Ithaca-based international graduate and professional students are invited to join the Office of Global Learning for a casual coffee hour on the third Thursday every month at the Big Red Barn! Coffee and snacks provided.

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 for a celebration of our hobbies, passions, and special interests!

You'll have the opportunity to meet new people, see (and interact with) their hobbies or special interests, or even present your own if you'd like!

We're inviting anyone interested (individuals AND on-campus organizations) to table at this event - we look forward to seeing what cool things…

This talk will examine the relationship between scientific racism and fashionable dress during the 19th and 20th century. It will explore how undergarments such as the bustle and brassiere have been used to shape white women’s bodies into forms associated with the bodies of women of color, and in turn to give those women a sexual allure that was achieved through technological means that did…

Dr. João Nemi Neto is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University (New York). He is a researcher on sexuality, effeminophobia, and LGBTQAI+ representation on television and cinema. His latest book is “Cannibalizing Queer: Brazilian Cinema between 1970 and 2015” (Wayne State University Press, 2022).

This is an online event (Zoom) and…

Explore what a sensory-friendly space looks like! See sensory friendly furniture, weighted blankets, other wearables, white sound machines, and more.

You will have the opportunity to engage in fun activities to find out how our senses work--proprioceptive, vision, hearing, smell, ventricular... you name it!

This inclusive event is open to the public. Cornell and community…

Geraldine Standup is a Kanien:keha'ka Elder (Mohawk), Bear Clan, and Traditional Healer. She is a first language speaker, and spent a large part of her life dedicated to bringing language and Indigenous education back to her community. In this live webinar featuring Tahila Moss (Yoeme, Jewish), we will learn how Geraldine connects with the living world in her Healing traditions – cedar,…

An A.D. White Professors-at-Large keynote public lecture

Thursday, March 27, at 4:45pm, Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall, and via Zoom

Open to all. A reception will follow.

Abstract

The establishment of colonial dispensations on the Caribbean frontier by rival European imperial powers was conceived and implemented within an ideological framework that…

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.

Mel Adún is a Brazilian writer, editor, and researcher. She will discuss Candomblé, its traditions, and its struggle for religious freedom.

This is an online event (Zoom) and registration in advance is required.

This event is part of the PORT/LATA 2800 class.

This event is sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) and supported by the Department of Romance…