The Institute for Comparative Modernities is pleased to announce the 2023 Fall Event Series, a range of engaging hosted events featuring conversations from Cornell faculty members and guest speakers about recent publications, and lectures about ongoing critical research and practice. ICM is additionally co-hosting symposia and conferences on topics ranging from the formation of la langue – a national or ethnic language– against broader problems of knowledge production in area studies to a symposium to a music festival celebrating the pianist and composer Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru.
Events and dates listed below:
Friday, September 22 – Saturday, September 23: La Langue, Colonial Legacies, and Area Studies: Comparative Modernities ICM Co-sponsored Conference with Cornell faculty and ICM members Brett de Bary, Naoki Sakai, Esra Akcan, Andrew Campana, T. Joshua Young, Virangini Munasinghe, Natalie Melas, Naminata Diabate, Grant Farred, Arnika Fuhrmann, Mukoma wa Ngugi, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Gavin Walker, and invited speakers Peter Button, Cécile Canut, Takashi Fujitani, Chul Kim, Peter Osborne, Setsu Shigematsu, Jon Solomon, Hideto Tsuboi, Lisa Yoneyama Co-sponsored with the Department of Asian Studies Friday: 3:00 p.m.– 5:30 p.m. | Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall Saturday: 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. | Physical Sciences Building, Room 401
Monday, October 2: ICM Lecture: RINALDO WALCOTT (The State University of New York at Buffalo) On Property, After Reparations, Towards Repair | Goldwin Smith Hall, G22, 4:45 – 6:15 p.m.
Monday, October 16: ICM Lecture: JODI BYRD ( Cornell University) Goldwin Smith Hall, G22, 4:45 – 6:15 p.m.
Wednesday, October 25: ICM New Conversation: OUMAR BA (Cornell University), Rethinking Liberal Internationalism: Imperialism, Pacification, Humanity | A.D. White House, Guerlac Room, 5;00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Friday, October 27– Sunday, October 29: Co-sponsored Conference: The Next Monsoon: Climate Change and Contemporary Production in South Asia Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m., ending at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday.
Tuesday, November 7: ICM New Conversation: BEGÜM ADALET(Cornell University) Insurgent Mood | Toboggan Lodge | 4:45 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
Wednesday, November 17 ICM New Books (Co-sponsored with Critical Ottoman & Post-Ottoman Studies) PARASKA TOLAN-SZKILNIK (Cornell University) Maghreb Noir: The Militant -Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future | Toboggan Lodge, 4:45 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
Thursday, November 30 – Friday, December 1: Co-sponsored Festival : Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru at 100 (Co-sponsored with the Department of Music) Details to follow
