Rahaab Allana, The South Asian Imaginary: Exploring the region through image-making practices 4.17
Rahaab Allana visits Cornell on April 17, 2023 to speak on "The South Asian Imaginary: Exploring the region through image-making practices"
Ernesto Bassi, Plantation Dreams: Global Connections and Disconnections From South America's Caribbean Shores"
ICM LECTURE SERIES SPRING 2023
Monday, February 20, 2022 at 4:45pm to 6:15pm
Goldwin Smith Hall G22
ERNESTO BASSI
Associate Professor, Department of History Cornell University
Director, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
"Plantation Dreams: Global Connections and Disconnections From South America's Caribbean Shores"
ICM Global South Translation Symposium 2.11
ICM EVENTS SERIES SPRING 2023
Saturday, February 11, 2023
10:45 a.m.–12:45 a.m Eastern/New York
ONLINE
REGISTER HERE:
https://cornell.zoom.us/j/91538163732?pwd=RlBFWXVxdlpZb0hxS2NWay9Na0FrQT09
Empire's Province Into National City: Architecture and the Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire 3.14 – 15
"Empire’s Province Into National City: Architecture and the Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire" This two-day event convenes recent scholarship and works-in-progress on the transformation of Ottoman province centers into national capitals/cities during the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the broader transformations in the region, such as...
Esra Akcan, Abolish Human Bans: Intertwined Histories of Architecture 4.20
ICM Spring Events 2022
New Books Series
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
4:45-6:15 p.m. Goldwin Smith, G22
Esra Akcan, Abolish Human Bans: Intertwined Histories of Architecture
Cornell AAP faculty member Esra Akcan speaks about her recently published book, Abolish Human Bans: Intertwined...
María González Pendás, Holy Modern: New Conversation 8.30
ICM Fall 2022
New Conversations Series
MARÍA GONZÁLEZ PENDÁS
"Holy Modern: Technocracy, Theocracy and the Architectures of Hispanidad ...
Darren Byler, Terror Capitalism Book Talk 3.2
ICM Spring 2022 Events Series
DARREN BYLER Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City
Wednesday, March 2, 2022, 4:45 p.m. ET
The third installment of ICM's year-...
Jean Khalfa, Fanon, Phenomenology and Psychiatry 3.21
ICM Lecture Series, Spring 2022 Monday, March 21, 2022, 4:45 – 6:15 p.m. A.D. White House, Guerlac Room27 East Avenue, Central Campus, Cornell UniversityA video recording of this talk is available HERE"FANON, PHENOMENOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY"JEAN KHALFA, Fellow and Senior Lecturer in French Studies, Trinity College, University of Cambridge...
ICM Global South Translation Symposium: Theory and Practice
ICM EVENTS SERIES FALL 2021Saturday, December 4, 2021, 11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. ETA video recording of the event is available here.ICM GLOBAL SOUTH TRANSLATION SYMPOSIUM: THEORY AND PRACTICEThe Institute for Comparative Modernities' first Global South Translation Symposium, featuring presentations by our inaugural cohort of translators (see below...
Loubna Qutami and Virginia Tilley, Beyond Settlers and Natives: South Africa and Palestine in Comparison 11.18.21
ICM FALL 2021 LECTURE SERIESThursday, November 18, 2021, 4:45—6:15 p.m. ETA video recording of the event is available HERELOUBNA QUTAMI, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of California, Los AngelesVIRGINIA TILLEY, Klingberg Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science, Southern Illinois...
We Love We Self Up Here, film screening, 11.12, 5:15pm
We Love We Self Up HereScreening, Q&A, and panel discussion with filmmakers Kanan Arunasalam, Tao Dufour, and Natalie Melas. Panelists: Jeremy Foster, Viranjini Munasinghe, and David Scott.November 12, 2021, 5:15 p.m. Due to COVID-19 protocols, this event will be limited to the Cornell community.Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium,...
Parisa Vaziri, "The Turmoil of Facts: Racial Blackness, Zār and Indian Ocean Slavery” Thursday,
ICM FALL 2021 NEW CONVERSATION SERIESThursday, October 14, 2021, 4:45 p.m. ETOnline. A video recording of the event is available here:PARISA VAZIRIAssistant Professor, Comparative Literature and Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University"The Turmoil of Facts: Racial Blackness, Zār and Indian Ocean Slavery”ABSTRACTThe legacies of African...
Noura Erakat, “Palestine: Settler Colonialism, Sovereignty and Apartheid” 9.23.21
NOURA ERAKAT
Associate Professor, Department of Africana Studies and Program in Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
“Palestine: Settler Colonialism, Sovereignty and Apartheid”
Human rights attorney, scholar, and author Noura Erakat will give legal and historical perspectives on Palestine. Her discussion will invoke various strategies -- from invoking international legal frameworks to social movement organizing around boycott -- that have been used to counter settler colonial politics. This event is part of a year-long ICM special series, "Settler Colonialism, Sovereignty and Apartheid."
Discussant: Russell Rickford, Department of History, Cornell University
Moderator: Aziz Rana, Law School, Cornell University
Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts, Wednesday, September 15, 12pm ET
ICM FALL 2021 NEW BOOKS SERIES Wednesday, September 15, 2021
A video recording of the event is available HERE:
BEST! LETTERS FROM ASIAN AMERICANS IN THE ARTS
A panel discussion and series of readings from the 2021 anthology Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts. Readings, annotations, and dialogue with editors and ...
Maryam Wasif Khan, "Who Is a Muslim? Orientalism and Literary Populisms"
A VIDEO RECORDING OF THE TALK IS AVAILABLE HERE. ICM Spring 2021 New Books SeriesThursday, May 6, 2021 2:00 – 3:15pm MARYAM WASIF KHANAssociate Professor, Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, Mushtaq Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences, LUMS University, LahoreWho Is a Muslim? (Fordham UP, 2021) argues that modern Urdu...
Susan Buck-Morss," Against the Grain: Unlearning Categories"
A recording of the talk is available here.ICM New Conversations SeriesSUSAN BUCK-MORSSWhat are the categories of understanding that legislate what can be seen? How do we begin to unlearn those categories when critical awareness of Eurocentrism, Orientalism, racism, sexism and colonialism is not enough?Join us for a wide-ranging conversation...
Ahmad Sikainga, "Debating Slavery in the Middle East: Perspectives from the Region"
A video recording of the presentation is available HEREICM Spring 2021 Lecture SeriesApril 15, 2021 11:00 a.m.–12:15pm (NOTE NEW TIME)AHMAD SIKAINGAAssociate Professor, History, The Ohio State UniversityScholars interested in the study of slavery in the Middle East have often lamented that the subject has received little attention within the...
IES Migration Series on "Repair and Reparations"
ICM Board member Esra Akcan is moderating a series of multidisciplinary panels on the theme of "Repair and Reparations," organized as part the Institute for European Studies' year-long theme of Migrations, with events planned for the the 2020-21 academic year. The first event of the spring semester is "Belgium to Congo: Colonialism Reparation...
Darryl Li, "The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity”
A recording of the talk is available here.ICM New Books SeriesDARRYL LIAssistant Professor, Anthropology; Associate Member Law School, University of ChicagoNo contemporary figure is more demonized than the Islamist foreign fighter who wages jihad around the world. Spreading violence, disregarding national borders, and rejecting secular norms,...
Ethiopia: Modern Nation – Ancient Roots Conference Held October 17-20, 2020
Ethiopia: Modern Nation – Ancient Roots conference, co-organized by Elizabeth W. Giorgis (PhD ‘10 History of Art) and ICM Director Salah M. Hassan, on behalf of The Africa Institute, was held October 17-25, 2020.The conference invited a range of interdisciplinary scholars to consider issues of Ethiopian modernity within a national and...
Textual Abstraction Within Transnational Modernism Symposium at Tate
ICM faculty members Iftikhar Dadi and Salah Hassan present on Nov 6 and 13, 2020 at the Textual Abstraction Within Transnational Modernism Symposium. The event is organized by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational, in collaboration with The Courtauld. This symposium explores how Arabic letters were transformed into abstract visual forms...
Anti-Racism, Activism and Institutional Change
Anti-racism, Activism and Institutional ChangeWednesday, October 14, 2020, 12PM EDT, ZoomA recording of this event is available hereA conversation with Cornell faculty and students about the obstacles and opportunities the present moment has raised for anti-racism and activism in the university and elsewhere. Speakers:Russell Rickford (...
Connecting Art Histories Across Africa and Asia
Connecting Art Histories Across Africa and AsiaOctober 12, 2020, 11:15AM EDT (New York) on ZoomView a recording of this event HERE This presentation reflects on 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...
Africa and The Challenge of COVID-19: West Africa
The Africa Institute, Sharjah, is organizing a series of webinars to discuss the effects of COVID-19 on Africa and the steps African nations are taking to tackle the spread of the pandemic. This is the second webinar in the series and focuses on the region of West Africa with two leading experts; Dr. Kovana Marcel Loua, Director General, National...
Health, Inequality and Pandemics: A Webinar with Jamila Michener and Suman Seth
“Health, Inequality and Pandemics”A webinar presentation and discussion co-sponsored by The Institute for Comparative Modernities and The Polson Institute for Global Development.Friday, May 22, 2020, 1:00-2:30PMPanelists: Jamila Michener, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, CornellSuman Seth, Marie Underhill Noll Professor of the...
Africa and The Challenge of COVID-19: A Webinar with Salah M. Hassan
Africa and The Challenge of COVID-19: WEBINAR REGISTRATION OPEN NOWTUESDAY, MAY 12, 2020, 1PM ESTThe Africa Institute, Sharjah, is organizing a series of webinars to discuss the effects of COVID-19 on Africa and the steps African nations are taking to tackle the spread of the pandemic. The first of these webinars will feature two leading health...
Achille Mbembe - “Frantz Fanon and the Subject of Emancipation”
Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall (October 16th)Toboggan Lodge (October 17th)Achille Mbembe (Research Professor, History and Politics, University of the Witwatersrand)Frantz Fanon is one of the very few thinkers to have risked something that resembles a theory of decolonization. The European game having finally ended, at least so he...
Benedict Anderson "Cutting History Off at the Pass: Time and Space on the fringes of the late 19th C world-system."
Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith HallAnderson's lecture was an exploration of José Rizal’s astonishing last novel, El Filibusterismo, situated in the transnational space/time of the late nineteenth-century global landscape. Imperial power, anarchist bombings, and anti-colonial insurrections were transformed to explosive effect by the gifted young...
Mahmoud Darwish Memorial
A.D. White House, Cornell UniversityThe event is Co-Sponsored by the following units:Cornell's Society for the Humanities Department of Near Eastern StudiesThe Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, born 1941, died on August 9, 2008. He was and is one of the most important contemporary Arab poets. His poems are known throughout the Arab world and...
ICM 2012 ANNUAL CONFERENCE - “Global Anarchisms: No Gods, No Masters, No Peripheries.”
Africana Studies and Research Center 310 Triphammer Road, Multipurpose RoomAnarchism: no gods, no masters. Enough with religion and the state. This workshop makes an additional demand: no peripheries.The diffusionist line – anarchism was in areas outside of Europe an import and a script to be mimicked – has faced the challenge in...
Timothy Mitchell, “The Fabrication of Modernity: Economy, Energy, Empire”
Uris Hall Auditorium Timothy Mitchell’s presentation focused on what he called “carbon democracy,” and how different ways of organizing the flow and concentration of energy shaped its possibilities. These possibilities were enhanced or limited by the arrangements of people, finance, expertise, and violence that were assembled in relationship to...
Naoki Sakai - "Patterns of Postcolonial Ressentiment: From Area Studies to Transnational Studies"
Kaufman Auditorium, Goldwin Smith HallNaoki Sakai (Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature, Cornell University)Translation is a social process in which non-sense is somewhat rendered sensible, discontinuity is smoothed out into continuity. But translation can also be represented spatially as a bridging between two heterogeneous...
Shelley Feldman - "Accumulating Insecurity: Violence and Dispossession as Lived Experience"
Toboggan Lodge, Cornell UniversityShelley Feldman (Professor, Development Sociology; Director, Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Cornell UniversityThe project leading to the book Accumulating Insecurity: Violence and Dispossession in the Making of Everyday Life, involved experts on the securitization of society and resulting...
David Scott - "Norms of Self-Determination"
Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith HallThe third lecture for the 2007-2008 academic year for the Institute for Comparative Modernities was delivered by Professor David Scott of the anthropology department at Columbia University. Professor Scott's most recent books include Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality(Princeton...
Dagmawi Woubshet - "The Feelings of Motherless Children: AIDS Orphans and their Epistles to the Dead"
Toboggan Lodge, Cornell UniversityDagmawi Woubshet (Assistant Professor, English, Cornell UniversityIn an untitled painting, Trevor Makhoba, the late South African painter, captures the havoc wrought by AIDS in South Africa and indeed in many other parts of the global south. The painting depicts a funeral procession, not an uncommon subject of...
Sibylle Fischer - "When Things Don’t Add Up: The Consequences of Enslaved Enlightenment."
112 Rockefeller HallSibylle Fischer is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Comparative Literature, and Africana Studies at New York University. She is the author of Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (Duke University Press, 2004), a groundbreaking study which has...
Wang Hui - "The Decline of Representation: Another Inquiry on the Equality of What"
Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall (September 4th)Toboggan Lodge, Cornell University (September 5th)Wang Hui (Professor, Chinese Language and Literature, Tsinghua University)In the aftermath of the Cold War, democratic political systems did not undergo any significant formal changes, yet democracy at the social level is in crisis...
GERARD ACHING - "JUST WAR THEORY AND THE INVENTION OF THE AMERICAN MAN"
Toboggan Lodge, Cornell UniversityGerard Aching (Professor, Romance Studies, Cornell University)This project explores the relationship between Western European thinking on just war at the dawn of this region’s empires in the Americas and the juridical/theological creation of the indigenous American man. Drawing principally from St. Augustine,...
Workshop, "Jacques Derrida: A Figure of African Thought"
Hoyt Fuller Room, Africana Studies & Research Center, 310 Triphammer RoadSpace for this workshop is very limited; therefore, pre-registration will be required. Further details will be provided soon.
Peter Linebaugh - “The Commons in Historical Perspective”
Guerlac Room, A.D. White HouseFrom the early Christians to the European encounter with indigenous practices, to the utopian socialists and revolutionary communists, the Commons has been the elephant in the room. Private property, economic so-called development, and soi-disantsocial progress have had to shoot this elephant, or enclose the...
Daphne Brooks - "One of these mornings you're gonna rise up singing': The Secret Black Feminist History of Porgy and Bess"
Kaufman Auditorium Goldwin Smith Hall (April 11th)Toboggan Lodge (April 12th)Daphne Brooks (Professor, English and African American Studies, Princeton University)This talk explores the sonic dramaturgical moves of black women artists who've performed the Gershwins' "folk opera" across the twentieth-century, and it considers the ways in which...
TIMOTHY MURRAY - "IMAGING SOUND IN NEW MEDIA ART: ASIA ACOUSTICS, DISTRIBUTED"
Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith HallFree and open to the public TIMOTHY MURRAYDirector of the Society for the Humanities, Professor Comparative Literature and English, Cornell University IMAGING SOUND IN NEW MEDIA ART: ASIA ACOUSTICS, DISTRIBUTED The lecture will propose a psycho-philosophical approach to international experiments in...
Peter Katzenstein - “Civilizations in World Politics: Beyond East and West”
Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith HallFree and open to the publicConceptions of civilizations that stress civilizational unity and uniform standards of conduct and theories of Chinese and American politics that emphasize single traditions make us overlook complexity in politics, sidestep nuance in our analysis, silence questions we should ask...
Adrienne Davis - "Irregular Intimacies: Polygamy, Race, and the Sexual Politics of Democracy"
Kaufman Auditorium, Goldwin Smith HallAdrienne Davis (Vice Provost; William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law, Washington University, St. Louis)RECOMMENDED READINGS:“Don’t Let Nobody Bother Yo’ Principle: The Sexual Economy of American Slavery,” Sister Circle: Black Women and Work (ed. S. Harley), Rutgers University Press (2002).“Regulating...
Susan Buck-Morss - "Who Owns Time? Picturing the Apocalypse After the Hijra,"
Kaufman Auditorium, Goldwin Smith HallSusan Buck-Morss (Professor of Political Philosophy and Social Theory, Department of Government, Cornell University)What connects the Liébana Beatus (the series of medieval Spanish illustrated texts of the Book of Revelation) to the Syrian Chronicles (apocalyptic texts) and the early Islamic civil wars (...
Jennifer Bajorek - "THE OPEN PHOTOGRAPH AND THE DECOLONIAL ARCHIVE"
Toboggan Lodge, Cornell UniversityJENNIFER BAJOREK (Senior Lecturer, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell)The photographic archives of whole generations and historical epochs are currently undergoing processes of deterioration and destruction. Where these processes...
Bruno Bosteels - "Can the New Man Speak?”
Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith HallBRUNO BOSTEELS (Professor, Romance Studies, Cornell University)In this presentation Bosteels takes a fresh look at Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's 1968 movie Memories of Underdevelopment from the combined points of view of film theory and the politics of subjectivity. Bruno Bosteels is Professor of Romance Studies...
Simon Gikandi "On Modernism and Early Postcolonial Style "
Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall Free and open to the public Simon Gikandi (Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University) ON MODERNISM AND EARLY POSTCOLONIAL STYLE In this lecture, Gikandi will argue that the assumed opposition between the ideologies of modernism and postcolonial theory detract us from a more...
Aamir Mufti - "THE MISSING HOMELAND OF EDWARD SAID"
Kaufman Auditorium Goldwin Smith Hall (March 8th)Toboggan Lodge (March 9th)AAMIR MUFTI (Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, UCLA)LECTURE: THE MISSING HOMELAND OF EDWARD SAIDMARCH 8, 20114:45 – 6:15 pmKaufmann AuditoriumGoldwin Smith HallFree and open to the publicCo-sponsored by the Carl Becker HouseWhat is the significance,...
Brett de Bary - “Mining the ‘Remains of the Remains': Materiality and Spectrality in Morisaki's Writings from Chikuhô”
Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith HallBRETT DE BARY (Professor, Asian Studies and Comparative Literature, Cornell University)The paper considers selected essays from Morisaki Kazue’sPrinciples of Otherness (異族の原基, Yamato Shobô 1971) in relation to studies of comparative modernity, translation theory, and gender and spatial practice. Morisaki’...