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Speaker: Ying Qian, Associate Professor of Chinese Cinema and Media, Columbia University

Title: Forthcoming

Abstract: Forthcoming

Talk by Michelle Weitzel (International Relations and Political Science, Graduate Institute of Geneva)

Since the early aughts, policy makers, states, and military strategists have shown renewed interest in better understanding the psychophysiological underpinnings of human behavior and decision-making.…

Aluminum’s Past, Contemporary Coloniality and Porter Labor in Ghana

Reading aluminum’s infrastructural history alongside Accra’s contemporary market porters, this talk argues that women porters’ embodied labor extends and exposes the same extractive logics, revealing enduring coloniality within Ghana’s built…

Speaker: Sukhee Lee, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University

Title: "Cracking Administrative Documents in Classical Chinese: 'Adjudicating Lawsuits (聽訟)' in Hu Taichu's 胡太初 Pulling Down the Screen During the Daytime (晝簾緖論)"

About Cornell Classical Chinese…

Since 2016, the China labor collection at Kheel Center in the ILR School’s Catherwood Library, has amassed a vast audio-visual archive consisting of photographs, films, brochures, oral interviews, poetry, and other materials on labor in the People’s Republic of China between the years 1993-2023. This exhibition is…

The Cornell Gamelan Ensemble presents a varied program of traditional Javanese music, from the especially expansive and majestic gendhing bonang Parigentang to the raucous accompaniment to beksan Lawung, a martial dance from the Yogyakarta court, all in the supremely suitable acoustics of the atrium in Klarman Hall…

Talk by Courtney Murdock (Entomology, Cornell University)

Mosquito-borne diseases remain one of the world’s most pressing public health challenges yet predicting where and when outbreaks will occur is becoming increasingly difficult as our climate and cities change. In India, rapid urban growth, rising…

John Dinges was one of hundreds of young idealists who gathered in Chile to experience the revolution that began with the election of President Salvador Allende. Allende, though an avowed Marxist, promised real democracy and real social change. Many who came were political exiles from South American countries that…

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports U.S. citizens to study, conduct research in any field, or teach English in more than 150 countries. The program is open to graduate students, recent graduates, and young professionals. Undergraduate students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are…

Wednesday, November 18 2:00pm Uris Hall, G-08

Lecture

This talk will give an overview of a new book manuscript, The Dynamics of Power Politics (with Paul MacDonald and Daniel Nexon), which develops a relational-network approach to power political mobilization. Much of international relations theories assume that states have access to “stocks” of power, that military,…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Emily Hue, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Southeast Asian, Text, Ritual, and Performance (SEATRiP) at the University of California, Riverside.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at the Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For…

Since 2016, the China labor collection at Kheel Center in the ILR School’s Catherwood Library, has amassed a vast audio-visual archive consisting of photographs, films, brochures, oral interviews, poetry, and other materials on labor in the People’s Republic of China between the years 1993-2023. This exhibition is…

Speaker: Ting Hui Lau, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Singapore

Title: Decolonial Endurance: Indigenous Wellbeing Against Chinese Settler Colonialism

Abstract: Like many countries in Asia, China does not recognize the existence of Indigenous peoples within its…

What are the local political factors influencing deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon? Global deforestation continues to pose a significant environmental challenge, with the Peruvian Amazon experiencing a loss of approximately 4% of its primary forest from 2002 to 2024. While policy responses often rely on…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Muhammad Suhail Mohamed Yazid, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Asia Center at Harvard University.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at the Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact seap@cornell…

Go global in summer 2027! Global Internships give you valuable international work experience in fields spanning global development, climate and sustainability, international relations, communication, business, governance, and more.

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Speaker: Jeffrey Niedermaier, Brown University

Title: "Intimacies of the Guestless Guesthouse: Diplomacy with the Departed in Post-Parhae Japan."

About Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium
The group meets monthly during the semester to explore a variety of classical Chinese texts and…

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports U.S. citizens to study, conduct research in any field, or teach English in more than 150 countries. The program is open to graduate students, recent graduates, and young professionals. Undergraduate students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are…

The Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series is proud to present Sunny Jain’s Wild Wild East, a vibrant and genre-defying ensemble led by acclaimed composer, drummer, dhol player, and cultural innovator Sunny Jain. Drawing on his deep connection to his South Asian heritage alongside his passion for jazz and progressive…

October 26, 1:00-5:00, Hirsch Lecture Room, Johnson Museum

October 27, 9:00-4:00, Nevin Welcome Center, Botanic Gardens

This conference explores the cultural, religious, botanical, economic, and environmental dimensions of the global spread of Camillia Sinensus, commonly known worldwide as either tea…