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…

Professor Maximo Langer will analyze Penal Abolitionism and Criminal Law minimalism, and what these two different frameworks entail for studying criminal justice systems. Then, he will address how these frameworks relate to criminal justice systems in Latin America: what can American penal abolitionists and…

Please join us in reading and discussing

Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa

By Julie Livingston (Duke University Press, 2019)

This is a book for our moment. A parable for our times set within Botswana’s economic miracle. A story that is meant to provoke us…

There's a crisis at the border. How did we get here? From conflicts in the Northern Triangle to US detention and asylum procedures, Professor Cordova will explore the geopolitical history and US foreign policy that continues to drive migrants north. With a focused look at El Salvador, Professor Cordova will…

Abby Córdova will present a chapter of her book project entitled, “Violence against Women and Political Participation in Contexts of Criminal Violence.” In this chapter, she explores one of the three central questions of her book: How does criminal organizations’ territorial control exacerbate female residents’…

Silky Bodies: Nation-Making and Historical and Contemporary Practices of Caring for Silkworms in Thailand

Alexandra Dalferro is a PhD student in Sociocultural Anthropology. Her research focuses on the politics, practices, and history of silk production in Thailand, particularly among Khmer communities in…

This talk examines how the financial realities of outmigration from Central America to the United States reinforce return attempts after deportation. Because of the nature of mortgage payments, liens, and debt terms, deported out-migrants often find themselves with little recourse except to try to emigrate North…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty series

Sittithep Eaksittipong, Lecturer, Department of History, Chiang Mai University

In this talk, I propose the exploration of the social and political lives of G. William Skinner and his classic, Chinese Society in Thailand, in American, Thai and Chinese…

Since September, approximately thirty graduate students working inside and outside the university around the world met every other week to read and think critically and politically about translation and movement in language in and in opposition to Southeast Asian Studies. How do the colonial, imperial and Cold War…

‘Our parents couldn’t teach us what Islam actually is!’ This assertion, made by a 24-year-old youth, epitomizes the critical stance of second-generation Italian-Bangladeshis towards the religiosity of first-generation migrants. Based on ethnographic research within the Bangladeshi community in Rome, this…

In Search for a Cure: Trust and Social Inequality in Contemporary China

Presenter: Xisai Song, Ph.D. candidate, Anthropology

This paper unpacks how social inequality shapes patients’ trust in medicine in contemporary China. In particular, I examine how rural low-income patients struggle with chronic…

Join a webcast as some of the world’s most prominent human-rights leaders, along with his physicist colleagues and students, gather to honor Professor Yuri Orlov.

Renowned dissident Yuri Orlov, professor emeritus, died at age 96 in September. Born in Moscow, Orlov pursued a distinguished career in physics…

Join us on Zoom throughout the fall for LRC Happy Hour. Every third Tuesday of the month. 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 great!Bring your own coffee…

Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser is Professor at Diego Portales University (UDP) in Santiago de Chile and an Associate Researcher at the Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES). His main area of research is comparative politics and he has a special interest in the ambivalent relationship between populism…

Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser is Professor at Diego Portales University (UDP) in Santiago de Chile and an Associate Researcher at the Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES). His main area of research is comparative politics and he has a special interest in the ambivalent relationship between populism…

Celebrate International Education Week #IEW2020 with Global Cornell!

Join DJ Daniel Bass of WRFI's Monsoon Radio for world music of 2020—from coronavirus and mass incarceration, to migration, love, dancing, and beyond. Jonathan Miller of Homelands Productions cohosts.

For semi-finals: It's a…

Please join us for a virtual talk by Jonathan C. Gold, Associate Professor of Religion at Princeton University.

Buddhist thought provides a meta-identity theory. Doctrines such as dependent origination, emptiness, and karma can be used to theorize the ethics of adopting and ascribing socio-cultural…

"Bones, Brains, and Meridians: Animated Anatomy and Image-Text Analysis"is the title of this Classical Chinese text-reading with Lan Li of Rice University.

"Bones, Brains, and Meridians: Animated Anatomy and Image-Text Analysis"

This discussion interrogates the representation of…

If you’re already enrolled in the ES minor, join us on Thursday, November 12th at 5:00 pm (virtually) to learn what opportunities are available to you and to meet other students interested in European Studies.

Take a 2-minute mini-quiz to see how far along you are in completing the minor.

Have…

Issues in African Development Special Topic Seminar Series (CRP 4770/6770) - Fall 2020 Theme: Environment, Sustainability and Health Challenges in Africa: Managing Human-Nature Interactions. Issues in African Development Seminar Series examines critical concerns in contemporary Africa using a different theme each…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty series

Sarah G. Grant, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, California State University, Fullerton

This talk traces the emergence of “dirty coffee” in Vietnam across the 1990-2000s coffee production and export boom. I use the term “dirty” to position several…

“….if history cannot solve our problems then we have to stop listening to it for solutions. For the only answer it has offered us is violence that refuses to meet, or hear, the other”

"In cities, the government had ensured that Hindu Pani and Muslim Pani were separately served at Railway stations and…

Sarah Kreps, John L. Wetherill Professor of Government, Cornell University, will join the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies for a discussion of her new book Social Media and International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Please note that the author will not give a formal…

The Cornell Arab Student Association in coordination with the Near Eastern Studies, Government, and History departments, as well as the Einaudi Center for International Studies and Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, invites Professor Rashid Khalidi of Columbia University to talk about his latest book,…

In a biocultural study, researchers from the Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at Cornell's Lab of Ornithology analyze acoustic survey data to pinpoint how bowhead whale seasonal migration patterns are linked to climate change and how recent changes affect Alaskan Arctic whale hunters.

Presenters:…

The Institute for European Studies is excited to let you know that students currently enrolled in Comparative Literature, Government, History, History of Art, and Romance Studies courses have already completed the first requirements for a European Studies (ES) Minor.

Through an interdisciplinary curriculum…

In this CUSLAR and LASP Public Issues Forum, speakers from Asociacion Sembrando Semillas de Paz, or Sembrandopaz, will speak to the challenges of grassroots peace-building with a human rights framework in post-civil war Colombia. A large part of their work includes a focus on sustainability and agroecological…

South Asia and Latin America represent two epicenters of migrant care work and the globalized reproductive market. Yet scholars and the media continue to examine them in geographical and conceptual isolation. South of the Future closes both these gaps. It investigates nannying, elder care, domestic work, and other…

Cornell University Emerging Markets Institute (EMI) and partners — Northeastern University Center for Emerging Markets (CEM), The Simon Fraser University Jack Austin Centre For Asia Pacific Business Studies, and The University of Texas at Dallas Center for Global Business (CGB) — are pleased to announce the fifth…

The Emerging Markets Institute (EMI) at SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University would like to invite students and alumni from your school to participate in the First EMI Pitch Competition: Emerge Your Startup, which will be held in November 7th, 2020, in the 2020 EMI Annual Conference. The 10 finalist…