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Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Institute for African Development

9:00 am

Africana Center

The literary event, hosted by the Institute for African Development's Humphrey Fellowship Program at Cornell and Okere City, is set to unite people from across the globe to contemplate the enduring legacy and influence of Okot p'Bitek, a towering figure in 20th-century African literature. Renowned for his…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

12:00 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Diplomacy through Sanctions and Incentives

Although nuclear dangers have increased among the nine states that currently possess nuclear weapons, the proliferation of nuclear weapons to other states so far has been relatively contained. States are adhering to the 1970 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. The…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Institute for African Development

2:30 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Globally, 2.2 billion people lack access to safely managed drinking water services, 3.5 billion lack access to safely managed sanitation services, and 1 billion people still practice open defecation. At the same time, climate change is threatening communities’ water supplies and the integrity of existing…

South Asia Program

4:45 pm

Cornell Cinema, Willard Straight Hall

A screening of Jole Dobe Na / Those Who Do Not Drown (2020) followed by a conversation with filmmaker Naeem Mohaiemen.

Naeem Mohaiemen’s film Jole Dobe Na / Those Who Do Not Drown (2020) was conceived in response to a prompt given by Delhi-based artist group Raqs Media Collective to think about the afterlife…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Comparative Muslim Societies Program

5:00 pm

Biotechnology Building, G10

Sahar Aziz, Distinguished Professor of Law, Middle East Legal Studies Scholar and Chancellor’s Social justice Scholar at Rutgers University Law School shares her views on Islamophobia, antisemitism and Palestine.

Aziz is also the founding director of the Center for Security, Race and Rights. Her book “The…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

Institute for European Studies

7:30 pm

Willard Straight Theatre

Krzysztof Wodiczko: The Art of Un-War, a film directed and produced by Maria Niro, explores the life and work of renowned artist Krzysztof Wodiczko. It delves into Wodiczko's powerful artistic interventions created as responses to the inequities and horrors of war and injustice. The artist’s interventions…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Institute for African Development

2:30 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Recent assessments of climate change impacts in Sub-Saharan Africa indicate that the continent is already experiencing impacts from rising temperatures, including water shortages, reduced food production, loss of lives and biodiversity loss. There are an increased number of extreme events, from drought, floods and…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

South Asia Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

12:15 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Talk by Kavita Panjabi (Former Professor of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata)

Turtuk is now an Indian village on the India-Pakistan border in the Karakoram mountains, in the contested zone of Baltistan. People in Turtuk who went to sleep in their homes in Pakistan on the 13th of December…

East Asia Program

4:45 pm

Myron Taylor Hall, 182

Ji Li, of US-China Business and Law at UC Irvine, will discuss his book titled Negotiating Legality: Chinese Companies in the U.S. Legal System (soon to be published in May 2024 by Cambridge University Press). Introduced by Yun-chien Chang, the Jack G. Clarke Professor in East Asian Law. A light reception will be…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Comparative Muslim Societies Program

5:00 pm

Warren Hall, 401

A series of lectures this spring will feature four visiting academics sharing their research related to antisemitism and Islamophobia.

The series, sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the College of Arts & Sciences, kicks off Feb. 12 with “Antisemitism, the Israel-Hamas War, and Distorting the Law…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Comparative Muslim Societies Program

5:00 pm

Biotechnology Building, G10

Derek Penslar, William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Department of History at Harvard University shares his views on antisemitism.

The talk is scheduled for 5 p.m. in Room G10 of the Biotechnology Building. eCornell link coming soon.

Penslar’s research has engaged with a variety of approaches…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

6:00 pm

Kahin Center

A simulcast film screeing and discussion, hosted by the GETESA consortium.

In conjunction with the International Decade of Indigenous Languages, GETSEA and the Bophana Center present four short films by Indigenous Cambodian filmmakers on the themes of “Healing, Memory & Care.”

Dull Trail (2020…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Institute for European Studies

2:30 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Anti-democratic politics is a global phenomenon. Apart from the United States, countries in Europe, Latin America, Africa have seen the rise of populism, polarization, and illiberal politics. This event is an informal conversation among Einaudi Center faculty Mabel Berezin (IES), Ken Roberts (DTR and LACS), and…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Comparative Muslim Societies Program

South Asia Program

4:30 pm

Uris Hall, G08

Talk by Till Mostowlansky (Research Professor in Anthropology, Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland)

The establishment of Soviet rule in the southern parts of Central Asia bordering the British Empire has largely been researched through the lens of geopolitical competition. Virtually nothing is known about…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

4:45 pm

Physical Sciences Building, 120

Did the Communists win or the Nationalists lose the Chinese civil war? This talk will reexamine this classic question with new evidence from diaries and memoirs of the period that examine how economic crisis and political disillusionment in the existing regime interacted with a new type of revolutionary identity…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Institute for European Studies

12:15 pm

Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, 1102

Sarah Wolff is Professor in International Studies and Global Politics at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Prior to that, she held a Professor position in European Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London where she also directed the Centre for European Research (2017-2023) and was…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

12:20 pm

Kahin Center

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Xinyu Guan, (PhD Candidate, Anthropology, Cornell University), who will discuss air conditioning in Singapore.

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

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

4:30 pm

Rockefeller Hall, 374

Join Media Studies and the Southeast Asia Program for a talk by Elmo Gonzaga, Associate Professor in the Division of Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).

About the Talk

This talk discusses how the book Monsoon Marketplace applies an archipelagic method to trace the changing…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

Comparative Muslim Societies Program

East Asia Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Institute for African Development

Institute for European Studies

South Asia Program

5:00 pm

Rockefeller Hall, Schwartz Auditorium, Room 201

Lund Critical Debate

Climate change has a disproportionate impact on the world’s most vulnerable populations, yet climate crises also impact people across the full spectrum of wealth and power. How do we understand these varied impacts and design climate policy to maximize human well-being and justice on a…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

12:20 pm

Statler Hall, 391

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

Co-sponsors: Departments of Communication, Information Science, and Science & Technology Studies

What does it mean to live in a “datafied” society? Life in media-saturated contexts implies the increasing transformation of people’s…

East Asia Program

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

3:00 pm

Cornell ILR School, 281 Ives Faculty Building

Ralf Ruckus will present central arguments from the book The Left in China. A Political Cartography (Pluto Press, 2023):

All over the world, progressive forces debate the nature of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). While some consider them to be socialist, others…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

East Asia Program

3:30 pm

Rockefeller, 374 Asian Studies Lounge

Su-yeon Seo, (Cornell grad student, Asian Studies) will lead final Classical Chinese text-reading for this semester titled Naming and Knowledge in the East Asian Sea.

The group meets monthly during the semester to explore a variety of classical Chinese texts and styles. Other premodern texts linked to…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

South Asia Program

4:30 pm

Kahin Center

Lecture by Aruni Kashyap (English and Creative Writing, University of Georgia)

Aruni Kashyap’s career as a writer, editor, translator, and academic has articulated the tension between the state and the individual, the public and the private, the fragility of democracy, and how storytelling is a politically…

Institute for European Studies

11:00 am

A. D. White House, Guerlac Room

A Conference in Honor of Leslie A. Adelson,
Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of German Studies (Cornell University)

Keynote:
Fatima El-Tayeb (Yale University)

Presenters:
Bettina Brandt (Pennsylvania State University)
Ela Gezen (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Esther…

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

6:00 pm

Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Film Forum

Cornell's Jewish Voice for Peace will be screening the film Israelism followed by a discussion with two of the filmmakers.

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

4:45 pm

Mc Graw Hall, MCG165

A Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) Public Issues Forum funded by the US Department of Education's Title VI UISFL grant.

As the wife of Jamaica's former Prime Minister, Beverley Manley Duncan conversed with global players such as Fidel Castro, Winnie Mandela, and Pierre Trudeau.…

East Asia Program

4:45 pm

Goldwin Smith Hall, 64

Youngju Ryu, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures

University of Michigan

“President by Night” is the infamous nickname Park Chung Hee once gave to Pang Il-yŏng, the head of Chosun ilbo, South Korea’s largest daily newspaper. The nickname reveals the symbiotic nature of the relationship between…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

South Asia Program

7:00 pm

Willard Straight Theatre

Film screening and Q&A with Shaunak Sen (Director)

In one of the world’s most populated cities, two brothers — Nadeem and Saud — devote their lives to the quixotic effort of protecting the black kite, a majestic bird of prey essential to the ecosystem of New Delhi that has been falling from the sky at…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

12:20 pm

Uris Hall, G08

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

Co-sponsored by Einaudi's Democratic Threats and Resilience Initiative

In this talk, Gabriel Vommaro will present his new Elements, "Conservatives Against the Tide. The Rise of the Argentine PRO in Comparative Perspective…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Southeast Asia Program

12:20 pm

Kahin Center

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Diana Kim, (Assistant Professor, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service), who will discuss Japanese colonial legacies in Southeast Asia.

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

Past Events

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

4:30 pm

White Hall, 106

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Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky will present his book, Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press, 2024), which reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. The book demonstrates that, in the late nineteenth century,…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

4:30 pm

Statler Hall, 291

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

This Seminar will be in Spanish.

Muntz Metal, an alloy of copper and zinc, remains a significant find in shipwrecks across the globe. In the 19th century, its introduction revolutionized maritime safety for the British Empire…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Comparative Muslim Societies Program

Southeast Asia Program

3:00 pm

Golden Smith Hall, 348

Talk by Ali Houissa, (Curator, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Cornell University Library)

Our CMS seminar today will be led by the curator of the Middle Eastern Collection in Olin Library, who will be hosting us to see precious objects in the library's collection about Islam. We have many world-…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

3:00 pm

Stimson Hall, G25

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…

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Institute for European Studies

4:00 pm

Carl A. Kroch Library 2B48

When internationally renowned Italian novelist and journalist Alain Elkann gave his papers to Cornell University Library in January, he opened up a trove of materials for scholars of contemporary Italian literature, as well as anyone interested in the art of fiction and journalism.

At this talk and…