IAD Spring 2025 Seminar Series:

In the 1960s and 1970s, in response to holdouts of colonial power in southern and Portuguese Africa, self-described African national liberation movements took form. These organizations engaged in military and diplomatic efforts to achieve independence, usually with the goal of seizing state power. These groups were surprisingly successful at mobilizing…

Join your friends and make some new ones as we go ice skating at Lynah Rink! Participation is free. Registration is required. Participants must be 18 years old or older.

Join us on Zoom to practice your English 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 more than you might think. Conversation Hours are open to any learner, including…

Join us to commemorate Yom HaShoah by listening to Roald Hoffmann's perilous story of survival. We are honored to be joined by Hoffman, a Holocaust Survivor, Nobel Prize Winner, and Cornell Professor Emeritus of Chemistry.

Before social media, before #BlackTwitter, there was nineteenth-century Black print. “We struggle against opinions. Our warfare lies in the field of thought,” proclaimed the 1847 National Convention of Colored People held in Troy, NY. Black Print draws on Cornell’s rich Africana Rare and Manuscript Collections to highlight the many ways Black Americans have used print and the press as spaces…

Calling all current international employees including J1 interns: join International Services (part of the Office of Global Learning) for a casual meet and greet/coffee hour on the final Friday of each month. Coffee and snacks will be provided. Locations vary each month and will be announced via the international scholar listserv.

We will provide an informal gathering "space" for any and all who wish to speak and hear Yiddish. The subject of conversation will depend on the interests of those who come. We look forward to meeting you!

Fridays at 12 p.m. ET

Join Yiddish Conversation Hour

Bilingual Meeting: Ubuntu Book Club brings together students from the Federal Institute of São Paulo, Matão Campus, Cornell University, and several other institutions to discuss books by Black authors and explore themes related to identity and representation in a safe and respectful environment.

This semester, we will discuss the book "Sobrevivendo no Inferno" by the…

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 more than you might think. Conversation Hours are open to any learner,…

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 more than you might think. Conversation Hours are open to any learner,…