ICM Events

2026 Events

Samantha N. Samantha N. Sheppard, Associate Professor, Department of Performing and Media Arts, Cornell University A Black W/hole: Tisa Bryant's Phantom Cinemas Wednesday, February 11, 2026 Goldwin Smith Hall G22 4:45 P.M—6:15 P.M. Free and open to the public If you need accommodations to participate in this event, please contact icm@cornell.edu as soon as possible. Caption: Iris from Tisa Bryant's "mind map" of novel-in-progress The Curator. Courtesy of the artist.

Samantha Sheppard, “A Black W/hole: Tisa Bryant's Phantom Cinemas”

1/14/2026

Wednesday, March 11–Thursday, March 12 ICM LECTURE + GRADUATE SEMINAR NASSER ABOURAHME Bowdoin College IN THE OPEN TIME OF DISPOSSESSION: CAMP, COLONY, PALESTINE Goldwin Smith Hall Kaufmann Auditorium | 4:45 P.M. –6:15 P.M. ON THE NECESSITY OF GENOCIDE: PALESTINE AND UNWORLDING Toboggan Lodge, 38 Forest Home Drive | 9:00 A.M. –11:00 A.M. (registration required) Co-sponsored by the Southwest Asian and North Africa Program

Nasser Abourahme, “In the Open Time of Dispossession: Camp, Colony, Palestine"

2/02/2026

Amiel Bize, The Post Agrarian Question, Tuesday, March 24, 2026, Klarman Hall KG42, 4:45 P.M. - 6:15 P.M. Spring 2026 New Conversations Series.

Amiel Bize, "The Post-Agrarian Question"

3/02/2026

CJ WAN-LING WEE, "SHANGHAI SPIRIT": THE SHANGHAI BIENNALE 2000 AND THE TRANSNATIONAL POSTCOLONIAL WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2026 A.D. WHITE HOUSE, GUERLAC ROOM, 4:45 PM-6:15 PM

C.J. Wan-ling Wee, "Shanghai Spirit": The Shanghai Biennale 2000 and the Transnational Postcolonial

3/27/2026

Prita Meier, Associate Professor, Department of Art History & Institute of Fine Arts, New York University) THE SURFACE OF THINGS: A HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE SWAHILI COAST Monday, April 20, 2026 A.D. White House, Guerlac Room 4:45 P.M.– 6:15 P.M. Co-sponsored by Department of History of Art and Society for the Humanities

Prita Meier, The Surface of Things: A History of Photography from the Swahili Coast

4/06/2026

2025 Events

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, Iranian Matriotism and Curative Modernity poster with images of women in colorful head coverings

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, "Iranian Matriotism and Curative Modernity" 2.27

1/22/2025

Michell Chresfield, ICM NEW CONVERSATIONS SERIES MICHELL CHRESFIELD (Assistant Professor, Africana Studies & Research Center) “Crafting Recognition: Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Native Identity” poster with picture of two figures on the side of a desolate road

Michell Chresfield, “Crafting Recognition: Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Native Identity” 3.17

3/03/2025

Samera Esmeir, Territorial Imperatives, Revolutionary Leaning poster with image of detail of mosaic, tree and animals

Samera Esmeir, "Territorial Imperatives Revolutionary Leanings: Thinking with the Palestinian Revolution" 3.26

12/17/2024

Pinar Ogrenci film still, marching line of people in the snow, aerial view

Pinar Ogrenci, "Gurbet is a Home Now" and "Aşît - The Avalanche" Screening and Discussion 4.15

3/14/2025

rina Troconis, "The Necromantic State: Spectral Remains in the Afterglow of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution" poster with book cover

Irina R. Troconis, "The Necromantic State: Spectral Remains in the Afterglow of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution" 4.21

4/01/2025

FANON: Screening and Discussion at Cornell Cinema 9.17

8/25/2025

NIDHI MAHAJAN POSTER with aerial image of boats moored

Nidhi Mahajan, "Moorings: Voyages of Capital Across the Indian Ocean" 9.22

9/05/2025

Atreyee Gupta,Non-Aligned: Art, Decolonization and the Third World Project in India. Two book covers featured side by side on poster.

Atreyee Gupta, "Non-Aligned: Art, Decolonization, and the Third World Project in India + Postwar Revisited: A Global Art History" 10.8

9/22/2025

Shaoling Ma, "Integrated Rural Circuits: A Scalar History of Southeast Asia's Computational Environments" poster image blurred computer screen

Shaoling Ma, "Integrated Rural Circuits: A Scalar History of Southeast Asia's Computational Environments" 11.13

10/17/2025

Juliana Hu Pegues Colonialism is Gorges: The Confluence of Racial Capitalism and Settler Feminism" poster with painting "Reversing Manifest Destiny"

Juliana Hu Pegues, "Colonialism is Gorges: The Confluence of Racial Capitalism and Settler Feminism" 11.19

11/06/2025

2024 Events

Film Screening & Discussion, Jole Dobe Na / Those Who Do Not Drown Naeem Mohaiemen, Thursday, March 28, 2024

Naeem Mohaiemen, Jole Dobe Na / Those Who Do Not Drown 3.28

2/05/2024

ICM LECTURE SERIES Beshara Doumani, "A Modern History of the Palestinians Through the Social Life of Stone" Monday, May 6, 2024 Goldwin Smith Hall 64 | Kaufmann Auditorium 4:45 p.m —6:15 p.m.

Beshara Doumani, "A Modern History of the Palestinians Through the Social Life of Stone" 5.6

2/12/2024

Sagal Farah, Where We Leave Things Tues., Sept 24, 2024 poster with abstract image

Sagal Farah, "Where We Leave Things" ICM New Conversation

9/16/2024

Mario Lewis, Forest Notebooks poster with detail of abstract design

Mario Lewis, "Forest Notebooks: The Interaction Between Art, Community, and Ecology"

9/23/2024

Possible Landscapes debut screening poster with misty mountain image

Possible Landscapes Debut Test Screening

9/17/2024

Angela Davis, A World of Greater Freedom

Angela Davis: A World of Greater Freedom 10.3

9/26/2024

Seema Golestaneh, Poetry, Jihad and the Communal Self poster

Seema Golestaneh, Poetry, Jihad, and the Communal Self in Afghan Resistance Literature of the 1980s and 1990s 10.21

10/04/2024

Tejasvi Nagaraja poster image. Backdrop of files with message: "Soldier Trouble"

Tejasvi Nagaraja, "The Work of Internationalism: Labor and Black Solidarity in Global War" 11.20

11/11/2024

2023 Events

Begum Adalet, Insurgent Mood, Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 4:45 pm Toboggan Lodge

Begüm Adalet, "Insurgent Mood" 11.7

10/27/2023

Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik, Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Post-Colonial Future

Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik, Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future 11.1

10/17/2023

Oumar Ba, Rethinking Liberal Internationalsim: Imperialism, Pacification, Humanity, Wednesday, October 25

Oumar Ba, "Rethinking Liberal Internationalism: Imperialism, Pacification, Humanity," 10.25

10/16/2023

Jodi Byrd, Accumulated Catastrophes, Monday, October 16, 2023 Goldwin Smith Hall G22

Jodi Byrd, "Accumulated Catastrophes" 10.16

10/02/2023

Rinaldo Walcott, On Property, After Reparations, Towards Repair Monday October 2, 4:45 - 6:15 pm Goldwin Smith G22

Rinaldo Walcott, "On Property, After Reparations, Towards Repair" 10.2

9/12/2023

La Langue, Colonial Legacie and Area Studies: Comparative Modernities poster image with speaker information

La Langue, Colonial Legacies, and Area Studies: Comparative Modernities 9.22—9.23

9/11/2023

Mostafa Minawi and Durba Ghosh, “Describing Difference and Inscribing Race: The Case of the Late Ottoman Empire”

Mostafa Minawi and Durba Ghosh, "Describing Difference and Inscribing Race: The Case of the Late Ottoman Empire" 2.1

1/11/2023

ICM Global South Translation Symposium Saturday, February 11, 2023, 10:45 am online. Poster text on image of Arabic script. Content about speakers and text is repeated verbatim on article information

ICM Global South Translation Symposium 2.11

1/31/2023

Ernesto Bassi, Plantation Dreams Global Connections and Disconnections from South America's Caribbean Shores

Ernesto Bassi, Plantation Dreams: Global Connections and Disconnections From South America's Caribbean Shores"

2/10/2023

Ifikhar Dadi, "Lahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fable" poster image with images of dramatic poses from Pakistani film

Iftikhar Dadi, Lahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fable 3.1

2/17/2023

Reparations for Colonization Carbonization Friday March 3, 2023

Reparations for Colonization Carbonization 3.3

2/22/2023

Rahaab Allana, The South Asian Imaginary poster

Rahaab Allana, The South Asian Imaginary: Exploring the region through image-making practices 4.17

3/06/2023

Racial Capitalism poster with Image of redlined Chicago neighborhoods

Racial Capitalism: Past, Present, and Futures 4.21—4.22

3/13/2023

ICM SPRING 2023 EVENT SERIES POSTER TEXT IN ARTICLE

ICM Announces Spring 2023 Event Series

1/24/2023

2022 Events

Berin F. Gur, "Political Misuse, Conquest and Hagia Sophia in Istanbul” detail of Hagia Sophia dome

Berin F. Gür, "Political Misuse, Conquest and Hagia Sophia in Istanbul”

11/10/2022

Robert Travers, Cultural State-Building in a Persianate World: Mughal Law and the Making of British India," Tuesday, November 1, 4:45 pm-6:15pm

Robert Travers, "Colonial State-Building in a Persianate World: Mughal Law and the Making of British India"

10/21/2022

Khalid Mustafa Medani, The Great Transformation in the Middle East and Africa. Wednesday, Oct 19, 4:45 pm

Khalid Mustafa Medani, "The Great Transformation in the Middle East and Africa: Globalization, (In)formal Markets and the Politics of Identity"

10/19/2022

Palestine and Indigenous North America: Eric Cheyfitz, Eman Ghanyem, Robert Warrior, Wednesday, October 5, 5:15pm

Palestine and Indigenous North America: a discussion with Eric Cheyfitz, Eman Ghanayem and Robert Warrior

10/05/2022

Maria Gonzalez Pendas Holy Modern

María González Pendás, Holy Modern: New Conversation 8.30

7/01/2022

Esra Akcan, Abolish Human Bans: Intertwined Histories of Architecture

Esra Akcan, Abolish Human Bans: Intertwined Histories of Architecture 4.20

4/20/2022

Jean Khalfa, Fanon, Phenomenology and Psychiatry

Jean Khalfa, Fanon, Phenomenology and Psychiatry 3.21

3/21/2022

Image of people gathered in Aleppo market, c 1925

Empire's Province Into National City: Architecture and the Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire 3.14 – 15

3/07/2022

Darren Byler, Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City

Darren Byler, Terror Capitalism Book Talk 3.2

3/02/2022

Prita Meier, Associate Professor, Department of Art History & Institute of Fine Arts, New York University) THE SURFACE OF THINGS: A HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE SWAHILI COAST Monday, April 20, 2026 A.D. White House, Guerlac Room 4:45 P.M.– 6:15 P.M. Co-sponsored by Department of History of Art and Society for the Humanities

Prita Meier, The Surface of Things: A History of Photography from the Swahili Coast

4/06/2026

CJ WAN-LING WEE, "SHANGHAI SPIRIT": THE SHANGHAI BIENNALE 2000 AND THE TRANSNATIONAL POSTCOLONIAL WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2026 A.D. WHITE HOUSE, GUERLAC ROOM, 4:45 PM-6:15 PM

C.J. Wan-ling Wee, "Shanghai Spirit": The Shanghai Biennale 2000 and the Transnational Postcolonial

3/27/2026

Archival image of Toboggan Lodge on Beebe Lake

Call for Proposals: ICM Graduate Reading Group Grants

3/18/2026

2021 Events

Film screening of We Love We Self Up Here, a documentary short by Kannan Arunasalam, Tao DuFour, and Natalie Melas, as well as a panel discussion with Jeremy Foster, Viranjini Munasinghe and David Scott (remotely) Friday, November 12, 2021 at Milstein Hall

We Love We Self Up Here, film screening, 11.12, 5:15pm

11/05/2021

Global South Translation Symposium: Theory and Practice, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021

ICM Global South Translation Symposium: Theory and Practice

11/02/2021

Beyond Settlers & Natives: South Africa and Palestine in Comparison

Loubna Qutami and Virginia Tilley, Beyond Settlers and Natives: South Africa and Palestine in Comparison 11.18.21

10/15/2021

Talk by Noura Erakat on Palestine: Settler Colonialism, Sovereignty, and Apartheid

Noura Erakat, “Palestine: Settler Colonialism, Sovereignty and Apartheid” 9.23.21

9/23/2021

Best! poster

Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts, Wednesday, September 15, 12pm ET

9/15/2021

Parisa Vaziri, Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature and Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University "The Turmoil of Facts: Racial Blackness, Zār and Indian Ocean Slavery” Thursday, October 14, 4:45pm

Parisa Vaziri, "The Turmoil of Facts: Racial Blackness, Zār and Indian Ocean Slavery” Thursday,

9/09/2021

Maryam Wasif Khan, Who Is a Muslim? poster image with book cover

Maryam Wasif Khan, "Who Is a Muslim? Orientalism and Literary Populisms"

5/06/2021

Naminata Diabate Poster

Naminata Diabate, "Diya, Plaisir, Pleasure and the Making of Sarraounia, the Warrior Queen"

4/21/2021

Ahmad Sikainga, Debating Slavery in the Middle East: Perspectives From the Region, April 15, 2021, 11:00am, online

Ahmad Sikainga, "Debating Slavery in the Middle East: Perspectives from the Region"

4/15/2021

Darryl Li poster

Darryl Li, "The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity”

4/06/2021

Susan Buck-Morss, Against the Grain: Rethinking Categories

Susan Buck-Morss," Against the Grain: Unlearning Categories"

3/18/2021

IES Migrations Series Belgium to Congo: Colonialism Reparation and Truth & Reconciliation Commissions; Feb. 24, 10:30am EST

IES Migration Series on "Repair and Reparations"

2/24/2021

2020 Events

Textual Abstraction Within Transnational Modernism Symposium

Textual Abstraction Within Transnational Modernism Symposium at Tate

11/05/2020

Ethiopia: Modern Nation – Ancient Roots October 17-20, 2020

Ethiopia: Modern Nation – Ancient Roots Conference Held October 17-20, 2020

11/09/2020

zainul Abedin working at desk, Dhaka Art Institute 1950

Connecting Art Histories Across Africa and Asia

10/12/2020

Anti-Racism, Activism and Institutional Change. Wednesday October 14

Anti-Racism, Activism and Institutional Change

10/07/2020

Gilbert Achcar; From One Arab Spring to Another: A Regional Revolutionary Process; September 30, 2020 12pm EDT

Gilbert Achcar, "From One Arab Spring to Another: A Regional Revolutionary Process"

9/30/2020

Webinar: Africa and the Challenge of COVID-19

Africa and The Challenge of COVID-19: A Webinar with Salah M. Hassan

5/10/2020

Health Inequality and Pandemics webinar

Health, Inequality and Pandemics: A Webinar with Jamila Michener and Suman Seth

5/20/2020

Holiday Powers, "The Absence of the Maternal Body in Contemporary Art"

Holiday Powers, "The Absence of the Maternal Body in Contemporary Art"

3/03/2020

Enzo Traverso, "Fascism as a Trans-Historical Concept"

Enzo Traverso, "Fascism as a Trans-Historical Concept"

2/12/2020

2019 Events

Durba Ghosh poster 2019 Moving Monuments

Durba Ghosh, "Moving Monuments: Colonial and Postcolonial Commemorations in the British Empire"

11/19/2019

Elizabeth W. Giorgis, Associate Professor, Addis Ababa University, Fall 2019 New Conversations Series, "The Challenges of Writing African Art History: Modernist Ethiopian Art" Wednesday, October 30, 2019, 4:45PM, Kaufmann Auditorium

Elizabeth W. Giorgis, "The Challenges of Writing African Art History: Modernist Ethiopian Art"

10/30/2019

New Conversations Series, Shaina Anand, filmmaker and artist, CAMP, "CAMP: Cinema at a time of More Cameras than People" Friday, September 27, 2019, 4:45PM, G22 Goldwin Smith Hall, Free and open to the public

Shaina Anand, "CAMP: Cinema at a Time of More Cameras than People"

9/27/2019

J. Daniel Elam poster Stopping, and Leaving: Frantz Fanon, B.R. Ambedkar and the Anticolonial Refusal

J. Daniel Elam, "Stopping, and Leaving: Frantz Fanon, B.R. Ambedkar, and the Anticolonial Refusal"

4/08/2019

Russell Rickford poster Declaring Blackness is Easy: Angola and African American Solidarity in the 1970s

Russell Rickford, "'Declaring Blackness is Easy': Angola and African-American Solidarity in the 1970s"

3/28/2019

Hamid Dabashi poster Hamid Dabashi; Comparative Modernities: Are We There Yet?

Hamid Dabashi, "Comparative Modernities: Are We There Yet?”

2/07/2019

Event Archive

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Film Screening & Discussion, Jole Dobe Na / Those Who Do Not Drown Naeem Mohaiemen, Thursday, March 28, 2024

Naeem Mohaiemen, Jole Dobe Na / Those Who Do Not Drown 3.28

2/05/2024

ICM LECTURE SERIES Beshara Doumani, "A Modern History of the Palestinians Through the Social Life of Stone" Monday, May 6, 2024 Goldwin Smith Hall 64 | Kaufmann Auditorium 4:45 p.m —6:15 p.m.

Beshara Doumani, "A Modern History of the Palestinians Through the Social Life of Stone" 5.6

2/12/2024

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