agriculture and food, digging into the contestations, conflicting and converging visions from a wide range of perspectives. How might land be used, valued and…

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

11:00 am

Uris Hall, Uris Hall Terrace

The annual International Fair showcases Cornell's global opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. Explore the fair and find out about international majors and minors, language study, study abroad, funding opportunities, global internships, Cornell Global Hubs, and more.

The International…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

3:30 pm

Stimson Hall, G25

"Language Revitalization, Cultural Reclamation, and Global Indigeneity"
Américo Mendoza-Mori
Lecturer and Faculty Director for the Latinx Studies Working Group, Harvard University

In recent decades, revitalization and reclamation programs for Indigenous languages have emerged at…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

9:00 am

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. 

Global Hubs collaborative research seed grants bring together Cornell and partner institution…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

8:00 am

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.

Global Hubs collaborative research seed grants bring together Cornell and partner institution faculty…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

4:30 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Find out more about this study abroad opportunity in Ecuador. Politics of Sustainable Development in Latin America is a multi-term, four-credit course that will bring students onsite in Ecuador during the January term. Students will travel to Quito, Ecuador to begin their field study at Cornell's Global Hub…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

South Asia Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

12:15 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Talk by Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard (English Language and Literature, University of Chicago)

“Is the ‘Coolie Woman’ A Banker?” revisits the figure of the “coolie woman” during Indian indenture in the British West Indies. Histories of indentured Indian women have focused on the experience of recruitment, labor…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

12:20 pm

Rockefeller Hall, 374

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Tom Pepinsky, (Walter F. LaFeber Professor of Government and Public Policy and Director, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University), who will discuss the decolonial turn in Southeast Asian studies.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at the Rockefeller Hall…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

1:00 pm

Virtual

Filmmaker Rea Tajiri (Temple University) and comparative ethnic studies scholar Vince Schleitwiler (University of Washington) consider the challenges of critical storytelling and speculative history.

The discussion examines their individual and collective work in documentary film, public art, and hybrid…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

1:00 pm

Virtual

As part of the Migrations Summer Institute, Crystal Baik (UC Riverside) and Ma Vang (UC Merced) will discuss their work on militarized migration through the lens of collaborative and public scholarship. The conversation will explore

the role of imagination, play, and experimentation play in one’s research,…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

1:00 pm

Virtual

As part of the Migrations Summer Institute, join us for a conversation with Moon-Ho Jung (Professor and Harry Bridges Endowed Chair in Labor Studies, Department of History, University of Washington) about his most recent book, Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the U.S.…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Institute for African Development

Institute for European Studies

South Asia Program

9:00 am

A.D. White House

Registration for this event is now closed. You can ask to be put on the waitlist be emailing SBP84@Cornell.edu

The 2023 International Studies Summer Institute (ISSI) will explore testimonies of migration. The ISSI is a professional development workshop for practicing…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

9:30 am

Virtual

Asad L. Asad, assistant professor of sociology at Stanford University, will give the keynote address at this year's Migrations Summer Pathways Program.

Asad will present on his current research that considers how institutional categories—in particular, legal status—matter for multiple forms of…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Comparative Muslim Societies Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

South Asia Program

9:00 am

Goldwin Smith Hall, G64

The often-fraught pathways of human migration come alive through art. From storytelling to innovative sculpture, theater, cartoons, and painting, students, faculty, and artists supported by the Migrations Global Grand Challenge will tell their stories and showcase their art.

Anindita Banerjee, associate…

East Asia Program

10:00 am

Physical Sciences Building, 401

A symposium honoring the work and legacies of Brett de Bary and Naoki Sakai.

10:00-12:00 Panel 2: “Above Critical/ism” – Christine Marran (online), Hirotaka Kasai (online), Junyoung Kim, Takayuki Tatsumi, Andre Keiji Kunigami, Rich Calichman

13:30-15:00 Panel 3: “In Theory” – Maja Vodopivec, Joseph…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

2:00 pm

Virtual

Registration Link: https://cglink.me/2cm/r1928367

Join the Emerging Markets Institute to celebrate EMI fellows '23 graduation.

During their programs, the fellows contributed to the development of EMI's activities, such as the EMI Conference and…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

12:30 pm

Sage Hall, 134

Registration Link: https://cglink.me/2cm/r2042287

The Cornell S.C. Johnson College of Business Emerging Markets Theme, in collaboration with China Institute for Economic Research (CICER), the Cornell China Center, and the Emerging Markets Institute, brings…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

12:30 pm

Sage Hall, 134

Registration Link: https://cglink.me/2cm/r2042286

The Cornell S.C. Johnson College of Business Emerging Markets Theme, in collaboration with China Institute for Economic Research (CICER), the Cornell China Center, and the Emerging Markets Institute, brings…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

11:00 am

Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Film Forum

How might we learn to redream dangerously again?

Join us for a two-day symposium that brings together scholars, creative writers, and activists to discuss and envisage how the theories, practices, and visions of the roles of love, identity, and land are complexly intertwined with (trans)national structured…

East Asia Program

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

South Asia Program

10:30 am

Savage Hall, 200

The keynote of the day:

"Biophilia Now: Time for Imagining Alternatives to Techno- and Bio-Orientalism" by Rachel Lee, Professor of English, Gender Studies, and the Institute of Society and Genetics, UCLA.

Are you attending in person? If so, you must rsvp here. Space is limited.

We…

East Asia Program

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

7:00 pm

Savage Hall, 200

May 10: Plenary from 7:00-9:00 p.m. Savage Hall Rm. 200 Hybrid

May 11: Roundtable from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Savage Hall Rm. 200 Hybrid

Are you attending in person? If so, you must rsvp here by Tuesday, May 9 end of the business day. Space is limited.

We encourage in-person participation.…

Southeast Asia Program

5:00 pm

Stimson Hall, G25

Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…

Southeast Asia Program

1:30 pm

Stimson Hall, G25

Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

12:30 pm

Sage Hall, 134

Registration Link: https://cglink.me/2cm/r2042285

The Cornell S.C. Johnson College of Business Emerging Markets Theme, in collaboration with China Institute for Economic Research (CICER), the Cornell China Center, and the Emerging Markets Institute, brings…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

12:25 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Dr. Dolors Armenteras will present her analysis of the patterns and impacts of forest degradation in the Colombian Amazon for more than 20 years. Her presentation will share insights and updates from the remote sensing of forest dynamics and land use patterns following the 2016 peace process in Colombia.

East Asia Program

8:00 pm

Goldwin Smith Hall, HEC auditorium

The Korean Language Program is proud to present its 14th annual Korean showcase. The representatives from each Korean class will present their respective final projects of the semester. For the general audience, their presentation will be in English, but through their various demonstrations, you will be able to get…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

4:45 pm

Goldwin Smith Hall, GSH64 Kaufman Auditorium

The final CCCI talk of the semester titled, "The Fabric of Care: Women’s Work and the Politics of Livelihood in Socialist China" will be given by Yige Dong (Sociology, University at Buffalo). She is an assistant professor in both the Department of Sociology and the Department of Global Gender and…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

4:30 pm

Uris Hall, G-08

A Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program Public Issues Forum Panel.

About the Panelists and the Moderator:

Beth Geglia is a public anthropologist focused on processes of privatization in urban and rural settings, tech capitalism, and social movements. Her research examines the development of…