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...
YAN HAIPING - "MY DREAM: "NEW CHINA" IN PERFORMANCE"
History of Art Gallery, Goldwin Smith HallReception to followFree and open to the public YAN HAIPINGProfessor, Theatre Arts, Comparative Literature, and East Asian Studies, Cornell UniversityZijiang Chair Professor of Humanistic Studies, East China Normal University (ECNU), ShanghaiDirector, Cornell-ECNU Center for Comparative Cultural...
Asef Bayat "Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn"
Kaufman Auditorium, Goldwin Smith HallAsef Bayat (ISIM Professor at Leiden University, The Netherlands)Asef Bayat (Ph.D. University of Kent, 1984) is academic director ofthe International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World(ISIM) and ISIM Chair at Leiden University, The Netherlands.He taught sociology and Middle East studies...
RUTH MAS - "Islam in Secular Time"
Toboggan Lodge, Cornell UniversityNEW CONVERSATIONS SERIESThe ICM looks forward to your participation in its "New Conversations Series," which will be informal gatherings for reflection on works in progress. No preparation necessary.Ruth MasAssistant Professor of Critical Theory and Contemporary Islam, Department of Religious Studies at the...
BERNI SEARLE IN CONVERSATION WITH SALAH HASSAN
Carl Becker HouseTo be followed by a dinner receptionFree and open to the publicBerni SearleSouth African ArtistSalah Hassan Director, Institute for Comparative Modernities Goldwin Smith Professor, Africana Studies and Research Center and Department of History of Art and Visual StudiesBerni Searle is a world-renowned South African artist...
Elizabeth Povinelli - "Road Kill: Giving Up, Giving In and Getting Even in Late Liberalism"
Kaufman Auditorium, Goldwin Smith HallElizabeth Povinelli (Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University)Elizabeth A. Povinelli is Professor of Anthropology, member of thefaculty of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and theCenter for the Study of Law at Columbia University. She is a formereditor of the journal Public Culture...
MARTIN BERNAL - "Before Black Athena: An Intellectual Itinerary"
Toboggan Lodge, Cornell UniversityNEW CONVERSATIONS SERIESThe ICM looks forward to your participation in its "New Conversations Series," which will be informal gatherings for reflection on works in progress. No preparation necessary MARTIN BERNALProfessor Emeritus of Government, Cornell University BEFORE BLACK ATHENA: AN INTELLECTUAL...
PETRUS LIU - "THE PERIPHERAL REALISM OF TWO CHINAS"
Toboggan Lodge, Cornell UniversityPetrus Liu (Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, Cornell University)What exactly constitutes a peripheral literature? This talk explores realist fiction from 1970s Taiwan/China as a peripheralist reflection on capitalism’s desynchronization effects. The historical creation of two Chinas provided a...
Working Groups "The Space-Time of Modernity and Global Hierarchies"
Participants: Gurminder Bhambra, Susan Buck-Morss, Michael Löwy, Fouad Makki, Kamran Matin, Justin Rosenberg, Naoki Sakai, Robbie Shilliam, Göran Therborn, Eleni Varikas, David Washbrook, and Shelley Wong.Contemporary debates about alternative or multiple modernities can be situated among a number of new ways of understanding the relationship...
Ibrahim Mohammed El-Salahi - "Project Memoir"
Toboggan Lodge, Cornell UniversityNEW CONVERSATIONS SERIESThe ICM looks forward to your participation in its "New Conversations Series," which will be informal gatherings for reflection on works in progress. No preparation necessary.Ibrahim Mohammed El-SalahiICM's Artist-in-Resident"Project Memoir"ICM is currently hosting world-renowned...
Ziad Fahmy - “Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture”
Toboggan Lodge, Cornell UniversityZiad Fahmy (Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University)The popular culture of pre-revolution Egypt did more than entertain—it created a nation. Songs, jokes, and satire, comedic sketches, plays, and poetry, all provided an opportunity for discussion and debate about national identity and an...
Biodun Jeyifo, "Generative Afropessimism, Nollywood, and the Postmodernity of Corruption and Dispossession”
Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall reception to follow at the A.D. White HouseBiodun JeyifoProfessor of African and African American Studies and of Literature and Comparative Literature, Harvard UniversityBiodun Jeyifo taught at Cornell University as Professor of English for eighteen years before departing for Harvard in July 2006. He...
Ushari Khalil - "Devil in the Judiciary – Corruption in the Hybrid Islamic-Common Law Courts of Sudan"
Toboggan LodgeNEW CONVERSATIONS SERIESThe ICM looks forward to your participation in its "New Conversations Series," which will be informal gatherings for reflection on works in progress. No preparation necessary.Dr. Khalil presents an alternative framework for the definition, location, and understanding of judicial corruption in the hybrid...
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,...