In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so-called "green border" between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa are lured by government propaganda promising easy passage to the European Union. Unable to cross into Europe and unable to turn back, they find themselves…

In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so-called "green border" between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa are lured by government propaganda promising easy passage to the European Union. Unable to cross into Europe and unable to turn back, they find themselves…

Talk by Townsend Middleton (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

What happens after colonial industries have run their course? When the factory closes and the fields go fallow, how do laboring communities continue to live and fight amid all that remains? In this talk, anthropologist (and Cornell SAP…

Talk by Ayse Polat (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell Society for the Humanities Cambridge University, PhD)

How do the circulation and distribution of arms shape social relations, conflicts, and hierarchies? Is arms trafficking a means of contesting the established order of things, or cementing it? This…

Meet with representative from the International Sustainable Development Institute (ISDSI) that provides field-based environmental study abroad program for undergraduates. Study sustainable agriculture in the lowlands, forest ecology in the uplands, and coastal ecology in the south. Great for many CALS majors.…

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…

The Cornell China Center, through Global Cornell and its Global Hubs initiative, is offering faculty research grants for collaboration with Zhejiang University (ZJU).

Global Hubs collaborative research seed grants bring together Cornell and partner institution faculty to develop joint projects with the…

Come learn more about our winter study abroad in Cambodia, lunch provided. In collaboration with the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS), Cornell's Southeast Asia (SEAP, Einaudi) Study Abroad program in Cambodia will provide an in-depth focus on the cultural heritage of Cambodia both past and present. This highly…

Learn about study abroad in Chile from the Resident Director of the CASA Santiago program. Through CASA, undergraduates with advanced Spanish (one class beyond SPAN 2095) study at Chilean universities. CASA also offers a special Chilean history and culture course where you meet local experts and travel to the north…

The Global Blackness initiative aims to chart a possible future for a network of students, faculty, and staff that relationally engage the topic of Global Blackness.

Building on the momentum of Cornell’s 2023 Global Blackness Town Hall, this year, the Global Blackness initiative is organizing events guided…

Examines a broad range of critical concerns in contemporary Africa including food production, human resource development, migration, urbanization, environmental resource management, economic growth, and policy guidance. The weekly presentations are made by invited specialists. Students write weekly memos about the…

This talk will describe the articles Gessen has written since the start of the war and try to summarize some of what he's learned. The articles cover the effects of the war in Western Ukraine; the political science debates over "war termination"; the political science and historical debates over…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Chie Ikeya, Associate Professor of History, Director of the Institute for Research on Women, and Co-Director of Global Asias at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, who will discuss the marriage laws in Southeast Asia.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at…

Climate and environmental changes profoundly influence the movement of people, birds, and other species across the globe. The news is replete with stories of human migration, often portraying it as a crisis. Yet despite changes in movement patterns over recent decades, migration has been a natural phenomenon for…

"Collaborative Curriculum Design in LCTLs: Student-Centered Multimodal Approaches Using Authentic Media"
Oya Topçuoğlu Judd
Associate Professor of Instruction in Turkish, Northwestern University

As LCTL instructors, we frequently face the challenge of sourcing high-quality, engaging…

In a seminal conference, Southeast Asian language instructors from across the country will gather to celebrate the successes of the Southeast Asian Language Council (SEALC), and to plan for the future of Southeast Asian language instruction.

For further details and a full program of the weekend's events…

With a small film crew, Wim Wenders accompanied his old friend Ry Cooder, who had written the music for Paris, Texas and The End of Violence, on a trip to Havana, and immersed himself in the world of Cuban music. Over the course of several months, he observed and accompanied the musicians' first at home in…

Set in Paraguayan Chaco, Eami a magic-realist film by Paraguayan director Paz Encina is the story of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode people, told from the perspective of a young girl.

Eami is a young girl and member of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode community whose homeland is invaded by settlers intent on brutally…

Talk by P. Sainath (Founding Editor, People’s Archive of Rural India)

The 2022 celebrations around the 75th year of India’s Independence seemed devoid of any recall of who and what it was the Indian people fought against to win Freedom and Independence. Official websites dedicated to the subject tell young…

Cosponsor: Department of Global Labor and Work

Latin America’s “left turn” at the beginning of the twenty-first century was unprecedented in its scope and duration, producing 32 presidential victories by left-of-center parties or leaders in 11 different countries between 1998 and 2015. Despite notable…

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…

Come learn more about this spring opportunity with spring break travel, developed in partnership with Universidad San Francisco de Quito and as part of the Jeb E. Brooks School’s Global Policy Exchange Lab. This 3-credit collaborative online international learning (COIL) and community-based global learning (CBGL)…

"Türkiye’s Christian Sites: Seven Churches of Revelation and Holy Sites, House of Virgin Mary, Early Christian Settlements and pilgrimage" lecture with Pelin Kumbet Cagman, visiting scholar at Cornell University.

Part of the "Exploring Turkish Language and Culture" lecture series.

Join Grad student writers weekly to share goals and write in community. Sessions will begin with brief goal-settings. Then, the bulk of the time will be dedicated to independent writing in community. You’ll have the opportunity to share what you accomplished with a supportive group of peers.

POSSIBLE LANDSCAPES

Directed by Kannan Arunasalam

Produced and conceptualized by Tao DuFour and Natalie Melas

"For no one had yet written of this landscape

that it was possible.”

Derek Walcott

A collaboration between a documentary filmmaker, Kanan Arunasalam and two…

Institute for African Development weekly seminar series examines a broad range of critical concerns in contemporary Africa including food production, human resource development, migration, urbanization, environmental resource management, economic growth, and policy guidance. The weekly presentations are made by…

Why do some coercive demands succeed while others fail?

A dominant paradigm in the study of international relations explains coercive outcomes by pointing to the credibility and severity of threats. This lecture advances another paradigm called the Assurance Dilemma. Even highly credible and severe threats…

Gatty Lecture Series

Join us for a talk by Eric C. Thompson, Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the National University of Singapore, who will discuss the writing of a book The Story of Southeast Asia.

This Gatty Lecture will take place at the The Kahin Center,…

An array of social welfare programs have emerged in independent India, but how and for whom have these programs been constructed, what have their impact been, and what are the key challenges for the future?

Join us in-person or via zoom for a Chats in the Stacks book talk with Prabhu L. Pingali, professor…

This year's Annual Hu Shih Distinguished Lecture is titled: From Research Assistants to Professors: Scholars from China as Experts on China, 1920-1960 Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Professor Emeritus, History, University of Washington

This talk will look at the growth of China studies as an academic field in…