Cornell Public Health faculty are convening a series of working meetings with students and researchers from Cornell peer institutions to explore the conditions that allow for emerging communicable diseases. Grounded in One Health and Planetary Health paradigms (how humans interact with, influence, and are…

Professor Baptist will be discussing his ongoing project--tracing several threads and beads of fugitive laws, regulations, and policies. He intends to help us make sense of these and what ramifications they portend for racial justice and contemporary policing in America.

Shuang Shen is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Chinese, Penn State University

This paper situates Cantonese literature in the context of several key programmatic changes of language in the twentieth-century Sinosphere, including language reforms, language movements, or language policies…

Excitement – and anxiety – about the 2020 election ratchets higher with the release of each new poll and prediction. But polls don’t tell the whole story and many forecasts in 2016 were proved wrong: what can we expect this year?

In “Between the Polls: How Voters Decide,” experts will examine how we learn…

Speaker: Emily T. Yeh is Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder

Abstract: Although infrastructure is conventionally thought of in reference to human-designed systems such as railroads, pipelines, tunnels, and ports, landscapes, and nature itself are also increasingly being understood as…

This panel is organized to bring together museum directors, curators, architects, and scholars to comment on the recent discussions on repatriation and restitution as a form of reparation to colonized and looted lands.

While museums in Europe and North America have occasionally returned objects to their…

In recent years Brazilians have demonstrated a sudden and newfound tendency to change their racial identifications and adopt nonwhite (and especially black) identities. I argue this sudden change can be attributed to state-led educational expansion for lower classes, which has increased their personal exposure to…

Immigration and border security are signature policy areas for the Trump administration and central to the upcoming U.S. election. From immigration enforcement, to the public charge rule, to F-1 duration of status—find out where the candidates stand and what may be at stake for you.

Professor Stephen Yale-…

Between 1724 and 1730, Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II of Jaipur constructed five astronomical observatories, called Jantar Mantars, in northern India. The four remaining observatories are an extraordinary fusion of architecture and science, combining elements of astronomy, astrology, and geometry into forms of…

Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium with Meir Shahar, Tel Aviv University

Description of Texts for the Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium

Written materials from late-imperial rural China are relatively rare. I have chosen two specimens for the Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium. The first is…

Please join us for a virtual talk by Dr. Peera Panarut, a specialist in the epigraphic and manuscript culture of Thailand, including the Buddhist manuscript tradition. This event is funded by the GPSA and generously co-sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies, the Department of Religious Studies the South Asia…

The Annual Hu Shih Distinguished Lecture with Meir Shahar, History, Tel Aviv University

Chinese Animal Gods

Abstract: Our ancestors depended upon beasts of burden for a living. In the Chinese case this dependence was reflected in the religious sphere. Chinese religion featured deities responsible…

Ladislaus M. Semali is a Professor Emeritus of Education of Pennsylvania State University, in the Department of Learning and Performance Systems. Academically, he specializes in adult literacy education, comparative and international education and non-Western place-based educational epistemologies. He has published…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty series

Megan Sinnott, Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Georgia State University

Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

In contemporary Thailand, new and transformed…

Peace and Conflict Studies Institute Reading Group for October 15. William Spaniel, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh and Iris Malone, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington…

Rescheduled from April, Dr. Daisy Wang will present this year's annual Stoikov Lecture, "Who is Lai Fong? New Perspectives on 19th-Century Photography in China" as a free webinar.

Daisy Wang is deputy director of the Hong Kong Palace Museum, which will open its doors in 2022. She was…

Ithaca Premiere

1966 > Portugal > Directed by Paulo Rocha
With Geraldo Del Rey, Isabel Ruth, Maria Barroso
Paulo Rocha's haunting second feature, Change of Life, tells the beautiful and deeply felt story of a young man, a veteran from the war in Angola, who returns home to his remote…

Ithaca Premiere

2019 > South Korea > Directed by Bora Kim
With Ji-hu Park, Sae-byuk Kim, Seung-yeon Lee
Fourteen-year-old Eun-hee moves through life like a hummingbird searching for a taste of sweetness wherever she may find it. Ignored by her parents and abused by her brother, she finds…

This event is part of the Cine con Cultura Latinx American Film Festival!

Join filmmaker Cathy Lee Crane after viewing a special Central New York regional screening of her latest feature film, Crossing Columbus, a unique take on the US/Mexico border. Crane has been charting a speculative history on film…

How is the coronavirus crisis affecting immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees? Einaudi Center Migrations faculty fellows Gunisha Kaur, MD and Steve Yale-Loehr, JD will discuss key topics including healthcare access, public benefits, and detention policies these populations face. They will also share from their…

The possibilities of presenting contemporary art through digital technologies have multiplied in recent years. Particularly through the pandemic, programming and exhibitions have migrated online, breaking down barriers for public appreciation. Out of necessity, putting arts engagement at the core of all programming…

This film screening is part of the Cine con Cultura Latinx American Film Festival!

2020 > USA > Directed by Cathy Lee Crane

"History haunts the border town of Columbus, N.M. when Mexican riders on horseback cross the line to commemorate Pancho Villa's 1916 raid. As border dwellers and…

Ndongo Samba Sylla, Research and Programme Manager for the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation

Dr. Ndongo Samba Sylla will present a lecture articulated on what Celso Furtado, the late Brazilian economist, called the ‘myth of economic development ’. He is a Senegalese development economist, interested in Fair Trade,…

This presentation reflects on the Connecting Modern Art Histories in and across Africa, South and Southeast Asia (MAHASSA) project, which brought together a team of international faculty and emerging scholars to investigate the cultural histories of these regions. Shaped by shared developments, these regions are…

Part of the Ronald and Janette Gatty series

Patrick Jory, Senior Lecturer in Southeast Asian History, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, University of Queensland

Apart from some brief references to China and East Asia, Norbert Elias’s The Civilizing Process focussed on the history of…

The Romance Studies Department is pleased to invite Dr. Patricio del Real from Harvard's History of Art and Architecture Department to give a talk from the selection of the manuscript of his new book, Inventing Latin American Architecture: Politics and Race at the Museum of Modern Art.

THURSDAY,…

Peace and Conflict Studies Institute Reading Group for October 8. Fiona B. Adamson, Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London, will join us for a discussion of “Pushing the Boundaries: Can We “Decolonize” Security Studies?” Journal of Global Security Studies, 5(1), 2020, 129–135…

This film screening is part of the Cine con Cultura Latinx American Film Festival!

2018 > Chile > Directed by Joaqu’n Cocina, Cristobal Leon
With Amalia Kassai, Rainer Krause

Inspired by the actual case of Colonia Dignidad (The Dignity Colony, a remote, Chilean Nazi sect founded after WWII…

"Multiliteracies Pedagogy and Teacher Professional Development: From Research to Practice"
Kate Paesani
Director of the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA), University of Minnesota

Recent scholarship foregrounds multiliteracies pedagogy as a viable approach for…

Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817-1898) was a major Muslim figure in nineteenth century colonial India whose critical work on religion, education, archaeology and science influenced generations. While his work is viewed as an effort to bring Muslims out of their isolation, seek modern western education, his writings…