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East Asia Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Institute for African Development

Institute for European Studies

12:00 pm

Virtual

In this moment of hyper-politicized border and migration issues, questions of representation are crucial. This roundtable of scholars, journalists, and practitioners will address the needs and challenges of producing stories about complex border issues along with the potential for different stories to effect real…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

4:45 pm

Virtual

Aesthetics and Ethics of Return: Trauma, Militarism and Modernities in Southeast Asia

Arguing for an ethics of return, the book Return Engagements is a political-economic critique of the nation-state, wars then and now, and global art markets, with a focus on Việt Nam and Cambodia. Artist, curator, and…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

1:00 pm

G-01 Stimson Hall

For many Cubans, Fidel Castro’s Revolution represented deliverance from a legacy of inequality and national disappointment. For others—especially those exiled in the United States—Cuba’s turn to socialism made the prerevolutionary period look like paradise lost. Michael J. Bustamante unsettles this familiar schism…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

South Asia Program

11:00 am

Virtual

Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema demonstrates how the dancer-actress comes to be a central figure in articulating South Asian cultural modernities. Shifting attention from narrative-driven analyses and turning instead to gesture, movement vocabulary, and the social practices around…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Institute for African Development

2:40 pm

Uris Hall, G-08

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

Southeast Asia Program

12:15 pm

Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture Series.

Sara Ann Swenson, Department of Religion, Dartmouth

Sara Ann Swenson researches contemporary Buddhism in Vietnam. Her current work examines rising trends of Buddhist volunteerism in Vietnam’s fastest growing urban area, Ho Chi Minh City. Drawing on…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

11:25 am

Virtual

Anjali Dayal (Fordham University) discusses her new book Incredible Commitments: How UN Peacekeeping Failures Shape Peace Processes, out by Cambridge University Press (2021).

This seminar is part of a series organized by the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) and the Gender and Security…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Comparative Muslim Societies Program

4:45 pm

Virtual

** Co-sponsored by Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies (COPOS)

Constructed during the rule of the French Lusignan dynasty (1192–1489), the Gothic cathedrals and churches of Cyprus are famous for their pronounced Westernizing style, which reshaped and continues to distinguish their Levantine setting.…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

4:45 pm

Virtual

Join us to learn about our interdisciplinary minor, summer 2022 internships, and other funding opportunities.

The Latin American Studies minor is an undergraduate minor across disciplines that will allow students to explore the history, culture, government, politics, economy and languages of Latin America…

East Asia Program

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

12:00 pm

Virtual

A panel discussion and series of readings from the 2021 anthology Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts. Readings, annotations, and dialogue with editors and contributors Christopher K. Ho, Daisy Nam, Iftikhar Dadi, Rachel Ossip, and Dushko Petrovich.

This collection of seventy-three letters…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

4:45 pm

Goldwin Smith Hall, G22

Visual Culture Colloquium

Tuesday, September 14, 2021 at 4:45pm

Min Ma Naing

Beyond Burmese Esthetics

Physical Event

Goldwin Smith Hall, G22

“I don’t find Burmese esthetics in your work.” This is a critique that Min Ma Naing, a photographer from Myanmar, has often received…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

4:00 pm

Stimson Hall, G25

"How Can I Learn All These Words?"
Research-Based Strategies for Teaching and Learning L2 Vocabulary
Jamie Rankin
Senior Lecturer, Princeton University

Second language (L2) classrooms have undergone radical changes during the past 50 years, moving away from formal linguistic…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

1:00 pm

G-01 Stimson Hall

In 1821, as insurgent forces battled Spanish royalists in what would become the last throes of the Wars of Independence in the northern Andes, representatives of the newly constituted republic of Gran Colombia (present-day Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Panama) passed a gradual emancipation law to address the…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

South Asia Program

11:00 am

Uris Hall, G08

Since 1947, the valley of Kashmir has become synonymous with a territorial dispute. Such is the emphasis on “territorial integrity” in the mediatized discourse on Kashmir, both in the South Asian subcontinent and the west, that the territorializing of the region is hidden under the self-evident notions of…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

7:00 pm

Willard Straight Theatre

Ithaca Premiere

2020 > Finland/Sweden > Directed by Zaida Bergroth

With Alma Pöysti, Krista Kosonen, Jakob Öhrman

"A formative decade in the life of bisexual, Swedish-speaking, Finnish visual artist and author Tove Jansson, creator of the Moomins." (Variety) In Swedish, Finnish…

South Asia Program

6:15 pm

NYC - Cornell Club

HYBRID EVENT | Twenty years after 9/11, America has finally ended its longest war. But the precipitous fall of Kabul serves as a poignant reminder that the threats to American national security remain acute and are ever-evolving. This congressional policy forum will reflect on the tumultuous past two decades and…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Institute for African Development

2:40 pm

Uris Hall, G-08

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

Southeast Asia Program

12:15 pm

Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture Series.

Joshua Plotnik, Department of Psychology, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York

Joshua Plotnik, Ph.D. is a comparative psychologist who has studied elephants in Thailand since 2007. Recently, Dr. Plotnik has been…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

East Asia Program

11:25 am

Virtual

In recent years China has emerged as a leading economic power and is expanding its military capability in both conventional and nuclear forces. How should the United States respond to these changes? Our three panelists will discuss the impact of advances in cyber technology, the implications of the new Chinese ICBM…

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

7:15 pm

Willard Straight Theatre

Ithaca Premiere

2020 > UK/Sweden > Directed by Fred Scott

With Roy Andersson, Johan Carlsson, Martin Serner

A moving portrait of the artist at work (and at drink), this doc captures the 76 year-old Swedish auteur Roy Andersson creating his recent film, About Endlessness (screening on Sept…

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Comparative Muslim Societies Program

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Institute for African Development

Institute for European Studies

4:45 pm

Virtual

Through an interdisciplinary curriculum that you can mold to your interests, the European Studies (ES) Minor provides the opportunity to explore Europe’s past, present, and future. You will cultivate a knowledge of European languages, culture, history, politics, and international relations. The minor offers the…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

9:15 pm

Willard Straight Theatre

2005 > China/France/Germany/Hong Kong > Directed by Wong Kar Wai

With Tony Leung, Ziyi Zhang, Gong Li

Tony Leung reprises his role as the frustrated romantic of In the Mood for Love in this nominal sequel, "a complex, visually rich, pull-out-all-stops rumination on memory, regret,…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

7:00 pm

Willard Straight Theatre

Ithaca Premiere w/ intro by Sabine Haenni on Sep 3rd

2021 > UK > Directed by Ben Sharrock

With Amir El-Masry

A young Syrian musician and other refugees seek asylum on a remote Scottish island in this "immensely funny and profound tragicomedy" (LA Times) by British director Ben…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

7:15 pm

Willard Straight Theatre

2019 > Sweden > Directed by Roy Andersson

With Bengt Bergius, Marie Burman, Amanda Davies

"The latest from influential Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson (A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, A Swedish Love Story) weaves together multiple visually arresting vignettes into a…

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

6:00 pm

Anna Comstock Hall (Latino Living Center)

Come meet students, faculty, and staff and learn about the organizations that are part of the Latinx community at Cornell.

OPEN TO THE CORNELL COMMUNITY!

Register via Campus groups: https://cglink.me/2ee/r1182710

Hosted by the Latino Living Center,…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

South Asia Program

Comparative Muslim Societies Program

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

12:00 pm

Virtual

The ill-fated American invasion in Afghanistan came to an abrupt end with the collapse of the Afghan government and the Taliban takeover of Kabul in mid-August. Images of the chaos that ensued as the U.S. and other NATO countries attempted to evacuate tens of thousands of people continue to play out on television…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Institute for African Development

2:40 pm

Uris Hall, G-08

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

Southeast Asia Program

12:15 pm

Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture Series.

Thomas Pepinsky, Department of Government and Brooks School of Public Policy, Cornell University

Thomas Pepinsky is the Walter F. LaFeber Professor in the Department of Government and School of Public Policy at Cornell University and Nonresident…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Comparative Muslim Societies Program

4:45 pm

Virtual

In this talk, Deeb will share insights from her research on social responses to interreligious and intersectarian marriage in Lebanon. Based on interviews with over 150 Lebanese in mixed marriages and many of their family members, Deeb aims to challenge the predominance of sect as the primary discourse of social…