Talk by Sharif Hozoori (Visiting Lecturer, Government)

Legitimacy is essential for all political regimes, whether democratic or authoritarian. This has been true for various authoritarian regimes throughout Afghanistan’s modern history and for the current Taliban regime as well. In this study, I focus on…

Across Cornell University's libraries - Engineering Library, Olin Library, and Mann Library - view the art, media, and writing of Cornell students and staff who share the ways that migration shapes their lives. The exhibit showcases winning submissions from the Migrations Program's creative writing and…

This presentation examines poetic representations of the city of Lima over the last fifty years, with a particular focus on the city’s transformation under Peru’s neoliberal project since the 1990s. Beginning in the 1970s, Peruvian poetry embraced the city and explored the possibilities of colloquial language to…

Speaker: Ben Read, Professor of Politics, UC Santa Cruz

Title: The Struggle for Oversight in Local Government: Mayors vs. Councils in the Heart of Taiwan’s Democracy

Abstract: Having held its eighth straight round of direct elections for the presidency in 2024, Taiwan is widely praised as a model case…

Faculty book chats from the Institute for African Development (IAD) showcase the breadth and depth of research by Cornell faculty on African development. At our inaugural book chat, Wendy Wolford (global development) will share her work that highlights the interconnectedness of land, sustainability, and development…

The Laidlaw Leadership and Research Program promotes ethical leadership and international research around the world—starting with the passionate leaders and learners found on campuses like Cornell. Open to first- and second-year students, the two-year Laidlaw program provides generous support to carry out…

Come learn more about this spring opportunity with spring break travel, developed in partnership with Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), National University of Singapore (NUS), and as part of the Jeb E. Brooks School’s Global Policy Exchange Lab. This collaborative online international learning (COIL) and…

Gatty Lecture Series

*Please note this Gatty Lecture takes place in Rockefeller Hall 374, not the Kahin Center*

Join us for a talk by Brooke Schedneck, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College.

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

Join members of the Cornell community for an evening playing games of all kinds from South Asia. Kelsey Utne, Cornell’s South Asia Librarian, has collected dozens of games, which need to be played. We’ll have games for all ages and of all kinds from war games to card games to educational games to classic games and…

Title: Strange Marriages, Painted Skins, and Ghost Writers: Japanese Responses to Pu Songling from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century

Speaker: William Fleming, UC Santa Barbara

Abstract: Through an examination of Japanese translations, adaptations, and imitations of Pu Songling from four distinct…

Russia's invasion of Ukraine, political radicalization, the crisis of the U.S., the rise of China—these are global shocks that define our current moment.

But in Europe, it is commonly said, they have a particular meaning. Not only are they close at hand. They signify a particular type of shock, a…

ALMOG BEHAR was born in Netanya in 1978. He is a poet, novelist, translator, researcher and scholar. Behar lives in Jerusalem, and teaches in the Department of Literature at Tel-Aviv University about the connections between Hebrew and Arab literatures, the connections between the Jewish Liturgical poetry traditions…

Despite an ongoing policy debate within the United States about the value of alliances, research suggests that the complex network of security relationships that the United States and other major patrons have established since the end of World War II have important and understudied implications for a wide range of…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Chao Ren, Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Hamilton College.

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

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.

Applications are open now.

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Speaker: Greg Sattler, New York University

Title: Poems from Visitors to Japan in 858: A Foray into the World of Merchants and Monks beyond Tang High Society

Abstract: In 858, a group of travelers from throughout East Asia journeyed on a merchant ship from China to Japan. After having traveled…

Talk by Rishad Choudhury (History, Oberlin College)

This talk surveys Islam’s emergence as an “imperial religion” in the Indian Ocean empire of the British Raj. Scholarship on colonial Islam has largely told a story of resistance: European empire as a provocation, and Pan-Islam as the insurgent reaction. By…

"AI Safety for the Global Majority"
Aditya Vashistha
Assistant Professor of Information Science and Director of the Cornell Global AI Initiative, Cornell University

AI safety is often framed around alignment failures, existential risk, or misuse by powerful actors. Yet for much of the…

Join the CIAMS community for a lecture by Dr. Piphal Heng. Reception to follow with refreshments served.

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…

When the Yellow Vest movement rushed through the streets of Paris in 2018 most analysts as well as the general public were mystified and not sure how to react. It was an extraordinary movement of hundreds of thousands of people throughout France and it was not clear whether it represented the left or the right or…

Since January 2026, Venezuela has become the model of the new “successful” imperialist intervention. Indeed, the Chavista authoritarian government has been reenforced by the support of the US intervention while transforming itself to accommodate this new situation. In this context, social mobilization has been…

The Laidlaw Leadership and Research Program promotes ethical leadership and international research around the world—starting with the passionate leaders and learners found on campuses like Cornell. Open to first- and second-year students, the two-year Laidlaw program provides generous support to carry out…

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.…

Over the past several decades, hacking and journalism have increasingly intersected, changing how both fields work. This talk uses that relationship as a way into hacking itself: its different cultures, histories, and politics. Hacking has never been one thing—phreaks, free software developers, the underground,…

Join us on for an informative and engaging info session to learn more about the Institute for African Development and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies programs. This session will provide an overview of academic offerings, events, faculty expertise, research opportunities, and other student support services.…

Gatty Lecture Series

*Please note this Gatty Lecture takes place on Friday, not Thursday*

Join us for a talk by Micah R. Fisher, Assistant Professor, Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, School of Communication & Information at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

This…

Speaker: Sandra So Hee Chi Kim, Assistant Professor of Asian and Asian American Studies, Stony Brook University

Title: The Ante-Colonial: A Grassroots Discourse of Korean Diasporic Trans-indigenous Relationality

Abstract: This presentation explores a Korean diasporic social media discourse that…

The 29th SEAP Graduate Student Conference will be held on October 23-24, 2026 at Cornell University’s Kahin Center for Advanced Research on Southeast Asia in Ithaca, New York, and on Zoom.

Please direct any questions to seapconference29@gmail.com.

Talk by Nikhit Agrawal

Since 2015, when the Paris Agreement was adopted, agriculture has gained prominence in global climate negotiations, both as a source of greenhouse gas emissions and as a potential contributor to reducing them through carbon storage and sequestration. In the past decade, hundreds of…