Past Events
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
FLAS fellowships at Cornell support undergraduate, graduate, and professional students studying modern South Asian and Southeast Asian languages and related area studies. Funding is offered in collaboration with the Einaudi Center’s South Asia and Southeast Asia Programs.
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
1:30 pm
Virtual
Cornell East Asia Series (CEAS) book talk welcomes author Roger Thomas to discuss his book, "Counting Dreams" (October 2021)
Counting Dreams tells the story of Nomura Bōtō, a Buddhist nun, writer, poet, and activist who joined the movement to oppose the Tokugawa Shogunate and restore imperial rule…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
4:00 pm
Virtual
How has development thinking and practice shaped our world? The answer lies in four interconnected phenomena—colonialism, the development era, the neoliberal globalization project, and sustainable development—according to Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective, 7th Edition, (Sage Publications, 2021),…
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
12:15 pm
Landis Auditorium, Myron Taylor Hall, Room 184
You are invited to join us for a lunchtime discussion on Tuesday, November 2, 2021 from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. in Room 184 – Landis Auditorium – Myron Taylor Hall with Dr. Dipali Mukhopadhyay, Associate Professor in the Global Policy Area at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs.
Dr.…
East Asia Program
4:30 pm
Virtual
Will the rise of China lead to conflict with the United States? Or is cooperation still possible in the current political order? Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus and former Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, offers a fresh perspective on the future of U.S.-…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
1:00 pm
Virtual
EAP offers substantial funding resources for multi-disciplinary student research and language learning. Come to this session to learn about them and bring your questions! Students who have received funding and grants from EAP will be present along with staff who will offer suggestions for submitting strong…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
This paper is an attempt to understand how, what counts as “violence,” and what does not, emerges in a given society. Groups in post-1990s Sri Lanka, particularly those led by monks, engage in and authorize a “new” monastic discourse in which they demand state sovereign power. These groups and their political…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
Institute for European Studies
12:00 pm
Virtual
Iraq: From the Inside Out
After the American invasion of Iraq, along with a collapse of much of the social order, many of the state norms and regulations governing architecture, heritage sites, and city planning also broke down.
This webinar will feature two Iraqi scholars working on architecture and…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
4:30 pm
Willard Straight Theatre
1991 > Hong Kong > Directed by Stanley Kwan
With Maggie Cheung, Han Chin,Tony Leung Ka-fai
Maggie Cheung (In the Mood for Love) embodies tragic screen siren Ruan Lingyu, known as the "Greta Garbo of China," in this unconventional biopic by Hong Kong New Wave master Stanley Kwan (Rouge…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
3:30 pm
Virtual
The Cornell Classcial Chinese Colloquium 古文品讀 warmly welcomes Tim Brook, of the University of British Columbia, to lead a text reading on Qiu Jun's Daxue yanyi bu.
Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium 古文品讀
The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC) 古文品讀 is a reading group for scholars…
South Asia Program
3:00 pm
Virtual
Shimmers in the Dark: On the Possibilities of Intimate Touch in Bombay’s Queer Sexpublics
Abstract:In Bombay’s cruising parks, gay parties, pride events, and virtual spaces—what I call queer sexpublics—queer sex, touch, and intimacy flourish. Though queer and trans people perpetually negotiate risk and…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
12:25 pm
Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
10:00 am
Virtual
Launched on January 1, 2021, the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement will create the largest free trade area in the world measured by the number of countries participating. The pact connects 1.3 billion people across 55 countries with a combined gross domestic product (GDP) valued at US$3.4…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
5:00 pm
G01 , Stimson Hall
Hear from four Latin American and Caribbean political cartoonists on the challenges of their craft and creativity across the region. The session will be moderated by Nicaraguan political cartoonist Pedro X. Molina, IIE Artist Protection Fund Fellow and Visiting Critic at the Einaudi Center's Latin American and…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
4:45 pm
Virtual
The Annual Hu Shih Distinguished Lecture welcomes Tim Brook, History, University of British Columbia. He will speak on Government for the People: Troubling Legacies of the Confucian Statecraft Tradition .
Americans are familiar with Lincoln’s “of the people, by the people, for the people,” while Chinese…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for African Development
2:40 pm
G-08 Uris Hall
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 African…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
1:00 pm
Clark Hall, 700
Political scientists Rebecca Hamlin and Lamis Abdelaaty are migration scholars whose work has broad implications for the study of asylum and migrant rights. In their new books, they look closely at the categories and labels that we assign to people on the move, how states respond to refugees, and how these labels…
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. ***This event is open to current Cornell NetID users only***
Kyaw Yin Hlaing, Center for Diversity and National Harmony
Dr. Kyaw Yin Hlaing is the executive director at the Center for Diversity and National Harmony. He earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
South Asia Program
11:25 am
Virtual
How do peace processes really work and how can progress be measured? Madhav Joshi explains this emerging research agenda at an upcoming seminar with the Reppy Institute.
Madhav Joshi is research professor and associate director of the Peace Accords Matrix (PAM) at the Kroc Institute for International Peace…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Institute for European Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
5:00 pm
Virtual
Students interested in Europe or international politics are invited to attend this interactive Zoom meeting with Vanessa Frazier. H.E. Frazier will be sharing a presentation about the work her work, how she built her career, insight into the operations of the UN, the impact of the work on Malta, and thoughts about…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:45 pm
Virtual
This LACS summer research grant provides funding for in-country research costs for graduate pre-dissertation work in Latin America or the Caribbean. (The grant does not cover international airfare; students should also apply for an Einaudi Center Travel Grant for airfare.) LACS will offer up to three research…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
Southeast Asia Program
3:00 pm
Virtual
Our CMS seminar today will be led by the curator of the Middle Eastern Collection in Olin Library, who will be hosting us to see precious objects in the library's collection about Islam. We have many world-class books, some of them centuries old, which show the history and evolution of Islam over a long…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
4:45 pm
Virtual
James Millward, Professor of Inter-societal History, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Decolonizing Chinese Historiography—with special attention to Xinjiang
This talk focuses on the use of history, and, more broadly, examines how common concepts and vocabulary used by nearly all…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
1:00 pm
G-01 Stimpson Hall
This chapter illustrates how after the Mexican Revolution in the 1920s, the Yucatan Peninsula became a prolific region for experimentation and development of modern apiculture in the tropics. To illustrate this aspect, I reconstruct the work of the first bee-experts that promoted the systematic relocation of the…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
11:00 am
Virtual
South Asia is experiencing rising authoritarianism. The targets of right-wing movements are progressive forces who are increasingly viewed as outsiders threatening the imagined purity of the nation. The label of “foreign agent” is now widely invoked against political opponents who are accused of sedition. The…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
7:00 pm
Willard Straight Theatre
Ithaca Premiere
2020 > South Korea/USA > Directed by Sang-soo Hong
With Kim Min-hee, Song Seon-mi
The Woman Who Ran features three lowkey and lo-fi vignettes of Gamhee (Kim Min-hee) as she visits friends while her husband is on a business trip. The conversations are naturalistic and…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
4:30 pm
Willard Straight Theatre
1979 > Japan > Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
With voices of Yasuo Yamada, Eiko Masuyama
Beloved Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki's feature debut has been gloriously restored so audiences old and new can experience the classic globetrotting adventures of the "gentleman thief"…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
4:00 pm
Uris Hall, G-08
Join us for an informative information session on Africa summer internships on October 22, 2021 from 4:00-6:00 p.m. in G-08 Uris Hall. Summer 2021 interns will also be presenting on their summer research projects, so it will be a great opportunity to learn about what our Africa summer internships entail!
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Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
6:00 pm
Kaufmann Auditorium , G64 Goldwin Smith Hall
LACS FILM SERIES with Zoom Q&A with Director Michele Stephenson
Kaufmann Auditorium (G64 Goldwin Smith Hall) 6 PM
Stateless looks at the complex politics of immigration and race in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, using a combination of magical realism and hidden camera techniques.
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
6:00 pm
Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, G64
The new film from the critically acclaimed filmmaker of American Promise, looks at the complex politics of immigration and race in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, using a combination of magical realism and hidden camera techniques. Director Michèle Stephenson will do a Q&A session via Zoom with the audience…