Talk by Sadia Mahmood, South Asia Program, Cornell University

Mainstream historiography on South Asia has largely overlooked the afterlives of the colonial Enemy Property regime in postcolonial India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Drawing on archival records from Pakistan and India, as well as oral accounts from…

Looking to level up your Spanish? Come learn more about Cornell's intensive six-week program in Madrid. You'll immerse yourself in Spanish culture, significantly improve your language skills, and earn credits while living in Spain’s capital city. Along with a focus on improving their Spanish speaking and…

Speaker: Jeongsu Shin, LB Korean Studies Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University

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This talk explores how memory, ecology, and place intertwine in the Giving Forest of Jeju Island, South Korea. Once a site of violence during the April 3rd Uprising and mid-twentieth-century state…

: Although the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II following the invocation of the Enemy Aliens Act has been well documented, the parallel experiences of Latin Americans of Japanese descent remain far less examined. Like their U.S.-based counterparts, these communities were removed from their homes…

Have you considered summer study abroad and are interested in studying law? Join Cornell Law School faculty and the Office of Global Learning to learn more about the Cornell Prelaw Program in Paris, a three-week academic program in international and comparative law. Study law in a uniquely international and…

Achieve fluency in a language of South Asia with the help of a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) summer fellowship. You’ll gain valuable knowledge about cultures and countries in which your language is commonly used, while developing skills in a language critical to the needs of the United States. Graduate…

Are you curious about how mental health, culture, and global health connect to real-world policy challenges? Do you want to learn through hands-on field research and community engagement in one of the most beautiful and biodiverse regions of South India? The Cornell-Keystone NFLP Summer Program in India offers an…

Award-winning Cree filmmaker Tasha Hubbard’s documentary Singing Back the Buffalo follows Indigenous visionaries, scientists, and communities who are rematriating the buffalo to the heart of the North American plains they once defined, signaling a turning point for Indigenous nations, the ecosystem, and all of our…

When you follow the river, new constellations of the political come into view. This talk examines how rivers in Bosnia and Herzegovina become sites where the afterlives of war, the NATO‑brokered peace de/industrial complex, and global border regimes converge to produce fluvial necropolitics and new kinds of…

Gatty Lecture Series Join us for a talk by Patrick Daly, Staff Scientist, Department of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis.

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

Talk by Tracy Chahwan

This talk investigates the evolving landscape of women and LGBTQ+ comics in Lebanon and the Arab world, focusing on how marginalized creators develop visual strategies to negotiate identity, censorship, and socio-political instability. Through autobiographical practice and case studies…

In an age of surveillance, censorship, and closed borders, this symposium will consider ways of doing research in and on the SWANA region. Points of discussion will include conceptual and methodological innovations in the face of restrictions, engaging with non-academic discourses, and possible lessons from post-…

Speaker: Tingting Xu, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Rochester

Title: Prince Chun, Photography, and Poetry: Visual and Textual Accounts of the Naval Drill of 1886

Abstract: The poem Singing while Sailing (Hanghai fangge) was written by Prince Chun Yihuan (1840~1891) on the 15th days…

Talk by Aditya Bhattacharjee (Asian Studies, Cornell University)

The cultural affinities that have long connected South and Southeast Asia are particularly visible in Thailand, one of the first countries to recognize India after independence and a nation that occupies a prominent place both in India’s…

Join us to learn about opportunities for graduate students with the Einaudi Center for International Studies. This session will discuss how to discover or strengthen global interests, including research and travel grants, guest lectures, fellowships, and more!

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“We’re not going to be afraid of Immigration.” Juana spoke those words to her undocumented niece Sonia while they agonized over Sonia’s upcoming court hearing. Sonia had missed a previous hearing and might have a deportation order awaiting her. It was February 2025. But Juana advised against fear. She told her…

Find out more about our summer public policy program in Turin. Nestled between the Alps and the Mediterranean in the magnificent Piedmont region of northern Italy, the city of Turin provides an inspiring background to explore the causes and consequences of population change, the debates unfolding in Europe around…

Speaker: Weixian Pan, Assistant Professor of Film & Media, Queen's University

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How might the history of television and the history of energy development cross paths, inform, and complicate each other? This work revisits the formative decade of China’s economic reform, the 1980s, as…

"The Southeast Asian Language Council (SEALC) Projects, 2019–2024: Cornell Collaborations"
Yu Yu Khaing, Jolanda Pandin, Hannah Phan, Thess Savella, and Thúy Tranviet
Cornell University

The Southeast Asian Language Council (SEALC) is a national organization that promotes and coordinates…

Rule Breakers tells the true story of Roya Mahboob, a visionary Afghan entrepreneur and advocate for girls’ education who defies rigid societal norms in her country. In a place where educating girls is treated like rebellion, Roya forms the first all-girls robotics team in Afghanistan and guides them to pursue…

This article examines how international monitoring affects legal accountability for human rights violations. International organizations often publicize human rights violations to pressure non-compliant states to change their behavior; however, recent research suggests that publicity can prompt intransigence or…

Gatty Lecture Series

Developing an Innovative Mobile Phone Tool for Monitoring Marine Biodiversity and Human Nutrition in Timor-Leste

Join us for a talk by Lydia O'Meara, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, Cornell University.

This Gatty Lecture will…

As part of guest composer Makiko Nishikaze’s visit to Cornell, pianist Jack Yarbrough presents a lecture-recital on her vast output of piano music. Selections from over 30 years of creative engagement with the instrument will be performed with extensive commentary. The evening will conclude with the world premiere…

Composer, pianist, performance, and video artist Makiko Nishikaze joins Cornell’s composers' forum to present on her music. Born in Wakayama, Japan and residing in Berlin, Germany, Nishikaze’s highly varied work comfortably spans mediums and practices, with a particular emphasis on spatial performance, early…

Join us for the final evening recital of guest composer Makiko Nishikaze’s visit to Cornell. A wide array of chamber works from throughout Nishikaze’s eclectic career will be performed by members of the Cornell community, as well as by the composer herself. From four-hands arrangements of J.S. Bach to forays in 9-…

Are you curious about how mental health, culture, and global health connect to real-world policy challenges? Do you want to learn through hands-on field research and community engagement in one of the most beautiful and biodiverse regions of South India? The Cornell-Keystone NFLP Summer Program in India offers an…

The Jewish Studies Program invites you to come join our colleagues at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) Global Labor and Work Workshop in welcoming a new book from Cornell University Press at a book launch with Elissa Sampson and Robert Zecker. The Global Labor and Work series has a longstanding…

Join us on Zoom to practice your Thai 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…

In the late 1990s, as the hearings of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) began, stories of past abuse, including sexual violence, within the exiled camps of the African National Congress (ANC) emerged. Despite women alluding to or directly describing violence they had suffered within the ANC,…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Liang Wu, Postdoctoral Associate at SEAP/Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at Rockefeller 374, Asian Studies Lounge. Lunch will be served. For questions, contact …