The Threat to the Unity and Territorial Integrity of India: The Dangers and Implications of Unravelling the Constitutional Minority Rights Package This talk is set against the background of current events including the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019, the unveiling of the National Register of Citizens in…

The claim that “Buddha was Born in Nepal” is pervasive in contemporary discourses about Nepali national identity. In this paper, I focus on the ways in which the claim to Buddha’s birthplace is deployed by some Nepalis living beyond Nepal as both a means of maintaining a connection to Nepal as a diasporic homeland…

Rebecca Tarlau will speak about how the over the past thirty-five years the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST), one of the largest social movements in Latin America, has become famous globally for its success in occupying land, winning land rights, and developing alternative economic enterprises for over a…

Mariangela Mihai is an Anthropology and Film PhD Candidate at Cornell University. She received her BA in Anthropology from Emory University in Atlanta where she has also worked on issues of refugee political resettlement at the Emory Center for Ethics and the International Rescue Committee.

Her current…

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. and prepare students for higher level courses on African economic, social and…

Uriel Abulof, Visiting Associate Professor, Government Department, Cornell University, will speak at 12:15 pm in G-08 Uris Hall about "From Existential Conflict to Coexistence? The Case of Israel/Palestine" at the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies weekly brown bag seminar.

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty series

Edson Cabalfin, Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Interior Design, University of Cincinnati

Dr. Edson Cabalfin will discuss the curatorial concept, exhibition design, opening, and other stories surrounding the creation of the Philippine…

In the last decade, Chinese multinational corporations have been giving formerly dominant western companies a run for their money—a trend that has affected investment flows, business models, and the process of global innovation. How can businesses compete and even collaborate with powerful Chinese firms?

In…

FREE Ithaca Premiere w/panel discussion
2019 > Syria > Directed by Waad al-Kateab & Edward Watts
A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of director Waad al-Kateab's life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets…

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Welcoming remarks by Ying Hua, Director, Cornell China CenterA campus to global perspective, Wendy Wolford, Vice Provost for International AffairsRoundtable with Cornell…

'Shrooms take Southwest China! This semester's first Cornell Contemporary China Initiative lecture examines the booming matsutake mushroom trade in this talk titled, Transforming More-than-human Economies in Southwest China: The role of the Matsutake Mushroom. Michael Hathaway of Simon Frasier University…

Environmental education is essential in the diffusion of the ethics, values, and skills that are critical to sustainable transformations. This talk presents the experience of non-formal environmental education approaches held in schools in the Petrópolis region of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil between 1997–2016. The talk…

In her research, Bittel draws upon social capital, sustainable recovery, and sustainable development frameworks to explore the processes at play in complex humanitarian emergencies that produce disparate long-term recovery outcomes in communities in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka. In comparing two different ethnoreligious…

Warm up with hot chocolate and other treats as we celebrate our new exhibitions!

A “flight” of gallery talks with our curators and special guests will be held throughout the reception:

Tong Yang-Tze: Immortal at the River with curators Ellen Avril and Professor An-yi Pan at 5:30 PM

Lai Fong (ca…

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…

Dara Cohen, Ford Foundation Associate Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School, Harvard University, will speak at 12:15 pm in G-08 Uris Hall on “Does Membership Matter? Female Recruits and Public Perceptions of Violent Non-State Actors” at the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies weekly seminar.

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty series

Penny Edwards, Associate Professor, 2019-20 Fellow of the Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley

In 1860s Mandalay, theatre was a vehicle for the veneration of the Buddha and present and past kings, for royal…

Ithaca Premiere
2019 > Israel/France > Directed by Nadav Lapid
With Tom Mercier, Quentin Dolmaire, Louise Chevillotte
"The film, a faintly comedic, semi-autobiographical study of identity and the ambivalence of national belonging, tells the story of Yoav, played by newcomer Tom Mercier…

Learn about the European Studies minor, an undergraduate minor across disciplines that allows you to explore the history, cultures, government, and languages of Europe. Find out about undergraduate funding opportunities offered through the Institute for European Studies.

Learn more about Einaudi Center…

It’s been said that there’s nothing more certain than death and taxes. But what factors shape the evolution of taxes and tax policies, and what gives rise to disparities in taxation policy, compliance, and enforcement?

To answer these and other questions, Gustavo Flores-Macías, the associate vice provost for…

Learn about internships through the Institute for African Development (IAD)! IAD's Summer Africa Internship program offers sophomores, juniors, and rising senior undergraduate students challenging practical fieldwork in Africa. Internships are available in Ghana and Zambia. Students interested in applying must attend…

The Office of Global Learning’s Study Abroad Fair showcases hundreds of opportunities for students to go abroad. Drop by the Memorial Room in Willard Straight Hall on Tuesday, February 4th from 11:30-2PM to talk with program representatives, faculty, staff, and students about opportunities abroad during the…

This presentation examines the articles of the Free Zanzibar Voice, a key exile publication of the post-revolution period, published by a former editor of Mwongozi, Ahmed Seif Kharusi. Kharusi went into exile with the sultan and settled in the UK. There he published letters by dissidents within Zanzibar as well as…

From popular songs, films, plays, television series, social media, “historical” narratives to the building of temples, Ravana—the villain in Valmiki’s Ramayana—has gained unprecedented popularity in twenty-first century Sri Lanka. In the current process of remaking an exclusively Sinhala (or Hela) Ravana, the Tamil…

That trade is a positive sum game, conflict at best a-zero sum game, is a principle well established in game theory that curiously, may already be found in Adam Smith. He famously linked to the extent of the market that of the division and specialization of labor underlying the wealth of nations. He also noted,…

The inaugural Language Resource Center Learning Community (LC) will focus on Core Practices for Effective Language Learning. It is designed around one of ACTFL's Virtual Learning Modules. In monthly meetings, we will explore and deconstruct research-based strategies for effectively developing students’…

The first CCCC is with Dan Boucher, Cornell University presenting a text reading titled, 'Sengyou on Translating Scripture: China’s First Attempt to Conceptualize a Literary Other.'

Sengyou was a fifth-century Vinaya specialist and bibliographer whose catalogue is the earliest extant recording of…

introduced by Andrew Campana (Asian Studies)
1986 > Japan > Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
In this steampunk-style adventure (that prefigures Howl's Moving Castle), Sheeta and Pazu struggle to safeguard the sanctity of the legendary floating castle of Laputa, that is being pursued by aeronautical…

Jean-Pierre Page
Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT)

Jean-Pierre Page is the former head of the International Department of the French trade union confederation, the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT). He was the editor-in-chief of the CGT research center’s (ISERES) journal Unionism and…

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…