Events
SAP hosts a weekly seminar series. For the Spring 2024 semester, we are hosting in-person events, typically at 12:15 pm Mondays in G08 Uris Hall. All events are open to the public. All times Eastern (New York) Time.
Videos of many past events are available on our YouTube playlist.
Our annual Tagore Lecture in Modern Indian Literature, now held in the spring, features an author from South Asia or its diasporas. We also partner with Cornell student organizations to bring South Asian musicians, dancers, and other artists for campus performances.
Upcoming Events
8:30 pm
Willard Straight Hall Theatre
In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, Mira is a successful student shouldering high expectations from her parents and her teachers. But as she wrestles with new desires and ample curiosity inspired by the handsome transfer student Sri, she finds herself at odds with the schoolÕs strict rules and her…
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Elora Shehabuddin (University of California, Berkeley )
Founded in 1984 with the goal of preparing for the third UN Women’s Conference in Nairobi the following year, DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) was the first “South-South” feminist network to challenge the racial and…
4:45 pm
A. D. White House, Guerlac Room
Description:
In Afghanistan, poetry operates as a common idiom, appearing frequently in everyday speech by those who have and have not received formal education. In this talk, I explore the idea of a communal self that emerges through the composition of poetry in the service of jihad as seen in Afghan…
11:30 am
Mann Library, 160
Ram Kaundinya, a leading expert on management and agribusiness in India, will deliver a distinguished lecture at Cornell University, titled, “The Role of Biotechnology in India’s Food and Climate Security.”
The event will be held in a hybrid format. Virtual participants can register to attend via Zoom.…
5:00 pm
Biotechnology Building, G10
Bartels World Affairs Lecture
The bestselling author of Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World joins us for a personal journey down the conspiracy rabbit hole to explore why our political sphere has become dangerously warped.
When author and social activist Naomi Klein discovered a writer with the…
3:00 pm
McGraw Hall, 165
Reinventing Anthropology of Caste
The abjection of dalits/low caste has been studied extensively by anthropologists, as a way to understand caste inequality in India. Instead of focusing on dalits as a site of caste’s production, I reverse the gaze to consider the deployment of ‘woundedness’ by non-dalit or…
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Farzana Afridi (Economics, Indian Statistical Institute)
In contrast to the Western experience, while the gender gap in educational attainment and fertility rates has declined in India, we don’t observe women participating concomitantly in the labor market. Can technological changes in the market…
1:00 pm
Virtual
Go global in summer 2025! Global Internships give you valuable international work experience in fields spanning global development, climate and sustainability, international relations, communication, business, governance, and more.
This session will discuss opportunities with the Universidad San Francisco de…
1:50 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…
5:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
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The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies hosts info…
4:30 pm
Uris Hall, G08
The Migration Studies Minor is a university-wide, interdisciplinary undergraduate minor that prepares students to understand the historical and contemporary contexts and factors that drive international migration and shape migrant experiences around the globe. This minor draws on the rich course offerings found…
9:00 am
Tata Innovation Center, Cornell Tech, TBD
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The Cornell EMI Mark Mobius Pitch Competition invites student entrepreneurs and recent graduates…
2:45 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…
2:55 pm
Weill Hall, 226
We welcome our next speaker, Dr. Saurabh Mehta. Dr. Mehta is the Janet and Gordon Lankton Professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences here at Cornell. He is also a Field Faculty Candidate for the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering.
Technology Ecosystem to Support Precision Nutrition and Health…
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Tariq Thachil (Political Science, University of Pennsylvania)
Urban citizens in low-income democracies rarely hold elected officials accountable for toxic air. To understand why, we fielded a large citizen survey in Delhi, India, a highly polluted megacity where voters rarely prioritize air pollution…
5:00 pm
Virtual
The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies funds international graduate student research!
Research travel grants provide international travel support for graduate and professional students to conduct short-term research or fieldwork outside the United States.
Global PhD Research Awards fund…
4:45 pm
Virtual
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides full funding for graduate and professional students conducting research in any field or teaching in more than 150 countries. Open to U.S. citizens only. The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program supports doctoral students conducting research in…
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Priyamvada Gopal (English, University of Cambridge )
Partially in light of its recent currency for Hindu majoritarianism and the rhetoric of Hindutva, this talk will raise questions about the project of ‘decolonization’ in India through the work of Bhimrao Ambedkar. His famous polemic, What Congress…
4:45 pm
Virtual
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. Students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are encouraged to start the process in their junior year. Recent graduates are welcome to apply through…
5:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
If you love languages, our funding opportunities are for you! Learn one of more than 50 languages offered at Cornell with a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship or Rare and Distinctive Language Fellowship. Opportunities are open to both undergraduate and graduate students.
FLAS fellowships support…
1:00 pm
Virtual
Go global in summer 2025! Global Internships give you valuable international work experience in fields spanning global development, climate and sustainability, international relations, communication, business, governance, and more.
Register for this virtual session.
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The Mario Einaudi Center…
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Ayesha Matthan (History of Art, Cornell University)
This talk looks at a portrayal of the working classes in Bombay/Mumbai/Bambai between the 1970s and 1990s by pictorialist photographers such as Foy Nissen, Pablo Bartholomew, Raghubir Singh, Raghu Rai, Ketaki Sheth, Sooni Taraporevala, and Henning…
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Bhavani Raman (History, University of Toronto)
The laws that authorize modern state impunity, such as martial law, sedition, disturbed areas, and preventive detention, were first given statutory authority by a colonial corporation, the East India Company consolidating its conquest of India. Why was…
1:00 pm
Virtual
Go global in summer 2025! Global Internships give you valuable international work experience in fields spanning global development, climate and sustainability, international relations, communication, business, governance, and more.
Register for this virtual session.
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The Mario Einaudi Center…
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Zehra Hashmi (History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania )
This talk examines how and why Pakistan’s national biometric-based identification regime came to use an individual’s blood relations to construct and track uniquely identified individuals. Through the concept of datafied…
5:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Go global in summer 2025! 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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The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies hosts info…