Events
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
5:45 pm
Ives Hall, 115
Tickling Giants is a documentary film featuring Bassem Youssef, known as the "Jon Stewart of Egypt. " The film offers a unique lens on political satire in Egypt in a period of political transition following the 2011 revolution.
Discussion moderated by Dina Bishara (Global Labor and Work, Cornell…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Migrations Program
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
5:00 pm
Rockefeller Hall, 201 (Schwartz Auditorium)
Bartels World Affairs Lecture
In this year’s Bartels lecture, Ambassador Samantha Power examines the causes and consequences of dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). While reductions in United States foreign assistance have inflicted harm on millions of people, the principal…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Migrations Program
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
4:30 pm
Statler Hotel, Amphitheater and Room E/F
Come and explore international research from students and researchers at the Einaudi Center for International Studies. Our undergraduate Global Scholars will present posters on their international aid projects and our Global Research Fellows will give speed talks on interdisciplinary research.
Global…
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
5:00 pm
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Film Forum
// Film Screening and Conversation //
The Culture Industry of War
(2013, dir. Hamed Yousefi, 27 min)
In the essay-film The Culture Industry of War, art historian and filmmaker Hamed Yousefi explores the role of images in Iran’s modern political culture. Focusing on the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
4:45 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, 142
Hakem Al-Rustom, Assistant Professor at University of Michigan, will give this year's Armenian Genocide Commemoration Lecture, "What Remains: Afterlives of Genocide and the Persistence of the Unfinished."
This lecture begins from a simple but unsettling premise: genocide does not end. It…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
4:45 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Marc Herman (Humanities, York University)
In this book talk, Marc Herman discusses his new book, After Revelation: The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World. This book demonstrates that medieval Jewish legal thought was forged in dialogue with various and competing schools of Islamic law.…
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
5:00 pm
Stimson Hall, G24B
Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Migrations Program
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
11:00 am
Uris Hall, Terrace
International Fair showcases Cornell's global opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. Explore the fair and find out about international majors and minors, language study, study abroad, funding opportunities, global internships, Cornell Global Hubs, and more.
The International Fair is…
Past Events
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
4:30 pm
Mary Ann Wood, B21
European History Colloquium - Atina Grossmann, Distinguished Professor of History, The Cooper Union
Between “Orient” and European Catastrophe: Jewish Refugees from National Socialism in Iran and India 1935-1948.
Atina Grossmann is Distinguished Professor of History at the Cooper Union in New York City…
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
9:00 am
Virtual
Overview
Recent scholarship in the environmental and energy humanities has called attention to regimes of energy transition. The discussion on futures “after oil” marks a shift from earlier studies of oil assemblages, which evolved from analyses of coal-based fossil capitalism. The spaces shaped by these…
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
12:00 am
Sibley Hall, Room 140
Recent scholarship in the environmental and energy humanities has called attention to regimes of energy transition. The discussion on futures "after oil" marks a shift from earlier studies of oil assemblages, which evolved from analyses of coal-based fossil capitalism. The spaces shaped by these…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
South Asia Program
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
4:45 pm
A. D. White House, Guerlac Room
Department of History of Art & Visual Studies Findley Lecture Series.
Join us for a talk by Murad Khan Mumtaz, (Associate Professor, Williams College).
This Findley Lecture will take place in the AD White House's Guerlac Room.
Abstract
Islamic art is often misrepresented as an…
Southwest Asia and North Africa Program
4:45 pm
Klarman Hall, KG42
In one of the most celebrated instances of modernizing Islamic craft, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (1922–2019) transformed mirror revetment—a labor-intensive and opulent decorative technique popular in Iranian architecture since the early modern period—into post-minimalist sculptural reliefs and geometric…