The Emerging Markets Institute (EMI) invites you to a webinar ‘COVID-19: Impacting Geographies and Lives’ on Thursday, April 2 at 10 a.m. Zoom connection: https://cornell.zoom.us/j/699604118. Please, save the date and link!

In the time span of a few months,…

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3/11/2020 UPDATE:

Due to the impacts of the global COVID-19 virus, we have proactively opted to move our conference “Engendering Migrations: Southeast Asia” (March 13-15, 2020) to a primarily-online format. Participants are welcome to join us from anywhere in the world through Zoom, a free online service you…

Jilly Traganou
Professor of Architecture and Urbanism,
Parsons School of Design, School of Art and Design History and Theory

Abstract:
Acts of political disagreement often oscillate between “talking truth to power” and using violence to express rage. Prefigurative politics are a repertoire…

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…

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides full funding for graduate and professional students conducting research in any field or teaching in more than 150 countries. Open to U.S. citizens only.

The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program supports doctoral students conducting research…

Governing the Airpocalypse–Insights from China’s ‘War on Smog’. Anna L. Ahlers–Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.

For about a decade now air pollution is probably the most hotly debated environmental problem in Chinese society. The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and the huge winter…

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports college graduates conducting research or teaching in any field in more than 150 countries. Applications are due in the fall; students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are encouraged to start the process in their junior year.

Learn more…

Pedro X. Molina will discuss ways that Nicaraguans are using artistic expression to bring attention to their national situation to the world. Pedro is the current artist-in-residence for Ithaca City of Asylum

THIS PRESENTATION IS CANCELLED. WE HOPE TO RESCHEDULE FOR LATER THIS YEAR.

How does ‘cultural capital’ pass from one generation to the next? Aspects of this question have long interested historians, sociologists and anthropologists wishing to develop nuanced understandings of class and social hierarchy in…

Artist Tong Yang-Tze will speak from her home in Taiwan and answer audience questions in lieu of her planned visit to Ithaca. (The previously announced Artist's Talk on March 10 has been canceled.)

LOCATION CHANGE: The event will take place in the Lynch Conference Room on the Museum's sixth floor…

Euro Vino intends to investigate the subject of wine as a way to study European history, politics, geography, and culture. The event will have wine tastings, food, and speakers to learn more about both Europe and its wine. Dr. Michael Fontaine will be speaking on the rise of wine binge drinking culture and its…

Ithaca Premiere
2019 > France > Directed by Agns Varda
With Agns Varda, Sandrine Bonnaire, Herve Chandes
The final film from the late, beloved Agns Varda is a characteristically playful, profound, and personal summation of the director's own brilliant career. Suffused with the people…

Shaping a Mystery: Artisans and Ancestors in India’s Ellora Caves

Apply for Cornell China Center faculty research grants of $10k-$100k. Info sessions on March 3 and 6. Proposals due by 3/19-26.

Join in person in Uris Hall G08 or remotely via Zoom online here or by phone 877 369 0926 (US toll-free), Meeting ID: 532 765 608].

In December of 2019, the Indian government passed the Citizenship Amendment Act, facilitating expedited citizenship for persecuted religious minorities from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. The glaring absence of Muslims from the terms of the Act, however, has been heavily contested by a wave of protests…

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…

India’s Food Sovereignty Struggle

Smita Narula is the Haub Distinguished Professor of International Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University and Co-Director of the law school’s Global Center for Environmental Legal Studies. She is author of dozens of widely-cited publications, and has…

David Danks, Department of Philosophy Head and L.L. Thurstone Professor of Philosophy and Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, will speak at 12:15 pm in G-08 Uris Hall on “The Double-edged Sword of AI in Warfare” at the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies weekly seminar.

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty series

Christian C. Lentz, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Điện Biên Phủ is a place often invoked but poorly understood. On 7 May 1955, a year to the day after Vietnam’s great victory over France, a ceremony on…

With live accompaniment by Gary Lucas on guitars
Special Pricing: $14 general/$11 students ($3 off for All-Access Pass holders)
1920 > Germany > Directed by Paul Wegener
With Paul Wegener, Albert Steinruck, Lyda Salmonova
Based on the legend of the Golem, a creature made from clay by…

The demiurgic figure of Vishwakarma in the Vedic, Buddhist, and Brahminical Hindu traditions of pre-industrial India was associated with artisanal modalities of ingenuity and technicity. The increasingly public visibility of Vishwakarma worship across India since 1900 has shown unmistakable ties to the rise of…

Apply for Cornell China Center faculty research grants of $10k-$100k. Info sessions on March 3 and 6. Proposals due by 3/19-26.

Join in person in Uris Hall G08 or remotely via Zoom online here or by phone 877 369 0926 (US toll-free), Meeting ID: 404 834 710].

Abstract: To write a history of sexuality, or so the story goes, is to embrace the chimeric prose of paucity and plentitude. If the present is marked by an inescapable surfeit of evidence, the past is haunted by an unremitting loss of materials. Histories of sexuality routinely mediate past(s) through archival…

Owing to a common absence of a central religious body to authorize religious clerics, combined with the U.S. secular conception of separation of church and state, Muslim authority in the United States contends with a regulatory vacuum. The concept of clergy that drives much of how religion encounters our…

"Pathways to Language and Intercultural Proficiency"
Aleidine Moeller
Edith S. Greer Distinguished Professor of Language Education, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

This talk builds upon the major theoretical frameworks for promoting language and intercultural proficiency within the…

One in five women worldwide carries latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), and 3 million are diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB) each year. Of the nearly 800,000 Indian women diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB) every year, 70% are in their reproductive years, between the ages of 18 and 45 years. The current…

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2019 > South Korea > Directed by Bong Joon Ho
With Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo
A poor but extremely resourceful family of four ingratiates…

2019 > Spain / France > Directed by Pedro Almodovar
With Antonio Banderas, Penelope Cruz, Asier Etxeandia
In physical decline and facing a loss of creativity, a celebrated film director, modeled on Almodovar himself, looks back upon his life, and visits an ex-lover. Antonio Banderas has won high…

Paul Roquet | MIT The Circular Ruins: Isolation and Afterlife in Japanese VR Abstract: In the first couple of years of their existence, Japan's virtual reality visual novels have frequently staged encounters with depopulated digital environments isolated from the rest of society. This talk examines how the genre…