History of a Timely Idea

What do we mean when we talk about environmental justice? Usually, we mean the crucial struggle against specific forms of injustice: dirty factories in poor, Black-majority neighborhoods; unequal access to green space; radioactive waste seeping into Native water supplies; the…

A community book read with Alice Beban, author of Unwritten Rule: State-Making through Land Reform in Cambodia and winner of the 2023 Benda Prize.

This event is open to current graduate students at any university, but participants must read the book first to facilitate an active conversation!

Alice…

The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies funds international graduate student research!

Research travel grants provide international travel support for graduate and professional students to conduct short-term research or fieldwork outside the United States. Global PhD Research Awards fund fieldwork…

Nicola Di Cosmo, East Asian Studies, Institute for Advanced Study

Among the many facets of the Manchu conquest of China, a relatively unexplored one is that of Manchu ideology and propaganda. This talk examines the early justification of the anti-Ming war articulated by the Manchu ruler Nurhaci (Qing Taizu,…

Cornell's Society for Buddhist Studies welcomes you to our 2023-24 Keynote Lecture, delivered by Dr. Jingjing Li (Universiteit Leiden).

In this presentation, Dr. Li explores the possibility of Yogācāra feminism by drawing upon the writings of Xuanzang (c.602-664) and his disciple Kuiji (632-682). As she…

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The seminar series for fall 2023 explores the future of African land, agriculture and food, digging into the contestations, conflicting and converging visions from a wide range of perspectives. How might land be used, valued and lived in, across cities, rural communities, forests, deserts and…

Discuss how to engage young language learners and how to work with students of different age groups. We will cover lesson planning tips, general teaching guidelines, and how to maximize target language use during short lessons. Dinner will be served!

Lobsang Sangay is a lecturer at Harvard Law School. He was a democratically elected Sikyong (President) of the Tibetan Government in Exile and served two terms (2011-2021).

Light refreshments will be served

Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) Seminar Series.

Bolivian writer Liliana Colanzi will read excerpts from her short story book Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro (You Glow in the Dark, New Directions 2024, winner of the Ribera del Duero Prize 2022), and will talk to Rosamaría Durán about her…

As Law and Literature takes root around the world, from the United States to Germany, from Israel to Hong Kong, scholars working in the interdiscipline have been exploring what it might mean to study legal-literary relations in a more global frame. In this seminar, Marco Wan posits one answer to this question by…

Politics and Protest: Historical, Sociological, and Political Perspectives

Drawing from first-hand experience and research into the U.S. nuclear freeze movement of the 1980s and the Iraq antiwar movement of 2002-09, David Cortright (University of Notre Dame) will discuss the challenge of attempting to…

Learn about the prestigious Boren Scholarships that fund study abroad outside Western Europe, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand. Boren Awards focus on developing linguistic and cultural knowledge among aspiring federal government employees. Boren Awards are funded by the federal government and are open to U.S.…

Talk by Aditya Vashistha (Computing & Information Science, Cornell University)

AI technologies are becoming increasingly pervasive in our daily lives, impacting diverse areas such as healthcare diagnosis and online content moderation. However, these technologies often overlook the voices and viewpoints…

We are pleased to host Haun Saussy, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago to present the text-reading, "Kang Youwei's Roman Diaries (1904)" for this Classical Chinese Colloquium.

Professor Saussy's primary teaching and research interests include classical Chinese…

Seminar in Critical Development Studies co-hosted by Cornell Global Development and the Graduate Field of Development Studies

Abstract:

Agricultural practices across rural India have changed markedly over the last two decades as smallholder farmers have variously embraced, resisted or simply been…

Siddharth Kara is a researcher, activist, and author on modern slavery. He is a British Academy Global Professor and a Visiting Lecturer at the Jeb E. Brooks School at Public Policy. Kara has taught courses on modern slavery at the Harvard Kennedy School, UC Berkeley, and Cornell.

Cobalt Red is the searing,…

European Colloquium - Konstantina Zanou

"An Approach To Teaching Twi As A Second Language Using Progressive Learning"
Francis Akutey-Baffoe
African Language Program Preceptor, Harvard University

People are becoming increasingly dependent on languages other than their native tongues because of globalization. Because of this,…

LACS Film Series

La ilusión viaja en tranvía (1954) is a wry social comedy from renowned filmmaker Luis Buñuel's Mexican period. Heartbroken that their favorite streetcar has been decommissioned, two Mexico City transit workers get drunk and take the streetcar out for a final—eventful—joyride. The film…

The East Asia Program is honored to have Haun Saussy, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago give this year's Hu Shih Distinguished Lecture: "Exile As Formative Experience in Classical Chinese Poetry."

The “myth of loyalty and dissent” (as Laurence Schneider put it)…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Elliott Prasse-Freeman, (Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, National University of Singapore), who will discuss grassroots political activism in Myanmar.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at the Rockefeller Hall 374. Lunch will be…

The Lingua Mater competition invites students and alumni to translate Cornell's Alma Mater into a different language and submit a video of the performed translation. The inaugural Lingua Mater alumni competition took place in 2018 as part of Cornell's Global Grand Challenges Symposium. The top videos…

Laidlaw Scholars at Cornell will share their summer research and leadership-in-action experiences at this annual symposium.

Beginning in the Klarman Hall Auditorium, a panel of scholars will share their work and experiences. The presentation will be followed by poster presentations throughout the Groos…

PACS Distinguished Lecture

Dmitri Alperovitch, a leading national security expert, will explain why he believes that China's Xi Jinping is preparing to conquer Taiwan in the coming years—and the dire stakes for the world if he is not deterred. Alperovitch makes the case that we are already in the midst…

The seminar series for fall 2023 explores the future of African land, agriculture and food, digging into the contestations, conflicting and converging visions from a wide range of perspectives. How might land be used, valued and lived in, across cities, rural communities, forests, deserts and grasslands on the…

Join us for an online discussion on Southeast Asian Manuscript collections held by institutions around the United States, including the University of California, Berkeley and the Library of Congress.

Dr. Trent Walker will share his experiences navigating the archival landscape of Southeast Asian Studies,…

Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) Seminar Series

Suriname is a country in the northern part of South America. Having a tropical humid climate, about 93% of the country is covered by rainforest. This is also the area where many of the indigenous and tribal communities (descendants from run…

A conversation between Muzaffar Chishti, senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute, and Stephen Yale-Loehr, Professor of Immigration Law Practice, Cornell Law School.

Join Mr. Chishti and Professor Yale-Loehr as they discuss the history of migration to the United States, the current migrant surge at…

Are you interested in the intersection of mental health and culture, global health, and community engagement? Do you want to gain field research skills and learn about indigenous communities in South India’s beautiful and fragile Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve? If so, the Cornell-Keystone Nilgiris Field Learning…

More than simply a “myth” or a stereotype, the model minority is a racial form that brings with it very real expectations and consequences for Asian Americans. What kinds of harm are done when Asian Americans too often and too readily invest in the idea of the model minority? What will it take to undo this…