The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program and Department of Government at Cornell University, will host this year’s virtual REPAL Annual Conference from July 15 to 17th, 2021-REPAL (Red para el Estudio de la Economía Politíca de América Latina). Speakers are scheduled for the three-day conference from 10am…

The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program and Department of Government at Cornell University, will host this year’s virtual REPAL Annual Conference from July 15 to 17th, 2021-REPAL (Red para el Estudio de la Economía Politíca de América Latina). Speakers are scheduled for the three-day conference from 10am…

In this eCornell Keynotes event, Nicole Salgado '98, an advocate for environmental conservation and migrants’ rights based in Querétaro, México, and journalist Nathaniel Hoffman '99 will discuss their chronicle of a highly underreported aspect of our country’s punitive immigration system: the often…

Join the Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) and the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre for our upcoming IS4 webinar exploring the effect of democratization on Indonesia's civil service.

Does democratization lead to more meritocracy in the civil service? In this webinar, Associate Professor Jan Pierskalla argues…

The Ithaca Asian American Association invites you to share your story through your lens, as you interpret and express your meaning of "Virus Has No Nationality."

You are encouraged to be bold in challenging issues of racism, sexism, xenophobia, ableism, heterosexism, classism, and all -isms.…

The Institute for European Studies is proud to acknowledge and celebrate the success of the graduating students in the European Studies minor and fellowship and grant recipients from the 2020-2021 academic year. Please join us for this brief virtual reception.

The EastAsia+ Initiative presents a talk by Thomas Lamarre on television, anime infrastructures, and new formations of media power. Across these two lines of inquiry, Lamarre aims to delineate both an ecological approach to media and a physiology of power, which might open a transformation in our media sensibility…

The Einaudi Center’s global racial justice research team presents the inaugural session of Race Matters, a new webinar series that fosters in-depth conversations on colonial questions and racial justice across international relations.

This panel brings together global experts for a candid appraisal of…

Climate change and environmental degradation is a threat for economic prosperity. In relation to its commitment to achieve the Paris Agreement goals, China is aiming to reach carbon neutrality by 2060. China is leading in renewable energy production figures. It is currently the world's largest producer of wind…

Odysseys: Ithaca Writers on Exile, Wandering, and Searching for Home is a reading series presented by Ithaca City of Asylum and co-sponsored by Global Cornell and Cornell's Migrations initiative.

Homer’s Odyssey recounts the adventures of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, as he seeks to return home after the…

The Korean Language Program at Cornell will proudly host its 12th annual showcase, funded by the Joh Foundation. Selected student group works from 6 different courses and a special performance from Shimtah (Korean percussion) will be presented. Excellent students will be acknowledged with achievement certificates…

This webinar series features diverse voices from the African continent and the Diaspora on a wide range of themes, challenges, breakthroughs in cutting-edge research outcomes, innovations, and discoveries across all disciplines and area studies.

Documentary film that explores the complex identity formations…

Cornell University and Tsinghua University are cohosting this international seminar with papers exploring policy responses to COVID-19 from across the world. The papers are featured in a special issue of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, just published.

Special Issue on The COVID -19 Crisis:…

"Developing an Open and Inclusionary Language Textbook for Portuguese"
Eduardo Viana da Silva
Associate Teaching Professor of Portuguese, University of Washington

This presentation describes the development of an e-textbook for first-year Portuguese classes. This pedagogical initiative…

The Migrations Forum is an interdisciplinary works-in-progress series for Cornell migrations scholars, bringing together graduate students and faculty across disciplines to share ongoing research.

In this session, Rachel Beatty Riedl, Director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, John S.…

Title: Transportation Policy Development in Africa , Paine Gronemeyer

Cornell AAP '24, Urban and Regional Studies

Title: African Healthcare Real Estate Outlook:

The resilience of the medical system across African Cities

Eugene Nana Kyere Afranie, MPS – Real Estate Candidate '…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture series

Vinh Phu Pham, PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature, Cornell University

As a field of study, Vietnamese Francophone literature is a historically specific phenomenon that does not fit neatly within the broader framework of postcolonial literatures…

Join us virtually this spring 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 listening to and speaking in a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new…

In the 1970s, soaring oil prices provided huge revenues to oil producing Arab countries, which, together with private Arab companies and individuals, invested billions of dollars in the U.S. economy. The influx of Arab petodollars drew mixed reactions from Americans. Some feared that wealthy Arabs were “buying up…

Join us virtually this spring 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 listening to and speaking in a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new…

Join us on Zoom throughout the spring for LRC Happy Hour. Every second Tuesday of the month (third Tuesday in April). We'd love to hear how it’s going! All of it.

Bring your (language instruction) stories whether they be good, bad, amazing, or unusual. It takes all kinds of stories to make a Happy Hour…

International reproduction migration: the case of China

CCCI welcomes Biao Xiang, of Oxford/Max Planck Institute.

International reproduction migration means that people move for the purpose of maintaining and improving their social status and life quality, instead of earning higher incomes. Examples…

Please join us for an invited talk by Prof. Sara L. McClintock, generously co-sponsored by the Departments of Asian Studies, History and Philosophy; the South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia and Religious Studies Programs; and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly. The event is open to all interested, and…

Emily Hencken Ritter presents a paper titled "Threat Dimensions and the Protection of Human Rights".

This paper records the rising age at marriage for women and men in India and discusses the possible contextual influences on these trends – government policy, economic and social development, aggressive social advocacy, and a marriage squeeze – and then goes on to discuss the potential implications of each of these…

Unity Across Language: Multilingual organizing for social change
Unidad en Lenguaje: Lucha multilingüe para el cambio social

An online panel discussion on the politics, opportunities, challenges, and necessity of multilingual organizing for social change, with a focus on English-Spanish dynamics.…

Phonology and Human Difference in the Late Ming:

Chen Di's "Mao shi guyin kao zixu (Author's Preface to Investigation of the Ancient Pronunciations in the Mao Odes)" (1606)

Presenter: Leigh Jenco, London School of Economics and Political Science

Professor Jenco writes: My…

Please join us for an invited talk by Prof. Matthew William King, generously co-sponsored by the Departments of Asian Studies, History and Philosophy; the South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia and Religious Studies Programs; and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly. The event is open to all interested,…

"la frontera piñera: pineapple and water in the making and unmaking of the Nicaragua/Costa Rica border"

Rachel’s research explores how rivers, lakes, wetlands, and different people’s relationships with these bodies of water have made, remade, and unmade the Nicaragua/Costa Rica border through time…

Join us for a conversation with Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Molly O'Toole '09, moderated by the undergraduate migrations scholars and Shannon Gleeson, professor of industrial and labor relations and Migrations initiative taskforce co-chair.

Her talk, "Extracontinental: How the Global…